Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 12, Number 13, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 18 June 1890 — Page 2

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. BY.fi. N. MURRAY2JAPPANEE, : s INDIANA. Epitome of the Week. i —■— | INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. CONGRESSIONAL. ' Is the Senate bills were passed on the 11th %o prohibit monopoly in the transportation of cattle to foreign countries; to provide for the inspection of live cattle and beef products intended for export to foreign countries: for the establishment of a port of delivery at Rock Island, 111., and seventy-five individual pension bills. The silver bill was further discussed.. . In the House the conference report on the Senate dependent pension bill was agreed to. The sundry civil appropriation bill (127,859,513) and the Blair educational bill were favorably reported. Th k bill providing for the reorganization of the Government of Utah was favorably reported fa the Senate on the 18th; also the House legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill <ei,a>%Bl7).The silver bill was further discussed propriating 18,708,000 for the payment of pensions and 33,075,000 for expenses of the census was passed. The conference reports on the anti-trust, the military academy and the pension appropriation bills were disagreed to. The agricultural appropriation bill was passed. In the Senate on the 13th a resolution was agreed to appointing Edward K. Valentine Ser-geant-at-Arms. The rest of the session was devoted to considering the silver bi11....1n the House the sundry civil appropriation bilL(l2B,oao.coo) was discussed, and at the evening session thirty private pension bills were advanced to third reading. Bills were passed in the Senate on the 14th to amend the laws relating to custom revenue bonds, making the signature of one member of the firm binding on all she members; to credit Major Wham, army paymaster, with $28,345 Goverment funds of which he was robbed in Arizona in May, 1889, and thirty-five private pension bi 115.... The House suspended its regular business in order that members might deliver speeches on the late Samuel J. Randall.

( DOMESTIC./ DisrATCiiES of the 11th say that the recent cyclone at Channahon, 111., moved buildings alid leveled outhouses and trees, but no lives were lost. A tornado in Indiana on thS 11th did great damage in the counties of Benton, White, Carroll, Howard, Grant, Blackford and Jay. George Gi.azhrook, sheriff of Cole County, Mo., died at Jefferson City on the 11th from the effects of blowing out the gas. —— — Many buildings were destroyed on the 11th at Wapello, la., by a cyclone, and several persons were injured. The fortieth annual convention of the American Protestant Association of the United States commenced in Chicago on the 11th. The public schools and unrestricted immigration were the main subjects for discussion. ; The Grand Lodge of Masons of Wisconsin in session on the 11th at Milwaukee adopted a resolution which declares that “hereafter no person engaged in keeping a saloon or selling intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage shall be initiated into any lodge in the State.” John Coraty, an inmate of the Hendricks County asylum at., Martinsville, Ind., was on the 11th granted a pension of $13,500. The Board of Trade firm of Robert Warren & Cos., of Chicago, failed on the 11th for $500,000. > Near Lebanon, Ore., on the 12th Mrs. Aurnsbaugh shot and killed her husband, Grant Aurnsbaugh, and then blew her own brains out. Domestic trouble was the cause. i The International Typographical Union in session on the 12th at Atlanta, Ga., re-elected E. L. Plank as president and W. S. McCleevy as secretary and treasurer. During a rain-storm on the 12th at Auburn, N. Y., cellars in all parts of the city woro flooded and sewer pipes were burst in many places. The loss was estimated at $200,000. At Milwaukee, Ore., Dnniel Harvey, a fruit,-grower, shot and killed his aged mother on the 12th and then killed himself. No cause was known for the deed. The ninth annual international convention of the National Young People’s Society 'of Christian Endeavor commenced at St. Louis on the 12th. Delegates were present from every State and Territory in the United States, representing 5,000 societies, with an aggregate membership of over 800,000. Employes of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company were notified on the . lith that hereafter no person whodrank liquor would he employed by the company, and employes would bo discharged if intoxicated either on or off duty.

