Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1890 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1890.

DEADLY ELECTRIC STORMS

lanre Number of Persons Throughout the Country Killed by Lightning. Father and Son Meet Death at One Place and Three Brothers at Another Building Demolished and Boats Capsized in the East. Peoiua. 111., July 17. A Lake Erie &, Western train coming into this city "was struck by a tornado at Bridge "Junction and one car was whipped oujt of the train and smashed to pieces. A coach containing about a dozen passengers was overturned and burled doven an embankment. Several reoplo were injured. It was rumored hero tbe town of Green Valley, on the line of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansyille, and Morton, on the Santa Fe, were swept away. Telegraphic communication with those places was shut oft. the wires being badly demoralized by ,tbe storm. The storm traveled toward Fekin, and messages from there say it approached the outskirts of the city aud suddenly rose to the clouds, disappearing from view. It was reported that seven men were killed by the destruction o a brickyard at Westerly. At a later hour it is known that great damage has been done across the river, and men have gone across to investigate A yellow spot, similar to the one from which the funnel hung, was noticed north of the city to-day, and it is thought the towns of Lacon and Henry have sutlered from the storm. In this city the only damage done was the overturning of cars. Casualties and Damage at Hellertown. South Betiilehem, Pa., July 17. At 5 o'clock, this afternoon, a storm swept over Hellertown, five miles from hore. Its path was from northwest to southeast. Hotels and residences were unroofed, and churchsteeples were blown down. The Hellertown agricultural-works were demolished. The building was blown down on the workmen, eeren of whom sustained scalp and body bruises. John Freeman, aged eleven, was instantlv killed. The damage is estimated at $25,000. Two passenger trains on the Lehigh Valley railroad encountered the storm between Bethlehem and Allentown, and both narrowly escaped being wrecked. One of the trains struck a telegraph pole, and tbe headlight and smoke-stack of the engine were crushed. Both trains had to feel their way along, frequently stopping to allow telegraph poles and trees to be removed from the track. Boats Capslztd at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, July 17. A severe windstorm, accompanied by a heavy fall of rain anil thunder and lightning, passed over . thia city about 8 o'clock this evening. The wind blew a perfect hurricane and conv eiders ble damage was done to property in the upper section of the city. The schooner: Nellie and Mattie. of Trenton, lying at Allegheny-avenue wharf,. was blown out into the stream and capsized in the channel. The only man on board was rescued. . The yacht Kichmond, with nine men on board, was capsized in the Delaware river off Port Kichmond. The boat floated bottom np past tho Allegheny-street wharf, and the gravest apprehensions as to tbe fate of tho party prevailed until it was learned . that the men had been rescued by. a paasing tug. Four other sail-boats were upset, and in all twenty persons were rescued. Damage at Allentown, Tau;'-"---? Allentown, Pa., July 17. A violent Tain and wind-storm passed over this city this afternoon. The brick stack of tho Barbour tlT"nn1i11 OOQ faat Vi ? rr was 1lAirfi jlftnfn failing on the engine-house, partly demolishing it. The roofs of a number of houses were blown off. The roof of C. A. Dorney & Co' a furnituro factory was doubled up and the scaffolding of the new Lehigh Valley depot was carried away, and many other buildings were slightly damaged. Trees in every part of tbe city were torn and uprooted. Nearly all the telephone and electric-light wires are ' prostrated and telegraph poles and wires are badly damaged along the railroads. .Three Brothers Killed and Others Injured. -Korwalk, O., July 17. A violent wind and rain-storm struck Monroeville, this county, at 6 o'clock to-night, doing terrible damage. Lightning struck Otto Goldneis house, killing three sons Freddie, Willie and Otto, who were sitting on a lounge. The electricity came down the chimney. Otto was badly burned about ,the face and body, but the other two were not much disfigured. Kate Smith, a neighbor in the . bouse at the time, was badly burned about the arms. Josephine, sister to the Goldner boys, was present, but not injured. Tachtman Drowned. : Camden, N. J., July 17. To-ni ght's storm was very severe in this locality. A small yacht containing tive men and a boy was overturned in theDelaware river off Cramerhill wharf, in tho northern part of this city. The occupants, with one exception, managed to cling to the bottom of the craft until it . was