Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 9, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 June 1889 — Page 2

: ¢ ¢ i - The Figonicr Lanner, LIGONIER, e INDIANA. w Fasnion folk have just.decided that the dandelion is “a beautiful flower, Other folk found this out centuries ago. : - PORTLAND, Ore., has a schoolma’am whose name, Georgia Rattan, is suggestive of ' a class of tender ministrations which no small -boy was ever known to relish. o ot THE Congressional library at Washington contains 615,781 volumes and the pamphlets number -200,000. - This is the largest collection of books in ‘the United States. : THE New York Legislature before its recent adjournment passed. by a very large majority, a bill requiring all freight carsin the State to be equipped with automatic couplers. THE year 1889 promises to be a memorable epoch. The early hot weather, followed: by severe frosts upon the last day of May and the floods and disasters to life and property, make up an extraordinary record. THE next census of this country will be taken with electrical census ma-~ chines. The census collector will take the names in the usual way, but his report will be rewritten and printed by a novel device which is said to be incapable of making a mistake. MoORE than a thousand John Smiths in this country are said to hold Government offices. It is such things as this, says a contemporary, that sometimes make one feel that it was an act of mistaken kindness for Pocahontas to have saved the original John.

*“Or what use are spiders?” asks a timorous Boston maiden, in the first line of a thirty-stanza poem. Spiders, of course, may have dropped into disuse in Beston, but in various other parts of the counfry women find them handy utensils in which to cook meat.

Mgs. ANN PEeARSALL SMITH, an American, is said to have made the best woman’s speech of the evening at the meeting of the Women’s Liberal Association in London recently, when Mrs. Gladstone was presented with a bracelet by the association in honor of her golden wedding. : »

THE terrible disaster when the Bradfield reservoir embankment near Sheffield, Eng., gave way on March 11, 1864, was secured enduring -memory by Charles Read’s wonderful description in his novel: ¢‘‘Put Yourself in His Place.” About 250 lives were lost, and the damage amounted to $1,600,000. “ !

SURPRISING as the statement may appear, it is asserted on good authority that the coast line -of Alaska exceeds that of the United States. And its territory includes eleven hundred islands, some of them of considerable size. It's an empire in extent, with a vast interior region untouched by the foot of civilized man. I

A GENTLEMAN of Murray County, Ga., has a genuine curiosity in his possession. It is the deed to a tract of land in Kentucky bearingthe signature of the famous Daniel Booneas witness. The document is musty and ‘yellow with age, but notwithstunding this the chirography of the old hero of. a hundred battles appears in characters still bright and legible. ;

Mrs. MALINDA SKELLEY, of Millersburg, Pa., missed $5,375 by getting married. She applied for a pension several years ago and the other day a letter was received. granting it, together with a voucher for the amount named. She had changed her name, becoming Mrs. Anderson eight - days before, and the valuable paper had to be returned to Washington.

A RARE thing in New York harbor is a British cruiser. . The Queen’s ships do not touch at our American ports much for the reason that their crews have too good a chance to desert. One appeared, however, in New York harbor the other day—the gunboat cruiser Buzzard, detached from the squadron at the Bermudasto earry important dispatches to New York for cable transmission to the British Admiralty. S ; e

ApMirAL PORTER lately held a state dinner in Washington, and Ah Sin, a Chinese servant, was assigned to duty in attendance at the door. In his country a visitor’s rank is indicated by the size of the card, a huge one meaning - a prince. The small cards received but scant courtesy frem Ah Sin, but when the gas collector preser:{ted his bill the Celestial’s demeanor underwent a change. . The long yellow slip captured Ah Sin, and with profound salaams he bowed the astonished gasman into the presence of the amazed family and irate head of the navy. ; e — , Tur people of Wyoming are moving forward on the lines of Statshood, and propose to be in readiness to come into the Union as soon as Congress will allow them to do so. .The Territory has been laid off into delegate districts, and the Governor has issued his proclama’ion for a constitutional convention, which is to meet at Cheyenne the first Monday in September, and, after adopting a constitution, submit it to the people on the first Tuesday in November, when state-officers will also be voted for. This done, Wyoming claims she will be ready to come in. .

Ix one particular at least America is well represented at- the Paris exposition. « One third of the space in machinery hall isoccupied with the works of American inventors and manufacturers. Furthermore, in'many respects the exhibits in the same department by foreigners are borrowings from American ideas. By far the most interesting display is that of electrical machines. The section in which Edison’s inventions are shown is the "“?jﬂ%#iwe ~exhibit, There may be ~#een all of his 403 contributions to man's category of mechanical triumphs.

Epitome of the Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

FROM WASHINGTON.

JUSTICE GRrAY, of the United States Supreme Court, was married to Miss Jennie Matthews, daughter of the late Justice Stanley Matthews, on the afternoon of the 4th at the residence of the bride in Washington. ’ ON the sth Secretary Noble accepted the resignation of John H. Oberly. Commis‘Bioner of Indian Affalrs, to take effect Julyl. TeE Postmaster-General sent out a circular to postmasters on' the sth calling on them to inform him as to the extent of the business transacted at their offices on Sunday. ‘The information was desired with a wiew to decreasing, if possible, the amount of Babbath work performed by post-office employes. : \ It was decided by the Secretary of War on the 6th to purchase for the new site for Fort Omeha a tract of 540 acres of land about eight miles from Omaha. NoTice was sent to Surgeon-General Hamilton, at Washington, on the 6th that there was serious danger of sickness at Johnstown, Pa., unless active sanitary measures were taken. He had given the necessary orders, and had had shipped a large quantity of disinfectants. A temporary depopulation was urged. THE President on the 7th appointed Colonel John C. Kelton as Adjutant-General of the army to succeed General Drum, retired. - IN the United States there were 225 business failures during ‘the seven days ended gn the Tth, against 215 the previous seven days, :

THE EAST.