The town of Southampton, L. I. t celebrated the 350th anniversary of its settlement on*the 13th. The entire business portion of Pottsboro, Tex., was burned by incendiaries on the 13th. At a meeting of the stockholders of the local world’s fair organization in Chicago on the 13th it was voted to change the title to the “World's Columbian Exposition.” The Supreme Court of Illinois decided on the 13th that “bucket-shops” were illegal. The Indians in Montana were committing depredations on the 13th, having destroyed several ranches and killed thousands of cattle. The steamship Columbia which arrived in New York on the loth made the run from Southampton in 0 days 16 hours and 33 minutes, beating all previous records. There were 313 business failures in the Unitod States during the seven days ended on the 13th, against 305 the previous seven days. The total of failures in the United States from January 1 to date is 5,091, against 5,448 in a like portion of 1889. The house of a family named Estler, located on Bull creek, near Maysville, Ky., was swept away by a flood on the 13th, and Mrs. Estler and her three daughters and two sons drowned. About a dozen other persons living on the banks of the creek were also drowned. In their weekly trade ‘review on the 18th a New York business agency says the legitimate business of the country continues unprecedented in volume for the season and highly encouraging in prospects. _ .

Governor Fiber on tbe 13th issued a call for a special session of the Illinois Legislature to. convene at the capitol in Springfield July 23 to consider world’s fair mattes, A freight train collided with a passenger train at Cleveland, 0., on the 13th, wrecking it and severely injuring seven persons. J. S. Hakkiman left Wabash, Ind., Ajpril 10 on a walk of 3,000 miles across the continent for a wager of 86,000. He arrived in San Francisco on the 13th, having finished the trip in sixty-one' days, four days less than the time stipulated. During a storm on the 13th in the vicinity of Sibley, la., buildings were wrecked, crops destroyed and numbers of horses and cattle killed. A train on the Chesapeake & Ohio troad went over an embankment near Maysville, Ky.. on the 13th owing to a washout, and three trainmen lost their lives. The strike of street-car employes at Columbus, 0., was satisfactorily settled on the 13th. At Elmira, N. Y., on the 13th Herbert Warren, a 16-year-old boy, shot and killed his father, Frank Warren, who was abusing and threatening his mother. In a cellar at Philadelphia on the 13th William Collins and Charles Dermer were found lying dead on the floor. The police claimed that Collins first killed Dermer and then shot himself. A storm in Central New York on the 13th flooded portions of Norwich, Oneida, Solsville and Rome, causing a loss of over $300,000. A census enumerator at Richmond, Va., found a colored woman named Martha Gray on the 13th who has had thirty-seven children since 1868. She has given birth to triplets six times, to twins six times and to seven others singly. The percentages of the base-ball clubs in the Players’ League for the week ended on the 14th were: Boston, .628; Brooklyn, .565; New York, .535; Chicago, .512; Philadelphia, .512; Pittsburgh, .464; Cleveland, .421; Buffalo, -321. The clubs in the National League stood: Cincinnati, .691; Philadelphia, * .651; Brooklyn, .595; Chicago, .589; Boston, .465; New York, .432; Cleveland, 333; Pittsburgh, 225. At the leading clearing-houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 14th aggregated $1,242,917,040, against 81.468.278,898 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1889 the increase amounted to 10.9. During a wind and rain-storm on the 15th in Cincinnati thirty-three, houses were unroofed and three persons were killed. At.oise and Annie, aged 8 and 12, daughters of Mr. Fellker, of Wilsonville, Conn., were struck by a train on the 14th and killed. ■ *.

