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L& i o o 2 OLD SOR’FUL.” . PeiEy LGHT men in a cabin, P N fourthe regular ocBY . /Y BNy cupants, one a e \ N o stranger who - was BRCE i:” : i %) making his way toa f,,', ‘%‘E:.mé 7 B -,n‘&y’ distant mine, two e A LGB visiting inhabitants ol T o e )7 N (11 i y : /‘/’f’%’ ‘ K@ﬁé{ 4 the company “oOld 7 -f” litypps ,ﬁr’\q.l K¢ Sor’ful.” e\ e : «ﬁr{a‘? hov\oy He was welcome 9%7“1‘,/4,4*.“ ' everywhere, and he iy 77 R made his stg)pé)inegts Ml TN N irregular -and brief; - ‘_‘“«.’J '\\‘*Q\\\\ he was the oldestinLA \ \ -"”/("f"‘ M habitant of the sec--3 / A / ;}} {\WAL tion, helpful to any g and all;he was a man: kyer bowed down by grief, not morose or. sullen, but simp{y silent and uncommnunicative, and as *old Sor’ful” (Sorrowful) was he known. i ! Get the “lay of the land” where this drama in real life was enacted. i YA o 8 Two cabins stood in Granite Gulch, at the foot of Tennessee mountain, one of the loftiest peaks of the Rockies. Fifty feet lower down the mountain-side, in a thick grove of tall pine trees, at the bottom of the gulch, was the rough home of the two men mentioned as visitors. Although an ominous snow crown had settled like a great white turban upon the head of Tennesses peak, these miners, inured to risks, were indifferent to the danger signal above them, and drank and iested without a thought of care. | Something was said, or some strange influence moved Old Sor’ful to speech that night and his hearers listened, thé first men who had ever heard it, to the story of his life and great grief, told with the simple pathos of an unlettered mind. He had gone to California in’ 49. He prospered in the land of the Argonauts and gent, regularly sufficiént sums of money. to his family to keep them in every comfort, but saying nothing about the ‘‘pile” that was growing greater every day. He wanted to surprise the folks at home. Atlast he “gized up” full forty thousand dollars, and a great longing c4me over him for sight of the waiting oned. His dust was converted into two crisp drafts and he started for “‘the ﬁzates.” ; ¥ «You see, boys, I didn’t rig upin new togs or apyting like that. ‘We fellows liked to go home in the old camp harness and knock 'round a few days, letting on-as though heyas dead broke, and then when every one_ about made up their mind that you never were no good any way, spring your pile onto them and give the -laugh to *tother side of the mouth.

“I made the overland trip all right and was in the railroad train within three hundred miles of my wife and baby. Ui “I dozed off towards morning, waked with the glare of sunshine, and in two minutes found that my coat was cut and I had been robbed. I always had been- an infernal fool about. telling my business to strangers, and there wasn’t a man on the car didn’t know that I was a miner going home with a fortune.

“I gave the alarm. No one had left the car; there was a big excitement and one man proposed that every body be searched. Therg was no objection and the conductor and myself went through every man and every piece of baggage on the car.. But my money was not found. ; : “I felt just as though my heart would break, not for myself—l could take: hard luck—but for my wife and little girl—the baby that 'l had never seen; born six weeks after 1 left home, and now a little girl, -awaiting there for her papa. = ““f couldn’t, I couldn’t, go home and face them; the first stopping place I got off and took the next train back to the coast to begin all over again. I was just getting on my feet once more, when there came a letter, four weeks delayed; it had a black border aroundit. My little one had taken typhoid fever and died, and two days later they laid her mother away with her.. “That settled it. I’ve been no good since, and I'm only waiting the time when I can join them up there, if they’ll let- me in.” This sad, true story settled the rough yarns the miners had been telling; the stranger in their midst seemed particularly affected by the recital. . It was not long before the party broke up, the two visitors going to their own cabin, and on their invitation “Old Sor’ful”’ accompanied them. It was shortly after midnight when the old man roused the two sound sleepers with anxious shakings. Their ears gave them a guick clew to fast-approaching danger; the eyes of each man sought those of the other’s for some hopeful gleam of escape, but of hope there was none in the returning glance. .

The rumbling, rushing sound as of mighty ‘waters and heaviest thunder mingled, the terrible crashing, crumbling, grinding, ‘earth-shaking roar grew louder each heart beat of time; the snow-slide was upon them. i ; ;

Fortune, however, favored these three men and their hyt; the slide was'broken, “split,”” as they call it there, and only ‘an arm of the avalanche struck them. But this

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earthen floor, raving mad, in appearance like wild wolves,for they had,in the agony of hunger, hacked their arms and drank the blood as it flowed. Pmned down under two heavy crossed logs lay thestranger guest of that unfortunate night, the bones of his body broken beyond all hope of aid from surgeons; he was hurt to death. . But a strange strength and determination had preserved his life and kept clear his mind, spite of the infernal torments and horrors of those days and nights. His eyes fastened themselves upon the face of Old Sor’ful. “I knew, I knew you would come,” he whispered, faintly, as the old man busied over him to afford what relief was possible This stranger seemed indifferent to all aid for the prolonging of his life. He insisted upon the removal of the others before any thing was done for himself, and begged that he might have a few minutes with Old Sor’ful alone.

