Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 15, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 July 1889 — Page 2

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BritisH capitalists . have invested over §200,000,000 in this country within the last vear. - : ¢

QUEEN VICTORIA is the richest woman in the British Kingdom. She has accumulated a fortune of $20,000,000, R S S

OnvLY five of the British officers who fought rat Waterloo were alive when the seventy-fourth anniversary of the battle came around on the 18th of last June. ' /

‘WiLkIE CoLLINS, though recovering {from his last attack, has been forbid"den by his physicians ever to write again. “‘Blind Love,” his. last novel, closes his literary career. . o

- GENERAL SHERIDAN'S book . has reached a sale of sixty thousand copies. Mrs. Sheridan’s health has much improved. She will remain in Toronto till laté in the fall. '+ ' | -

CoroNEL T. W. HiGGINSON has béen appointed by Governor Ames, of Mussachusetts, to write the history of the Bay State soldiers and sailors in the civil war, as ordered by the Legislature. The historian will be allowed five years in which to complete his work, .« : ' _ Wirriam MooNEY, of West Pike, Pa., has a peculiar head of hair. When a storm approaches every hair in his head stands out straight, and as he wears his hair very long he is quite a ridiculous sight. On that account he never leaves the house when it is cloudy. i e THE Canadian Minister of Customs has ordered that facilities be given to land new cables in Dover Bay, N. S, for connection with, the New York land lines. The cables include extensions of the two Western Union cables of 1881 between England and Canada, terminating at Canso.: .= :

THE soap weed is now being utilized for making soap for market. A factory has been started at Wichita, Kan., where the weed grows plentifully. The pioneers of the plains. discovered its use forty years ago. The root, without any manipulation, is an excellent substitute for a bar of soap. :

It is to be presumed that London Justice has made its computation with accuracy when it says that all the people now living in the world, “of about 1,400,000,000, could find standing room within the limits of a field ten miles square; and, by aid of a telephone, could be addressed by a single speaker =~ L - o e

JouN D. NurTiNG, while prospecting recently for garnet in the mountains near the county house in Warren County, N. Y., discovered ore which he believed to be rich in silver. He also stated that there were traces of gold and copper in the ore. -There was considerable excitement over the discovery. b ;

AT the recent meeting of the American Philological ~ Association at Easton, Pa.; Prof. Charles R. Larriman, of Harvard College, was ‘elected President for the ensuing year; Dr. Julius Sachs, of New York City, and Prof. J. H. Wright, of Harvard, VicePresidents, and Prof. H. W. Smyth, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., Secretary, Treasurer and Curator. o e ;

" THE giant diamond, lately = discovered in Cape Colony, and now at the Paris exposition, weighs 180 carats, and is valued at $3,000,000. It.is kept in a glass case by itself and guardians stand around it all day. At night it is placed in a big safe; which is similarly guarded all night. It is said to be of the first water, and as pure as the famous Regent in ‘the French Crown diamonds. It is for sale. .

Tue Baldwin Locomotive Works have just. completed their ten thousdndth locomotive. And a huge engine it lis, too, being one-fourth heavier than the largest freight locomotive on the Pennsylvania railroad. It was built for service on the Mountain Division of the Northern Pacific railroad. Five thousand of the ten thousand locomotives built by these works have been built during the last nine years; -

THE statue of Henry Ward Beecher, which is to be erected in Brooklyn, has already been modeled in clay by the well-known sculptor, John Quiney Adams Ward. It will take a year to finish the statue in bronze. The citizens of Brooklyn have raised over $32,000 for the work.. The statue will :be of heroic size, and will represent the famous preacher in the attitude of taking a stroll through the streets of the city, with his overcoat and its familiar military ‘cape covering his ample form.. ;

- THE law relating to three years' military service in France has been finally adopted by the Chamber of Deputies in the form in which - it was voted by the Senate. According to the terms of the law, all Frenchmen are liable to personal military service, w%ich includes three years in #he acts ive army, seven years in the reserve, six years in the territorial army, and mine years in the territorial reserve, making a total o(.i;évéﬁty;ﬁ‘{é years, Voluntary service of a year and tixé- requirements of the law of 1872 are sholished.” - V. a 0 o - Rev. WiLrLiam HENRY BEECHER, who died recently in Chicago, was eightyseven years old. He was one of seven brothers, all of whom became preach. ‘ers, and all mére or le.:ﬁmoua *The ‘brothers are Dr. Edward B@g&@q;‘, now living in Bmownrgmm;:: ,m&'“ »“ o Qmﬁﬂ "‘W‘n» ; : Pa., and Thomss K. Beecher, of Eimi- . Perkins]'the othér of Mrs. Bvorett Hale: ‘dowih ""z*””""ﬁ'%f *"*m‘@ "MFe

Epitome of the Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

FROM WASHINGTON.

BPECIMENS of the first paper money ever fssued in Biam were received by the. Secretary of State on the 17th. Its issue was sanctioned by‘the King. '~ = = - & - ON the 19th ex-Representative Nichols, of North Carolina, was appointed chief of the mail division of the Treasury Department, _vice Major Kretz, resigned. g THE President issued a proclamation on the 19th restoring the Fort McDermot “(Nevada) reservation to the public domain, it being no longer needed for military purposes. i Ix the United States there were 188 business failures during the seven days ended on the 19th, against 218 the previous seven days ¢ . " TaE appointment of William Rule, editor of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, as Pension Agent for the Southern Sfates, with headquarters in that city, was announced on the 19th. . g .

