Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 11, Number 17, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 17 July 1889 — Page 6

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. BY G. N. MURRAY. _ NAPPANEE, : J I ■ 1 r Epitome of. the Week!\ INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. DOMfeSTIp^ Br the premature explosion of a blast on the 10th in a stone quarry near North Vernon, Ind., Stephen Litzy had both eyes blown out Edward Colton was arrested on the 10th •t Providence, R. I, for embezzling SIO,OOO from Green, Anthony A Cos., wholesalers of foot wear. It was announced on the 10th that the National oncumpmont of the Grand Army of the Republic at Milwaukee in August would be simply a business meeting, with no parade or display and a very limited attendance, as the railway companies had refused to make stipulated rates A bain-storm on the 10th near Greensburg, Pa, caused great damage to crops, and high water carried away buildings and bridges Job" Kelly was hanged on the 10th at Canandaigua, N. Y., for the murder of Eleanor O’Shea, at Geneva, • November 6, 1888. Advices of the lflth say that in the recent freshet at Johnstown, N. Y„ eight persons lost their lives and ten were missing, and buildings along the banks of Cayadutta creek were swept away. In Gloversville, two miles distant, the streets were flooded and several houses were wrecked. The general belief was that the flood was caused by a cloud-burst near Johnstown. In a trial on the loth at'Cleveland, 0., W. J. Gordon’s black gening Guy .trotted a mile in 2:11 lower Hup-hls record one quarter of a second. v * Near Tunnell Hill, Ga., on the Aorulng of the 10th Martin Love (colored) attempted an assault on Miss Addle Rogers a white girL He was caught later in the day and lynched bv a masked mob. The rumors on the 10th that Jake Kilrain had died on the train which was carrying him to his home in Baltimore were unfounded. He was sick and sore, however, and evidently suffered severely. "Sullivan and his party fled from New Orleans by special train to escape arrest. A passenger train on the Central Vermont railroad was ditched on the 10th by a washout near Brandon, Vt., and a dozen passengers were injured, none of them seriouly. Mayor Mosby, of' Cincinnati, issued a proclamation on the 10th declaring his Intention to strictly enforoe the Sunday law. The police would be instructed to arrest all barbers, cigar and newsdealers whose places were found open. The street-car lines would also be stopped and all kind of labor prevented. The expenditures up to the 101 li for relief in the Conemaugh valley* Johnstown and vicinity, aggregated $1,700,000. This Included disbursements of the State in the abatement of nuisances and the payment of the military detailed to staff and police duty. The number of persons to be fed had varied from a maximum of 31*950 to a present commissary roll of 7,000. Admiral Ghekardi advised the State Department at Washington on the 10th that comparative quiet reigned in Hayfi. Legitime continued to hold Port-au-Prinop, while Hippolyte remained camped with his army on the outskirts of the city. No fighting of any consequence had taken plaoe Since Admiral Gherardi’s arrival Jacob Garlitch, an old farmer living near Shelbyville, IncL, blew his brains out on the 11th on account of quarreling with his son. The steamer Crystal City struck a snag at the month of Saline river, sixty milcs-be-low St Louis, on the 11th and sank. The paosengers were saved. It rained at Johnstown, N. Y., on the 11th and the water in Cayadutta creek rose to such a height that the search for bodies lost in the recent freshet there had to be temporarily abandoned. It was known that to* number of lost was five, and several were still missing. The total loss by the flood was estimated at $200,009. New Yore on the 11th transferred $350,000 and Philadelphia $500,000 to the Conemaugh (Pa.) Flood Conuntsslon. Upon arrival at Nashville, Temi, on the 11th Sullivan, tho pugilist, and his packer, Johnson, were arrested on Instructions from the Governor of Mississippi, but a few hours later were released on a writ of habeas corpus and continued their journey northward/ Mrs. Mollie Corvin, of Shelbyville, Ind., who was recently divorced from her eighth husband, was probably fatally wounded on the 10th by a hatchet in tho hands of Charles Sutler, a rejected suitor whom she refused to makri her ninth husband, George Law, a wealthy young man of New York, was swindled 1 out of <80,0(0 on the 11th at Long Branch, N. J., by gamblers. Jo-Era