- When that interview took place the dying man was far gone. Two papers he gave to the wondering old miner, and then 'he breathed his last. : The documents had been written on the night of the snow-slide, after the visitors had left the upper cabin. They were both signed by the two rescued living men as wit~ nesses. One paper was marked ‘‘my will,”? the other “my confession.” The will ieft great blocks of mining stock and a three‘quarter share in one of the best mines of Colorado to “‘the man known as ‘Old Sorrowful.””? The confession was to the effect that 1t was he who had, years ago, robbed the returning miner of -his drafts as he

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“Too- late—too late,” that was all the wondering old man said when he realized the truath, i

The conscience-stricken stranger's note stated thet he intended to take his own life —a torment to him spite of his wealth. But the snow-slide forestalled him; he was saved from self-murder, and lived long enough to see that his acts of restitution reached the hands for which he intended them. : Sr

~ The “wife and little girl” were beyond all benefit from the wealth that came co the old miner, but it came not *‘too late’ to be, through his wise distribution, the means of unbounded comfort and blessings imnumerable bestowed on the poor, sick and suffering of the whole land. f‘ And this is a true Rocky Mbuntain romance, ALEX. DUKE BAILIE.

: : A DIPLOMAT. ; A Man Who Wanted an Appoirtment—- § : How He Got It. “I have been trying for two weeks to see Secretary Blaine,”” said a seeker ‘after a consulate one evening last month. I have been at his door daily, but he has so many distinguished callers that I am always barred, though I personally know him.”’ He was talking to an experienced and aging Government clerk, who said: ‘“Take this sheet of paper and write down briefly what you would say to Mr. Blaine if you were to get one of those half-minute interviews which are accorded to office-seekers. Don’t ask me why, but put it all down, inside of a dozen lines.” . The consulate-seeker did so, and then said : ‘‘Here it is. That is all I wanttosay to him.” i

His friend read it over and then advised him to go to the White House cn the morrow, catch Secretary Blaine as he came from Cabinet meeting, talk to him if possible, and, if he could not geta hearing there, place the document in his hands. Promptly at noon the next day Mr. Con-sulate-seeker took his position on the north portico of the executive mansion and waited until nearly twoo’ciock. The Cabinet meeting adjourned, and Mr. Consulate-seeker stepped up to him and said: ‘“Mr. Blaine, can I see you for a minute, only a minute?” “‘Certainly, if only for a minute, and thank you for being so brief,”” responded Mr. Blamne, as he cheerily turned, called the man by name, and shook hands with him. “What do you 'want?”’

“I want an interview with you, and would like to tell my story in full, when you can have time to receive me.”’ J

“I never have time. Now isas good a time as'any. Tell me what you want, right now, and Ull hear you.”’ T “I am seeking an office, Mr. Blaine,” hé said, ‘‘and I should like to tell you all about it, but as you seem to be in a hurry I will give you this paper which briefly expresses ‘what 1 want,” and he handed him the paper. " “You are an exceedingly practical officeseeker,” said Mr. Blaine, as he stepped into his carriage, “and I will read this as 1 drive along. You ought to make a good diplomat, and I can agsure you I shall not forget you,” and he drove away, reading the paper. That man has received his appointment.

A Sensible Barber. ‘¢ My wife is as white as any man’s wife,” says Juck Sheppard, one of the popular colored barbers of Washington city; ‘“but,” he adds, “my children have a little of my color.” Jackis almost white Limself, and is proudof it. He says: “My wife’s father was a German, and her mother was a brigts; mulatto. My wife cun talk and read and write German, and my two little girls and boy can talkit, too. It is funny, Sunday morning, the only morning in the week that we all breakfast tagether, to hear them little niggers jabbering German all around me, and I don’t know what they’re talking about.” g e e G

“Why do you call your children ‘nigFOPSE VL : /

' “Because that’s right. Solong asthere is a drop of black blood showing in any of our people, we will be called ‘niggers,’ and I'm not fighting against that name, as 8o many of my people do. The negro is an unfortunate fellow, but he needn’t be ashamed of his ancestry. The black people who founded sur race in America were honest people, and that is more than the white people can say who are so proud of their ancestors. I'm not ashamed of the word ‘nigger,’ Ican ‘assure you.”! : | , “?m of the finest places in the ootmttfyAJ for 'a great city,” said General)Sherman ‘one day when the conversation turned upon " the»gébabllgis removal o;ﬂthq ‘légtio%al cap--Ital to the Mississippi valley, is at Nauvoo, m’#&gmmﬁ% pin ".:’fsi@ﬂ%ﬂ% where Mﬂ&‘“ﬂmv assisted by W‘“‘gﬁ'“ . eat d Ina defen ”‘.«?:\ v" 3;“! I th 3 miast of P L LPP WA SRR TR untry i‘wfx’émwf R L

DASHED DOWN A GRADE.

An Excursion Train in Ireland, Laden _ with Happy Sunday-School Children and Their Relatives and Teachers, lls Wrecked, Causing a Loss of Seventy Lives.