Two brothers, William and Preston Eaton, while walking on the railroad track near Belleville, Kan., on the Mth were struck by an engine and instantly killed. Otto and Herman Dc r ta (brothers) were killed by the cars in Chicago on the 15th. At a picnic on the 14th near Knoxville, Tenn., a number of persons were poisoned by the ice-cream, which had stood too long in the freezers. Sixteen women and children were critically ill. At Menasha, Wis., a fire on the Mth destroyed the sawmill and immense new dry-house of the Woodenware Company. Loss, SIOO,OOO. The Carter white lead works at Omaha, Neb., were burned on the 14th. Loss, $150,000. E. 11. Roberts & Cos., proprietors of the Utica (N. Y.) Morning Herald, failed on the 14th for $140,000. Three young men while bathing in the river at St Louis on the 14th were drowned. A cyclone swept over portions of Illinois on the Mth, doing great damage to property at Frederick, Bluff Springs,-. Monmouth, Rock Island, Aurora, Elgin and lieardstown. At Rockford high water inundated the city, causing a loss of $300,000. Seven bodies of unknown dead were taken out of the river along the city front in New Yorjt on the 15th. At Anoka, Minn., Lizzie Murphy, Nellie Mahoney and tho latter’s 10-year-old brother were drowned on the 15th.. Over 200 persons were hurled from a broken foot bridge a distance of sixty feet in Cleveland, 0., on the 15th, and forty were injured, some fatally. Homer E. Newton, one of the most prominent farmers of Northern Ohio, died on the Mth at his homo in West Reich field from the effects of eating twenty-six hard boiled eggs on a wager. Five tons of nitro-glycerine in Casterline & Co.’s works near Findlay, 0., exploded on the 14th. The factory was blown to atoms and a hole big enough to bury a four-story business block was torn in the ground. The shock was felt for forty miles in every direction. There was no Joss es life. The principal coat manufacturers in New York City locked out their 10,000 employes on tho Mth.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL For the nineteenth consecutive time William S. Holman was nominated for Congress on the 11th by the Democrats of the Fourth district of Indiana. The South Dakota Democrats in session on the 11th at Aberdeen nominated the following ticket: For Congress, Judge C- M. Thomas and W. I. Quigley; Governor, Morris Taylor; LieutenantGovernor, Peter Couchraan; Secretary of State, C. 11. Freeman; Auditor, A. H. Wicks. Chari.es R. Dennett, managing editor of tho Chicago Globe, died'suddenly at his residence in Hinsdale on the 11th, aged 66 years. At Carrollton, Ky., Worth Dickerson was on tho 11th nominated to succeed John G. Carlisle in the House of Representatives from the Sixth Kentucky district. The North Carolina Democrats will hold their State convention at Raleigh August 30, and Florida Democrats will meet at Ocalla on August 13. Maine Republicans on the 11th renominated Nelson Dingley, Jr., for Cohgress in the Second district and G A. Bou telle in the Fourth district.

John H. Bankhead (Dem.) was renominated for Congress on the 12th in the Sixth district of Alabama. The Third (Maine) district Republicans renominated Seth L. Milliken for Congress on the 12th. Mbs. Henry Jaha. aged 76 years, and the last survivor of the Nipuck tribe of Indians, died on the 12th at Webster, Mass. In the Democratic State convention at St. Joseph, Mo., oh the 12th Judge Thomas A. Gantt was nominated on tbe seventeenth ballot for Supreme Court Judge. Governor Burleigh was renominated by the Maine Republican State convention held at Augusta on the 12th. In the Twenty-sixth district of Pennsylvania the Republicans on the 12th nominated Mathew Griswold, of Erie, for Congress. The Missouri Republicans will meet in State convention in St. Louis on July 8. Charles Davis, aged 93 years, one of tbe earliest pioneers of Boone County, Ind., died at his residence near Lebanon on the 13th. Francis W. Hill, of Exeter, Me., the Democratic candidate for Governor, died suddenly at bis home on the 15th, aged 71 years. Nancy Warren died in Centralia, 111., on the 14th at the age of nearly 118 years. The deceased was born September 6, 1772, in North Carolina, and remembered to have seen Washington. The Republicans of the First Illinois district on the Mth renominated Abner Taylor for Congress, and in the Fourth district George E. Adams was renominated. Joseph Hillman, a prominent Methodist layman and author of “The Revivalist,” a song book of which over 150,000 have been sold, died in Troy, N. Y., on the 14th, aged 67 years.