M. Moody, living near Ainsley, Neb., shot and killed both his wife nnd himself on tho 11th. The latter had left him mi account of ijl-treatinent and was living with her brother. Ore, which wan believed .to be rich in silver, was discovered,on tho 11th near the county house in Warren County, N. Y., by Mr. John Nutting. , Mi{s. H.' H. Olnet was burned to death on the 11 tli in her house at Clay Center, Kan. She had already ,rescued her two children and weut back.for some household goods, when she was overpowered by the. heat A shock of earthquake lasting three see•onds was felt at Charleston, S. C., oil the evening of the 11th, the movemant being accompanied by a slight noise. At Long Meadow, Mass,, Pelatiah Ely, j .eighty-four years old, was married .on the; 11th to his house-keeper, aged fifty-five years, within twenty-five.days of the death of his former wife. George Whitmore, 'accompanied by Ada Knapp, went from Rochester to Buffalo, ,N. Y,, on the 11th to he married. William Wolf and Charles Boyle wore also of the party. Whitmore had .drawn $l,lOO from bank, and Ada persuaded him to give her all but slls. Then, when Whitmore went to get a minister, <ehe skipped with Wolf and Boyle. Frank Phillips, one of the Hatfield-Me-■Coy gang, for whose capture a large reward is offered, put in an appearance at Grundy, {Ta, on-the 11th; whore he attacked and killed an attorney by the name ‘jof Keiser, and then Phillips escaped to the mountains. William Weddington (colored) was banged on the 11th at Charlotte, N. €., for the murdered Policeman John Piee,.of Monroe, May 1888. Tne eight-year-old eon of Pierce witnessed the hanging of his lather’s slayer. ■ " - Secretary Nobie on the 11th in an interview said that the* policy of this Administration‘would be broad and liberal toward the Territories; that persons who settled upon the public lands or purchased lands in good faith should have their evidences of title, and that every proper encouragement would be given to efforts looking to the advancement of the Territories and titeir, Admission as,States whenever prepared to" wsume toe duties of Statehood.

There were 218 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the l’Jth, agifinst 152 the previous,seven days: The total failures in toss-United States to date from January 1, Is 6,255, against 5,558 in 1688. Heavy rains.,near Austin, Tex., bad on the 12th swollen all the streams, and the plantations on the low lands were overflowed, causing great damage. I Wiley Matthbwb, the escaped Ozark (Mo.) Bald-Knobber. shot and killed two men in Arkansas on the l’Jth who attempted to capture him. A fire destroyed half a block of brick buildings at Frespo, CaL, on the 12th, causing a loss of $200,000; insurance, SIOO,OOO. Major J. A. Pickler, special agent of the Interior Department at Washington, sent word on the lath to Secretary Noble that the formation of town governments in Oklahoma was progressing favorably. The stables of E. M. Slutz at Kansas City, Mo., were burned on the 12th, and five horses and ten muies were cremated. The bark Crusader which reached New York from London on the 12th reported having narrowly escaped striking several large icebergs which were floating directly in the path usually taken by transatlantic steamers. Miss Lilian Behringer, an Indianapolis (Ind.) school-teacher, was dismissed on the 12th for declaring that “Lincoln was a hireling and Jeff Davis a martyr.” Two members of the gang of counterfeiters who had been circulating spurious ten-dollar bills were sentenced in the United States District Court at Indianapolis on the 12th—George W. Hawley to two years and six months and Mort Howells to five years in the Michigan City prison. Through the destruction by fire on the 12th of the jail at Jacksonville, Orp., three prisoners, Newton Cook, Harry Hoovefijand Frank Warner,,,’Ware burned to death. \ The total value of breadstuff's exported from the United States during June was $9,165,539. William Meyer, a prominent farmer near Fort Waype, Ind., was engaged ’in cutting wheat oirlhe 12tji when he fell under the reaper and was almost instantly killed. He leaves a lirge family. A terrific rain and thunder-storm swept over the vicinity of Bloomington, IIL, on the 12th for several hours, doing great damage to the farms by blowing down and lodging the oats crop. Augustßosenburg, of Somerville, Mass., murdered his wife and two children on the 12th. No cause was known. William P. Swope, of Philadelphia, a wAll-known attorney who disappeared on the 12th, was said to be an embezzler to the extent of SIO,OOO.