blown into shallow water. Edward Barford, of Philadelphia, vwas drowned. The terra-cotta works at Pea Shore, above Camden, were struck by lightning and badly damaged, v . x Father and Son Killed. . Special to the Indianapolis Journal. D.n.o Til T..l 1 T i r . i uuiji a. ucujauiiu jnorion nnd son Kufus wero killed by lightning this afternoon, fives miles southeast of this city, while putting hay in a barn. The end of the barn was torn away, but no other damage was done to it A hired man was pitching hay to them, but was only stunned by the shock. Both men were married. Benjamin Morton leaves a widow and three children, and Kufus a young wife. Fatalities at Trenton, N. J. Trenton, N. J July 17. A destructive storm of wind, hail, rain and lightning "visited this city this afternoon, unrooting a number of houses and making havoc with the foliage. Michael Corcoran and Louis .Schlegel. who took refuge under a tree .when the storm came, were struck by lightning and killed. Four persons were stunned and felled to the ground at the base-ball grounds. Struck "While Running from a Storm. Peouia. 111.. July 17. A small tornado visited the country just across the river from this city at 2 o'clock this afternoon, wrecking a freight train, tearing down trees and small buildings. One man named Edgerson, of Auburn, N. Y.. was struck by lightning while running from the storm and was instantly killed. Much damage was done to crops, fences and timber. Buildings Set on Fire. Lansdale. Pa., July 17. About 7:20 this evening a territic thunder and hail-storm passed over this borough, flooding the streets to an impassable condition. Lightning struck tbe barn of John Clemmer, aud the flames destroyed it Several other tires are in siaht in various directions. Passengers on trains from Bethlehem say they observed four tires between that place and Lansdale. Hailstones an Big as Eggs. Ashland, Pa.. July 17. This town was visited this evening by a rain and hailstorm the like of which has never been tteen here before. Hailstones the size of liens' eggs fell and broke every window on the north side of every building in town. Houses were unroofed and fruit crops in the farming villages entirely destroyed. The loss in this vicinity will exceed 0,000. fSolden Jubilee of a Catholic Bishop. BniLisoToN. Vt, July 17. The celebration of the goldeu jubilee of Bishop He Goesbnand opened hero this morning at 6 o'clock, with a saluto of fifty guns and the ringing of bell. At o a. m. high mass was calibrated, at the Cathedral of tho immac

ulate Conception, by Bishop DeGoesbriand. The sermon was preached by Bishop Healy. Among the distinguished delegates in attendance are Archbishop Williams, of Boston; Bishops Healy, of Portland. Harkins, of Providence; Very Rev. Father Le Blanc, of Montreal; Father Westerholt and Monsignor Broef, of Cleveland, 0.: Father Barry, of Manchester, N. 11., and & large number of priests.

FATAL CURIOSITY OF W05IEX. Exhibition of a Bride's Trousseau Results in a Kiot and the Death cf Nine Persons. Buda Pestii, July 17. Though it con. tained tragic elements, tbe town is laughing to-day at a singular riot which hap pened here yesterday. It was the result of a freo exhibition of the trousseau belonging to the Princess Thnu Taxis. Before the doors of the building where the exhibit was to be given a crowd of over six hundred women assembled. They demanded admittance in a body, aud when the officers declined to tar the capacity of the apartments the entire force of females attacked the police, the ushers, the messengers, in fact everything male within sight, with parasols, finger-nails and vehement execrations, utterly routing the force placed there and putting the uniformed officers to ignominious flight. The crowd then surged into the exhibition rooms and sated their curiosity to its fullest extent. Meanwhilothu mounted police had been called, and their clattering down tho street struck terror to the weaker sex, who made another rush for tho opening, trampling to death in their haste and fright two women and seven children. The police remained in possession of the field, together with several cart-loads of parasols, hats, bustles, blonde switches and miscellaneous spoil. A WOMAN'S TERRIBLE CRIME. Stitched Together the Lips of a Baby and Threw the Little One in tho Water. Burlington, N. J., July 17. While a party of young men and women were drifting in a row;boat on tbe Delaware river, at this place, last night, a woman, in white was seen to come out from the shadows of a clump of trees, and, walking a few yards down the river bank, stop at the edge of the water. A splash was heard, but, as the woman was still standing on the bauk, those in tbe boat thought that a piece of the bauk had slipped down into the water. Iu a few moments the woman disappeared in the clumps of trees from which she bad come. This morning a lishcrman came across a black bundle floating in the water. When he opened it he found the body- of a pretty chubby baby, and was horrified to see that its lips were tightly stitched together. The woman in white had thrown the black bundle into the water, aud the stitched . lips of the child tell why no cry was heard. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Inquiries Concerning tho Behring Sea Matter in ths British House of Commons. ; London, July 17. In the House of Commons, to-night, Mr. Edward T. Gourley, Liberal member for Sunderland, inquired what degree of truth there was in the cablegram to the effect that President Harrison had declared the intention of tho United States government to deal summarily with British sealers in Behring sea. Sir John Gorst, parliamentary secretary for the India Office, replied that the government had not received a report of such a statement having been made bv President Harrison. Negotiations on the Behring sea matter were still in progress. V. H. Smith. First Lord of the Treasury, intimated that the negotiations with France, in regard to French rights in Zanzibar, were marked by a friendly spirit on both sides. . A ThlePs Terrible Leap. Paris, July 17. A finger-nail on one of the window-sills of the Bunnells perfumery-works led to the discovery that the establishment had been robbed. Jules Labrun. a young man employed there, was suspected. It was learned that the nail of one of his lingers was torn otf. The police heard that he was hiding in his mother's house, to which they went to arrest him. As they entered the house Labrun opened a window on the sixth floor and jumped iuto tho street, killing himself instantly. Wissmann Will Hold On to nis Place. . London, July 17. Baron Wlssmann has reconsidered his determination to resign his position as German Imperial Commissioner in Africa, and will remain in the service for the present It is understood that Lieut Baron Cravenrouth will continue as acting commissioner, and Wissmaun will remain in Berlin to assist in the reorganization of tbe German system in Africa on an entirely new basis, the changes being demanded by tho large increase of territory through the Anglo-German agreement In 3Iemory of an Australian Statesman. London, July 17. A tablet in memory of the late Mr. Dalley, an Australian states man, was unveiled at St. Paul's Cathedral to-day by Lord Rosebery. His Lordship made an address, in which he called attention to the fact that the tablet was the first memorial erected in the cathedral to a colonist and 6aid ft was, therefore, a milestone in the path of those having faith in the federation of the empire. Captured by Brigands. Constantinople, July 17. Brigands have captured Mr. Gorson, the chief engineer, and Mr. Mejor, the local superintendent of tho Ismidt & Angora railroad, near Ismidt Both the men captured are . Austrians. The brigands demand a ransom of $17,500. Seventy Houses Burned. Buda-Pestii. .July 17. At Koe Nan, in Hungary, to-day, the parish church, the synagogue and seventy houses wero burned. Several firemen were injured. Family of Eight Suffocated. Paris, July 17. A whole family, consisting of father, mother and six children, was suffocated by charcoal fumes in a room on the Ruo Aveon to-day. Cable Note. The Russian government has ordered the building of four new iron-clads. The Guatemalan geologician at Paris denies that war is imminent between Guatemala and San Salvador. Cholerine is prevalent in Kowno and Vilna, Russia, and is spreading. Many fatal cases of tho diseaso aro reported. Count Conrad Stolberg. heir of one of the richest land-owners in Germany, was accidentally shot and killed while duck-shooting. Numerous prominent citizens cf Fez have been arrested for complicity in an attempt upon the life of the Sultan of Morocco. Severe thunder-storms, with heavy rains, have occurred in the southern and midland counties of England, causing extensive destruction of crops. Counterfeiters Arrested. New York. July 17. The gang of counterfeiters which has been flooding the country with an excellent counterfeit twodollar silver certificate has at last come to grief. Two of its members were locked up at police headuuarters to-night, and it is expected several more will be apprehended to-morrow. The prisoners are Danel Maffran and Daniel Grinnell. When searched 5000 in counterfeit bills were found m their Sossession, together with $JG0 in good bona da bank notes. Preferred Death to Arrest. Cleveland. O., July 17. Edward Folk, twenty-one years old. formerly an agent of the Boehmke Wine Company, was arrested to-day on a warrant issued by that firm, charging him with embezzling $47. While the otficer was waiting for Folk to change his clothing in his room. Folk suddenly drew a revolver and fatally ebot himself in the head.