FOREIGN. Editor William O’Brien, of United Ireland, was married at London on the llth to Mile. Raffalovitcb, daughter of a Paris banker. St. Petersburg dispatches of the llth reported enormous conflagrations in tho mining districts of th 6 Ural mountains. Over a thousand dwellings had been destroyed, forty persons burned to death and 18,000 rendered homeless. ✓ - ' Seven shocks of earthquakes occurred in the department of * Jura, France, on the 12th, inflicting great damage. The famine in Soudan continued on the 12th and was driving the native tribes to desperation. A general rebellion against the Mahdi was threatened. Advices of the 12th say that a tempest wrecked 200 vessels in the harbor at Montevideo, Mex. No such storm had been experienced there in thirty years. In Vienna, Austria, six persons committed suicide on the 13th. Oliver Mowatt, Premier of Ontario, stated on the 13th that at present there was no great desire in Canada for annexation to the United States. It was. announced definitely on the Mth that Stanley, the explorer, had accepted the position of Governor of the Congo Free State. _ Within the last two months over 400 Chinese bound for the United States have landed at Guymas, Mex. *■. • • Henry Smith was hanged on tho 14th at London, Out, for the murder of his wife on the 18th of last February. Cholera had broken out in the province Spain, on the 14th and fourteen deaths were reported. Hundreds of persons on tlie west shore of Newfoundland were on the Mth in a starving condition. LATfST NEWS. The silver bill was further discussed in the United States Senate on the 16th and the deficiency appropriation tnll for pensions and the census was passed. In the House a petition was presented for the enactment of a law the sale, use, manufacture or importation of banners or flags representing the Confederate flag or the red flag of the Anarchist. Tho sundry civil appropriation bill was discussed. A slight earthquake shock was felt at Cushing, Quo., on the 10th. After eating eanned beef on the 16th at a boarding houso at Detroit, Mich., four persons were taken ill and two would not recover. A general strike of the switchmen at Cleveland.. 0,, -was. -inaugurated -on the 10th: They demand more pay and fewer hours. At Mason City, Ta., J. L. Tipton and a Mr. Hubbard, of Clear Lake, were fatally kicked by a horse on the 10th, The total number of deaths from cholera at Puebla de Rugat, Spain, was on tho 10th placed at (ifty-eight, and refugees at other places had shown symptoms of tho disease. , Two original package houses were opened at Newton. Kan., on the 10th by Kansas City liquor dealers. Victoria (B. C.) dispatchesof the 10th say that foreign sealing schooners intend to continue the usual poaching in Behring sea during tho summer, and that they will be protected by English wax vessels. „ - • 9 Brigadier-General Samuel C. Hot.Abird, Quartermaster-General of the army, was on tbo lOth placed on the retired list, he having reached the statutory a£c of 04 years.

George Swayzik (colored), formerly a leading Republican politician oi Louisiana, was lynched at Black Creek n the 10th by political enemies. The police'at St Petersburg, Russia, on tho 16th discovered,a widespread conspiracy agairfcst the Qzar’s life, the imperial palaco at Gatschina being undermined. The visible supply of wheat and corn in the United States on the 10th was, respectively, 31,578,141 and 16,364,234 bushels. Richard Grass, living near Beatrice, Nob., died from hydrophobia on the 16th caused by tho bite of a mad cat During a picnic on the 16th near Elmwood, ©., a drunken riot' occurred in which two men wore fatally hurt four dangerously wounded arid a score, including several A baby waskillod in its mother’s arms by a stray shot

UNDER WATER. Mujr Northwestern Towns Flooded by Furlou* Jte ln-Fell Buildings Swept the Force of the Torrent* Which Rush Through the Street* of Rockford and Joliet, lII.—A Lo of •300,000 In the Former City—Much Damage In Cincinnati and Adjacent Town*—A Number of Ferson* Killed by Lightning. FLOORS IN THE NORTHWEST. Rockford, 111., June 16. —The storm of Friday night was beyond doubt the poost terrific and destructive in its results that has ever visited this city. Shortly after 8 o'clock the storm began suddenly and with indescribable fury, but ft was not until daylight revealed the havoc wrought that 6ven those who were out in the work of rescue or saving property could form any adequate estimate of the results. A freight train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paid, was completely wrecked and two car-loads of hogs drowned. A freight train stood on the track of the Illinois Central ready to go east when the track was washed away from under it and the engine toppled over on its side. The bridges, culverts and tracks of the Illinois Central and St Paul are destroyed for a distance of half a mile into Kent Creek’ valley, entailing a loss to the Central of about SIOO,OOO and of fully as much more to the St. Paul. The bridges washed away over Kent and Keith creeks will cost the city $15,000. The loss of the Forest City Furniture Company will amount to about $3,000. The Rockford Fuel & Lumber Company's sheds are in ruins and the office was swept away. They also had five horses drowned and figure their loss at about $4,000. Th* Rockford Construction Company lose about SI,OOO. It is impossible to estimate the amount of private losses. They are serious and entail much suffering. They will probably reach 800,000.