Below will be found the percentage of the base-ball clubs In the National League for the week ended on the 13th; Boston, .666; New York, .633; Cleveland, .806; Philadelphia, .539; Chicago, .468; Pittsburgh, .419; Indianapolis, .370; Washington, .28K American Association: St Louis, .690; Brooklyn, .632; Athletic, .590; Cincinnati, .542; Baltimore, .587; Kansas City, .434; Columbus, .371; Louisville, ,211, Western Association; Omaha, ,701; 8t Pajil, .694; Sioux City, .508; Minneapolis, . .5(0; Denver, ~474; Des Moines, .410;-St Joseph, 1570; Milwaukee. .327. The exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 13th aggregated 1,100, against $1,127,114,523 the previous week. As compared with the cor--* responding week of 1833 the increase amounted to 22.0. ; Swan Bures, a negro charged with the murder of a young white man named Whitehurst, was lynched at luka, Miss.-, on the 14 th. New York advices of the 13th stated that the “straw board trust,’’ ono of the most powerful manufacturing combinations ever established, was about to break up. Seven cases of sunstroke, two being fatal, occurred on the 13th at Wichita. Kun. The Otis Iron, and Stool Compnuy of Cleveland sold their iron works on the 13th to an English syndicate for $4,500,000. The monument erected at the grave of ltoscoe Oonkling in Forest Hltr Cehietory at Utica, N. Y., was completed on the 18th. Mrs. Jane Rutledge, of Marble, Ark., became so excited on the 13th while witnessing a fight between two men that she fainted away and soon afterward died. Dr. William B. , White, of Boston, a wellknown eclectic physician, ‘ seventy-five years of* ago, shot his wife, mi attractive young woman of twenty-live years oil toe lath andthen eoinifnTted suicide. Jealousy was the cause of the crime. OHAsaiEM-Wißr-(cofored) was hanged on the 13tli at Somerville, Tenn., for the murder of Evaline Hester the 24th of December last Wirt was jealous of the woman, and, mooting her in the company of a .rival, shot her dead. Commodore Schley, who returned to Washington on the 13th after witnessing tho trial trip of the new cruiser Baltimore, described the ship as “magnificent," and said she would In: one of the most formidable vessels afloat when thoroughly equipped for service. ' /'-//-/■ : - A cloud-burst on the 13th near Baltimore, Md., swept away live road bridges, and two men wore drowned. A tornado on the afternoon “of the 14th wreekt and the village of Princeton, 0 . and fifty people were killed or injured. Not a house escaped damage, arid some of them were blown entirely away. ■ -- — According to a census taken by the publishers of Polk’s directory tjie city of St, Paul, Minn , had on tho 18th a population of 193,!it7, a gain of 31,850. since the census of 1885* ‘ „ .. . Xtfrl’iucinnati on tho 14th all the saloons, barber shops, cigar stores, groceries, 'meat markets and candy stores wero closod by Dialer of the inayor. At Sußquelianha, Pa, a violent and destructive rain and wind-storm occurred on the 13th, The rain fell in torrents and the wind blew down large trees and outbuildings.

Thomas Jefferson, a -colored murderer, was hanged at Mempiiis, Tenn., on the 18th. He billed William Ragland, also colored, on ‘October 20, 1888. A fire ori the 13th at -Lancaster, Pa., caused a loss of $169,000. Martin's tobacco warehouse, containing over SIOO,OOO worth' ■of tobaeco, was among toe buildings’ •burned. A British syndicate was reported on tbe 13th to have bought the H. 1L Warner Safe Remedy .business at Rochester, N. Y., and elsewhere for $5,( 00,000. The Washington weather crop bulletin for the week ended on the loth said the weather during the week had been generally fjivorable to all growing crops throughout the corn and Wheat region Much damage was done on thfe 13th near Evansville, Ind., by heavy rains Growing crcpß were injured, and is some places immense oat and tobacco fields were completely submerged and the crop’s 1 entirelyruined. ; 0 A ’’disastrous cloud-burst occurred on the L3fh near Robinson, Neb.** The flood swept down SoUlier Creek valley,'-carrying all before it, aud u woodchopper named Duncan was drowned, also three of his children. , Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, said on the 13th. that abopt 82,500,000 had been expended nnd directed to be expended in relieving the Johnstown sufferers and abating nuisances in that vicinity, leaving in his hands about $350,000 for distribution.

A terrific hill, rain and wind-storm passed over Plattsburg, N. Y.. Burlington, Vt, and other places along Lake Cham, plain on the 13th. Telephone and telegraph wires' were prostrated, trees wera blown down and many windows were broken by hailstones. In the country the farmers lost heavily on grain and fruit. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Samuel L. Barlow, of New York, tho veteran lawyer, died on the TOth at his summer residence at Glen Cove, Long Island, aged sixty-three years. The cuuse of death was apoplexy. Julia Gardiner Tyler, second wife of ex-President John Tyler, died suddenly in the Exchange Hotel at Richmond, Va., on the 10th, from a congestive chilL She was sixty-nine years of age. Maurice B. Flynn, a well-known New York City politician, died on the 10th at Long Branch, N. J.. .... —— Bishop J. 11. Machebeuf, prolate of Colorado, died at Denver on the 10th after a short illqess. He was seventy-seven years of age. Mlta Lanotry, the actress, was seriously ill on the 10th at Long Branch, N. J., and fears were entertained that she might not recover. Edmund Rice, ex-Congressman from the Fourth district, died at his home at White Bear, Minn., on the 11th, aged seventy-one years.