PEASANT LIFE IN RUSSIA

How theLittleCoramunesAre Governed andWhattheFeopleThinkofthcCzan Thrift, Contentment and Misrule Walk Hand in Hand Some Phases Ihat Surprise Americans Born Politicians llome Scenes. Thomas Sterena's Letter In New York WorMIn Russia tho special correspondent very soon discovers that he is sojourning in what may fairly be termed a dual country.' There is the Russia of St. Petersburg, Moscow, the Czar, the army, politics, exiles, Siberia of which we read and hear from day to day and there is the Russia of the peasants, the villages, the country-side, "doinostio Russia." of which we hear, and many of us know, next to nothing. Lest I lay mj-self open to the sort of criticism we bestow on the English tourist who rides in a parlor car from New York to. San Francisco and then goes homo and writes a book about America, permit me to say that this letter is but the result of a casual two days1 sojourn in a Russian village with an interpreter. Wo went out to Tchudovo to meet the Cossack officer, Paishkoff, who had ridden on horseback across Siberia and Russia, and while awaiting his coming talked and observed among the peasantry. Tchudovo is about ono hundred versts (seventy miles) from St. Petersburg, in the direction of Moscow, a villago in the district government of Novgorod. A Russian village is in appearance the counterpart of many small towns in the Western States. The first impression of the writer, who knows the West very well, was that he bad stumbled into one of thoso slowly decaying backwood villages in Missouri or Illinois that have fallen out of joint and behind the times becauso tho railway didn't come through their section of the countrj. Tchudovo is situated in a country as level and dreary as tho dreariest part of any of the prairie States. Tho land belonging to tho village was a but clearing in a level forest couutry that presented to the eye no single point of interest beyond the people and. their mode of lif el The village was like all Russian villages, ltconsisted of two rows of houses, between which ran Poter the Great's broad military road to Novgorod. A few of the houses were of brick, but most were of wood. All were two stories high. Here as everywhere, though, tho uniformity of architecture was striking, evidences of wealth and poverty came within the orbit of a glance. Some of the houses wero fairly toppling aboit their occupants' heads, and in no country of the world, and 1 have been in twenty-four,, have I seen people so wretchedly lodged as part of the population of Tchudovo. Many, however, were good, comfortable board or log houses,' comparable to the houses of eighty-acre farmers in Iowa. Half the houses might, perhaps, come under this description; ono-, fourth of them would be considered by us as wholly unfit for human habitation, and the remainder were superior dwellings from tho American farnni'e stand-point includiug one which might fairly be termed a mansion. There was a bakery, in front of which, on a rude bench, a row of huge rye loaves were exposed for sale. There were three or four general stores, the counterparts of the American corner grocery, and as many vodka and mead and kwass shops. There was the inevitable village smithy and a school; towenug over all was a large white church, surmounted -by four blue domes and a blue spire. Both church and mansion were of Greco-Corinthian architecture, a fact that led mo to suspect that the founder of the church and the former occupant of the mansion, before. tho emancipation of the surfs in 1NI1, was tho nobleman who owned the laud aud peasantry of the district 1 made my way to the blacksmith shop, here, as in the West, often the gossiping place of the village, and entered into conversation with tho blacksmith, a man of fifty, his son and assistant, a young man of twenty-five, and a ragged moujik. all of whom took oil their hats as we entered and sat down. As many readers already know, the Russian villages are communes of peasants who own their land in common. Except for the disturbing influences of insolvent peasants who have recklessly got head over heels in debt, or from other causes havo become landless, the Russian villago commune, or mir, is a collection of families and kinsfolk who own the right of tillage each to a certain portion of their common land. This is the ideal mir. But with tho mir as with everything else in Russia as elsewhere the real and the ideal seldom agree. The mir ,of Tchudovo, tho blacksmith told me, contained two thousand people, of which something over five hundred were "f ouls,7' that is to say, sharers in the land. The rest were the small shopkeepers and vodka-sellers, the ,4pap;i" or priest, the grain merchant, who lived in tho mansion cf the former nobleman, and landless "batraks," who worked 'for wages at anything they could find to do. The blacksmith's son was the most intelligent of tho three. I asked him about the mir and tho various things that make up the sum and substance of the Russian peasant's life. Tho people of Tchudovo, he said, had been wlsor than many of their neighbors. The ruirs had a right to borrow money from the banks or from private capitalists, giving tbe land as security. Many had dono this, and, by pledging themselves to ruinous terms, wero in sorry straits, having hard work to keep their heads above water and pay their taxes. "Wo have had better sensa, though," sidhe, smiling with tbe peculiar griu of a simple rustic soul who is not to be easily taken in, "and havo never borrowed money, and so our mir is very well ofi." "If your mir is well off, why, then, are there so many