THE EAST. . WirriaAM B. CARROLL, one of the oldest circus men in this country, and at one time famous as a bareback rider, died on the 16th at Westchester, N. Y., aged seventy-four years. i | ’ -+ Ox the 16th the fishing schooner Edith Emery, Captain Patrick Sullivan, arrived in Boston with only three of her crew of nineteen men, the others having been lost in a gale while fishing from small boats. ° Mgs, MARY BRADY was on the 16th convicted'in Jersey City, N. J., of being a common scold. This was the first conviction in the State for this offense. The ancient punishment ‘was ducking, but it was not known what would be done [with Mrs Brady. r ; AT Belvidere, N. J., Michael Bolak was hanged on the 16th for the murder of Michael Bollinshire at Oxford, N. J., September 26, 1888. Bolak declared his inmnocence to the last.

A FIRE on the 16th at Manayunk, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pa, destroyed the Schuylkill paper-mill, owned by Frank McDonald. Loss, $lOO,OOO. i ~ | . It was decided by the Johnstown committee at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 16th to wind up its affairs and leave the State commission in charge. The committee voted $400,000 of the funds on hand for distribution by the commission.

Framzs destroyed the stables of the horse railroad at Lowell, Mags.,, on the 17th, together with one hundred and twenty horses and forty cars. Loss, £150,000. ' SEVER4L tiers of seats fell during a performance of Bristol's circuson the 17th at ‘Milford, Mass., and thirteen hundred persons went down, many of whom were bruised and a few seriously hurt. - RUNAWAY coal cars loaded with one hundred thousand pounds of coal crashed into a passenger train on the 17th near Shamokin, Pa., causing the death of two persons and mortally wounding four others, while over fifty received various injuries.

A REPORT that Legitime had found it necessary to enlist female troops was denied by Captain:.O’Brien, of the steamer Caroline Miller, which arrived at New York from Hayti on the 17th. . L WHILE Louis Clabrado was pursuing his fourteen-year-old daughter on the 17th, who was eloping near Waterford, N. J., with Michael Vinopoli, he was shot by the‘lover, who!in turn was battered to death by Clabrado’s friends. / ! A BILL was passed in the Rhode Island Legislature on the 18th making the license fees for wholesale liquor dealers from $5OO to $l,OOO, and for retailers $4OO in Providence, and grading down to $2OO in other towns according to population. A FIRE swept away ten dwellings at Corinna, Me., on the 18th. Ar Johnstown; Pa., five bodies were found on the 19th, and there were indications that many more were under the debris where the men were at work. ;

ProuIBiTIONISTS 0f New Jersey on the 19th nominated George La Monte, of Bound Brook, for Governor. ’ . ARTHUR J. McQUADE, indicted in 1885 for bribery in connection with the Broadway (New York) railway and sentenced to Sing Sing, was acquitted at Ballston Spa, N. Y., on the 19th, his counsel having secured a change of venue and a new trial. o At Albany, N. Y., a salt “trust” was incorporated on the 19th under the name of | the North American Salt Company; capital stock, $11,000,000. President, W. R. Burt, of Michigan,

WEST AND SOUTH.

. FLAMES on the 16th destroyed the French brewery, one of the largest in Indiana, owned by Centlivre & Co., and situated one mile north of Fort Wayne. Loss, $300,000. Iy Chicago on the 16th Judge Horton denied the third application of John F. Beggs, the senior guardian of Camp 20, under indictment for the murder of Dr. Cronin, for a writ of habeas corpus. ' i Ox‘the Cairo & Vincennes road a passenger train went down an embankment on the 17th near Mt. Carmel, 111., and fifteen persons were seriously injured. On the 17th a fire at Columbus, 0., which started in the building’ of the German Furniture Company, caused a loss of $150,-

At'the annual meeting on the 17th, of the Western Associated Press at Detroit, Mich., F. Mack was elected president. : _Ar'! Columbus, Tex., the Colorado river was thirty-one feet high and still rising on the 17th. The low lands were allinundated, and crops were entirely destroyed. .The damage to the cotton crops alone in that vicinity was estimated at half a million dollars. E

A FIRE destroyed the business portion of Shelli Rock, la., on the 17th, : : Fo&f; men while endeavoring on the 17th to recover a watch which had fallen into a cesspool at Lincoln, Neb., were overcome by gas and foul air and were killed. . THE car shops of the Eel River division of the Wabash road, located at Rutler, Ind., were almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 17th, throwing over one hundred men ‘out-of employment. Loss, $lOO,OOO. Forgst fires in the woods of Multnoman County, Ore,, and in Southern Washington Territory had on the'l7th done damage to the extent of a million dollars, - : THE four children of Joseph Hunter, a .planter living near Star City, Ark., were fatally poisoned on the 17th by eating food An which arnica had been placed. The criminal and the motive were unknown. EABLY on the morning of the 17th John Elkins, a farmer living in Elk township, Olayton County, la., and his wife were found murdered in their bed. - An eleven-year-old son was suspected of the crime. HARTMAN PraAG, twice tried and convicted for the murder of John Koldiz, hig father-in-law, was fatally beaten by unknown parties at Peoria, 111, on the 17th. . BY a ‘boiler explosion three men were killed and five ‘others seriously injured on _the'lBth at the R. B. Stone Lumber Company’s saw-mill in Chicago. : B , . Near Youngstown, 0., Mrs. John Meo--Gregor drowned her. two children in a ﬁ-tfremt.gn the 18th, and then took her_o“;n e in the same manner, while temporarily ' indane. Her ,hﬁsbﬁnd""xu’,,_“:léyg from. Igﬁéﬁe. ;,Z!.’ Lo ':' l:";';n;fvv. o N A ik %0 ;‘,%;f"" : Pnonxjmxomsrs of Virginia met at Lynchburg ‘on the 18th and nominated Thombs E, Taylor, of Louden County, for Govermer. L sia - Onthe afternoon of the 18th an unknown, - well-dressed stranger walked boldly into ‘the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad ticket office | in Louisville, Ky., jumped over the coun‘?‘:;.fl took ‘Zﬁm from the eash drawer, and . mmlﬂéﬁ 0. P.'Chenéy at, Columbus, 10k Yare strack by lightning and burned on the 18th, together with five valuable horses, At the session on the 18th of the National ey gy o T inged o) o SR W ﬁ,«‘ﬁw«wa%w@m‘%* (i L 'i’:%ts;” i% ﬁ‘é* v e e o SR R T SR T e “@‘%“