President Harrison on the 11th made the following appointments: United States Consuls—Emmons Clark, of New" York, at Havre; Archibald J. Sampson, of Colorado, at Axapulco; Roswell G. Hqrr, of Michigan, at Valparaiso; James F. Hartlgan, of Washington, D. C., for the Tort of Trieste and all other portß in the Austrian dominions. At a meeting in Columbus on the 12th the Ohio Republican State Central Committee organized with A. T. Brlnsmade, of-dove-land, as chairman, and A W. Kumler, of Dayton, as secretary. The funeral of tho widow of President Tyler was held on the 12th at Richmond, Va., the remains being interred beside tbo.se of her husband. President Harrison, accompanied by Secretary Windom, arrived at Defer Park, Md.onthe 12th, where the President and his family will Rpend tho summer. . FOREIGN. The arguments in the case of Martin Burke, arrested at Winnipeg for complicity in the Cronin murder in Chicago, were concluded on the 10th, and Judge Bain signed an order for the prisoner’s extradltioa The Swiss Government in a note to the German Government on the 11th denied the latter’s right to control the granting of permission to Germans to reside in Switzerland. In, London on the 11th William Henry Smith, First Lord of the Treasury, gave a dinner in honor of Mr. Lincoln, the American Minister, and Mrs. Lincoln. A Cairo dispatch of the 11th stated that the Egyptian troops surrounded sixty dervishes mid killed them\sdl in the fight which followed. t Gne-iialf of the town of Djarkend, in Semiretchinsk, Russia, was destroyed by au earthquake on the 12th. A Conservative Ministry was formed on the 12th in Norway, with Herr Stang as Minister State. Some two hundred persons of SeeieyJs Bay, Can., were poisoned on top 12th by -Rating ice-cream at a picnic, and itvjvaa thought that several would die. It was reported on the 12th that the Russian Government had totally suppressed the Lutheran church within the Czar's dominion's. TnE yield of gold In Queensland during the last half year amounted to 390,010 ounces. This is an increase of 100,000 ouncos over the preceding half year. Panama. advices of the 13th stated that the steamer Rapel, belonging to a Valparaiso .line, had been lost, with eleven of her crew. — r -_ • Lady Acton and Count yon Blumpnthal. the former a sister of the German Minister to the United States, kill'd themselves in Munich on tile 18th. It was said they wera engaged to be married and had had a violent quarreL The one hundredth anniversary of the iall of the bastile was celebrated by public mootings and fetes in Paris and throughout the provinces on the 1-ith. LATEST^NEWS. , As a result pi the recent ele.eUon.wblefl. terminated in favor of annexation Mayor (VpoUor ijgjnfl* f|fn 1-" • 1 * on the 15th declaring Hyde Park, the town of Lake, Lake View, Cicero and Jefferson annexed to the city of Chicago. Mr. O Bkewsteb, the veteran publisher and printer, died in Boston on. the 15th, aged ninoty-two years. On the farm of Joshua Warfield, hear Florence, Md., three horses were killed and eight men stunned by a stroke ptlightning on the 15th. Mas. Terry and her daughter, nged thirteen years, living at Salt Lake City, were fatally burned On tbe 15th by an explosion of kerosene. Hon A N. Cole, known as tho “Father fef the Republican Party,” died at Wellsville, N Y., on the 15th. lie was sixtysevep yeafp of age. Mu Lincoln, the United States Ministel to England, and his Wife, and Mr. Bussell B HarriaoU, sop of President Harrison, dined with) the Queen at Windsor on the 15th.' ' - - * . ' '

The value of Canadian exports for the last fiscal year was i3,002,017, an increase of 4307,4fi1> over,the previous year. ApvicKSi of the loth from lowa say that a recent wind and hall-StOTini in the vicinity of Davenport did great damage to growing crops, and many outbuildings were unroofed and trees leveled. Coi.onei. D H Smith, ex-Auditor of Kentucky,, died at Louisville on the loth of heart disease. A coi.r.isioN occurred at Grenoble, France, on the Ifith between a passenger train and a goods train on the Paris,' Lyons A Mediterranean ruilroad, and twenty persons iveie killed or injured. Mauimn, the leader of the Keya Paha County cattle “rustlers,” was lynched by vigilantes on the loth at Spring View', Neb. Mas KA’tKNllovKit and child were brutally murdered on the loth by John Gilman near Gotjiillle City, Ore., during the absence of Air. Katenhpvor.. The Eutenhovers were tenants of Gilman, who wanted them to leave, which they refused to do until their lease expired Wli.l.lam Hioki.e, Philip Hearst and the eon of the latter were oapsi/.ed from a boat in the Ohio river at Portsmouth, 0., ou the lfrth and, drowned. An unusually heavy rain-storm prevailed on the 'loth throughout the Lebaiian <Pa) valley. A-number or creek* oveftidwed their chunks, hmjdreds of fields were submerged, and tbe Crops which had been cut and left lying in the fields were washed away. Tom Condeu, who murdered Jack Riley' near Troy, Tenn., in September last/was hanged ou the loth at Nashville. Advices of the loth from China say that on June ‘2 the Chang' Ping and Ping Yuen districts were Hooded by she bursting of a water-spout or tornado, and the level country flooded with nearly thirty-six feet of water. Seven villages were deluged, upwards of six thousand lives and nearly teu thousand persona were homuiesa

