Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 June 1889 — Page 1

PiKe Democrat. MOUNT h PITT8, Proprietors. ‘Our Motto is Honest Devotion to Principles of Right.* OFFICE, over 0. E. MONTGOMERY'S Store, Mein Street. VOLUME XX. _ PETERSBURG, INDIANA, THURSDAY. JUNE 6, 1889. NUMBER 3.

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Tn* war-ships Adams and Iroquois are to b« dla}>atched to Behring Sea to maintain our rights to the seal-fisheries ai against the Canadian poachers and thoir armed protectors. Tit* Loudon Standard’s Berlin correspondent says it has been decided that it would lie superfluous to renew the treaties between Italy, Auslrii aud Germany (the triple alliance). IIkxrt O’Batts. the defaulting treasurer of the Catholic Knights, of Columbus, IdH.. returned to that city, on the night of the 2*tb, and surrendered. Re waa penniless aud worn out with tramping. Tn* Pope has ordered that on the day of the uurailing of the monument to Giordiano Bruno, who was burned as a heretic in the year 1690, the whole of the papal guards and geudarmes shall keep within the Vatican. William Hoax Ki rn's, great grandson of Thomas Jefferson, and well known throughout the country as a successful stock-raiser aad turfman, died, on the 27ih, at his home in Chesterfield Couuty, Pa., aged forty-four. - A PROTOCOL has been drawn up by the Samoan' Commissioners which will be signed if favorable answers are received • from Washington and London. So further meeting will, be held until the forthcoming instructions arrive. M. Kacr*. member of the French Chamber of Deputies, withdrew, oa the 27th. the questions regarding the reported treaty .between France and Hayti that he intended asking the government during the discussion of the budget, Tn* executive officers of the committee of One Hundred at lndtauapolis, Ind., are displeased over the action of the President in remitting the fine of Sim Coy, of that city, who is serving a term in the penitentiary forelection frauds. Mkmrsrs of the Mississippi Kiver Commission aud representatives of railroad and steamboat interests at New Orleans held a conference, on the 27th. aud discussed the feasibility of building a bridge over the river in front of the Crescent City. It waa recently announced that sickness prevented King KnlaVana of Hawaii from going to the Paris Kuposition. It ia learned from good authority that His Majesty, although desiring to pay a visit to the exposition, lacked the necessary fund*. Oa tlje morning of the 27th every orehandler in Marquette, Mich., struck for ah increase in pay. Nearly three hundred men went oul A big fleet of orecarriers, with a capacity of/liOO) tons, was tied up. The men demanded ?L78 per day. la the Bishop inquest in New York, on the 27th. Robertsou, the tuind-reader’s regular physician, testified that he bad often seen Buhop in catalepsy when he seemed dead. Witness would not havp performed the autopsy to aoon as it was done. Bxcrktart Proctor, who returned to Washington, on the SSth, from a joint visit to his home at Proctor, Vt., and to West Point, left again for his home, on the 27th, on receipt of a telegram stating that his son waa serioukly ill with the measles. KxrcRRtvn to the indignation ransed in France by the announcement that King Humbert of Italy would Tialt Strasburg, he Krena Zeituug tells the Freuch to utnd their own business, nor dare to in* erfere with Germany’s doings in her own provinces.