DusLIN, June 13.—A train/ containing an ‘excursion party of 1,200 persons, principally Methodist Sunday-school children and their teachers and relatives, has been wrecked near “Armagh. LoxNDoN, June 13.—The absorbing topic of conversation in London is the terrible railway disaster in Ireland. At 11 o’clock last night the dead numbered seventy-two, with almost a certainty that others among the large number of injured will die. This makes the disaster the greatest railway horror that has ever been known in the United Kingdom, with the possible exception of the memorable Tay Bridge disaster by which seventy-four persons-lost their lives. ;

DuBLIN, June 13.—The railroad accident near Armagh is without a parallel in the history of railroading in Ireland. The train carrying the Sunday-school execursion bound for the popular little seaside resort of Warren’s Point was made up of two sections, and fully 1,200 children and their relatives -and teachers were on board. This train, a short distance out of Armagh, was ascending a steep grade to a bank that rises to a height of fifty feet, when the engine of the rear section gave out and was unable to draw the heavy train. In some way which is not now clearly understood several of the rear cars became detached from the balance of the train andstarted down the steep grade., In a few seconds the cars were going down hill at a terrific rate of speed, with the brakes either utterly useless, or; from negligence on the part of the guard, without proper attention. Had the track on the level just below the grade been clear for any considerable distance, the detached cars might have lost their momentum and the terrible accident that followed been averted, but? unfortunately, the regular train from Armagh followed just behind the rear section of the excursion train, and with the locomotive of this train the detached cars came into collision with terrific force, wrecking the locomotive as well as the ecars themselves.

The scenes at the wreck immediately after the accident were heartrending in the extreme. The rear section of the excursion train, from which the ill-fated cars had becomes detached, was stopped after proceeding but a short distance and the passengers as well as those of the forward section soon ran back to render what assistance they " could to those of the little children in the wrecked cars, where maimed and mangled bodies still showed symptoms of life. The dead and the dying little ones were scattered in inextricable contusion among the jagged timbers and ‘twisted iron work of the wreck, and the 'groans of the imprisoned sufferers mingled in an awful din with the shrieks of their more fortunate companions wheé stoed by powerléss to afford assistance. } -

People from the surrounding country flocked to the scene and set to work to remove the victims from the wreck. Physicians were summoned from Belfast amd other points and attended to the wants of the injured, while the dead were taken from the ruins as fast-as possible and placed in rows upon the grass. The engineer, fireman and guard of the rear section of the excursion train, and the traffic manager's clerk were arrested, charged with causing the accident, and remanded without bail.

The manner in which the doomed coach=3 came to be detached from the train of which they formed a part seems at this hour to be unexplained. Itis asserted shat they were deliberately uncoupled by a train hand when it was found that the engine could not pull the entire train any further. However this may be, there is no doubt that the disaster is primarily due to obselete appliances, the brakes being the old-fashioned hand-brakes, with worn links. As soon as the people in the detached cars saw what had happened and began to realize their danger they tried to escape from their perilous position through the doors of the coaches, but found them locked. Even the forlorn hope of a leap for life from the flying train was denied them, and nothing was left but to await the swift and certain death to which they were rushing headlong. : When the officials on the forward portion of the train saw the detached coaches sliding down the grade they started in pursuit in the hope of ré#ching the carg in time to recouple them %4 the train, and so save them from déstruction. They forced the train down . the steep incline in pursuit of the runaways at break-neck speed, and for a short cistance was very close upon the doomed coaches, but they were too late. The shock came with the pursuing 'frain 300 yards away. All was over and the engineer had barely time to stop his train to prevent its crushing headlong with its load of human freight upon the frightful wreck.

- There is scarcely a family in Armagh that had not a member ‘on the ill-fated train, and the excitement in that city is intense. The embankment from which the coaches were hurled by the collision is seventy feet high, and both engines and cars were almost ground to powder by the shock of the collision and the terrible plunge from the embankment which followed. .

There were many touching scenes after the work of relieving the sufferers was begun, and the children in many cases bore their severe injuries with great patience and fortitude. There are many cases in which whole families were killed. A private in the Irish Fusilebrs who was in one of the detached coaches got outt upon the foot-plate before the cars had attained a very high speed, and, foreseeing the danger, seized four of the chi dren and dropped them from the coach, saving their lives. He oifered to do the same service for the others in the coach, but they were frightened, and drew away from him and perished in the wreck. ‘ Immense crowds visited the wreck during the day. Dr. Ryan, who is «t the head of the school to which most of the excursionists belonged, is one of the most prominent Methodists in Ireland. The train consisted of fifteen carriages. The children paraded the streets of Armagh before boarding the train, and there was a general merry-making on the part of the whole town before the start. Most of those killed were about 20 years of age. There were Tew very young children. There were seventy two killed all told, of whom sixtyfour have been so far identifled. :

Two Hundred Men at CorQ(Ton Execute : Two Murderous Burglars.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 13.—0 n Friday night near Corydon, Ind., James Deavin and Charles Tennyson attempted to burglarize the residence of James LeMay. ‘LeMay resisted and was shot through the body and dangerously but not fatally wounded. A niece of Mr. LeMay also received a slight wound. The men were arrested in New Albany and afterward transferred to Corydon, the county seat of Harrison County. Since their arrival at Corydon threats of lynching have been prevalent, and at 3 o'clock this morning a mob gathered, took Deavin and Tennyson from jail and hanged them to the Corydon bridge. X 5