A HAMLET’S FATE. The Tilling* of Pilnceton, 0„ Almost Entirely Wiped Out of Existence by Wind-Storm— Thirty Buildings Wrecked -A Report or the Death of Fifty Perloni Unconfirmed. Cincinnati, July 15.—About 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon the village of Princeton, six miles from Hamilton, 0., was visited by a severe wind-storm. Before reaching Princeton it blew the roof off the barn of Joseph Stinson, throwing it into a corn field some distance away. The dwelling-house of Finley Whitehead, la Princeton, was carried away, and his wagon-making shop near by was demolished. The large brick school-building in the village was torn down to the foundations and a rafter of the house was carried 2(0 yards by the force of the wind and lodged in the top of a large oak tree, while the desks and other furniture were scattered in every direction, and the blacksmith shop and barn of Gus Kinnear were both leveled to the ground. The houses of John Lenharf, Rose Miller and Stephen Clawson were completely wrecked, while Ash Walter lost every thing ho possessed. The oats and corn crop wore ruined and the village was deluged with water, deaths occurred. Thirty buildings were wrecked. The destruction at Princeton occurred in twenty minutea The storm was accompanied by a heavy rain-fall, and nearly every house was deluged by water. The damage to the buildings will reach $4,000, while the injury to the crops can hardly be estimated at this writing. The homeless families were taken in by the neighbors whose homes escaped the fury of the tempest A large seventy-gallon cask used for water purposes whs lifted out of a dooryard and carried fully 200 yards away. Hamilton, 0., July 15. It is said that fifty lives wore lost in the cyclone which destroyed the village of Princeton, 0., Sunday. There is no confirmation of the report and it is disbelieved here. Parties who came to this city for assistance deny that any deaths occurred, Cincinnati, July 15.— This city was visited Sunday afternoon by a. terrific storm of wind and rain. THe tempest lasted only twenty minutes, but In that brief period it spread consternation among thousands. After the wind had,- spent its force the rainfall continued with unabated fury for almost an hour. For three or four hours before the terrible storm thick black clouds banked up the western horizon and thousands of men, women and children were on the hilltops, nnd it is remarkable that no fatalities resulted from the tornado. The storm followed a . southwest course and traveled back over the same territory, mowing down crops and houses like wheat. In all parts of the city windows were shattered, signs blown away and trees prostrated. At the corner of Liberty and Freeman streets a street car was stopped by the torce of the wind. Tlie storm raged in all the small towns outside Cincinnati. Houses were swept away and great damage was done to crops. Telegraph wires are done in all directions. AWFUL BUTCHERY. A Woman and Four Children Shot t>; Her Frenzied Faramour at Somerset, Mass.— The Mother and Her Fidest Boy Dead Retribution Follows the Murderer While Trying to-Kseape, Boston, July 15.—A horrible tragedy was enacted; in Somerville shortly after midnight Friday. The victims are Mrs. Catherine Smith, aged 45 years, her son Thomas, aged 14 years, and the perpetrator of the terrible deed, Augustus Rosenberg, whilo two other children of Mrs. Smith were injured, one of whom will die. The murderer lias been living with Mrs. Smith for about a year as her husband, but it is the geueral belief that they wore not married. The cause of the tragedy is not known, although it is stated that Rosenberg has complained about the way he has been treated in money matters by the woman. It is supposed that a recent quarrel over their financial affairs was the chief cause of the tragedy. The scene of the shooting was at, tho corner of -Dane street and Daue cO'lrt, Somerville. The ground floor is used as a provision and grocery store; the business having been carried on by Mrs. Smith since the disap pearauce of her husband i Charles Smith), who is supposed to have committed suicide B.V. Juanplng