batraks (men without laud who work for wages) here?" "Men and mirs are very much alike," he retnrucd; "some are wise and some foolish. Most men become batraks because they have foolishly borrowed mouey, and being unable to repay their horses and cows have been sold, and they have lost their power to cultivate any of the rair's land. Every member of the mir has the right to work a share of the land for the support of his family and the payment of his taxes, a large or small portion, according to the numbor of persons capable of field-work and tax-payment in the family; but with the loss of his horses and the means of working land he is no longer a moujik. but a batrak, a man who would starve but for charity or work given him by others." "What is tho hardest thing about the way you are governed?" "The taxes." sang out onr hearers in one voice, and all three countenances lit up and the three tongues wagged volubly in eager rivalry to telltheir tale of woe. "So the government taxes you pretty hoavily, does it!" "No, no; the government gets but very little of it. If tho government knew all that happens to the moujik it would pity him. The government taxes the mir and the mir taxes the individual. Tho elders collect the taxes, and go oft to Novgorod and driuk vodka, and eat caviar with the Novgorod officials, then come back and demand more taxes. It would be much better for us all if the Czar could sweep away everybody that stands between tho imperial government and the people, and have no elders, no officers of any kind. The more officials who have the handling of our taxes and the management of our a Hairs tho worse for us." "Rut the mir has the selection of its own officers. If the present Starosta (Mayor) and the elders are dishonest and grasping, why don't you elect honest men, like tho blacksmith there, in their places!" "Tho blacksmith doesn't know how to read and write," they laughed, "how could he be Starosta! We have tried to rcmedj matters, but the educated people are too sharp for us; they always manage to keep in office whomever they choose, and the wisest moujik keegs his mouth shut closest. The elders assess each one of us the amount of taxes he has to pay. the amount of work to I e done on the roads without pay, and have the regulation of every thing in the mir. If 1 am their friend they take care that my share of thetaxesshallbe lightandmy work on tbe roads easy, and when the Czar demands soldiers they' will pass by ray son and pick out the son of a moujik who has made himself objectionable to them by grumbling at them and voting against them at the elections. Thre are moujiks in tho mir who pay next to tv taxes at all and moujiks who nave to work away from home like batraks, besides tilling their

land to get money enough to pay their taxes. It is the same in nearly every mir. If every man had a good heart the mirs would be happy and prosperous, tho moujiks well fed and clad, and our taxes would he light and easily paid. But ever mir is a house of intrigue, in which the moujiks is in one way or another cheated out of most of his earnings." "Then you have nothing to complain of about the St Peterburg government!" The group in the smithy had increased by thin time to a half-dozen. The eagerness and intelligence which they all displayed in discussing their own affairs, in striking contrast to their ignorance of the outer world, were somethingremarkable. It was easy to imagine that if these peasants were only decently educated they would be quite a ditferent people. Thoy are born villago politicians. Their faces vero animated and bright, and from their eyes shone a light which was the lamp of a childish intelligence, which enable them to understand, if not to remedy, their grievances. They were extremely good-natured about it all. however. A reform that they were looking forward to and expecting great things of, was a distinct reactionary move in the direction of local autocracy. The periodical courts which, as near as I could make.out from them, resembled the United states circuit courts, and in which tho legal affairs of the peasants are settled are to bo done awav with, and in their stead aro to be individual olliccrs, a species of cadi, appointed rom St. Petersburg. The fact that they preferred to have their cases tried by a single udge rather than in an organized court is a , significant straw showing the bout of the uncultured Russian mind. All the lesser cases among the Russian peasantry, both civil and criminal, aro decided by the mir, on tho basis of custom and common sense, though it is very certain that the justice meted out by tho elders and starostas of tho mirs is like the collection of the taxes too often a warped and unjust thing, manipulated by tho intriguers and wire-pullers of the commune It was plainly evident that the group of poor ragamuffin moujiks in the blacksmith shop of Tchudovo would prefer to place all their affairs in the hands of ono reasonably honest stranger than submit them to even thejr own rural assembly. Yet theirs was a compartively prosperous - community. They stated with pride that their mir was free from debt, ana with still greater pride thoy pointed to their church, and told mo that it was richer than oven the churches in Novgorod. 