Latest from Stanley. s ZANZIBAR, June 18,—A letter dated Dew comber 2 at Ururi, on the southeastern shore of Lake Victoria N yanza, reports the arrival there of Stanley with his party, in~ cluding many invalids. He had lost many of his men through sickness and famine, He had rejoined Emin Pasha and had lef4 . him again at Unyara, on the northeastern shore of the lake. - > S & ; The Northwestern Sangerfest. = - MinsEsroris, Minn., June :B.—Ths cho-. hold here Juno 20, 21 and 22 will consist | of 800 volces. Nearly all of the great mas:

-GRINNELL'S GRIEF. Fire Destroys Forty-One Buildings in the Little Iowa: City, Causing a ’Qf.oss of Over $lOO,OOO. ! : Des Noines, la, June 13.—Forty-one buildings, chiefly wooden, were burned at Grinnell Wednesday. The loss is estimated at from $lOO,OOO to £200,000. Most of the buildings were partly insured. The cupola of Treat & Co.’s elevator was fired at12:30 p. m. by aspark from a passing engine. The building was rapidly enveloped in flames, and under the influence of the strong wind the fire fairly flew to A. A. Foster & Co’# farm-imple-ment store aund the city hall on the north. In less than an hour nearly every business building south of Fourth avenue ‘and east of Main street was on fire. Goods were rapidly carried to the park, and the militia guarded them. Efficient aid was furnished by the Grinnell, Marshalltown and Brooklyn fire companies. The insurance is placed at from $30,000 to $40,000. Goods worth $50,000 were rescued and stored in the park. Governor Larrabee has. received a dispatch asking him to order out a militia company to guard these goods and has replied that the sheriff has the authority to call upon the troops. Much damage was done in moving goods and by water. The insurance is mostly in Eastern companies. Rebuilding will begin at once. The buildings burned were in the business part of the town. They include the following: Treat & Co.’s elevator, A. A. Foster & Co.’s warehouse for agricultural. implements, Miles Chaffee's office, the city hall, the White Eiephamt restaurant, Mack's restaurant, the Herald office, Morrison, Mclntosh & Co.’s glovefactory, Chamberlain's meat-market, Wheelock’s imsurance office, Art Seaman’s restaurant, the Merchant's National Bank, the post-office, Harry Mitchell's barber-shop, A. Mclntosh & Co.’s general store, H. P. Proctor's jewelry store, the telephone office, S. W. Bartlett’s meat market, J. G. Johnson & Co's drug stere, the Metropolitan bakery, William & Schropp’s tailor shop, Palmer & Bartlett's grocery, Mrs. Iron’s millinery store, Buck & Thomas’ hardware store, W. P. Hingdon’s shoe store, Bomor Bros.’ hardware store, A. H, Heald's flour store, N. D. Soper’s clothing store, Jenkins’ harness shop, Eastman’s harness shop and Nelson & Powell's grocery. ; Grinnell was devastated by a cyclone seven years ago, about seventy-five houses being blown down and forty people killed. FOREST FIRES RAGING. SupErION, Wis., June 13.—A terrible fire is sweeping the forests south and west of here, and unless the weather soon changes the loss will be enormous. Already over $500,000 worth of pine has been destroyed. The districts tributary to the Nemadji and St. Lowis rivers in Wisconsin and Minnesota are suffering terribly. The smoke from the burning districts 1s obscuring the sun and rendering difficult the entrance of vessels into the harbor. Much of the pine on the Cloquet reservation is already wiped out. A strong wind is blowing from the southwest and rural villages are threatened with destruction. The fire is raging from the St. Croix to Northern Pacific Junction.

Two Hawßors, Minn., June 13 —Forest fires have been raging with renewed ac. tivity all day along the Iron Range railroad in every direction. : ,

THE EARTH GAVE WAY.

Coal Mines at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Cave In —Many Costly Buildings in the Heart of the City Threatened with Collapse. WILKESBARRE, Pa., June 12.—The roof of the’ Hollenbeck mine, operated by the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company,-caved in Wedunesday morning with a terrible crash. The men and mules were gotten out safely and there was no loss of life. This disaster also affected the Hillman vein mine, operated by private individuals. Both mines are ‘badly damaged, and it will take months to repair the Hollenbeck mine. There are big crevices'in Madison street within three squares of the court-house, and much gas is escaping and fears of an explosion are entertained. The cave-in is considered a very disastrous one in its effect, much valuable property on the surface being damaged. It is learned that five acres are affected. The cracks can now be traced 1,800 feet along Main street, beneath hundreds of houses, many of them being costly residences. The Hollenbeck employed 600 men, and the Hill vein 400, most of which will be thrown out of .work.

CALVIN S. BRICE CHOSEN.

Elected Unanimously Chairman of the National Democratic Committee. .