Joliet, 111., June 16.—Not since the night of August 18, 1865, has Joliet had Buch a storm of wind, water, hail, lightning and thunder as that of Friday night .and Saturday morning. The storm began about 11:20 o’clock Friday night, and from that time until 11 o’clock Saturday morning the hoavens sent out an almost continual roar of thunder, the flashes of lightning following each other so fast that it was hard to separate one from another. The own-pour of rain was uninterrupted. Railway tracks were under water and traffic was interruped until 4p. m. Saturday. The Thomson-Houston electriclight works, which furnish power for the electric street-cars, were inundated, and no cars were started till noon. The suburb of Brooklyn being low ground was three feet under water. The police patrol wagon was used to take people from their houses. Mrs. Edward Phelps, a widow, and her family were taken from her bouse, which in a few minutes floated down Hickory creek, breaking to pieces at the Fourth avenue bridge. The Elgin, Joliet & Eastern round-house, north of the city, was flooded with two feet of water. Residences for a mile east of the round-house were fully four feet under water. Fences and small houses were swept away, breaking to pieces at the first bridge encountered. The southern part of the city was under water until Saturday evening. All fences and sidewalks have disappeared and great distress prevails, especially among residents of the southern district Farmers coining in Teport great losses hrough the destruction of fences, barns, trees and crops. They say that the water lying on the fields will ruin the crops, especially if the weather grows hot. Springfield, 111., June 16.— Much damage was done here to growing crops by wind and rain. Hailstones of enormous size fell, breaking windows. Trees were torn down and uprooted, corn, wheat, oats and fruit Were hadly mrt down, and the damage done is hard to estimate. The streets were flooded and basements badly overflowed. ‘ Chicago, June 16. —Dispatches received from various points tell of heavy losses sustained by the fearful rain and wind-storms of Friday night and Saturday. Among.the Illinois towns reported as having, suffered severely are Belvidere, Monticello, Monmouth, Aurora, Momehce, Elgin and Kankakee. The losses in these places and the country surrounding are heavy. Crops were dathaged and ail kinds of frflit trees are’ injured. The loss will be great to farmers and fruit growers. Twenty miles east of Jacksonville the ground was covered with hailstones to the depth of —five" inched. The stones measured from three to eight inches in circumference. Cattle were driven wild by the pelting they received and ran bellowing with fear and pain. Beardstown and other points west of Decatur are reported to have suffered severely from thq effects of the storm.

Much damage is also reported in lowa and Wisconsin. The railroads suffered many washouts and trains were from flwe to fifteen hours late on the various lines. The wagon roads in the country wero damaged and many bridges were swept away. CINCINNATI ROUGHLY HANDLED. Cincinnati, June 16.—Cincinnati and the country for fifty miles around experienced a sensational storm Sunday. It began at noon and for more than an hour terrified thousands. The wind was severe, the lightning/of fierce disposition and alarming frequency, and the rain fast, furious and deluge-dike. The shower came up suddenly as the churches were closing and the thousands who thronged the cable qnd electric cars were caught in the' first downpour. Curtains offered no relief and windows were burst in. Hundreds of ladies dressed in costly)raiment were drenched toSbe skin, and the loss in that direction must be very heavy. As the shower grew heavier; lightning began its work. All the ttyree electric roads were rendered useless and miles of their wires were destroyed. The flood along the Sycamore street habile, running through the most thickly populated portion of the city, was so great that the cars could not traverse the streets and the road was

en use.*'Thee 1 egantres id e nee of J. F. Carlson, on Harrison avenue was knocked to pieces by the same tolt. -By 1 o’clock every sewer in the cny was full and the streets were amateur rivers. State street, a narrow thoroughfare lying very low in the valley of what was once Deer creek, became a torrent. Water stood two and three feet deep in the houses and the drift was doing much damage. Edward Lanahan, who kept a grocery on the street, was standing on a raft near his door, warding off timber, when he slipped and was sucked into a sewer. His body has not been recovered. The storm formed a ravine twenty feet wide and ten feet deep from Slack to Boal street through land worth SSOO a foot. In all thirty-three houses were unroofed in the city. Thousands of trees were razed, and in the lower portions of the city many thousand dollars damage done to goods on the first floors of stores. Two people were blown off a shanty-boat near the mouth of the Miami river and drowned and thousands of dollars damage was done to coal boats and timher-rafts. The Chesapeake & Ohio road loses $50,000 by washouts and landslides within fifty miles of the city. Severe destruction of property is reported from Loveland, Hamilton, Milford and Batavia. Near the latter place the Ohio & Northwestern railroad track is washed out and a bridge is gone. New Richmond and Ripley lost SIO,OOO 6&ch> At Fairmouth, Ky., three boys fishing in a boat are missing and were doubtless drowned. Covington, Belclit, Dayton and Newport, Ky., had eighteen houses unroofed and two persons hurt Thousands of acres of wheat just ready to reap are laid flat and the loss will be great. It is safe to say that tbe loss in Cincinnati and a radius of fifty miles amounts to $200,000.