NotaING had developed up to the 4th to lower the terrible estimate put upon the number of fatalities resulting from the recent flood at Johnstown, Pa. Through the agency of a bureau of registration, embracing twenty-eight different offices, a systematic effort was being made tc reach the most accurate figures possible regarding the fatalities in Johustown, Cambria, Morrellville, Kernville, Conemaugh and other places devastated by the flood. ‘Mr. McConnaghy, who had charge of the work of . registration, was of the ‘opinion that the number of people who perished was considerably over ten thousand, while Adjutant-General Hastings maintained that the death list would not exceed eight thousand. Nearly two thousand men were employed in different parts of the valley clearing away ruins and extricating the dead, and thus far thirty-two hundred bodies had been found.. Money and clothing for the destitute was flowing in from all parts of the country. _ON the 4th Mrs. Peter Kelley, of Rosendale, N. Y., gave birth to three boys. A TRAIN which left Pittsburgh on the 4th for Johnstown, Pa., probably had no parallel in the history of the world. It carried forty-one volunteer undertakers and two thousand coffins.

Ox the 4th the Mayor of Williamsport, Pa,, reported to Governor Beaver that thousands of people in that city were homeless and in want, the flood having carried away their dwellings and property. - ON the sth the annual parade of the Sun-day-school Union of Brooklyn, N. Y., took place, sixty thousand children being in line,

TaE United States Brewers Association in session on the sth at Niagara Falls, N. Y., appropriated $lO,OOO for the bepnefit of the sufferers of the Johnstown disaster. -

Tre New Hampshire Legislature in joint session on the sth. took a ballot for Governor, there having been, no choice by the people, and David H. Goodell (Rep.) was declared elected. , : It was still believed on the sth that the number of people destroyed in the flood at Johnstown, Pa., would reach from 12,000 to 15,000, Three thousand one hundred and thirteen bodies had beenrecovered. Itwas estimated that the number of orphansin the Conemaugh valley would be about 500. IN New Bedford, Mass., a d®stinct shock of earthquake was felt on the morning of the 7th. L

A FIRE destroyed the Herlich piano works at Paterson, N. J., on the 7th. AT Johnstown, Pa., the weather on the 7th was warm, and fears existed that outbreaks of disease would follow the fléod. Five cases of diphtheria were reported, and dysentery had made its appearance in some places. The work of recovering the bodies was going on steadily.

; WEST AND SOUTH. < A cycLoxE did great damage in Lama County, Tex., on the 4th to crops, fences, houses and barns and a number of people were injured. The cyclone struck the southern section of the county and moved in an easterly direction, sweeping every thing before it.

THE death of Joseph Labord, the oldest man in the Northwest, occurred at St. Paul on the 4th at the age of one hundred‘and six years. He was born at Point Levis, ue. - : QDUBING services on the 4th in the Free Methodist Church Tear Pomeroy, 0., an attempt was made to blow up the building with powder, but it missed fire. At least one hundred persons would have been killed had the powder been ignited. A VERY perceptible shock of earthquake was felt av Nashville, Tenn., about nine o'clock on the night'of the sth. AN incendiary fire on the sth at Biloxi, Miss,, destroyed twenty-five buildings, causing a loss of $lOO,OOO.

THE American Bankers’ Association will hold their annual convention at Kansas City, Mq.,_ September 25-27.

IN the Dr. Cronin inquest in Chicago all the evidence on the sth was directed toward establishing the fact that the deceased was firmly impressed with the idea that his lite was endangered through the machinations of Alexander Bullivan, the well-known ex-president of the Irish Land League. :

EARLY on the morning of the sth fire at Jacksonville, Fla., destroyed about sixty wooden buildings, for the most part occupied by colored people. - The loss was estimated at $200,000. ? THE doors of the Bank of Omaha, Neb., incorporated about & year ago, were closed on the 58h. Liabilities between s6o,oooand $70,000 ; assets nominal. ON the sth the enumeration of Indiana school children showed that there was 770,720 in the State, which indicated a total population of 2,563,066. The apportionment of school fundsis $1.35 per capita—an increase of four cents over last year. A FIRE destroyed the St. James' Hotel at Stevens’ Point, Wis., on the sth, and ayoung man and two girls perished in the flames. ProHIBITIONISTS of Nebraska met at Lincoln on the sth and organized a HState leagie, and also arranged to establish local le;gues in every county in the State. . THE school census of Nebraska showed on the sth a school population of 816,805, which gives a total population to the State of about 1,000,002, : - Ox the 6th five thousand men were engaged in the work of clearing away debris and searching for bodies at Johnstown, Pa. The indications were that the estimate of. 12,000 to 15,000 would not exceed the actual number of lives lost when all was known. The militia was in possession of the town ‘and its approaches, and sight-seers and curiosity seekers were debarred from entering. Good order prevailed and the homeless and destitute were being cared for as amply as possible, s _AT Johnstown, Pa., Eddie Fisher, aged thirteen, whose mother and five sisters and brothee?perished in the- flood, committed suicide®n the 6th by jumping from the top of a building. ' -REPORTS of the' 6th say that in Bteuben County, N. Y and adjacent to it between twenty und twenty-five lives were lost and about $5,000,000 worth of 'pto&eﬁy destroyed in the recent flood, and i m Pennsylvania nearly 700 lives were nown: to have been lost, and property to the amount of $10,000,000 were swept away. - Frames swept away the business portion of Seattle, the largest city in Washington Territory,on the afternoon of the 6t ”"‘*q bank, hotel, place of amusement, all the:

leading business houses, all the newspaper offices, the railroad depots, miles of steamboat wharves, the coal bunkers, the freight warehouses and the telegraph offices were. burned. :