4 "2so,,; thev replied to my last question; "St." Petersburg doesu't bother us much. Tho Czar takes onlv fivo young men each year for soldiers. They have to be twenty yearn of age, aud they aro chosen by tho Starosta and elders of the mir." 1 asked them about America. They had heard of it. but knew nothing about where it was. They asked if it was a good country to live in. . "In America." I replied, "every man is his own Czar, and nobody has to bo a soldier unless he wants to." "That may be good for Americans," they said, shaking their shock heads, "but not for us. For us our Czar Is much better." "Here you havo to work for eight or ton rubles a mouth," I pursued; "in America a workman earns as much in two days. Why : don't you go to America, like tho Germans!" L "It is true that we work hard and get small pay, but it is better to remain in Russia and be poor than to live elsewhere and grow rich. It is all very well for the Germans, but wo like Mother Russia best of all." ; I, passed the night in the house of a moujik, who. from the peasant's standpoint, would be neither rich nor poor. His house was leaning sadly to one side, and the back wall of it had disappeared, leaving the rear rooms exposed; but ho owned a horse and rattle-trap telega, and cultivated laud for two souls himself and wife and was assessed taxes proportionately. His taxes amounted to about fifteen rubles a year and whatever share of public work the assembly of the mir assessed him. When all the family were at home they numbered nine persons. The good wife prided . herself immensely on having been a ; domestic m the family of c"noblc-born" people before her marriage. Sho and her husband, their eldest daughter and her husband, the mother, an ancient dame; two sons, a younger daughter, and a two-year-old embryo moujik, who took a tremendous fancy to the correspondent, owing to the bestowal of a lump of sugar on our first acquaintance, all occupied two tully little rooms upstairs. J The greater part of the space was taken up by a monster tiled oven, on the top of which, our hostess informed us, the entire family slept iu the winter. It was difficult to see how so many people could manage it, unless some of them slept two deep, but the woman said there was plenty of room. The chief room was about ten feet square. Iu it was a bed, an old lounge, a table, three chairs, a chest of drawers, two large brass samovars, four icons or holy pictures, bofore one of which was a cup of oil and taptr. Tho icons are heirlooms in the families of the Russian peasantry, as also are .the samovars. Theso are the most precious, of the moujik's household gods. There is a saying amoug them "If your house is on fire, save tho icon and samovar first, then the children." More children will come, they say. but if the icon and tho samovar are lest the saints will bo angry about tho icon, aud a samovar costs many rubles. The household cradle was a curiosity. The roof of the room was low. A ring and staple were iu tho center. Through tho ring was thrust a pole. At one end was suspended a cage-like cot for the baby, and the other end was above tho mothers pillow. By reaching up and working the lever tho latest arrival in his cot could be danced up aud down, or swung about pen-' dulum-fashion, by his mother. Woman's Relief Corps Home Dedicated. Cleveland, July 17. TheNational Woman's Relief Corps home for soldiers' moth-, ers, wives and army nurses, at Madison, Lake county, Ohio, was dedicated to-day under th direction of Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer, of Philadelphia. Pa national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, asssisted by Mrs. Belle T. Bagley. of Zauesville. O., chairman of the national homo committee, and others. Many prominent G. A. R. men of Ohio were present. The Beer War About Ended. Chicago, July 17. For some weeks the breweries of this and adjoining cities have been engaged in a war among themselves, and the price of beer by the barrel has been cut squarely in two, from $6 to $3, to the great delight aud pecuniary advantage of the saloon-keeper. At a meeting of brewers held last night matters were discussed, and an agreement formulated for the final settlement of the war.

Injured by an Ex plosion of Gas. r Johnstown, Pa.. July 17. A terrible explosion of gas occurred in blast furnace No. 1, at the Cambria ironworks, this afternoon, by which four men wero badly injured, two of them fatally. II. W. Shaffer, a carpenter, who was working on top of the furnace, was blown to the ground, falling eighty feet, and will undoubtedly die, as will also his helper. Two helpers iu the furnace are also badly hurt. Educators of the nilud. Jacksonville, 111., July 17. The National'Association for the Education of the Blind to-day elected officers as follows: President, J. H. Dye, Arkansas; secretary, B. R. Huntoon, Louisville, Ky.; executive committee, A. G. Clement. New York; F. D. Morrison, Maryland: A. H. Diinond, Ontario; W. B. Waite, New York; T. B. McCune, Iowa. I. i A Hole for Their Money, riiilafielpbia Fresa. A good deal of free-trado cash will bo squandered in Pennsylvania this year. Tho campaign for Governor is merely the skirmish line of the Cleveland free-trado dash for the presidency in 1892. and for that reason the tariff smashers will bo expected to step right up and pour their boodle out like little men. Why She Loved Doston. ChiAgo Tribune. "I do so love Boston!" said the little girL "It's mj' own dearnatatorium." "Your uatatoriumf" 'Yes; it's my birthplace, you know." Hint to Man. Elmira Oazette. Man. irroverent, trilling man, should abstain from sneers at womankind till he has learned to hold a plate of ice-crdam on his lap without toeing in. A Stubborn Kicker. Indianapolis Rani's Horn. The mule ban tho name of boing some on the kick, but ih docility itself compared to thomau who gets tbe w rong gas bill. , gUMMLR-Tiiu: brlnus colic and stomachache. Simmons Liver Regulator cures It.