O~ the 18th Anita and Meriam: Boggs; maiden sisters living in Jackson County, Va., committed suicide by taking arsenic. They left a letter, signed jointly, saying that there was nothing in life for old maids, and that they were tired of it. -

- JOHN GLENN, a twelve-year-old boy, of "Lebanon, Ind., on the 18th playfully pointed a supposed empty gun at Lewis Smith. The gun exploded and Smith received a fatal wound.

AT Purvis, Miss., the managers of the recent Sullivan-Kilrain fight, Referee Fitzpatrick, Bud Renaud and others, were arrested on the 18th and gave bail to appear at the next term of court.

- CAPTAIN ABBOTT, with a posse, raided the Unived States Hotel ggar Dayton 0., ¢n the 18th, and secured two carpet-sacks of spurious ten-dollar bills.

A SHORTAGE in the wheat crop of Dakota of from twenty to thirty million bfshels was reported on the 18th, and in many counties there had been an almost total failure. ; : ;

WinrraM McKELrors, a millionaire of Perry, Mich., and president of the First National Bank of Corunna, was swindled out of about $7,000 in Lansing, Mich., on the 18th by the ancient gold-brick scheme. IN East Tennessee, W. B. Tate, a wealthy Tennessee bachelor, distributed $20,000 on the 18th among forty one-legged and onearmed Confederate soldiers.

IN the village of Georgeville, 0., lightning struck a house on the 19th, and set it on fire and burned half the town. . TeE mill of W. L. and W. H. Churchill in Alpena. Mich., was struck by lightning on the 19th during a severe stoerm and burned to the ground. Loss, $120,000. ‘THE worst disaster which ever- befell the Little Kanawha valley in West Virginia occurred on the 19th in the shape of acloudburst which flooded the coyntry, destroying many lives, carrying off thousands of dollars in property and ruining erops for many miles. At Chesterville, a small town, half the residences were carried off:and left in corn-fields. At Morristown the cloudburst concentrated in all its fury, coming down on the village and totally destroying it, together with .many of its people. At Londonberry, Pill Brush and other places great damage was also done and lives were lost. .

Ox the 19th Rev. Dennis Spurrier, pastor of the Methodist church at Owensboro, Tenn., died suddenly while visiting the Mammoth Cave. He was .on his bridal tour.

IN the western part of Jefferson County, Ala., a pitched battle occurred on the 19th between the Simpson and Houghton familiesiand friends of both sides, in which two of the Houghtons, one of the Simpsons and Sheriff Morgan were killed. An old feud was the cause. :

'MR. RicHARD LyYMAN and Miss Bertha Head went out for a ride on the lake at Kenosha, Wis., on the 19th, and both were drowned by the capsizing of their boat. AT Coldwater, Mich., Prof. Craig made a balloon ascension on the-19th and dropped with a parachute from a height of four thousand, feet, falling in the lake. He was rescued unharmed, o

-On the 19th James T. Daly, a St. Louis gambler, shot and killed Lillie Davis, an inmate of a house of ill-fame, and then killed himself. b

NEAR the Standing Rock Indian Agency in Dakota a wigwam containing five Indians was struck by lightning on the 19th and three were killed.

IN Montana on the 19th a thunder-storm flooded the entire Milk river valley from Assiniboin to a point tweaty-five miles east of Chinook, doing immense damage.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE town of Chilapa, Mex., was destroyed by a waterspout on the 16th. Chilapa was a piace of four thousand inhabitants, and the capital of the State of Guerrero. AT the session of the Parnell commission in London on the 16th Mr. Parnell and the other members of Parliamentagainst whom charges had been made by the London Times, through their counsel, withdrew from any further presentation of their cases before the commission. "

AT Puerto del Aguera, Mex., a fight took place on the 16th between a party of smugglers and a force of custom-house guards, in which two guards and three smugglers were killed. ON the 17th the Emperor of Brazil attended a theatrical performance in Rio Janeiro, and when leaving the theater a Portuguese fired a shot from a revolver at him. The bullet, however, missed, andthe would-be assassin was arrested.

ON the Island of Arran and the main land of Scotland a shock of earthquake was felt on the 17th. The shock was so severe that houses were violently shaken. , . WHILE attempting to ‘‘shoot’”’ Roche’s rapids, near Ottawa, Ont., with a raft on the 18th six men were drowned.

FrAMES on the 18th at Constantinople destroyed two hundred houses.

In the Canadian Northwest and along the Dakota line crops were in bad shape on the 19th. Farmers were almost destitute, and some instances were- reported where they were subsisting on field mice and gophers.

LATER.