NeAr Girard, Kan.,, Karl Hahnmann, a farmer, strangled his wife to death on the 6th and then went to the barn and hanged himself. No cause was known for the deed. - s

Ox-the 6th J. H Benjamin, editor of the Deland (Fla.) News, shot and instantly killed Captain J. W. Douglas at New Smyrna. The shooting was the result of an old feud. : 3 s lowa Prohibitionists met in State convention at Cedar Rapids.on the 6th and made the following nominations: ¥or Governor— Malcolm Smith, of ‘Cedar Rapids; Lieuten-ant-Governor—J. O. Murphy, of Jasper County; Supreme Judge—W. A. Maginnis, of Jackson County; Superintendent of Public Instruction — Mrs. C. A. Dunham, of Burlington; Railroad Commisgioner —J, W. Noble, of Ringgold County. Mgrs. QuiGLEY, the wife of a well-to-do farmer living near Peotone, 111., gave her two children a dose of ‘‘Rough on Rats” and took some herself on the 6th while insane. :

ON the 6th Lon Barrett, a notorious horse thief and general crook, was arrested at Terre Haute, Ind., for passing counterfeit money. :

ON the 7th the western part of Sedgwick County and the eastern part of Kingman County, in Kansas, were swept over by a cyclone, and all the buildings in a space twenty miles long by five miles wide were wrecked and the crops destroyed. A farmer named Rogers and all the members of his family were killed. DispAaTcrEs of the 7th say that the recent fire in Seattle, W. T., caused a loss of $15,000,000, with not more than one-third covered by insurance. The entire business portion of the city and part of the residenceé neighborhood was destroyed, and hundreds of people were homeless. Anumber of lives were reported lost. The burned district comprised sixty-four acres. Frames on the 7th at Livingston, Ala., destroyed half of the town. -- Ix the Dr. Cronin inquest in Chicago on the 7th, three important witnesses were missing, and could not be found by the coroner’s agents. Daniel Brown, a policeman, admitted that he was the man who cited Dr. Cronin to trial for treason. Brown was placed under restraint by the coroner, who intimated that he was the man who drove Dr. Cronin to his death on the night of May 4. Luke Dillon denounced Alexander Sullivan as the instigator of the crime.

FraMEs swept away eleven business houses and offices in Syracuse, Kan., on the Tth. .

Tee will of Mary J. Kennedy was probuted on the 7th at Indianapolis, Ind., and it was found that the only heirs to herestate were two sons who are both serving life sentences in prison for murder.

CeARLES R. CarnsToN and John Feaster were hanged on the 7th at Charlotte, 8. C., for the murder of W. C. Abernethy, a inerchant, in January last. G

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE firm of J. & H. Taylor, railway supply merchants of Montreal, Can., failed on the 4th for $lOO,OOO. ; : AT Reichenbach, Germany, a hurricane and water-spout on the 4th caused great loss of life and property.

THE death of Hon. J. Hamilton Gray, Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, occurred at his home in Victoria on the sth.

~ Abpvices received in London on the sth from missionaries reported that the Mahdist fanatics had slaughtered thousands of native Christians in Western Abyssinia and sold thousands of others into slavery. i

THE fund being raised at the legation in Paris for the relief of the sufferers by the flood at Jamestown, Pa., amounted on the 6th to $lO,OOO. TeE Marchioness de Chasteler, an aged lady of noble family, was found slain in her bed on the 6th at Mons, Belgium.

IN the village of Libionsch, in Prussian Silesia, a fire on the 6th destroyed one hundred and ninety-five houses, including the village church and vicarage. L

In Offenburg, Baden, the cotton mills were destroyed by fire on the 6th, involving a loss of 30,000 marks. Several women were killed. = .

NINETEEN men were crossing the river at Grenville, Que., on the 6th when the boat capsized and five of them were drowned. THE houses of two leading Boulangists were searched by the Paris police on the 7th and resulted in the discovery of papers which implicated Boulanger in an international plot.

THE Czar of Russia’ on the 7th bestowed a dowry of one million rubles on Princess Militza, of Montenegro, who! has been betrothed to Grand Duke Peter, of Russiz. Apvices of the Tth' from Crete showed that complete anarchy reigned on the island. Murders and outrages of all kinds were of daily occurrence, and went unpunished. . ; . LATER. THE work of registering survivors of the flood at Johnstown was going on on the ath, and up to date there were about 21,000 registered. The number of the lost was placed at 5,000 by those who held that it would reach 10,000 a week ago. A conservative estimate was between 8,500 and 4,000. Up to date there had been 1,500 bodies recovered.