Colonel John C. Haskell, of Columbia, t'. C., wo*, on the Siith, elected as the member of the National Democratic committee from South Carolina. Colonel Una hell U a member of the Legislature, and one of the most prominent lawyers of Uie State. Secretary Blaine, ou the 30th, sent a long telegram to Minister Hold, at Paris, demanding an immediate investigation of the matter of the arrest and alleged illtreatment of three American ladies at Mentone, France, and insisting upon an ample apology. Thr twice-postponed extension tendered by Secretary Blaine in honor of Sir Julian Panncefote, the new British Minister, took place on the 2t<lh, a distinguished party boarding the United States steamer Dispatch and sailing down the Potomac as far as Mt. Vernon. Preparations for the triennial conclave of Knights Templar next fall are going forward at Washington with some rapidity. Advices received from the various comtnanderies throughout threountry indicate that fully 50,000 Masons will be in line the day of the parade. Thr London Times* Berlin correspondent reports that the American Commissioners to the Samoan Conference have had a tough tight for the assertion of the principles for which they contended, and that the convention, when concluded, will show that their labors have not been without success. __ Thr findings of the court of inquiry appointed to investigate the case of Passed Assistant Paymaster Henry J. Smith, of the Kssex. whose disappearance from that vessel in the latter part of April caused quite a sensation in naval circles, were received at the Navy Department on the STth. Ox the Hst Postmaster-General Wanamaker appointed a commission to investigate and report upon the condition and needs of the New York City Post-of-fice. This commission is the result of a conference recently held between Postmaster Van Cott and the officials of the Post-office Department. Captain C. Hexrt Witthac*, a prominent rftisen of New York City, e member of the Old Guard, the Leiderkrana Society, the Press Ciub and other organisations, snot himself dead after returning home from the Decoration parade ou the 30th. He was forty-five years old tad %uxt* wnititf,

PERSONAL AND GENERAT,. i Leonard Mryek, ex*mayor of Phainix, Ari*., was arrested at Baa Francisco, on the 27th, ou a charge »f stealing $8,09) from the Wells-Fargo Express Company. John Grass, of Standing Rock, D. T., i the leading chief of the Bioax Nation, Sty a that while its provisions are not entirely unobjectionable to them, his peoj pie wilt sign the Sioux bill. Flan was discovered on the Canard Line steamer Servia upon her arrival at LiverI pool on the 28th. It caused little alarm, 1 as it was found that only a few bales of cotton, composing part of the cargo of the forward hold, were smoldering. The danger might have been serious had the vessel been at sea and the fire not discovered promptly. Is the Anti-Progressist riot which oeI curred in Belgrade. Bervia, on the night of the 27th, a gendarme was killed, a. Lie itenant badly woanded and n Colonel' commanding some of the military wt! dragged from his horse by the mob and maltreated. Tun fourteenth annual convention of Mutual Life and Accident Underwriter*, begnq at the National’llotel in Washington on the 2Sth. About fifty companies were represented. Casiait, Phires & Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa., have postponed the enforcement of their new scale until after the'conclusion of the Amalgamated convention. Millard Williams, arrested at Booth Bend, lmL, for complicity in the Cronin murder rase, is not the person wanted, and was released on the 29th. A judgment against Clark Boblnson Griggs, of New York, for $2.194.l.tl.M was filed in the county clerk's office at Elmira, N. Y-, on the 29th. The judgment is in favor of the executors of the estate of Cornelius Garrison, of Baltimore. H. C. Lovell, who has for a long time been assistant to the chief clerk of the Treasury Department, was, on the 29th, suddenly stricken with a dangerous affection of the brain. It is understood that a serious affection of the heart Complicates (he case. The seventy-fifth annual meeting of the American Tract Society was held in Boston on the 29th. William C. Chapin'was elected president for the ensuing year. The reports showed that the work of the! society is being constantly enlarged. A dispatch from St. Charles, Minn., says a warrant has been received at that place from Rockford. 111., for the arrest of George Schweiufurth, the head of the Beekmanites. Schweiufurth is said to be in Sl Charles among his followers, of whom there are quite a large number. Senator Payed, of Ohio, announces that he will not, under any circumstances, lie a candidate for re-election to the United Statos Senate. While raising a barn or the Boers ter farm, near Loyal Oak, O., oh the 29th, the frame-work fell, crushing a score of persons, three of wji 'ni are supposed to be fatally hurt. A disease of an exceptionally''virulent and fatal character has broken out in i Tukadagun, Japan. Those attacked with ii die within five hours after being taken. fr is reported that the brewery of Geo. Bechtel, Staten Islam!, X. Y., has been purchased by au EugUstf syndicate, the price being $1,790,000. The Hawaiian Princess Kalulani sailed, on the 20th, on the steamship Germanio fur Liverpool. The Dutch and Belgian societies formed to teach the rising generation .the history, and inculcate the doctrines and ideas of the French revolution of a century ago, have gaiued a membership that has attracted the unfavorable notice of their respective governments, and measures are being taken to prevent their further growth and nullify their influence.