NEw Yoßg, June 13.—The National Democratic Committee met Wednesday and upon the nomination of Judge McHenry, of Kentucky, seconded by Senator German, of Maryland, Calvin 8. Brice, of Ohio, was unanimously elected chairman to succeed the late ex-Senator Barnum, of Connecticut, and Carlos French presented resolutions eulogizing the late chairman, and Senator Gorman spoke at length wupon the good qualities of the dead leader, after which the resolutions were unanimously adopted. Secretary 8. P. Sheerin, of Indiana, made an address. on the death of Captain Francis W. Dawson, of South Carolina, and presented resolutions testifying to the high estgem in which he was held by the conmittee:. These were also adopted unanimously. The other business of the meeting was the aceeptance of Carlos French as Connecticut's representative on the committee and D. M. Haskell for South Carolina.

HORROR IN CHINA.

The Big City of Lu Chow Almost Entirely Wiped Out by Fire — Ten Thousand

Lives Said to Have Been Lost.

SAN FrANcisco, June 13.—The steamer City of Pekin, which has just arrived from Yokohama and Hong Kong, brings tidings that the Shanghai Mercury of May 10 published news received from its.correspondent at Chung King, who writes that Lu Chow, a city of some importance in Szechuen, situated on the Upper Yang Tsze, is nearly destroyed by fire. The conflagration broke out on . the evening of the eighth day of the third moon and burned furiously till the tenth. Beven out of the eight gates of the city are said to he destroyed, and the loss of life -burned and trampled to death—is estimated at not less than 10,000. Lu Chow is a city that receives large quantities of Manchester goods, and native merchants at Han Kow and Chung King will suffer much by this calamity,

A FALLING SCAFFOLD.

It Caused the Death of a Bricklayer in Chicago, While Eight of His Fellows

‘Were Badly IXurt.

CHICAGO, June 18.—The scaffolding in the power house in course of construction for the new West side cable road fell from overweight yesterday afternoon, carrying with it a dozen or more bricklayers, one of whom was killed and eight were badly injured. The latter were conveyed to the hospital. The gcaffolding was thirty-five feet high and was too lightly constructed for the quantity of building material placed upon it : e

. A Horrible Deed, VINOENNES, Ind,, June 18.—A terrible murder and suicide occurred three miles south of this place at 9 o'clock a. m. Seth Murray, a farmer, aged 55, and haying five or six children, hecame jealous of his wife and shot her in the abdomen. He then cut her head oft witha corn-cleaver. Running then to the yard wheére some prussic acid had been buried, he 'dug it up, swallowed - it and died in & few moments, - o .+ "Denth of an Austrian !;;h,xtosq. i . VIENNA, June 13— Princess ] Eﬁﬁeh 1 haza, sistor of Axchduohoss lubells and o HST oy B Read aB2 0 MGG Wle:

NOT SO MANY LOST. From the Latest Figures Only About 4,000 Lives Were Lost at Johnstown—Business Men Preparing to Resume. JorNsTOWN, Pa., June 14.—The general opinion among well-posted people here is that the loss of life in the Johnstown flood will be between 3,000 and , ¢,OOO. It was generally given out that Johnstown and the boroughs adjoining had a population of 385.000 peo ple, but this is a very high estimate, and conservative people put the population besween 25,000 and 28.000. Colonel Rogers, who has charge of the registration, states that from .all he «can learn the population only amounted to about 20,000 and this accounts for 10,000 people supposed to be lost. The reports sent out from here to the effect that 12,000 to 15,000 people were misgsing were based upon the supposition that there were 35,000 inhabitants in these boroughs. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 14.—The first decisive step toward putting Johnstown'’s business men on their feet again was made Thursday, when about %00 merchants who had survived the flood, many of them without a dollar, met Adjutant-General Hastings in the aftermoon. !

Resolutions were adopted pledging the business men and merchants to use their utmost endeavors to secure as rapidly as possible the resumption of business, each to exert himself to restore his own prosperity and that of the community at large. A number of stores have already opened for business, and large sales of flooded good were effected, being bought chiefly as relics. The -people are making heroic efforts to clean out their houses teo fix them for habitation. Neighbors have combined to help one another to reset houses 02 their foundations and to remove the acctwulation of drift and rubbish which bars entrance to tbeir doors.

A meeting was keld in Alma Hall by the citizens of Johnstown Wednesday, at which the leading business men who survived the flood were present.” Colonel J. P. Linton presided. Remarks were made by several of those present touching the great work before them and the necessity of united and individual action to rebuild the town, and the cultivation of fortitude to bear up un-" der the burdens and griefs so suddenly thrust upon them. - A series of resolutions were proposed and adopted thanking James R. Scott for his untiring efforts to bring order out/of chaos, and the people in Pittsburgh in particular, and the citizens of the United States generally, for their prompt and generous assistance. They pledge united support to the State officials in every way in their power in the work now ungertaken, to the end that the work may heé expedited. Drummers representing all branghes of business are here in droves making arrangements to get their former customers started in business again. Nobody, who is anxious to get startedin business again wil. have any difficulty. i About 1,500 laborers were at werk Thursday and as many more will be employed as are needed. A crowd of idlers who gained entrance to the town during the day managed to induce about 100 dissatisfied laborers to quit. The trouble spread no further, however, for General Hastings sent a detachment of miliiia to the place and drove away all who refused to work. ¥

Nineteen bodies were recovered Thursday, making a total of bodies recovered of 1,999. The mass at the stone bridge was fired in the afternoon and is burning furiously. With it is destroyed all hopes of recovering the bodies that are cer‘ainly there intombed. %

HARRISBURG, Pa., June 14.—Theo $1,000,000 bond scheme of Governor Beaver has fallen through entirely, owing to the constitutional ebjections to it and because another way has been found toraise the necessary sum of money to abate nuisances caused by the flood. The Governor received assurances in Philadelphia that the People’s and other banks would advance all the money needed for the purpose indicated without interest.