THE sa’'oons and theaters in - Cincinnati were closed on the 9th, and no ball-playing was allowed. ‘ A THE ship Altmora, bound from Sidney to San Francisco, was wrecked off the Tiji Islands on the Bth, and a nuinber of her passengers and crew were drowned. v VARIOUS portions of Eastern Illinois were visited by severe storms on the Bth, accompanied by hail, doing much damage to growing crops. o ; CHEYENNE had a veritable blizzard on the Bth, and three inches of snow fell in the neighboring mountains. THE exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on. the Bth aggregated $1,118,648,644, against $1,012,207,429 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1888 the increase amounted to 28.1. :

Tur. Clay County Bank, the oldest institution of the kind in Topeka, Kan., failed on the Bth for $lOO,OOO. - Jack WALKER and Frank Davy went 'over the Horseshoe fall at Niagara Falls in a boat on the 9th. They started for the head of Goat island, but lost control of their boat and were drawn into the current, Walker was thirty years old and Davy twenty-three years of age. i

A BAND of Mormon missionaries who had for a month been holding forth at Hindsboro, IIL., were driven out. of town on the 9th by citizens. ; A cYcLoNE swept through Arkansas City, Ark,, on the Bth, wrecking the Methodist and Baptist churches and ten stores and residences. Two persons were killed. Mrs, DENNIs CArRrOLL and her little girl and Mrs, Edmund Thomas were drowned in the river at' Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 9th by the upsetting of a boat. LeoNnarp BwerT, the noted Chicago lawyer, died on the Bth of a kidney trouble. He was sixty-four years of age. FKor a third of a century Leonard Swett was one of the most prominent lawyers of the Northwest, Ox the Bth Kansas City, Mo., wus visited by a severe storm of wind and rain, break-. ing windows, uprooting trees, etc, ' Brrow will be found the percemtage of the base-ball clubs 1n the National League ‘ for the week ended on the Sth: DBoston, .781; Oloveland, .621; Philadelphia, .611; New York, .52); Chicago, .428; Pittsburgh, .382; Indianapolis, 312; Washington, .300. Amerfcun Association: Bt. Louis, ,711; Athletic, .6%5; Brooklyn, .585; Baltimore, 5T5; Cincinuatl, ,5%; Kaneas City, .500; Columbus, .875; Louisville, 284 Western Assoctation: ' ¥t Poul, .812; Omaha, .666; Sloux City, .606; Minneapolis, .455; Den. ver, .487; Des Molues, 483; Bt Joseph, .392; Milwoukee, 288 . . . 0 00

A THOUSAND FUNERALS., Sad Bights Witnessed by the Survivors at Johnstown — Burying the Dead—Pneue monia Gaining Ground—Preparing to Rebuild—-Contributions Flowing In. JOHNSTOWN, Pa.,- June 6.—The gray mists ba 1l scarcely arisen from the hills Wednes. day morning until 1,000 funerals were coursing their green sides. There were no hearses, few mourners, and as little solemnity as formality. The maJority of the coffins were of rough pine. The hearses were strong farmers’ teams, and instead of six pall-bearers to one coffin there were generallysix coffinsto one team. Bilently the processions moved, and silently they unloaded their burdens in the lap of Mother Earth. No minister was there to pronounce a last blessing as the clods rattled down. ‘ 3

ALI Wd;;-i(—mg the corpses were beinb buried. @ The unidentified bodies were grouped on a high hill west of the doomed

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Over 5,000 men are employed in Johnstown proper clearing the streets, about 1,000 of these being the regular street hands hired by Contractors Booth and Flynn, -of Pittsburgh, the others being volunteers. Mr. Flynn declares it will take 10,000 men thirty days to clear the ground so that the streets will be passable and the work of rebuilding commenced. :

PirrssurcH, Pa., June 6.—Chief Bigelow has ordered a corps of engineers to report this morning to go to Johnstown. About a dozen men will go, taking with them all the necessary instruments for surveying and laying out the streets and property, with a view to reorganizing the destroyed city. L : : A house-to-house canvass was ordered by the sanitary authkrities, and its revelations, as far as it went, were startling in the extreme. It was found that four and even six families were being crowded into a single house, and as high as fifty slept in one room, that :the doors and windows were left closed to shut out the stench and the dampness, and that as a result pneumonia was gaining an alarming foothold. Mr. P. M. Carrington of the United States Marine Hospital estimates-that there are at least a hundred well-defined cases of the disease in Johnstown to-day. He ascribes its growing prevalence to crowded rooms, damp cellars and exposure. The coroner’s jury Wednesday proceeded to the South fork and investigated the cause of breakage of the reservoir dam. Witnesses testified that slight breaks had appeared in the dam several times in past years, but had each time been clumsily repaired with straw, sticks and rubbish. .The general impression is that the jury will declare that the Pittsburgh Fishing Club that owned the reservoir was guilty of gross negligence. In that event many suits for damages against this millionaire club will doubtless follow. JoNSTOWN, Pa., June 6.—Out of a total pepulation of 1,030 at Woodvale 667 are known to have been saved, making the losa of life about 50 per cent. of the submerged portion of the village. It isestimated that the number of orphans in the Conemaugh valley will be about 500. They are being removed to central points where they can be found in'case they are inquired for. : St. Marks’ P. E. Church lost 27 out of a membership of 150. Rector A. P. Diller, wife and two children were drowned Their new church building has disappeared. The drift of opinion among intelligent men; physicians, engineers, railroad men, is that from 1,000 to 1,500 of the bodies will never be found. :

Captain Peter Fitzpatrick, of Cambria City, learned yesterday that his two little boys, supposed to be dead, were safe eighty miles down the river, where they were carried on the roof of a house and rescued.