Thk Connecticut Senate, on the Suth, passed the House bill forbidding railroads from issuiug free passes to members of the Legislature, ami ordering the Mate CotUptroler to furnish necessary railroad tickets. A rmE occurred.May.% at Yoknte-Akiti-Keu, Japan, destroying over 1,000 houses. The Mikado has subscribed $1.00) out of his owu purse for the relief of the sufferer*. A bill to Increase the specific tax on railroads from two and three per cent (according to the amount of their gross earuiags) to three and four per cent, was brought up in the Michigan House on the SSHh. The conflict eras short, but decisive, and ended iu the defeat of the bill Iteroud reealL Admiral GhKr.vrdi. who arrived in New York from llayti, oa the 29th, on the j Tufted States steamship Galena, says it ■ is true that Hippolyte is rapidly gaining i the advantage over Legitim*. J* Thk deputation of Unionist members of ! Parliament appointed at a recent meeting of Unionists called upon Lord Salisbury, j on the 29th, aud preseuted a petition asking for the abolition of the office of Vleei toy of Ireland, and the merging its ddtles I into those of the Chief Secretary. The Premier replied that he would faithfully consider the request. There Is a movement-oa foot in Helena, Mouu. to form a syndicate of lumber dealers, who propose to make an advance in prices. The enormous amount of buildings being put up, mostly frame, is the cau-e of it Oecoratios Day was very generally observed throughout the country this year, though In some localities the ceromouioa were greatly interfered with by rain. Five men were tilled and seven injured by the failing waits of an uncompleted tobacco factory in Danville, Va., on the 3)th. A Mc,\oah! a n was placed at one of the furnaces of the Potts town (Pa.) Iron Company, on the night of the 29th, to help, whereupon the puddle helpers notified the bosses that unless he was taken sway at the end of an hour they would leave the mill. The request was not complied with, aud the helpers went on strike. There are fifteen furnaces in the mill. Dr. H. L. Moody, of Washington, one of the shrewdest forgers in the country, it is alleged, has just been captured by Chicago detectives. He had eluded the best of the Government post-ofllce and secret-service detectives for upward of a year. For eight mouths one man had done nothing else bnt follow him, and the chase had led him to all parts of the United States, Canada aud Mexico. Carroll & Barclay's mammoth Soaring mill at Adairville, lad., was struck by lightning, on the !9th, and was burned to the ground. Loss, $30,000; insurance, $13,000. The Belgrade police have made one hundred arrests of persons involved in the late riot there. Ex-Premier Carashaniue is among those arrested, witnesses averring that he iucited the Progressists to the riot. . A socth-douxd passenger train oa the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton road was wrecked at Perrysburg, O.. on the 33th, by an open switch. The engine was thrown down an embankment and two of the I coaches were broken to pieces. Several passengers were slightly braised and eat, bat no one was seriously hurt. The statement of tho Canadian Pacific railway, issued on tho firth, shows the gross earnings for four months ending April X) to be $1,008,034, and working expenses «.!tts.:«4. leaving net profits of fl.089.Mfi; compared with net profits of J497.9W for tho same period last year, showing a gain of tor this year. The Berlin police raided the booses of the leaders of the miners’ strike at Dortmund, and seized a number of letters and a considerable amount of money. Ob the 30th, Congressman Carlos French was elected a member of the National Democratic committee to represent the State of Connecticut, in play? of William jtj, Unujuiu, deconMd.