- THE steamer St. Nicholas, with five hundred. excursionists on board, ran into a closed draw-bridge four miles south: of Savannah, Ga., on the 20th, demolishing the forward part of the steamer ‘and killing two women and injuring twenty-eight men and women, some of whom would die, NELsoN DEWEY, the first Governor of Wisconsin, died on the ;20th at Cassville, Wis., aged seventy-five years. e . By the falling of the Mexican customs house at Sassily, Sonora, on the 20th twelve men were caught in the ruins and three were dead when extricated. g

AT Frackville, Pa., on the 20th a dwelling house occupied by an aged couple, Michael McGrath and wife, was destr?)yqd by fire, and they perished in the flames, Ar Edgerton, 0., on the 21st' Hiram Hoadley, Jr., shot and killed his wife and her father, a farmer named Newman, and then killed himself. Hoadley’s wife had applied for a divorce and was living with her parents. ; IN the town of Paks, Hungary, a fire on the 21st destroyed four hundred houses, and a large number of persons were left homeless and destitute. ADYVICES of the 21st from the recent flood near Parkersburg, W. Va., say that nineteen dead bodies had been recovered, that hundreds of people lost all they possessed, and that many families;were homeless.

' THE exchanges a% twenty-six leading clearing houges in the United States during the week ended on the 20th aggregated $1,164,881,529, against §1,100,050,488 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1888 the increase amounted to 12.8. ! |

ON the 20th New York City was visited by a most destructive storm, which inflicted great damage upon streets and railroad property. : : : : It was reported on the 20th that the Queen of England had decided to place her burden' of state documents on the shoulders of the Prince of Wales. = = : Moses WelL's livery stable in New York @ity was burned on the Zlst, and one hundred and twenty-five horses were cremated. - FlrTy tons of provisions raised in Chicago for the relief of miners’ families at Braid‘wood, Braceville and Coal City, IIL, were ! delivered on the 20th. ‘ i Arx the galoons in Cincinnati, 0., and Kansas City, Mo., were closed on the 21st. Tue Dodge & Olcott chemical works at Jersey City, N. J., were burned onthe 20th, Lioss, $820,000, ;i - il Big el R _ Berow will be found the percentage of the base-ball cluba in the National League for the week ended on the 20th; Boston, .651; g:*w York, .636; OCleveland, '.600; Phila~ delphia, .563; Chicago, .471; Pitteburgh, 882; Indisnapolis, .867; Washington, 817 Amerioan Association: Bt Louls, 684 Brookdyn, 03; Athlete, .i 1 Balimoro, Oolumbus, .378; Loutsville, 216, Western i me PR ORBERE NLI Gl el e s eT e s

* 'TO MEET IN THE SOUTH. The General . Assembly of the Knights of Labor to Be Held in Atlanta, Ga., om Tuesday, November 13—The Executive

Board in Session in Chicago—Powderly Says the Order Is Prospering. ¢ CHICAGO, July 17.—Terence V. Powderly, Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, is in this city with several members of the Executive Committee of the Grand Lodge, discussing means for revivifying the order.

The mefhbers of the board present beeides Mr. Powderly are: John W. Hayes, of Philadelphia, general secretary-treasurer; John Devlin, Detroit, Mich.; J. J. Holland, Jacksonville, Fla.; A. W Wright, Toronto, Ont., and John Costello, president. ~ About noon the executive board of the Knights of Labor went into executive session, which was continued throughout the day and evening until a late hour. The first business of the board was the selection of the time and place of the next general assembly. It was decided that it should be held at Atlanta, Ga., on the second Tuesday in November. In an interview Mr. Powderly says the present meeting of the board is a quarterly meeting called in Chicago for the convenience of Northwestern assemblies to save them the time and expense of a journey to Philadelphia. The statement that this is an exceptional meeting Mr. Powderly claims to be untrue, and says: “Every one knows we meet wherever convenience suggests, and as a matter of fact met here in Chicago two years ago.”’” The board will continue in session several days. Mr. Powderly was told of the many conjectures made as to the object of this Western trip—that the order was so broken up in the East that it was to be abandoned and arally in the West made; that the board, alarmed at Barry’s activity, was coming to extend him the olive branch; and that many other equally extravagant departures were in the minds of the master workman and his staff. ' Mr. Powderly smiled pleasantly at some of these and- savagely at others, while for all he had nothing but contempt. 2 o=

.“‘We are not here to abandon the East,” said he. *“The suggestion is born of an insane fancy or the most malicious design. Inever heard or dreamed of such a thing, and these wild commentators might as well say that we came to Chicago for any other foolish purpose that their folly or venom prompts them to say. *‘We are not here,” he then said, ‘‘to ex. tend to Mr. Barry the olive branch or to give him any notice or consideration whatever. If he is in Chicago Ido not know it nor does his whereabouts affect the course of my movements any more than the dust in the road. We are not in the least iota influenced by Mr. Barry or his people. He and they are not of us.” The general master workman was then told that there were a number of Knights of Labor who pretended to be in good standing in the order who were also members of Barry’s so-called brotherhood. ‘‘What will be done if the cases of these men are brought up?”’ was asked. “*The names of all such,” said Mr. Powderly, emphatically, ‘“‘will, when brought to our notice, be erased from our list unless they surrender their membership to the other. No Knight of Labor can or will belong to Barry’s organization or any other association formed for the purpose of undermining the _order of the Knights of Labor. This does not include, of course, the Trades’ Assembly, Central Labor Union and other associations working collaterally and in harmony with us; but it does most positively bear on Barry’s scheme.”’ >

The many reports of the failing condition of the Knights of Labor were brought to Mr. Powderly’s attention. **That,” said he, ‘is an impression particularly marked in Chicago by the fact that the order has suffered from ractional feuds here. It is notto be found so elsewhere. I consider the order in healthy and growing condition, far outstripping the showing of last vear. - We grew with too rapid strides and to a moderate degree in 1886 during the excitement attendant upon the eight-hour movement. That we should experience a relaxation from this glut of numbers was natural ‘We entered 1885 with 87,000 members in good standing, and on September 1 of that year had 700,000 names enrolled, on our books. We didn’t want such a big crowd.. Much of it was unfit material for the order.” .