Work has been begun on the wreckage of the Cambria mills in Millville. Only about 600 of the 1,000 employes have been accounted for. ] : ; CONTRIBUTIONS FLOWING IN, PaLADELPHIA, June 6.—The rivalry existing between the various collectors in this city for the Johnstown sufferers has been the means of swelling the amount of the cash subscriptions to about #550,000, while the donations of food and other necessartes are so numerous that some difficulty is experienced in handling them. Thirty-one carloads in all have ‘been shipped, and it is thought that fully as much is awaiting shipment. s

HARRISBURG, Pa., June 6. — Gavernor Beaver has received by check and draft $125,966. : New Yorx, June 6.—Dispatches from various points outside Washington and Philadelphia report flood subscriptions during the day and night about $120,000. The receipts of cash at the mayor’s office in this city Wednesday aggregate $lBO,OOO. Besides this over $lOO,OOO was subscribed to othyw funds of exchanges and newspapers. Tne Equitable Life has sent $lO,OOO to the flood victime, 2

LITERARY GOSSIP,

WirrLiam PeENN wrote his well-known ¢No Cross, No Crown,’’ in the Tower of London. ; S \ P

Mgs. (“Robert Elsmere?”) WARD is not merely a passive opponent of woman suffrage, but, with I'rederic Harrison, is organizing an anti-woman suffrage society. JouN Brieur’s last literary work was the revision of a preface in a reprint of Jonathan Dymond’s ‘“War and Christianity.”’ The book embodies the uncompromising condemnation of war that is associated with Bright’s name. ; Chy

FraNk DEMPSTER SHERMAN, the dreamy poet or. rather ‘‘writer of society verse,” used to be a retail stationer at Peekskill, It is said that owing to asplendid opinion of . himself he has not met with the fame that - might come to him were he more agreeable l to those who could give him the proper | boost. He has a morbid dislike of reporters . and does not deign an introduction to one. . Georee MEREDITH, the novelist, is sixtyone years of age. He has been twice married, his first wife being a daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, the well-known ‘friend of Shelley. His second wife, who died about two years ago, lies buried in the church-yard near Boxhill, the" novelist's | t present home. His two children, one a daughter of seventeen years of age, and the other a son of ﬁwﬁnv:rm.who isan ‘electrical engineer, live with him. Heisa home-ruler and a Democrat all around,

THE WORST ON RECORD.

The Recent Floods Unequalled in Ameri‘can History — The Losses Will Reach Over s3o,ooo,ooo—Nearly 200 Persons ‘Perished—ln the Horror at the Johnse town Disaster the Magnitude of the Catastrophies Elsewhere Has Been Underestimated, /

PHILADELPHIA, June 7.—Were it not for the unprecedented extent of the Johnstown disaster and the extraordinary lose of life caused by it the floods which happened at the same time in New York, Maryland, West Virginia, O!d Virginia and the st ern part of Pennsylvania would have been regarded as almost exceptionally destructive to life and property, but as it is they are almost entirely over}opkqd in view of what has happened in the Conemaugh valley. And yet from more than one locality of this flood area there has come up a cry for help which the authorities of Pennsylvania and Maryland. are courageously trying to answer without making any general appeal for contributions additional to those which are now going forward to Johnstown. - The great storm, which had its rise in the liississ(}ppi valley and gradually swept eastward, did no damage west of New York and Pennsylvania nor east of those States, but expended its force upon the mountainous regions in a line north and south from Central New York nearly to Central Virginia, and principally on the lines of the Geneseo, Monocacy, Potomac, James, Rappahannock and the historic Appomattox rivers. In Steuben County, N. Y., and adjacent to it between twenty and twenty-five lives have been lost and probably about. $5,000,000 worth of property. InEastern Pennsylvania nearly 100 lives are known to have keen lost, and property to the amount of $10,000,000 at least has been swept away. The most serious disaster was at Willlamsport, where by the sudden collapse of a bridge forty of the persons standing on it, watching the flood, are said to have been drowned in the rushing waters. In Virginia fortunately but two or three lives were lost, but at Richmond, Petersburg, Staunton, Danville and other points four or five millions’ worth of property has been lost. In Madryland fifteen persons were drowned dnd a severe money loss is imposed upon the people, probably amounting to ten or fifteen millions 2 So far“as actual loss of property is concerned, these floods have imposed a far heavier damage than that at Johnstown, and were it nct for the terrible destruction of life at the latter point we should have looked upon the other floods as among the worst which have ever occurred in the United States. |

LATEST NEWS FROM JOHNSTOWN.

_JOHNSTOWN, June 7.—Five thousand men are now engaged in the work of clearing away debris and searching for bodies. The indications are that the estimate of 12,000 to 15,000 will not exceed the actual number of lives lost when all is known. The militia is in possession of the town and its approaches, and sightseers and curiosity seekers are debarred from entering. Good order prevails, and the homeless and destitute are being cared for as amply as possible. There is a strong movement in favor of applying the torch to the wrecked buildings, and, altheugh the suggestion meets ‘'with strong opposition at this time, there is little doubt the ultimate solution of existing difficulties will be by this method. JOHNXSTOWN, Pa., June 7.—Colonel James A. McMillan, principal owner of the Cambria Iron Works, says the loss to his company will be between $3,000,000 and $4000,000. His estimate of the total loss sustained by the towns of Mineral Point, Franklinborough, Woodvale, Conemaugh, Johnstown, Cambria City, Coopersdale and Morrellville, 1s about $12,000,000. Speaking from a financial standpoint it will require constant effort for the next fifteen years for the Conemaugh valley to recover from the shock of the flood. It would never recover from the effect of the terrible loss of life. ;

A gang of workmen have located the day express which was swept away at Conemyugh. The ruins of the train lie about 100 feet from the fourth buttress from the western end of the stone bridge. Parts of the parlor cars have been found, as well-as traces of the passengers. Ibtis evident that many lives were lost on this train, more than at first supposed. The whole train affair is still a mystery. At least the passengers have not s 0 far been found and located. °