killed by lightning. Paris, Ky., June 16. —A terrific lightning and thunder-storm passed over the northern part of this county about 4 o’clock p. m. Friday. Two of a fishing party were killed and two others badly injured. They tookrshelter under a couple of cattle-troughs. Lightning struck the troughs, and Joseph Sheaks, aged 18 and Lish Wilson (colored), aged 15, were killed. Blanton Speaks was badly burned about the face, and one of his eyes was forced from its socket Maryville, Ind., June 16.—At 6 o’clock Friday evening William E. Stoner, aged 38, a married man and father of a large family, was killed by a bolt of lightning. CHOLERA IN EUROPE. The Dreaded Asiatic Pest Makes Its Appearance In Spain and Russia—TwentyThree Deaths in the Province of Valencia Residents Fly from the Stricken Towns. Madrid, Jund 16. Cholera has broken out at Puebla da Rugat, in the Province of Valencia, and there have already been twenty-three deaths from the disease. It is believed that the disease was conveyed •to the place by softie soldiers. Who recently arrived there from North Africa. Two-thirds of the inhabitants have fled from the town. The first of the cases appeared a month ago, the victims all being residents of a street which had been opened up for paving. Seven deaths have occurred at Montichelso, a village near Puebla de Rugate, and seven fresh cases are reported there. Centa, the principal Spanish garrison town in Morocco, opposite to Gibraltar, has a Moorish quarter as well as a Spanish one. The sanitary arrangements are very bad. The port is frequented by small Levantine craft which take Moorish pilgrims on their way to Mecca to some of the Syrian ports, whence they go by caravan to their destination. Most of these caravans are poorly provided with every thing aifd many of the, poorer fanatics who accompany them are in a state of utter filth throughout the journey. In Mecca vast crowds are herded together, and the more healthy African Moslems are brought into direct contact with the pilgrims from the cholera breeding regions of India and Central Asia. Recent reports from Eastern Arabia and the valley of the Euphrates indicated an outbieak of the scourge in those regions and it is highly probable that, from there it reaehed Mecda, where some of the wbstetm, pilgrims doubtless become infected.

London, June 16. —An epidemic of Asiatic cholera this year in Europe now seems inevitable. For time past it has been raging in Eastern Syria, especially in the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates. It is now officially announced that the plague has spread into the Russian Empire. It has crossed the Volga river, and already is causing much mortality in many towns in Southern Russia. There is almost a panic over it at Odessa, although no cases have yet been reported in that city. Fears are also expressed that it will reach Constantinople by means of the traffic from Bagdad, where it is raging with great Violence. The most conservative experts believe that it will certainly extend also to Aleppo,' Beyrout, Suez and Alexandria. The extensive commerce between those ports and ail parts of the world, including the United States, renders this probability a most terrible one to contemplate. The Emperor is preparing to put all the infected districts of Southern Russia under a strict military quarantine, hoping thus to check the northward and westward advance of the epidemic. Killed His Jailer and Escaped. 6 Booneville, Mo., June 16.— While Sheriff Crammer was passing through the county jail Saturday evening he was shot twice by John West, a prisoner from Sedalia. West then took the sheriff’s keys, unlocked the door and escaped A posse is after him. Preparing for a Tour of the World. London, June 16.—The Czarewitch will begin his journey round the world on August 1. starting from Odessa. The Grand Duke George will accompany him. He will visit the Holy Land Ceylon, Australia, China, Japan and the United States. :