NEw York, June 14.—Walter Stanton, chairman of the transportation committee, has received the following telegram from Governor Beaver: : “From my personal inspection at Johnstown a day or two ago it occurred to me that it might be well for the present to stop the shipment of supplies in kind, There are many cases of individual suffering which can only be reached by personal investigation. Food and raiment, and, in most cases, shelter, have ©been provided. There is no immediate bodily suffering. I will ask General Hastings to communicate with you in case he should be in newd of any thing special which could be better supplied from New York than from points neurer at hand. The great problem of getting the people of the Conemaugh valley upon their feet so as to enable them to help themselves is the one to which we must turn out thoughts, and to this the commission which I have just appointed will give their immediate attention.’””

STARVING MINERS IN INDIANA. ‘Thousands of People at Brazil Suffering ; for Lack of Food. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 14—W. B. Roberts, Governor Hovey’s private secretary, who was sent to Brazil to make an investigation relative to the condition of the Clay County miners, has returned to Indianapolis, He says that there are thousands of people in the mining district who are destitute and near the verge of starvation. Many ef the families have eaten mnothing but bread and water for weeks. The relief committeé continues to distribute rations, but the supply is diminishing instead of increasing. . The Governor will, if he finds the destitution such as to make assistance absolutely necessary, issue a proclamation urging the people of the State to contribute as liberally as possible to the relief fund. 5 - A committee of coal operators from Clay County visited Governor Hovey to protest against any act on the part of the executive indicative of sympathy with the strikers. THey declare that the scale offered the miners is the highest possible for them to pay, and that if they met the miners’ demands the mines would be operated at a loss. 1t had been intimated that the ' Governor might issue a proclamation showing sympathy for the strikers. = Such action, the operators declare, would encourage the strikers not to return to work, and thus increase the present suffering. The Governor would not indicate what course he will pursue. A committee of the miners will call on the Governor to lay their grievances before him. !

; .’ Blaine Objects. BERLIN, June 14.—The American commissioners to the Samoan conference have received instructions from Mr. Blaine in relation to the protocol drawn up by the conference. Mr. Blaine disagrees with: several of its provisions ahd i of opinion that England and Germany have not gons far enough in respect to the rights conceded to the United States. The conference had a. sitting Thursday to receive Mr. Blaine’s reply. The English and German commitioners will afterward ~consider the objections and decide upon what policy they shall pursue, Upon the attitude which they adopt depends the continuanece of the conference, : " EE R Yelowll ! \ o ~ ArßAny, N. Y., June 14.—Governor Hill hag vetoed' the Compulsory Edueational “bill'on the ground that it ‘contains sweep- | ing and unguarded provisions offensive in their invasion of the liberty of the citizen -and interference with the, control of pure ~__ Inspecting ‘tho Postal Service. W%mmé‘fmﬂ%&m@.& | the Oivi W;‘;ﬁﬁ@gf tne LEORYD SMASAY OYORINE for dudiny {;. L 6 Uhiinge: su s Lt 55 M .

- THE SAMOAN TREATY. The Delegates to the Berlin Conference i End Their Labors — The Agreement } Signed—Svme of Its Most Important | Provisions. : Y A ' BeruiN, June 15.—The agreement negotiated by the commissioners to the Samoan conference for the settlement of affairs’ in Samoa was signed by all the members of the conference Friday afternoon. America having abandoned her principal objections to the agreement previously arrived at, the plenipotentiaries had only to make unessential modifications in the wording of the draft of the treaty. : ; The draft guaranteed an autonomous administration of the islands under the joint control of Germany and America, England acting as arbitrator in the event of differences arising. The Samoans are to elect their own King and Viceroy and to be represented in a Senate composed of the principal " chiets and chambers elected by the people. Samoa is to have the right of levying duties of every kind. The treaty also stipulates that the Germans shall receive a money indemnity for their losses. A speclal court will be appointed to deal with the land question.

The Americans made their adhesion conditional upon the ratification of the treaty by the United States Senate. The status quo will, therefore, obtain in Samoa until December. ' g ;

. Mr. Phelps will carry the treaty to Washington. : ~ Messrs. Kasson, Bates and Phelps cordially thanked Count Herbert Bismarck for the courteous manner in which they had been treated and they warmly, praised the skill and the tact with which he had presided over the deliberations of the conference. Sir Edward Malet thanked Count Herbert on bebhalf of the English delegates. Count Herbert, in reply, said he hoped they had reached a final solution of the difficult question. : WASBINGTON, June 15, —The agreement between England, Germany and the United States en Samoan affairs was signed at Berlin at 2 o’clock in the aftermoon. It will not be made public until cenfirmed by the Senate.