PHILADELPHIA, June 7.—General Manager Pugh says that as near as can be learned nineteen persons were lost from the day express ab Conemaugh. Some of the passengers heretofore mentioned as being dead have turned up alive in various parts of the country, and probably some of the names now given may be those of persons still alive but not yet located. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 7.—Food and cloth= ing have arrived plentifully, but not in excess of the demand.- There are thousands of busy workmen to feed and the men in control here feel that supplies can not arrive in too great a quantity. ' Up to the present the committee has received in actual cash contributions $25,796.16, with $57,115.45 promised in addition. The greater part of this is represented by telegrams from a distance instructing the committee to draw on certain banks. This is an impossibility, as there are no banking facilities left here. The committee hopes that contributors will forward theirgfmoney by express. Mr. J. D. Roberts said ' that Philadelphia had promised $300,000, which is now at the disposal of the committee. : NEw York, June 7.—The relief fund of the mayor of this city has reached $163,345. The Chamber of Commerce fund is $42,000. Jay Gould contributed £l,OOO. Whitelaw Reid, the United States Minister to France, telegraphs that the fund being raised at the legation for the relief of the sufferers by the tiood at Johnstown now amounts to $lO,OOO.

PHILADELPHIA, June 7.—The Johnstown relief fund collected in this city now reaches {600,000, Fifty-five car-loads of goods have already been started. The Reading road has offered free transportation for flood-relief freight. - Boston has raised £68,000; Chicago, about $90,000; Cincinnati, $22,106; Louisville, $lO,000; New Orleans, $2,000; Kansas City, $lO,000. . ; 2

Dispatiches from points in Illinois, lowa, Indiana and other Western States show that the people fully recognize the needs of the sufferers by the Conemaugh flood and are disposed to contribute. liberally to their relief. ] .

Losses by Fire and Flood. BerriN, June 7.—The cotton mills in Offenburg, Baden, were destroyed by fire Thursday, involving a loss of 300,000 marks. Beveral women were killed. Disastrous floods are reported from different points in Bavaria with considerable destruction of property. The crops are ruined in many sections. : LoxpoN, June 7.—A tremendous thunderstorm passed over London Thursday. The lightning was intensely vivid. Much property has been damaged and several cases of loss of life are reported. el @) APt There are more than eighty National cemeteries in America, containing in all 315« 555 graves. Of these 183,146 are the graves of unknown soldiers. : o : esl A APt New York’s Provision Supply Delayed. New Yomg, June %—Large quantities of provisions, produce, vegetables, poultry, eto,, en route to this city, were stopped by the Conemaugh flood, and as a consequenca rices have advanced in the city markets. ?tiﬁ said that the Pennsylvania road will sell this perishable freight to péople along the line of the road for the benefit of the | Tniak Halstend Will Bo Appointed, z.wﬂf’gﬁ«. Jugvuﬁwﬁmm% respondent telegraphs that it seems to be taken for granted in diplomatic eiroles in Berlin that, Murat Halstead will soon fe“!WWWM“%MW

BADLY CONSTRUCTED.