Bt the fall of a roof ill the Wyoming colliery of the Lehi£h Valley Coal Company at Wilkesharre, Pa., on the 89th, John She a look, a miner, and a Huagariau laborer named Sudowu, were instantly killed. / A slight earthquake shock occurred on the Isle of Wight on the 31st. At the sitting of the Parnell Commission. on the 31st, Mr. Reid, of the Parnellite counsel, stated that inquiry had resulted in the finding of thirty books belonging to the National League which would be produced iu court, John Green, the English pedestrian, has succeeded in beating Weston’s record of walking 5,000 miles in one hundred days, by watking one hundred miles more in the specified lime, One of the worst storms erer known, accompanied with death-dealing ' and property-destroying floods and freshets, visited Western Pennsylvania and the Virginias on the 39th and 81st, Property of all kinds ami crops of untold value were destroyed, and many hundreds of lives were lost. Several rivers overflowed their banks, and jnany cities were submerged. Heavy raius, reinforced by a cloud-burst, caused the deluge. Th« silver wedding of the Count and Countess of Paris was celebrated in England, on the 39th. with a garden party. The Prince and Princess of Wales and a large number of persons of high radk. including the full group of Orleans Princes, were present. The Navy Department has determined ! to equip each of our naval vessels with a complete diving apparatus. A submarine diver is also to be detailed as part of the complement of each vessel in commission. Two explosions occurred in the factory of John Peach, at Randolph, Mass., on the 33th, wrecking a heavy iron machine used for pricking heels, and kindling a blase, which, however, was speedily extinguished. It is thought that a dynamite ' bomb was thrown in through the factory I window. / j Dr. 8. P. Moons, late 8urgeon-Gendgal of the Confederate army, died suddeulJr on the 31st, in Richmond, Va. The striking miners at Aix-la-Chap-pelle, Germany, on the 81st, agreed to resume wort, pending a definite settlement of their grievances under a trace which is to extend two months. A cablegram was received In London, on the 31st, from General Hippoly te.lha insurgent leader of Haytl. saying that he had defeated President Legitime, captured Port-au-Prince, tho capital of that country, and proclaimed himself Provisional President The deal which has been going on for some time looking to the purchase by the Northern Pacific of the great Northwest Central railroad is practically settled. This will mean the opening up of the entire Canadian Northwest The citixens of Bayard, la., are excited over the discovery of another big artesian well. Which bids fair to rival the famous spouter at Belle Plaine. Secretary Tract is vigorously pursuinghispolicy, declared attbebeginning of his administration, of pushing to rapid completion the naval vessels now under construction or authorized to be built Miss Emma Jenks, daughter of Geo. A. Jenks. a BrookTille (Pa.) solicitor, will wed Congressman Benj. F. Shively, of Indiaua. June IT, Mrs. Grover Cleveland will be bridesmaid, and the ex-Pres-ident will be a guest Pittsburgh will give the late occupants of the White House a grand reception. Is the British House of Commons, on the 39th, Sir James Fergusson, parliamentary secretary to tne Foreign Office, denied the reports from Victoria, British Columbia, that three men-of-war iu the Pacific had boen ordered to proceed to

oounuR ®ca. The Roumanian Senate has voted 18,000,000 florins to complete the fortifications of the country. Mr. Visettellt, the well-known bookseller of London, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for publishing Zola’s novels. A telegram from Mount Auburn, la., gives brief partioulars of a White Cap outrage near there, on the night of the i»th. in which a number of persons were fatally injured. The victim was a farmer whoso barn was burned down, and who, being driven oat by the flames, defended himself with a pitchfork, wounding several White Caps. The dead body of a man, about fifty years of age, was found in one of the rooms of the Central Hotel in Cincinnati on the SlsL From letters and papers found among his effects, his name is supposed to be 4. a Elder, of Troy, N. Y. Joh.x Lawler, manager of the Ballymena branch of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, and Mr. Murray, the assistant manager, were shot dead on a road jost outside Ballymena on the Slst. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Os« of the greatest disasters known to any age and the most appalling that has ever visited this continent occurred, on the 1st, in the valley or the Conemangh river la Pennsylvania, wheu the already swollen stream was reinforced by the waters of a reservoir, one mile square and twenty feet deep, which, bursting its bounds, rushed down the river like a tidal wave mountains high, and almost oompletety obliterated the city of Johnstown and the towns of Conemangh, Wood vale, Kernville, Cambria City and others, entailing a loss of many millions of dollars, and a sacrifice bf humau lives variously estimated at from eight to fifteen thousands. From one to two thousand bodies, living and dead, were burned on a pyre of drift wood, consisting of bosses, cars, logs, etc., covering many acres and held in place by a stone bridge below Johnstown. The central part of Johnstown, Pa-, is as completely obliterated by the late flood as if it had never had a foundation. The river has made its hod upon the sites of the dwellings, and a vast area of sand, mod, gravel and furrowed ground marks the old channel It Is doubtful if it is possible ever to reclaim what was once the business portion of the citv. The river will have to be returned to its old bed in order to do this, and that is an engineering teat hardly possible. The maximum height attained by the Susquehanna river, on the 1st, was 37 j feet 10 inohes above low water mark, » j inches above the point reached by the : greatest flood on record before. Tex mines employing six thousand men will be indefinitely shut down on account j of the floods in the'Conemangh vaUey, the pumps being under water and the j pita mostly flooded. All the London papers, of the 3d. contain leaders deploring the disaster at Johnstown, Pa., and sympathising with Ameriea. Miss c»-ara Barton went to Harrisburg, Fa., on the 3d, to supervise the work of Urn Red Cross Society in relieving the distress at Johnstown. Governor H'» of Hew York issued a proclamation, on the 3d, calling the attention of the people of that State to the disaster which had befallen the Inhabitants of a large section of Pennsylvania, and invoking the efforts of citizens and organisations toward relieving the oonseciuent distress* The President did not attend church, on the 3d, bat was busy all day arranging with Governor Beaver by telegraph for the relief of toe stricken districts in Pennsylvania. Hull to O’Bantx, Ja., of Nashville, Tenn., for many years reading clerk of the Lower House of Congress, was run over while crossing the track of the suisville tc HashviUe railroad in »nanUe, on the 3L and instantly killed, is body was ground almost beyond

SCENES OF WC E. rhe Ccnemaugh Valley Disaster /dmoat Indesoribablu« Scenes cl Death, Devastation Hid Woe Appalling Enough to Ma’;e the I Strongest Heart Qiiail—" le Search (or the Dead. rhe Suiter of Victims will Re th S»«r Tho usands—Ghoali la B«nu Worm Robbins the Dead - Swift Retribution Back on the Ruined Site of thi City of Johnstown. PrrrsBfRaH, Pa., June 1—‘The first force of rescuers and press repress nta* lives who had been making every effort for two clays to gain an entrance into the valley it) which was located tbs city of Johnstown, accomplished their purpose just as the light of this morning’s sun broke over the mouutain tops surrounding the place of desolation. The news received in this city during the day confirms in almost every detail alt of the gravest (’ears, statements and conjectures that have been entertained. All reports agree that the city Is literally a ruin, the descript ion of which is simply impossible. From Johnstown to Mineral Point tower the Pennsylvania roadbed has been completely swept away. For a distance of oae-lourth of a mile the roall is uninjured, then comes another ouydete wreck to a point above Sonth Fork. Twenty-seven Pennsylvania railroad locomotives and an unknown number of both freight cars and passenger coaches are lying In the river bed under the debris of J ohnstown at the Stone bridge. ' The towns of Woodville and Conernaugh borough, above Johnstown, are sweptj an clearly off the face of the earth as if they had never had an existence. Of Woodville’s population, of fifteen hundred souls, barely half a doaen have been Recounted for. The'Hungarian colony at Cambria City are stealing and plundering every thing they cat reach. The work of exhuming the deiac at Johnstown has only began, but already more than one. hundred bodies have been carried oat of the ruins. Eleven carloads of finished coffins and thirty! - undertakers arrived during the day, aad the work of interme nt which began this afternoon will rapidly progress under the direction of a spe-.ially-orgauized force of men. Ninevsh will hereafter be knovm as the city of the dead, for at this point the Couema ugh has given up a large portion of its dead. Wheu the waters receded from tie fields and bottom Isolds over which it had flowed, the stiff, staring and naked, bruised and mangled bodies of men, women and children, from the aged tp the infant, lying in the soft mud, was a horrible sight, making heartsick those who witnessed it. hluuemacher’s plan-iug-milt was use* as a temporary morgue, and it was there that tho bloodstained, swollen and disfigured remains of whites and negroes were first placed for protection and identification. If such a thing were possible. Some of the faces were Wreathed in dimpled smiles; upon others,! death stamped looks of agony and horror that spoke the inexpressible language of the soul while struggling with death. Most of the bodies recovered at this place were Catholics, and around their pecks hung emblems of their religion. The attire and features of a majority nhowed them to be of the lowly class, yet there were many bearing evidence of culture, refinement and prosperity.,