irptn, the . UyEtland steamer, about a year ago. • Near ■iie-iglib&rs- wsr® greased- ass about T o’clock by a number of pistol shots, andthe police were promptly notified. The polio® entered the front' door and encountered the dead body of Thomaß Smith, who received his wound probably up_stairs arid succeeded in reaching the lower landing before falling. A bullet had entered his forehead. He was the oldest of the children, of which there were five. Mrs. Smith was found in bed. The - indications were that she was shot while asleep. The ball entered the right* temple. All the children occupied rooms in the . attic, the second floor being used for general domestic purposes, and one room by Mrs. Smith and Rosenberg. Thomas slept alone. Willie, aged 12, and Augustus, aged . 7, slept together in a room by themselves. The former shot through the body. The wound in all probability will prove fatal. Augustus was shot in the , ihohtir; the physicians think his recovery possible. They boy, Charles, aged 5 years, was slightly %-ouuded. He was in bed with his little sister Mabel, 1 year younger. Five shots for five persons, four of them fatal, shows great deliberation on the part of the murderer. lipsenberg met his death in a most peculiar. and unintentional manner, while attempting to escape from tho scene of his fiendish work. In trying to scale a fence at the end of a lane through which he ’ran, the doctor thinks he fell on a pile of railroad sleepers lying beside the Fitchburg tracks, and struck his head on a spike, which fractured his skull and instantly killed him.- Dr. Durrell says there is no doubt that he was crazy. The house where the murders occurred has been all day surrounded by a crowd of curious people. v Citizens of Seattle Are Thankful. Seattle. W. TANARUS., July 15.—The citizens of Seattle, by J. It Lewis, chairman of the relief committee, have issued an address in which they return thanks for the sympathy and material aid tendered them by the people of this country since the recent disastrous conflagration here. The address sets forth that the city is Being rebuilt as fast as money and men can do it. Two Deaths Result. Pittsburgh, Pa, July 15.— At 2 o’clock Sunday' morning the mudbjiuk over the well of tlie Soho streetsewfer gave way and five workmen who were trying to loosen a mass ofdebrisfrombelow Were caught in the rush of mud and water and carried hundreds of feet through Che main sewer into the valley below. . William Daily was found dead near the mouth of the sewer with two coils oL fire-hose about his neck. Andrew N. McGrejgor died atS o’clopk Sunday morning. Robert Munn, foreman, was seriously injured. William McClay and Joseph McCarthy were terribly bruised. The wheat crop of lowa is reported to be scarcely 50 per sent of toe average yield.

DROWNED IN A DELUGE. dond-Bants Find Number of Victims in Maryland and Nebraska - Disastrous Storms Elsewhere* Baltimore, Md.. July 15.-A water-spout caused toe small streams known as Herring run and Moore's run, northeast of Baltimore, to rise to an unprecedented height Saturday afternoon, bursting two dams, one called Reed’s dam and toe other at Casper Bobb’s place on the Bellnire road. The water rushed down in a wall twenty feet deep, sweeping every thing before it Several, people were drowned. As far as known, two men on toe BeUalre road, named PoWell and, Schelllner, were drowned in Herring run) George Lingenfelder, his wife and father and a Mrs. Seifert on Moore s run. Mr. Llngenfelder was coming to market at Baltimore, and tried to cross the bridge, from which he was swept Mrs. Seifert met her death in a similar mannor. Horses and cattle were drowned in large numbers, and property and props are swept away. The damage done can not be fully estimated. Nearly every bridge crossing Herring run was swept away, including the large Iron bridge at Bobb’a Fields of grain were destroyed and trucking farms ruined. The roads are all wiped out The tracks* df the Hall’s Springs horse railway were twisted and turned into utter ruin. A large country store on the Hartford road was swept away. There was a washout on the Maryland Central railroad at Guilford’s station, causing a suspension of traveL John McCormick’s barn on toe Frederick road was struck by lightning and burned. Loss, $3,000. Five people in it were stunned, but are recovering. The Herring run racetrack was damaged to the extent of $2,000. John Colburn’s house at Creek Neck was partly wrecked by lightning and his whole family injured. - \ Fort Robinson, Neb.. July 15.—A cloudburst occurred in Soldier Creek valley about- daylight Saturday. Some of tbe waves were six feet high. Four people. Marsh Duncan and three of his children, are known to have been drowned. It is feared many other lives have been lost Colonel Telford has sent out a company of the Eighth Infantry to search for dead and carry assistance to the sufferers. HEAVY STORMS ELSEWHERE. Petersburg, Ya, July 15.