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WROUGHT V w THE NATIONAL TREASURY. Some Figures Which Bourbon and Mugwump Claimants Should Study. Washington Special to St. Louis Globe-De mocrat Some of the Democratic and mugwump organs have recently contained dire predictions of a deficiency in the Treasury at the end of the next fiscal year, as the result of what they term "extravagant appropriations." Among the favorite headlines used upon these various occasions have been such as "A Startling Outlook," "Kesult. of Keckless Prodigality in Congress " "A Bankrupt Treasury," and A Probable Deticiency of Over SlOO.OOO.OOO." Tho articles under these headlines have contained what purported to bo oflicial figures, showing that there will be a deficiency of about $144,000,000 at the end of the present fiscal year. Theso figures are correct enough so far as they go, but several important items in Treasury book-keeping have been overlooked by these experts, with the result that a false impression has been created as to the- actual financial situation. It would be a most remarkable situation for the Senate and House committees haveing charge of appropriations, with an experience of individual members covering many years and having at command the best official opinions and advice, if the Treasury were drawn into bankruptcy, as alleged bv tho sensational writers. It 1 "I ' 1 1 1 -1 . M woma do sun mure reiuur&auie n but ui i the so-called "reckless prodigality" had been continued in the hope that such a condition of affairs would not be discovered and rebuked at once by those most interested. Before going through the statements, by which adelinition lHinado to appear, it is well to state on the highest official authority in the Treasury Department, that there will be a surplus at the end of the present fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that the expenditures are admitted to be the heaviest known for some time. Those figuring on the government's financial atlairs have taken the total of the appropriation bills $S59,000,000 and added thereto the permanent appropriations of 100.000,000, including the interest on tho public debt, with an estimate of $,000,000 for the dependent pension bill. This makes a total of $479,000,000, under which is placed estimated receipts of 335,000,000, snowing, it is alleged, a shortage of $144,000,000. In these calculations $50,000,000 reduction in revenue is allowed on the Ale Kinloy tariff bill. Admitting these figures to be correct, although they are rather exaggerated, the Treasury experts declare that they prove nothing except that several important items have been left out of the calculation. In the first place, the new silver bill will cover into the Treasury $50,000,000 of the fund heretofore held for the redemption of tbe notes of failed national bauks. The assets of tho government will be swelled to that extent. In the next place there are S7S.500.000 of cash in tho treasury good for all purposes and available, and then 828,000,000 of the deticiency charged against this year in the calculation was really paidont aud charged to last year's account, 625,000.000 of that sum baing for pensions. This gives a total of 102,000,000 not counted at all by tho alarmists, or $18,000,000 more than the estimated expenditures. Back of this again is the Treasury sinking-fund of Sl6.000.000, and finally the fact that in no single year have the appropriations for rivers and harbors or other publio works been wholly expended. So that, taking the most extreme view of tbe-situation, the government has in ready money $18,000,000 moro than will bo called for this year, and it has other money besides to fall back upon should there be any necessity for it. Senator Allison and Chairman Cannon are too old at tre business of appropriating money to be accused of bankrupting the Treasury. TWO WONDERFUL TREES. Almost Limitless Utility of the Brazilian Camanbra and riassava. Washington Special to Brooklyn Eagle. . United States Consul Burko, of Bahia, Brazil, tells of two remarkable trees in his last report to this government. They are palms, indigenous to Brazil, and are thus described by him: s The camanba is certainly a wonderful tree. Every part of itroot, rootlet, branch and trunk is available; in fact, it is indispensable for the natives in building and rooting their huts, making fences, etc., while the articles made from it supply them with food, light and medicine. It is a species of palm tree, and grows in dry, sandy soil. The bujb (the size depending on the size of the tree) is strongly farinaceous, and when dried and ground prodnces a kind of farischa used for food by the natives, while the rootlets of the bulb are used for medicine, possessing a strong cathartic property. The trunk, while the treo is young, contains a soft, oleaginous substance, somethins like marrow. This is good food for cattle, sheep, goats aud hogs. After the tree attains a growth of several years tho trunk becomes very hard, and can then be used for building purposes. The lower part of the branches, which grow to a length of eight to ten or twelve feet, are chielly used for fences. They are wide and iiat at the bottom and tapering toward tbe top, with short, bard and very sharp thorns at the edges, in appearance not unlike the mouth of a saw-fish. The fence made from this material is very strong. Tho leafy partof thebrancb, when cut and sun-dried, gives an exudation, which appears on tho fan-like leaf or blade. It is a tenacious substance, possessing properties very similar to beeswax. This wax is extensively used for making candles. The leaf or blade has a liber from which hats, mats, baskets, rope, brooms, dusters, etc., are made. When the exudation is scraped from the blades of palm tbe branches are used for rooting huts and small houses and for protecting brick walls from the tierce rays of the sun. as well as from the rain. The fruit of tho treo is sweet and palatable. Tbe kernel or seed Is pounded to a powder and is used iu infusion in place of coffee. Another valuable tree, found almost exclusively in this atate of Bahia and in the