IN A BURNING MINE. Thirty-Four Men ImprUonod In a Penn, ■ylvnnln Colliery In Which an Explo■lon of Fire-Damp Had Occurred—All Avenue* of E*oape Cloed, and They , Have Undoubtedly PerUhed. Dunbar, Pa., June 17.—Yesterday morning at 11:10 a sullen, shivering roar shook the miners’ dwellings on Hill Farm, in Fayette County, near this place, and hundreds of affrighted persons who knew the sound too well knew another mine disaster had occurred. In a moment the fearful news had spread that the Farm Hill mine had exploded. A rush was made to the mouth of tbe pit, but ingress was impossible, as smoke in dense volumes was issuing therefrom. Fifty-two miners had gone to work and were in the slope when the explosion occurred. Os these fifty-two eighteen were in the left heading and thirty-four in the right heading. Those m the left, heading got out all right. The retreat of the others was cut off and not one escaped. * At 7a. m. the gang turned in ai the' mines, the smaller gang drifting off to the left, while the larger drifted to tho right, and descended 800 feet from the surface and at least a mile from the opening. These two drifts are oonneoted, but the connection is from the main stem, half a mile from the entrance. The mine, it seems, had been somewhat troubled with water, and an air-shaft had been drilled from the surface to the juncture of the right and left shafts, where the water seemed to be most abundant. As the miners branched off from this point they knew that an air-hole had been drilled there that had not yet been broken into the mine, but they did not know that tbe shaft was to be broken into during tho day. This shaft by the way, being a six-inch hole. A miner named Kerwtn had been left in th© right drift near where that branch joined the mine’s exit, and in th© course of his labors broke int© the perpendicular shaft The moment this was broken into a flood of water gushed out and Kerwin and a man named Landy standing by yelled out for someone to save the men in the right drift, as the water poured down the hill in a stream and he feared they would drown. Young David Hays, who had seen the affair, leaped forward at the call, and turned down the left drill in a deluge o’s water to warn his endangered comrades below. Just as he passed the air shaft that had been broken into the rush of waters changed to an ugly roar which blanched the cheeks of the men who stood behind.

The flow of water had changed to a deadly volume of fire-damp, and as young Hays swung by the shaft a flash of blazing light slid through the shaft from end to end. The daring young man carried an open burning miner’s lamp in his hah and he had ( hardly taken a step beyond the roaning' shaft when the lamp ignited a reservoir of the deadly fluid, fire-damp, that had already accumulate ed, and he sank a corpse. In an instant an unquenchable fire sprang up in the nine-foot vein just between the main entranoo and the right drift, forever shutting in- the thirty-two men imprisoned there. David Hays, the father of the mistaken hero, driven mad by the fate of his son, dashed into the sulphurous smoke and strangling fire-damp, only to fall blindly by the side of his son and to be drawn out an hour later with James Shearn, both recognizable only by their wives. The fire, fanned by air from the main drift and from the fatal shaft itself, soon filled the entire mine. The miners from the left drift escaped blackened and bruised, but safe, and they tell a fearful story of the sight of a score of terrible faces walled in by a flame no man could pass and live. Willing hands and hearts were not wanting on ths outside and a party of 100 —entered —the —main shaft, and, - after groping on for a quarter of a mile at least, were driven back again and again by the deadly gas, only to recover breath for a moment and again plunge into find at last that the'right drift was inpenetrable and no man living could pass in. Sounds < were heard from the intom bed me.n as late as 1 o’clock in the afternoon. These grew weaker and weaker, however, and half an hour later even the most hopeful of the rescuers could hear nothing. The • men say that had they Known the shaft was to be broken into they'would'' never have erttered the mine, as either water or gas would surely follow. The owners, however, and some of the men say it-was an accident pure and simple.

IT SPREADS. Spain Greatly Alarmed Over the Progress of Cholera. Madrid, June 17.— Much alarm is occasioned by the continued spread of the cholera at Puebla de Rugat. The authorities are making strong efforts to stamp out the disease, but so far they have been unsuccessful and new cases are reported daily. Sundav thero were four deaths from the disease and. nine now cases. The doctors at Pueblade Rugat are greatly overworked and the authorities have telegraphed to Valencia asking that physicians be sent from that city to aid them. Tho supply of drugs is running short and the town officials have also telegraphed for a fresh supply from Valencia. The total number of deaths thus far reported is ninety-one. One of the persons who fled from the town for safety has died from the disease at Albaida. Dr. Candela, who is an expert, declares that the disease at Puebla do Eusrat is true Asiatic cholera.. An American woman sculptor, probably either Miss Harriet Hosmer or Miss Anne Whitney, will be asked to make the portrait bust of Susan B. Anthony as the result of Miss Frances E. Willard’s movement to have the champion of tho equality of women represented in this way at the world’s fair. A new school law has gone inoo operation in Manitoba which has the effect of abolishing all separate schools, or at least of "withholding State aid from such schools. The new law establishes a public school system very similar to that of the United States. *.