—A wind-storm which assumed almost the proportions of a tornado passed over Dinwiddle County in the vicinity of Darvill, which did an immense amount of damage. Trees were uprooted and barns and fences lev-' eled to the ground. The storm was accompanied by a heavy fall of rain and hail, and the crops suffered terribly, especially from the hail, which cut to pieoes oats, wheat, corn and vegetation. The storm was also very severe in Sussex County, in the neighborhood of Waverly station, on the Norfolk & Western railroad, where one boy was killed and another probably fatally injured by a falling tree. The oat crop was literally ruined. Plattsburg, N. Y., July 15.—A terrific hail, rain and wind-storm passed over Plattsburg, Burlington (Vt) and other places along Lake Champlain Saturday afternoon.* In this city electric light, telephone and telegraph wires were prostrated, trees were blown down and many windows were broken by hail-Rtones. In the ‘country , farmers lose heavily on grain and fruit. At Burlington the Telephone Exchange was partly burned by lightning. Damage to buildings. wires and crops are reported from nearly overy place along the lake. Many narrow escapes from drowning are reported. Evansville. Ind., July 15.—Much damage is reported from the lower Ohio on account of the copious raiu-fall since Thursday afternoon. The water came down in torrents, and it is asserted that within two hours there was a three-inch fall Saturday morning. Growing crops were necessarily damaged, and in some places immense oat and tobacco fields were completely submerged and the crops rntned. The stricken section extends from Cairo to Smithland, on both sides of the river. Davenport, la, July 15.—The- heaviest rain-storm known in years visited this section Saturday night. In this and surrounding cities considerable damage was done by overflowed streets and cellars, while in the country wind and water caused considerable destruction to V 9 i * are both prqtty, generally mowed down by the fury of the storm, anu, while the former will probably rise, this Is not expected to be the case with oats, concerning which farmers are very much discouraged and fear great losses. BUYING UP THE MILLS. The Deal Transferring the Great Flouring Interests at Minneapolis Into the Hands of .British Capitalists-About Completed. Minneapolis, Minn., July I.l—lt. la definitely known that the efforts of an English syndicate to'Secure control of a number of the great Minneapolis flouriug mills have been practically sdccessful, and that it res! s with the Englishmen themselves whether the deal goea through or not The .negotiations have been In progress for some time, und the millers have s.toutly denied that & sale was probable. Captain .EL W. Holmefe; of the Minneapolis' Union Elevator Company, acknowledges that the efforts of the syndicate have been partially successful, and that an option has been given "which will expire July 25. The properties included in the proposed syndicate are those of*C. A Pillsbury & Go., the Washburn Mill Company, the Western Flouring Mill Company, the East and West Side Water Tower Companies, and the Pillsbury system of elevators. This would give the purchasers a combined capacity of 22,000 barrels of flour per day. Should the deal be consummated C. A Pillsbury will manage the entire business. CINCINNATI’S* BLUE LAWS. The Sunday-Closing Act Is Strictly Enforced. Cincinnati, July 15.— For the first time in a quarter of a century a successful attempt was made Sunday to enforco tbe Sunday-Closing and Common-Labor law in Cincinnati Not only saloons, but barbershops, cigar stores, meat markets and candy stores \S*rfe forced to close their doors. It is that 4(J,000 persons left the city during the day in search of pleasure. Morally the city has profited by toe rigid enforcement of the laws The arrests are only about one-tenth of what they were three months ago. CIRCULAR *K}*G. r A. R. POSTS. General Warner Urges Members to Attend the Encampment at Milwaukee. Kaksas City, Mo., July 15.-Commander-in-Chief Warner has Issued a general circular td G. A" R. posts urging the members to attend the National encampment at Milwaukee despite toe refnsal of the railroads to grant the one-cent a mile rate, It is the general belief at General Warner’s headquarters here that the attendance will be quite as large as if the dispute with too railroads had never occurred. "i-.-./v-.Ttt —~—An Ohioan in Luck. —~ Washington, July 15.— The President has appointed Alphonso Hart, Os Ohio, Solicitor of toe Internal Revenue Bureau.