Loxpox, June 15.—The Post’s Berlin correspondent says: _ “The Samoan treaty arranges . the restoration of Malietoa and for the apsgoint.ment of German and American advisers to the King, with an English counselor to adjust a balance. The American delegates have the utmost confidence that the treaty will be ratified by the United States Senate.”

The Berlin correspondent of the Times learns that the gist of the Samoan agreement is that Malietoa shall be reinstated; that the control of affairs shall be left main1y to the Samoans; that questions touching the life or property of foreigmers shall he subject to the decision of a resident judge, American, English or German, and that the importation ot liquor and fire-arms shaill be restricted.

Loxpgx, June 15.—The Times, commenting on the Samoan agreement, says: ““Perhaps it 1s as well that Bismarck has been made to realize that where American interests are concerned the American Government is very little affected by many of those considerations which restrain the action of the European governments with whom he is more accustomed to deal and with whom he can for this very reason deal more easily. The Times intimates that Germany will think twice before she provokes a collision with America.” .

CROPS DESTROYED BY FLOODS.

Extensive Damage Reported ix S:oilthern Indiana and Along White River.

ViNnceNNES, Ind.,, June 15.—The June floods have worked disaster to the farmers of Southeranclndiana who have crops in the bottom lands. Thousands upon thousands of acres of fine corn and hundreds of acres of wheat are covered by the water which now spreads over the fertile fields along White river. The farmersliving 1 the White river bottoms have been driven from their homes to the hills. Serious trouble has been experienced in getting the stock and feed to places of safety. In places the grain is entirely submerged and in others the head of the ripening grain is just seen above the surface of a vast sea of water. The corn prospects have never been better. From Edwardsport and other points along White river the same report is sent. The Wabash is high and is rising steadily; so far the Wabash is confined to its banks, yet farmers along this river are in danger if the rise continues. The Embarrass is flooding its bottoms. The mill dam at Lawrenceville is likely to be swept away at any moment. The crops -are being destroyed aud thousands of dollars will be lost.

ONLY A BIG DRUNK.

The Rumored Uprising of Chippewa Ins dians in Minnesota Provesto Have Beon an Affray Which Had Its Origin in Frequent Draughts of Bad Whisky—Only One Person Killed. : :

Mora, Minn., June 15.—Jim Chalty, chisf of the Snake River band, arrived here Friday morning and conferred with Captain Stanch. He said that the trouble was caused by whisky, and there would be no general uprising; that the Indians desired to maintain peaceful relations between themselves and the ‘whitess He said | that the Indians would assist to bring the murderer of Magnuson to justice. The true version of the affair will soon be accurately known. The Indians had been supplied with whisky by lawless whites, and while drunk they had made the attack. It is generally. believed that Magnuson was the only one who was killed or injured. Nothing definite will be known until taday. TOOK HER OWN LIFE.: A Woman Castd Herselt Over the Falls at Niagara. o Nlagara Farrs, N. Y., June 15.—An unknown woman went over the falls Friday and it is supposed she committed suicide. A policeman who saw the body in the rapids found en the river bank in Prospect park a black silk parasol, a handkerchief, a wrap of black material and an empty half-pint flask, which had contained whisky, and a glass. William {Glassbrook, mate of the steamer Maid of the Mist, towed the body to the shore below the new suspension bridge.- The clothing from the waist. down was gone, with the exception of the shoes and stockings. The ‘woman was about 40 years old. It is rumored that she came from Buffalo by an afternoon train, ' : , Estimate of Our Population. : WASHINGTON, June 15.—Preparations for the taking of the census of 1890 are assuming shape., The appropriations provide for 175 supervisors, ‘which is an excess of twen« ty-five over the number employed in 1850, ‘This excess of supervisors will go to the South and West, one each going to Oklahoma and Alaska. The bureau estimate of the population is 63,000,000 for this census. . Bought 82,500,000 Worth of Sugar. - Bostox, June 15— The Standard Bugar Refinery, of this eity, has etfected what is ‘believed to be the largest purchase of ‘sugar ever made, having secured 25,000 bons in Cuba at five cents, calling for some ~_Famlly Hatred Caused » Separation. ~_Louisviiis, Ky, June 15—Edward O s ed 18, and Miss Leo Rosenborg, ‘maried. Sunday it developed that a feud O L ke 10 Wm‘“’f‘wﬁjﬁﬁméf{?%ﬁﬁ%%; A L Msnw%n%maw;@’% ‘QW% L *%%%g%‘%% ' moumsronk, & T.. Jons ThAJoha Hill ‘«rmﬁi%;é&m@% sey SRR DR R S TR A e eP,

STATE INTELLIGENCE.

- PATRICK WARD, a prominent Irish leader at Indianapolis, committed suicide. Business reverses caused the act. - ErismA LAWHORN, a citizens of the northeast part of Franklin, has a great curiosity in the shape of a three-legged chicken. The chick is of the same size and as healthy as the rest of the brood.