The Fatal South Fork Dam Was Faultily Built—lndignation at Its Owners—Dis- : ense Rapidly Gaining Ground. : JoBNSTOWN, Pa, June 8 —This community is in a wild state of excitement as a result of the recent flood.” The blame of the entire affair hag’ been placed Epon the South Fork Hunting and Fishing? Club, and 80 angry are some of the people in this vicinity that - trouble is feared for W. 8. Boyer, superintendent, at the cot~ tages on the lake. Already several of the pretty villas have been broken into by marauders and the furniture demolished. The boats owned by the club have been stolen in broad daylight and reduced to kindling-wood by the infuriated crowd. The men who broke into the cottages have not been discovered. Itis evident robbery was not intended. Affairs at present are assuming a serious aspect. The coroner’s jury that has been in session all day at Ninevah terminated its labors Friday after-. noon. The verdict has been fully prepared, and only lacks the ‘signatures of the jurors before being giving publicity. It is understood that the jury, after reviewing at length the successive breaks and careless repairs in the dam in past years, declares the Executive Committee of the South Fork Fishing Club guilty of gross, if not criminal, negligence. L Mr. A M. Wellington, with F. P. Burt, associate editor of the Engineering News, of New York, has just completed an ex-. amination of the dam which cansed the’ great disaster here. Mr. Wellington states that the dam was in every respect of in. ferior construction and of a kind wholly unwarranted by good engineering practices of thirty years ago. . MUCH WORK.FOR THE DOCTORS. JoHNSTOWN, Pa., June B—The ‘weather is warm, and fears exist that outbreaks of disease will follow the flood. Five cases of diphtheria are reported, and dysentery has made its appearance in some places. The lack of fresh meat supplies is regarded as responsible for this. The work of recovering bodies goes on steadily. Noble work is being performed by the Waifs’ Mission, and hundreds of orphaned children are being well cared for. ) JoENSTOWN, Pa., June 8 — It is feared at the Red Cross corps headquarters that. the flood has left a parting curse hovering over the Conemaugh valley in the form of the dread disease diphtheria. The attenti()% of the medical people are now directed to Kernville, where the Red Cross makes no secret of a prevailing epidemic. Miss Clara Af Barton and Dr. O’Neill, of the Red Cross, decided to establish a hospital at Kernville, and after much trouble with the local authorities secured a site and erected their hospital tents, with Dr. Berns, of Philadelphia, in charge. i SPECULATION AS TO THE LOSS OF LIFE. - While many still hold. to the belief that at least 12,000 people perished in the Conemaugh valley, it is becoming apparent that this estimate is considerably too high. For the last four days a number of people have devoted themselves. to little else than endeavoring to arrive at a correct idea of the death list, and have now ficured out the loss of life at a little over 9,000. The following table shows their estimates of the i loss of life and property in the stricken towns: j Lives, Property. Mineral P0int.......in vueeinns -16 8 700,000 East Conemaugh and Franklin. 388 1,200,000 ‘ Woodvaler o ciooies oLy 8000 8500.000 Johnstown and Millvale, ......7,000 18,000,000 cEernvilel il il s 800 S 00000 CQambrina il i i GOOO 1 750,000 Minersville. 00, o i s 8 © 15,000 Morrellville: .l o iuai )l 10.(39 Sheridan and Coopersdale...... ... . 5,000 Pennsyivania rai1r0ad.......... ... 10,000,000 \ Total b, it oot ihiaiiioB,963 $88:950.000 CLEARING OUT THE DEBRIS. - ‘ Eight thousand men were at work here Friday clearing out the debrig, but truth compels the statement that the undertaking has not yet been fairly started. Firesare burning up and down the valley of the Conemaugh as far as the eye can reach. The air is thick with smoke, and yet the people familiar with the situation say the efforts of this army of earnest toilers are hardly appreciable. Something like system is being established, but the most careful estimates are to the effect that it will take 10,000 men several weeks to clear out the heaps of ruins piled up for miles between the hi¥® along the course of the river. Eighty-six men from: Altoona, under orders of the sanitary officials, are scattering disinfectants over the acres of wreckage that the railroad bridge stopped.’ . WILL CALL AN EXTRA SESSION. JoaNsTOwN, Pa., June B.+ltis stated on almost undoubted authority that Governor Beaver has decided te call an extra session of the State Legislature. General Hasfings was at the wire early Friday evening and had a long and earnest talk with the Governor.. He told him that in his judgment a special session of the Legisture should be held at once. He . said -he had carefully gone over the situation, and had sought the opinions of others. He was extremely anxious to know how the contributions were coming in, and said that it would be necessary to make heavy daily drafts on whatever amount might be raised outside in order to keep the work going on. He said if the contributions reached a $1,000,000 it would take that amount to clean the city debris and pay the people of Johnstown and the men whowere employed from outside. In addition he thought the State should give $2,000,000. . LIVES LOST IN CENTRE COUNTY. BELLEFONTE, Pa., June 8 —The flood of last Friday night and Saturday played terrible havoc in Centre County in both loss of life and damage to property. Bellefonte itself suffered little, being built on hills, At Mackeysville the dead number fifteen, and at Salona, twelve. There was a great amount of damage done in the western part of the county, but no lives were lost. The total damage in the county will be between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. EFFECT ON THE IRON MARKET. New York, June B—R G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review on trade says: “The flood disasters have entirely changed the situation in the Eastern lumber trade, the coal, iron and steel trades. Producing companies of the first importance have buddenlyz ceased operations, und their orders must bé filled by others or delayed. The flooding of many coal mines and supplies of fuel for many manufacturing works, and the stoppage | of the Cambria mills and furnaces, which produced yearly over 800,000 tons of iron in various forms, will affect the trade for some time. The destruction of more than forty bridges, | about half of them on the Pennsylvania rails road, besides many locomotives, cars and miles of track, creates a sudden demand which is felt | in all iron and steel markets.” g g

HISTORIC FRAGMENTS.

THE earliest recorded public celebration of Washington’s birthday is the observance of that day in Richmond, Va., in 1782. The next year the anniversary was publicly celebrated at Talbot Court-house, Md., and a year later in New York. It was celebrated on the 11th day of February until the year 1793, when it was changed tothe 22({ to adapt it to the new styles of reckoning. ¢ ° REGULAR theatrical performances were introduced into America in 1752, when a company of actors from London, led by Willlam and Lewis Hallam, played "“The Beaux® Strategem” at Annapolis; later bringing out the ‘““Merchant of Venice” at Williamsburg, Va. This company played afterwards at Philadelphia, Perth Amboy, New York and Newport. The laws excluded them from Connecticut and Massas R e e T ‘THE first modern temperance society in this country was formed by two. hundred farmers of Litchfield County, Conn.; in 1789, the organizers agreeing not to nse any distilled liquor in doing their farm work the ensuing season, Organized societies of : &mﬁggd;bgma i 1811, and in 1826 the first public temperance society was formed in the United States. Total abstinence msmm% until 1836, when & national convention at Saratoga took the ground, The Washinglon Socity, the irst e fnn*m@%@*ﬂi’&ﬁ% ee s ssDl e Sl s R s

SEATTLE LAID WASTE.

The Best Part of the City in Ashes— Losses Estimated at from $7,000,000 te s2o,ooo,ooo—People Crushed by Falling Walls—Aid Needed. >