“Do you refere to the socialistic element?” was asked.

- ‘‘Yes; to that,” said Mr. Powderly, ‘‘and other overwrought or ignorant elements which :soon found themselves notat home.”

*“What is your present membership of the order?” ot ;

*Something more thang2oo,ooo =nd growing ‘with ‘a steady, yé(lxl)igent growth. Now, while we show a decrease in the matter of numerical mewmbership since 1886, we sghow: a very flattering advance over last "Lear. The enemies of the Knights of Ldbor always omit that fact. The truth is, the order is flourishing ‘'and as ‘strong almost as its most ardent friend {ght wish. lam free to say, however,” heeontinued, ‘‘that there has been unusual ‘%rouble in Chicago. Though we still have about 7,000 left here there is much to be dohe to improve the order; and I am confident that it will be done.” : ; Mr. Po@vderly was asked about the eighthour movement laid out for next year, beginning May 1. He said that the project had not originated with the Knights of Labor but with the Federation of Trades, and "he could not speak upon it Furthermore, he hesitated to make an open declaration upon such a matter of principle, as he preferred to leave that to the judgment of the order, and personally avoid the: charge of autocracy. He was, however, very plainly in favor of the eight-hour movement, or any rational procedure toward fewer hours of labor. R o e e LIGHTNING STRIKES A KING. Remarkable Escape of Charles of Wurtems= burg from Instant Death. i BERLIN, July 17.—8unday afternoon while King Charles of Wurtemburg was watching a thunder-storm fxom the verandah of the castle of Friedrichshafen, a lightning bolt descended and buried itself in the ground a short distance from the King. The violence of the shock prostrated the King, who lay unconscious for some mine utes, but he gradually regained his powers and his physicians now announce he sustained no permanent injury whatever,

. Another Victim. - LoxpoXN, July 17.—One more murder has been added to the leng list credited to “Jack the Ripper” in Whitechapel. The body of a woman, evidently one of the disreputable frequenters of the district, was found in Castle alley Tuesday night, only a short distance from where the other murders were committed. The body was ‘horribly mutilated. and' bears undoubted evidence of, the work of the fiend whose atrocities in Whitechapel have terrorized. . the whole district repeatedly. The police are as far as ever from a clew .to the identity of the murderer and seem perféctly paralyzed. The excitement throughout Whitechapelis.at fever hedt. .. ¢ = « . ' Becretary Rusk Talks. 'WASHINGTON. July 17.—Beécretary Rusk, in _an interview, denies that he is a candidate .for the Senate to succeed Mr. SBawyer, and isays thelatter will doubtless succeed him.self, and so will Mr, Spooner, He says he will not be a candidate for President in 182 because Harrison will undoubtedly be the candidate, and be re-elected. . ' B AT LT . PHILADELPHIA, July 17.—Very Rev. Jamen |A. Coreoran, 8. T. D., one of the most lesmmed Oathallo divines ia this countey, ~ wﬂw%% mgugﬂﬁm&% Gietal e

SWEPT AWAY.

Terrible Result of a Cloud-Burst in West Virginia—The Village of Morristown De= stroyed—A Number of Persons Drowned and Much Property Ruined—Disastrous Storms in Other States.

PARKERSBURG, W. Va., July 20. —Thursday njght’s storm along the valley of the Little Kanawha was one of terrible violence, and the rush of water down the channel of the river and over the lowlands bordering it was unprecedented in its suddenness and about as large in volume as ever before known. It is impossible at this writs ing to speak definitely of the loss of life, but it is feared drownings have been numerous in the narrow valleys up stream along the tributaries of the river. The storm extended across the Ohio, and railroad washouts, wrecked bridges and ruined crops are reported over a large area in Ohio. The storm burst about midnight and the rain came down as though the bottom had been - knocked out of the clouds. By 3 o’clock in the morning the river had jumped up twenty feet, and at daylight the scene presented along the channel in front of this city was an alarming one. The entire surface of the stream was covered with a tangled mass of logs, barns, fragments of houses and rafts of valuable timber. About 6 o’clock Mrs. Isaiah Tucker went to the door of her boat-house opposite this city to view the wreck-covered river. As she stepped upon the deck a kuge raft of logs struck the boat and she was tossed into the water and never rose to the surface. She left a family of five children in the boat, who were saved. Another shantyboat passed the city about daylight said to contain_three women. A short distance below it was overturned and all were drowned. ( The Ohio river railrcad is broken at Harris Ferry, the Baltimore & Ohio at Kanawha station and.the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore at Londonderry. Many lumbper firms have lost about all their summer cut of logs, and thousands of acres of crops are totally destroyed. Details of losses are constantly coming in and the aggregate damage will exceed. $lOO,OOO. . The worst story of all comes from Morrigtown, a small village mear the head of Tucker creek, where the cloud-burst concentrated in all its fury, coming down on the village and totally destroying it, together with many of its people. The first report gave the loss of life at Qeleven, but later news sgeems to fix the loss at a greater number. The houses of the citizens are said to have been picked up and hurled against each other in such short space of time that no chance to escape was given the people. Among those lost at Morristown are Jake Kiger, his brothers Joseph and Thomas, a man named Bailey, Orville West, wife and child. The body of a man believed to be another Morristown victim was found on Richardson farm Friday morning.