WesLEY KIMMERLING was sentenced, at Anderson, to two years’. imprisonment for kidnaping. e JorN HAyworTH was killed by cars near Gessie. '

. JAcK DALY, who stole a team from a farmer named Brown, in Lake County, has been returned there from Cassopolis, Mich., - where he was captured; after leading the officers of Laporte County a lively chase. | : :

DeArßorN and Ripley County farmers are greatly alarmed about the sudden discovery of ‘a small insect which is. preying upon the fields of wheat and oats. The insects resemble liece, of a green color, and are found in great numbérs in the heads, sapping the soft grains. ; : ' Mgzs. EsTHER RHODES died, a few days ago, at Hartsville, near Columbus, aged 101 "years and 7 days. She was a pensioner of the war of 1812, and was hale and hearty up to within a few months of her dead. ‘ NEws was received at Brazil of the suicide, at Spokane Falls, W. T., of Daniel Lewis, a former resident of Clay County. ey : : SoutH BEND begins a telephone exchange with 100 subscribers.

Emory STONE, a young farmer living in the eastern part of Allen County, committed suicide the other morning by drowning himself in a well. He was unmarried and about thirty-five years of age. Il health, causéll by an accident, was the cause. - /

A FREAK of nature in the shape of a colt with only two legs, and those the hind legs, was foaled nine miles west of Shelbyville, the other morning by a mustang mare ten years old, belonging to Arch. Evans. The colt is devoid not only of front legs, but also of shoulders, the neck commencing where the ribsend. It is held up to take its: natural nourishment, which it does as vigorously as any colt with a full complement of legs, and can already almost stand alone.

~ THERE are serious floods in Southern Indiana, and thousands of acres of farm land are under water. ' Crops have been greatly damaged, and some totally destroyed. < ' | IN the neighborhood of Valparaiso many farmers have had to replant corn, because of grubs, wet weather and cutworms. The strawberry crop is very light, owing to the frosts. e

- BY an explosion of natural gas in Indianapolis a residence was demolished and eight persons injured, two seriously. At the meeting of the Miners’ Central Relief Committee at Brazil, on the 11th, reports from mnine districts showed a total of 5,239 dependents te whom rations are ‘issued. The strike was inaugurated six weeks before. Thus far $461 has been contributed to the relief fund, of which $2O remained in-the treasury. Governor Hovey’s private secretary and Mayor Herr attended the meeting in the interest of information, and a relief committee of citizens, with Mayor Herr as chairman, was appointed to act with the miners’ committee. Work had been slack for months prior to the strike, and the central relief committee in its reports show much necessity. , — - NEAR Vincennes, Seth Murray, a farmer, fifty-five years old, murdered his wife and then committed suicide. Jonx W. WEEKS, who tried to kill Hezekiah Beam with an axe, near Noblesville, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for two years. s TraoMAs HEAD,who was jailed at Winchester for stealing a watch, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in the Penitentiary North. ’ Fraxcis Murphy is holding temperance meetings at Columbus. Hundreds are turned away nightly, unable to obtain admittance to the court-house, where the meetings are held. : Mgs. . ETHeLpDA WRIGHT, of Harrison County, is making a quilt of 22,176 pieces, two of which were furnished by the wife of President Harrison. InplaxaA Methodists propose- establishing a Chautauqua Assembly at Hudson Lake, St. Joe County. TraE tenth annual fair of the Montgomery County Agricultural Association will be held at Crawfordsville on September 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13. : THE State military encampment will be held at' Indianapolis from July 20 to CLARK County’s p'o"or_farm reports the cost of keeping paupers at 53 cents per webltc ol na g 3

. Tar following changes in fourth-class postmasters were made on the 11th: Arcola, Allen County, William Rockhill, vice Proctor Cavalier, resigned; Atlanta, Hamilton County, Jos. Lafever, vice Jas. M. Whistler, resigned; Gasburgh, Morgan County, John Weesner, vice W, D. Wilman, resigned; Herbemont, Morgan County, Thos. C. Murphy, vice E. C. W. H. Smith, resigned; Mier, Grant County, vice Meyers, vice Alva L. MecGuire; resigned; Morocco, Newton County, James R. Kay, vice B. K. Roadruck, resigned; Syria, Orange County, O. H. Stewart, vice James H. Marshall, resigned. X SURVEYORS have run a line from Winamac, Pulaski County, to Rochester, Fulton County, a distance of about seventyfive miles. Track-laying will be com- , menced at once. The road is incorporated under the name of the “Rochester, Rensselaer and St. Louis railroad,” and will be a feeder for several trunk lines. The shops will be located at Rochester. Trains will be running September 1. RecENTLY William Seering, of Craw- | fordsville, drew $75 pension money and -gave it to his wife to keep. She hid it [in the stove, and the other day he built ‘s fire in the'stove o warm himself, and . burned the money. | - wdoein lJﬂmexTﬁomswiMméW ' been appointed Inspector of Hulls, to iaocned the e desnin Banre. 4 . BeNJAMIN SHlVELY,Congressman from e e Yaw dopistnisubiot AORIAN Untvasobs botween two terms of Congress. . LigmrniNg destroyed swo barns be‘&;Wi, Z} ‘;g{;,,‘,‘:é\{& L é:ﬁe‘ T e MR L L