SeartLE, W. T., June B—The most destructive fire ever experiemced on the Pacific coast broke out in qﬂs city at 2:45> O'clock Thursday afternoon in a row: of wooden buildings on the west side of Front street, between Marion and Madison streets. @ The first large building to go was Frye's Opera-house. From this initial point the fire spread north and south, .extending from Second and Third streets to the bay,. a distance of over one mile, and comprising the entire business portion of the city. Every newspaper office, hotel, telegraph office, railroad depot, and. wharf in the city was totally destroyed. There is great privation among the poorer classes, as nearly every restaurant and g’o--cery it the city was consumed by the fire. The burned district now presents the aspect of ahuge oven of burning coals,and threaten. even further destruction. The firemen, re--inforced by help from Tacoma and Snohomich, are on the alert. The militia and: extra police are to be seen on every corner, guarding the property against thieves. The burned district comprises sixty-four acres. One hundred arrests for theft havebeen made. Every thing south of Union street and west of Second street, . reaching around to the gas works above Fourth street, to Jackson, was burned. The Arlington and Commercial hotels were destroyed. It is estimated that the total less to the city in buildings: alone amounts to $7,000,000, and the personal losses will probably reach $20,000,000. It is thought that many persons must have perighed in the flames. Giant powdler: was used to blow up buildings in the hepeof staying the progress ot the flames, but tono effect. It is reported that two men have been lynched for stealing. ) The large building occupied by Toklas: & Singerman fell Thirty people were near it at the time, and it is said that many were crushed. - Any estimate of the loss of life would be mere guess-work. 3

- Words fail to describe the awful pictureof desolation. It is Hke the scene at’ Chicago in 1871. Like Chicago, this city will have to be rebuilt. Everybody seems to be in good spirits, as 1t is hard to realize the dreadful fullness of this sudden calamity. An accurate record of the losses would include every business man of prominence in. the town. It is a dreadful calamity from which few have escaped. - Citizens made common cause with the firemen in the tight and struggled with’might and main to save the city. The first thought of others was to save their individual posses--sions, ~ and the streets were soon. crowded, in many places blockaded, with teams loaded with valuables of every' description seeking places of safety on the hills, Hundreds of men were at work disgorging - many business buiidings of their contents and loading them into wagons procured at enormous prices and sending them through the choked thoroughtares. Every body was excited and frenzied. .The entire water front was mostly of wood on piles which had been driven intomud flats. It had been predicted by insurance men time and again that the city would some time be swept by fire, and. only a 'wind from the north-northeast; which kept up a steady blowing and drove the flames eventually into the: bay, saved that part of the city north of Union street. This leaves good wharf room outside of the burned district. and epared the homes of a large number of the poorer people, who had all: their earthly possessions within the wooden walls of their humble huts. Engines sent from Portland, Tacoma and Vietoria reached the scene with all possible haste, but on arrival could accomplish verylittle toward checking the spread of the: Hlames. T

Official figures furnished by insurance: companies place the property loss at $7,000,--000, and covered by a total insurance of $2,250,000. - Of this amount 1,904,000 is held by companies represented in San Francisco. Six Oregon companies carry risks represent--ing a round total of $250,000.. Fifteen small. outside companies carry risks estimated at. $150,000. - The people decided at a meeting Friday morning to rebuild the city with brick and stone. The military are gunarding what. prgperty was not burned. The city is quietand every body is hopeful . The Governor has issued a proclamation appealing to the people of the Territory to send aid for the sufferers by the fire. Tacoma citizens sent here Friday large: quantities of food, blankets and tents to: supply the immediate wants of the homeless, and large quantities of supplies havealso been sent from Portland.

THE NEXT CENSUS.

Physicians Requested to Assist in -the: Work by Gathering Mortality and Vitak Statistics—A Suggestion to Farmers. WasHINGTON, June B.—Dr. John 8. Briggs, U. 8. A., will have charge of the report om mortality and vital statistics as returned by the eleventh census. As the United States: has no system ‘of registration ot vital sta~ tistics, such as is relied upon by other civilized nations for the purpose of ascertaining the actual movement of population, our census affords the only opportunity of obtaining near an approximate estimate of the: birth' and death rates of much the larger part of the country, which is . entirely unprovided with any satisfactory system of ¢ State and municipal registration. For the purpose of obtaining Inore accurate returns of deaths. than it is possible for the enumerators tomake, it is earnestly hoped that physicians. in every part of the country will co-operate with the census office in this important. work. The record should be kept from June 1, 1889, to May 31, 1890. The bureau. has issued registration books which may be: obtained by physicians who desire to lend their aid in this important work on sending their names and:addresses to the census office. : It is equally important to the country that: the returns in relation to farm products and live stock shall ‘be full and correct. The enumerator -in the house tohouse visit is constantly met with the fact that farmers keep no books and hence: returns are not infrequently guess work. The census year began June 1, and ends: May 381, 1890. If farmers throughout the: country would note this fact and keep account of the products of their farms during the census year it would be of material aid in securing reliable returns for the: eleventh census 4 : ' et e Y A CYCLONE’S WORK. :

It Wrecks a Big Stretch of Country in Kansas, Killing a Farmer and His Whole: Family. WicHiTA, Kan., June 8 —This section was. visited Friday by the most severe storm. ‘known here for years, The western part. of Bedgwick County and the eastern part. of Kingman County suffered most, and a space twenty miles long by five miles wide was _swept over by a cyclone. A farmer named Rogersand all the members of his family were killed. The heavy rain was followed by hail which laid low the grain and fruit. crops. In west b‘edgwickj County many houses and barns and acres of crops were: leveled to the ground. : ' _ Death of Mrs. Charles ¥. Adams. ~ Quixcy, Mass, June 8-Mrs, Charles F. Adams, widow of the late Hon. C. F. Adams, and mother of Hon. John Quincy Adams and Charles F. Adams, president of the Union Pacific railroad, died Thursday night, aged 81 years. Three children sur. vive her in addition to those mentioned— Brooks and Henry Adams and Mrs. Dr. Memry BoQuagy . 0 . Bay COrry, Mich, Jume 8 — Rev. Dr. e E S e o qom pastor of 8 Polers Ohuroh in Philadel. . i B e e %.m&mwmm%%m & Tl ﬁ’“ﬂ*»r“‘%vf IRI