VEXED VETERANS. The G. A. R. Encampment at MilwaukeeIn a Bad Way—No Parade or Display to lie Made-Unable to Obtain a Low Rate from the Railroads, Members Are Advised te Stay at Home*.a Only s llii. ness Meeting Will Be Held. Millvauker, July 11.—The National enoampmeut of toe Grand Army of the Republic at Milwaukee in August will be sim. ply a business meeting, with no parade or display and a very limited attendance. The department commanders had asked the railroad companies for a rate of ’one cent a ml.e for the comrades, and gave the corporations until Wednesday to accede to these terms. A meeting was held, which wait attended by Commanders Martin of Illinois, Welssert of Wisconsin, Barto of Minnesota, and Davis of Nebraska, when it was determined to adhere to previous action, to advise toe old soldiers not to attend the encampment,Rfl the railroad companies declined to make the stipulated rate. Letters were received from Commanders Brown of Michigan, Travis of Indiana, Menton of Kentucky, and Smith ol lowa, and from the department commanders of Missouri and Kansas, in. dorsing and advising the action which was taken. All of the department commanders stood firmly by toe proposition made on Tuesday of last week, to the effect that the rate should be one cent a mile, or they would issue orders to have only delegates go to the convention and discourage the attendance of all others. In conformity with the decision made Adjutant-General Partridge, of the department of Illinois, has made the draft of an order to be Issued by General Mai tin, department commander, to the comrades in this State. It recites the circumstances and expresses the disappointment of the department commander in not being permitted to march at the head of the largest department turnout which ever attended an encampment It further says, however, that the dignity of toe members of toe grand army prevents them from attending this encampment It was the old soldiers, Is added, who made it possible for railroad companies to reduced rates to any organization, adjio be discriminated against is unfair and unjust Other commanders will issue similar orders in their respective departments. Some railroad companies have sent correspondence indicating an inclination to recede from their position if communications are addressed to them separately and not to the Traffic Association, but tbe publication of tho proceedings of Tuesday’s meeting, and the orders ot department ( commanders, will practically kill toe ancampment MRS. TYLER DEAD. Sudden Demise in a Hotel at Richmond, Va., of the Widow of tho Ex-Fresident. Richmond, Va., July 11.-Mrs. ex-Pres-ident John Tyler died at the Exchange Hotel Wednesday evening from a congestive chill She returned from a visit to her son, Lyon Gv Tyler, at Williamsburg, Sunday, anil was intending to leave Monday to visit another son, but was taken ill and died in a short time. She leaves four children—Lyon G. Tyler, president of William and Mary College, Virginia; Gardiner G. Tyler, of Charles City ;_Dr. Lacklan Tyler, of Washington, and Mrs William Ellis, of Montgomery County. [Mrs. Tyler was the second wife ot tho exPresident. She was born on Gardiner’s Island, New York, and first met her husband in 1844 while visiting Washington with her father.' At the invitation of the President they attended a pleasure excursion down the Potomac on the war steamer Princeton, during which her father was killed by the bursting of a gun. His body was taken to the White House, and Miss Gardiaer was thrown a great deal into the society of the President owing to-' the peculiar circumstances attending her father’s death. President Tyler’s first wife had died shortly after he entered the White House, and Xe paid Miss Gardiner marked attention, which resulted in their marriage in New York City, June 26, 1844. For the succeeding eight months of President Tyler’s term she presided over the White House with tact, grace and dignity. After March 4, 1845, Mrs. Tyler retired with her husband to the seclusion of their country place, “ShjrWood Forest," on the hanks of the James river, Virginia. She remained in Virginia until after the civil war, her husband having died about. the beginning of the strife, and then went to reside at her mother’s residence on Castleton. Hill- jtnwa'-jPMk.* dence there she removed to Ya, r where she died, Mrs. Tyler was a Roman Catholic in,religion.] TRAIN WRECK IN MEXICO. Two Persons Killed Outright and Twen-ty-Fiva Seriously Injured. El Paso, Tex., July IL— The regular passenger train on the Mexican Central railroad, which left del Norte at 6 o’clock Monday evening, was wrecked five miles this side of Chihuahua by the giving way of a bridge Two people, a third-class passenger and a Wells, Fargo & Cos. guard, were killed outright and twenty-five passengers Injured. Conductor Jerry Sullivan has four ribs broken and the newsboy had his leg broken in two places. Tne „ baggage-dar and third-class coach were telescoped. The train had been running slow all night in antlci* pation of washouts, and having passed the dangerous places was traveling at a rapid rate to make up lost time. There had been no rain where the accident occurred,, but the underpinning of the bridge had been washed out by a torrent caused by a cloudburst in the mountaims. Nineteen people were taken to the hospital at Chihuahua, and It is reported that two have since died. The railroad people are very reticent about the accident HELD FOR "EXTRADITION. Judge Bain, of Winnipeg. Decides to Deliver Martin Burke to the Chicago Authorities—An Appeal Taken—BeggS Denied Hail. Winnipeg, Man., July 11.—Martin Burke will be taken to Chicago. Judge Bain has held him for extraditien, and a warrant was made out In rendering the judgment his Lordship said he would hesitate to commit the prisoner to a jury on toe evidence submitted, but he was only committing him for trial He hoped Burke could explain his actions when he got back to Chicago. 1 An appeal to the full court will be made. Chicago, July 11.—Judge Tuley yesterday morning, in a lengthy decision, denied the application of John F. Beggs for a writ of habeas corpus Beggs -is toe well-known attorney suspected of complicity in toe Cronin murder. COTTON-SEED OIL. The Industry Experiencing a Great Boom —Many New Mills Heing Built. Baltimore, Md.£ July 11. There has lately been unprecedented activity in building new cotton-seed oil mills, most of which are independent of toe cotton-oil • trust, though the trust has, it is generally reported, recently virtually, sectored control of the Southern Oil Company with its eight large mills. The Manufacturers’ Record publishes this week a complete list of ail the cotton-seed oil mills in the South, showing 213 mills with an aggregate capital of $20,000,000, against forty mills with a capital or/W^fi^OO in usd "