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- IRON PIPE Gas, Steam and Water Goods. GEO. A. RICHARDS, 68 South Pcnnsylvnnifi St. SEMI-PORTABLE ENGINES 13, ih, QO and 35 Horse-Power, Complete anil ready for use. In stock for prompt delivery. Descriptive circulars on application. CIIMDLER & TAYLOR CO., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. northern part of the state of Minai-Geracs, which joins this state on the south, is the piassava tree. Like the camanba. the piassava is also a species of palm tree. From it is obtained a liber, and nuts called coquilhos. Ropes, brooms, brushes of nearly every kind and for every purpose are manufactured from the liber of this tree. It is, however, nearly all shipped to England and there manufactured. Very little goes direct to the United States. The natives simply twist the fiber and use it for rope. Germany takes some of the liber also, and some of tho other European countries, but England takes more than half of all exported. For the year 18S8 over 25,000 tons were exported, England taking about three-fourths thereof. The coqnilhos, or nnts, aro also exported and manufactured into buttons, knife blades and trinkets of various kinds. The coquilho is susceptible of a high polish, and in this condition has a very close ' resemblance to ivory. Piassava patches, called campos, are found in the very heart of the virgin forests and aro also scattered through the more open woodland, and are called piassava do inatto and piassavo do campo. The most of these trees along the coast here have been cut; therefore, in order to obtain the piassava now it is necessary to go some distance to the interior. Tho government owns nearly all of the piassavo lands, renting or giving ft license to parties wishing to obtain the fiber, the license extending from a year to a year and a half. Instead of stripping the fiber from the tree while standing, the tree is cut down. In this way the land is cleared, and. if along a river, a jazendaof cocoa or cotleo sugar could be made very profitable, the parties, after the clearing, buying the land from the government. The district between the rivers Jequitinhonha and Da Selsa is very rich in fine piassava, and the land, when cleared, would be most excellent for jazendas. m . - HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF. Proposed Adoption of tbe Cloture in the SenateAn Important Change, Washington Correspondence Pittsburg Cnronicle, The proposed adoption of the cloture, or vrvvions question, in the Senate of the United States, is so important an innovation as to attract widespread attention. Whether it can be accomplished without a long and severe struggle is tho question that is now agitating the senatorial mind. In the British Parliament tbe cloture waa only carried after months of contest and debate. Before its adoption the previous question in Parliament did not have the etioct to suppress all further discussion of the main question. Tbe want of any standing order enabling the majority of the House to close debate and secure the prompt passage of the ministerial measures, led to the protracted parliamentary contest of 1881-2 and the adoption of new rules for procedure in tho House of Commons. As introduced by Mr. Gladstone, Feb. 20, 18S2, the procedure resolutions required the closing of the debate by a majority approving the putting of the question by the Speaker. This radical measure was the fruit of the obstructive tactics adopted by tho Irish members in the long session, Jan. 6 to Aug. 7, 1SS1. Taking advantage of -the rules of tho House, designed to promote freedom of debate, about forty members successfully thwarted the majority, and for many months prevented legislation giving the government power to enforce the laws in Ireland. Several all-night sessions of the House, and ono continuous sitting of 402 hours, with scenes of great disorder, wero the fruits of these obstructive tactics on the part of the Home-rule members. A series of motions to adjourn the debate, to adjourn the House, etc., were continually renewed in the endeavor to weary out the majority and delay the obnoxious Irish bill by adjournment of the House; but the majority, backed by the Conservative party, who made common cause with tbe materialists, kept the House together by relays, and the debate went on day and night. At length the Soeaker took the decisive measure of arresting debate by putting the motion for leave to bring in the bill to suppress disorders in Ireland. This was carried, the Irish members leaving the House in a body. The bill reaching a second reading the obstructions were removed and Mr. Parnell and other members were 'named'' by the Speaker for disregarding the authority of the chair. Kcsistance to the progress of business continuing, a motion for the expulsion for the day of thirty-one of the Home-rnle party was carried, and after four nights' debate the first "urgencv" resolution of Mr. Gladstone was carried 353 to56. This secured Parliamentary progress, and the Irish bill was pp-isod througn both houses within a week and received the royal assent March 2, 1882. At the next session (1SK2), after a protracted struggle, continuing for months, tho cloture was adopted as a permanent standing order. They Are Right. WrisTiington Post. Some members evidently think they are mitfhty poor rules that will not work at both cuds of tho Capitol. Smashed a Plate-Glass Wintluw. ' Some evil-doer kicked out a largo pane of plate-glass in the north door of J. N. HurtT,s drug store, corner of Ohio aud Pennsylvania street. at 1 o'clock this morning. Sergeant Joyce happened to be iu tho Denison House, and was hastily summoned by Councilman Martindalo, who had heard the crash of glass. Investigation showed that nothing had beeu at all disturbed. Captain Bruce and Sergeant Joyce both concluded that it was an attempt at burglary, but that the burglar has been frightened away. Thero was no light burning iu tho store, but the interior is well lighted from the street electriclight. This is the second attempt of the kind upon this store within a vesx