- The worst of the storm struck the lower side of the Kanawha, filling small tributaries from bank to bank and ending in the worst flood within' recollection of the oldest inhabitants. In three hours the Kanawha rose gix feet and ran out with such velocity that it carried every thing before it. At this point thousands of log¢ and a number of boats. ‘went out or were sunk. ‘

~ Above the destruction was still greater. Big Tygart valley is completely ruined. The big mill near its mouth went out and took the Tygart bridge with it. In the valley all the fences, crops and much live stock were lost. At Chesterville, a small town about ten miles above, half the residences were carried off bodily and left in corn-fields. In Clay district a fine church and three dwellings were wrecked. About noon information was received that the steamer Oneida had been wrecked and sunk at Enterprise, above. Still later a report came that the steamer S. C. Martin was sunk at Burning Springs. The Little Tygart is also reported completely ruined. Heatherington's storé, Captain Spencer’s residence, C. P. Cooper’s residence and that of J. W. Smith are completely demolished, but no lives are reported lost as yet. Proria, Ui, July 20.—The storm here ‘Thursday night was one of the worst known for years. Great damage was done to crops, and cellars were flooded in this city, destroying much property. Therace track at the Lake View Driving Park was washed away, causing a termination of the races which were in progress there. The trains of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road have been abandoned owing to the washout at Edwards station. Bridges and paving in the upper end of the city have all been washed away. It is the worst storm in yvears.

CINCINNATI, July %0 —About 8 o’clock a m a heavy rain-storm came upen the city from the north, accompanied by very severe thunder and lightning. The rain fell in such torrents that all the hillside streets were flowing with angry streams. The bank of the Ohio eanal at York street broke and the water poured from the canal in a great flood. The cellars and first floors of several dwellings at that point were filled with water, and a stream of several feet deep ran down York street and Central avenue. The occupants of first floors in some houses were rescued with difficulty. Advices from the other parts of the State show that heavy rains fell in many places. A cloud-burst- is reported at Lancaster, which caused a big washout on the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo rallway. At Logan, 0., heavy rain caused much damage to .crops. Lightning ' struck a house in the little village of Georgesville, in Franklin County, and set it on fire and burned half the town. At Marysyille, 0., great damage was done. Lightning struck the electric light works, ruined a dynamo and put out the lights of the town. ' ' A MILL WRECKED BY LIGHTNING. ALPENA, Mich., July 20.—The large and splendidly equipped mill of W. L. & W. H. Churechill, corner of First and Walesstreets, was struck by lightning yesterday morning and burned to the ground, only the boiler house being saved. One ' hundred and thirty-five men are thrown out of employment by the fire. It is expected the mill will be rebuilt immediately. The loss is given at $120,000; insurance, $30,000. SWOLLEN STREAMS IN NEW YORK. New York, July 20. —Dispatches from several points in the Mohawk valley, this Btate, indicate heavy rain-fall and swollen streams., The West Shore tracks are washed out in Herkimer County, and the Dela?iare,' Lackawanna & Western roadbed is carried away at points between Utica and Norwich. i Ay

Fatal Collision in Indiana.

- GREENSBURG, Ind, July 20.—A collision took place ten miles east of here Thursday night on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis road between the west-bound express and the east-bound freight—the freight having broken in two. An unknown man was killed and Postal Clerk Cochran -was severely injured. - i g ettt e : : ' Two Lives Lost.

" KeNosgi, Wis., July 20.—Friday afternoon Richard Lyman, son of a retired merchant, and Miss Bertha Head, daughter of A. A. Head, a lumberman, were drowned in the lake by the capsizing of & row-boat in which they were ‘riding. Both were prominentin the best society of the eity. . '/ i | Defled the Law, 87, PAvr, Minn., July '2o,.~Albert Bilow: was hanged shortly before 2 o’clock yester~ day vmornin%ray Little Falls, Minn., for the murder of Frank Eich in November last: The Minnesota newspapers print elaborate accounts of the affair, in spite of the new law, which provides that they 'shall print -only the bare announcements of hangings. © . Killed by » Bursting Builer, | WasminaroN Counr-Housg, 0,, July 20— The boller of a portable saw-mill engine. il s pumping ous webes Seutle e MM"%W’%W 6d Friday: Sinoer and. Rathaniel Tapior of Bioom ingbiurg, and fujuring elght ofhiers, - e lemesnaemE L

" WINDOM NOT ALARMED, ° The Secretary of the Treasury Does Not _‘Apprehend - a ‘Stringency in the Money Market. . - ' ' New Yorx, July 20.—A special to the Times from Washington says: Secretary of the Treasury Windom is mot troubled by the published = reports that the reserve in the New York banks is getting dangerously low, and that there are indications of a stringency in the money market which may call for some action by the Treasury Department. The Secretary said that he could see. no evidence of money being light, from the fact that while the department offered to buy bonds at a liberal figure the offers were not numerous. Said he:

“If money was in demand bonds would not be held back as they now are. The price we have established is a liberal one, and on the bonds the holders are getting only 2 per cent., while on the 448 the interest is only & trifie over 1%, yet there is no great alacrity shown 'by the holders of these bonds to sell them to the Government and convert them into cash. - It is true that the people who hold bonds are not the people who want money, but whatcan I do? We dare not go to work and offer .a price far in excess of their value so as to induce the people to sell their bonds to the Government, the price which we are now paying being all that they are worth.”’

Mr. Windom picked up the daily report made by the Treasurer of the United States showing the disposition of the public funds, and, after glancing at the figures, continued:

‘The surplus now amounts in round figures to §59,000,000, which, aecording to this report, $45,000.000, including the current balance, is in the hands of the banks, and $14,000,000 is inithe Treasury. The money in the banks is about the same as when Mr. Eairchild was Secretary of the Treasury.. It has been reduced somewhat, but not very much, as I wanted to be conservative, and did not care to do any thing which might disturb trade. It is true this amount might be increased, but I do not believe in the plan, and should not care to increase. the amount without the action of Congress. So you see the great bulk of the surpius is in the banks, to be used by the people, and the Treasury could not do very much more unless authorized by Congress.” :

*I see no indications of a stringent money market, and the reports which reach me do not show that it is generally feared. Since I have been in the Treasury Department I can safely say that I have not received a half-dozen appeals for money or requests that the department would liberate money. I have not heard that the New York banks were losing their money, and the general impression conveyed to me has been that money was plentiful.”

ANOTHER * TRUST.” English Capitalists Form a Syndicate for the Purpose of Buying American BrickYards—Those of Detroit Already Sold. LoxpoN, July 20.—A joint stock company was organized here yesterday, which is of the nature of a trust, for the purchase of the principal brick-yards in the United States. The mnegotiations have already been . practically concluded with George W. Moore ,a well-known Michigan attorney, 8o far as the brick-yards of the city of Detroit are concerned, the English syndicate agreeing to purchase the plant and material of the several yards there for about $500,000. The propositions made include the real estate and good will of each firm' selling out. The brick-yards of Detroit are said to have an annual aggregate capacity and output of 80,000,000 brick at from six dollars-to seven dollars a thousand, the yearly business amounting to over $400,000. This capital combination will be of an entirely different character to that recently organized to operate the American breweries. The plan of the brick-yard trust is to extinguish the smaller yards and concentrate the business in one or two large yards. New and improved machinery is contemplated which will produce brick at a reduced price. The syndicate will take charge of the Detroit brick-yards within thirty days.

THE ENCAMPMENT. Commander Warner U;'ges ATI Posts to Send Big Delegations to Milwaukee. ‘Kansas City, Mo., July 20.—Major Warner, commander-in-chief of the Gramd Army of the Republic, has issued general order’ No. 10, in which he urges all the Grand Army of the Republic posts of the country to send as large delegations as possible to the National encampment at Milwaukee. The tender of services by the Missouri Department as escort for the Commander-in-Chief' is accepted. The day for the parade is set for August 27, and the announcement is made that no one will be allowed to participate except members of the Grand Army of the Republic and Sons of Veterans. Department commanders are urged to inform headquarters of the number of men who will . attend from each department, 8o ° that suitable provisions may be made for all - Appointmentsto the staff of the Commander-in-Chief are also announced. They include veterans from the posts of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Washington Territory and ‘Wisconsin.

THREATENED WITH FAMINE. Farmers in the Canadian Northwest Subsisting on Field Mice and Gophers. GrarTON, D. T., July 20.—Crops in the Canadian Northwest and along the Dakota line are in bad shape. Farmers are almost destitute, and some instances are reported where they are subsisting on field mice and gophers. In the Canadian Northwest proper the crops are nil. A party of lemigrants from the Souris country were met Thursday at theé boundary line. They had traveled 300 miles through a well-settled country on the Canadian side without seeing a fair crop, and say a great many setftlers are leaving their land to drive their cattle to timbered country on this side. Some families looked famine stricken and had eaten nothing but potatoes and turnips for some months, 'They were afflicted with scurvy and were sacrificing themselves to save their cattle. At one place northwest from Turtle Mountain a family of English emigrants, who were traveling back to the mountains, had killed and were eating a young colt. The suffering in that isolated region will be awful, and those who have means will leave in such numbers as to depopulate that section.

Ex-Alderman McQuade Free.

BarzstoN Spa, N. Y., July 20.—Arthur J. McQuade was oné of the Board of Aldermen of New York City in 1884, members of which, including McQuade, were indicted in 1885 for alleged bribery in connection with the Broadway railroad fran« chise. McQuade was convicted and was for months confined in Sing Sing. His counsel gecured a new trial by due processes of law, and: the case was removed to this county for trial. The case was submitted to the jury Friday night at 7 o’clock, and at Bp. m. g verdict of ‘‘lnnocent” was rendered. Mcaiiade is now free. It is the first acquittal in the famous so-called “Boodle case&” " ___‘,;‘ 3 ‘ ¢ 3

e A Big Gain for the Knights. Cuicaco, July 20.—The Executive Come mittee of the Knights of Labor at yester- ‘ day morning’s session granted a charter to i the BShip-Caulkers’ and Carpenters’ National Trade Assembly. This means an ac~cession of about 8,000 members for the . Knights, 11,500 of them being already organized at Detroit; Buffalo, Bay Oity, Sags inaw, Cleveland, New York and Jersey City. _ New Jersey Prohibitionists, = ¢ AspURY PABK, N.J., July %.—The Prohi. bition State convention on Friday chose “Oourtlandt L. Parker c¢h Irman and adopted ] k‘«‘ % e i sz g any »5"%4 nouiinated for Govemor) < 0

Great Loss of Life and Damage to Property by the Floods in the Little Kanawha Valley-—-Serious Result of Heavy -Storms in Ohio and New York—Lightning Kills Two Persons in Dakota. = . PARKERSBURG, W. Va.,July 22.—The news from the flooded district shows that but a faint outline of the story was told in the first dispatches, and as remote districts are heard from it is feared the loss of life. and property will reach terrible: proportions. News comes from Ravenswood, Jacksen County, which indicates that at least a dozen lives ‘weré lost in that locality alone. Whatis described as a cloud-burst descended upon the head waters of Pond creek and two or three other small tributaries to the Ohio, and the whole surrounding country was. swept bare. The list of dead is veryincomplete, but at present it is known that. Edward Blanco, Richard Black and wife, Mrs. Thomas Hughes and four children and John Lockhart were drowned. Thomas. Hughes’ house was swept away. El.}ghea. managed to save %siniself, but his wife and: children were drowned before his eyes. He says the water came down the valley of Pond creek like a wall, as though an immense reservoir had burst, and his house and his earthly possessions, including his family, were blotted out in a twinkling. The great “wave of water struck the house of Richard Black, and not a stone re- - mains to mark where it stood. The same thing is true of Edward Blanco’s store and dwelling. Himself and wife were drowned, and mno trace either of their bodies or residence can be found. Barns were swept away by dozens, and animals were drowned by the hundred. The loss ‘along the valley of Pond creek will reach $50,000, and in Jackson County $200,000. ‘This is but one instance of the fury of the storm. Every creek and river valley was a seething torrent. The little town of Morristown, at the head of Tucker creek, was almost completely obliterated, and reports place the loss oflife there at sixteen. Among the dead are Joe, Jacob and Thomas Kiger, three brothers, who were swept away ' with their houses; Martin Lawless was also ‘drowned. . Other reports ‘of life are constantly - coming in, but it is impossible to get names, as there is abso--lutely no means of communication. Many individual losses run into the thousands, and there are so many of these that to enumerate them would be to telegraph the census of the territory embraced in the valleys of the streams. =~ : The county commissionors estimate that. the loss in this county alone will- reach §500,000. Nearly all of this is on the south side of the Little Kanawha river. Farmers living on Lee creek, Clate creek, Big Tigart creek and Pond creek have lost nearly all their possessions. A meeting is to be held at ‘once to discuss plans of ' relief. ‘A . call for aid will be made, as many families in this and Wirt County are entirely without any thing on which to subsist. A telephone message late Sunday evening from Elizabeth says: that the village of Morristown is entirely destroyed; eight dwelling houses, two stores, the Baptist church, tobacco packinghouse and other buildings are gone. Seven lives were lost on Tucker's creek. There was another sudden rise in the ‘Elk and Poca rivers at Charleston Saturday night. ' A great quantity of logs, ties, lumber, hay, wheat and oats was destroyed. The loss will at least reach $lOO,OOO. LANCASTER, 0., July 22.—One of the most: disastrous storms ever known in the Hocking valley culminated Saturday in the breaking of Sharp’s dam at Sugar grove, on the Hocking canal The dam held in store a large body of water that supplied the: lower levels of the canal. The heavy rains: had filled the reservoir to the banks, when suddenly the dam gave way, and with a. mighty roar the sea of water went out through the valley, taking with it every movable object. !

For twenty miles the soil is plowed up. Trees, fences, crops and hundreds of head. of live stock have been swept away. (No lives were lost because the people had taken warning and because the houses are: situated on the bluff that overlooks the valley. But the canal for milesis a wreck and thousands of feet of railroad track are: ‘washed away. . v At Athens the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore and Hocking Valley railroad tracks are carried away, and trains will be: delayed several days. Roads and bridges. are annihilated, and the whole valley for miles looks like a dry-water course. Competent judges place the loss in the hun-. dreds of thousands. ; )

GavrloN, 0., July 22.—One of the heaviest: losses Crawford County has sustained for a long time was caused Friday, when a cloudburst entirely destroyed Lake Gray, a. pleasure resort, six miles from this place. Loss $25,000, .

New Yorg, July 22.--This city and vicini--ty was visited by a severe rain-storm at. an early hour yesterday morning. Water fell in what apveared to- be solid streams. The storm lasted not over fifteen minutes, but while it did last almost any of the streets in the city:-would have been navigable for small boats. - On several of the suburban roads serious: delays to early trains. were reported, especially in New Jersey, where the storm appears to have been particularly severe. Seyeral washouts were reported by passengers arriving from villages along the Northern railroad of New Jersey, where torrents of water poured down the slope of the palisades, tearing out the roadbeds. #nd doing great damage. One of the worst: washouts was at Ridgefield Park, N. J., on the New York,!Susquehanna & Western railroad. Here trains were delayed several hours. : i

Stureis, D. T., July 22.—Lightning struck the residence of Samuel Layster, in White~ wood, seven miles west of this city, Friday night during a heavy storm. A son of Layster, aged 22 years, was instantly killed. - The house caught fire and was totally consumed, along with all the household eitects. A young child also in the house at the time was severely shocked, but is expected to recover. In this city the residence of P. A. Brigham was struck and badly damaged. None of ‘the occupants were injured. A bolt descended at Fort Mead, one .and a half miles east. of this city, and struck the school-house: occupied by the Government. The building was badly wrecked. BSeveral head of stock were also killed on the range near here. Losses at present can not be given, but they will reach the thousands. ;

: LEARNING TO BE KING. : The Prince of Wales to Relieve His Moth- . er of Part of Her Work., : LonpoN, July 22.—1 n view of the declining health of Queen Victoria, she is making arrangements by which the Prince of Wales will relieve her of much of ht labor on state documents. The Prince, in case he assumes these new responsibilities, wishes, it is said, to take the title of Prince Regent and to have the use of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, the Queen retiring to the palaces at Osborne and Balmoral. © In the ’evﬁ”t of this ar‘rangement being carried out, Prince Albert Victor will obtain Marlborough house. ' An Ohioan Kills His Wife and Her Father, . und Takes His Own Life. =~ _ CLEVELAND, O, July 22.—At Edgerton, 0,, - Sunday morning Hiram Hoadley, Jr., shot. and kHIaR dis e hnd S ORI farmer named Newman, and then killed it b ﬁgﬁ% hee ‘pwrenta | Hosdley layin wah for his wie as she Went out to the. Darpto ik S 0 O e S B Sown Maihtasie bid sndreciived AEal . e mm&@ﬁ&@ B WWMWJ%»W(W BT *M%%%"&Wi*f%%%“g**“ SR L SN e L e L Y T SLVE DOSTe S YN s A ga &