9Hollow, Fa., JaneL,i^m.—The s of the number drownet vary with person asked for an estlimte of the [ life. One man said tha he overSuperintendent Pitcairn saying te number would not fall far short t thousand. Others pat it at three usd and down as low as <: ight huuanywhere between thelwoflgnre* oned. S. H. Thompson, trait maskid dead bodies are lyim Hong the of the river between Smug Hollow ibnstowu as thick as Hies It is the terrible sight ever witne sued. The • forgot their breakfast a the exin t, and men coaid be se * running ry direction, eating as they went. The Horror Increased. Johxstown, Pa., June 1—The magnitude o:( the horror increases with the hoars. It is believed that not loss than two thousand of the drowned found lodgment beneath the mass of debris iu the triangle of ground that the Conemaugh cut out-, of the bank between the river proper and the Pennsylvania railroad bridge. There was the greatest funeral pyre la history. The victims were not on it, but were parts of its horrible construction. iVhole houses were washed into the apex of the triangle. Hen-coops, pigstya slsbles. the refuse of the gutter, the contents of sewers, whole lumberyards, boom upon boom of logs, composed the mass, when the opsetting of a eool:-stove ignited the mass, and the work of cremation began. It was a costly sacrifice to the demon of the fibud, being a literal breast of fire. The smoke rose in a huge, funnel-shaped cloud, iind at times changed to the form of an hour-glass. At night the flames would light up this misty re unant of mortality. The effect upon the living, ignorant and intelligent. Was the same. That volume of smoke, with its dual form, produced a feeling of awe in many that wiis superior in most esses to that in the awful moment of th« storm’s wrath on Friday afternoon. Hundreds stood 'or hours regarding the smoke and wondering if it forboded another visitation direr than its predecessor. It was with s feeling of absolute loathing that kill people hereabouts thi s morning awoke to find that nothing bat si mass of ashes, calcined human bones, stoves, old iron and other approximately indestructible muter, from which only a light bine vapor I was arising. General Hastings took jsecautions to prevent the extension of the lire to another huge pile a short distance away, and this will be searched to-day for bodies of flood victims. As Badly OB a» Johnstown. Jobs stows. Pa., Jane A—Co nemaugh, Wood! ale,' Keruville, Cambric. City and other unrounding towns in the flooded district are as badly off as Johnstown, At Camemaagli the inhabitants of the lower l ying portion of the town have been literally wiped out of existence. At Woodvale the percentage of death is even greater than at Johnstown. Kernville has only a house or two as a monument to Its former respectable proportions. Cambria City is not even a ghost of its former self; while all along the line of the torrent the isolated booses of hundreds are without occupants. The relief provisions for Johnstown wnst he extended to these other places aa-rapldly as railroad transportation facilities can be furnished. The towns named all lie between .'ohnstown e South Fork dam, whoso bursting t the disaster. At Word vale the of hundreds are lving in the relatively as numerous! ? as they At Conen uugh, the of things prevails. The of the living at be: th places recovery of bodies very slow

had been attending a meeting of the wire manufacturers. He has lived in Johnstown all his life. He said: “I can not Imagine that the flood did as much damage in Johnstown as reported. The water would have to rise thirty feet higher thau it was last June before it gOtabove Walnut street. About liinMenths of the town is above Walnut e»eet, so yon see that the flood must have beeu very high to have reached that portion of the town. That railroad bridge did the whole damage. Had I been there 1 would have blown it np with dynamite had I been apprised in time of the flood that was coming.” Engineer De Lozier said he helped out four women and one man near Sang Hollow. Oue was an old lady that looked to be upward of eighty years of age. He helped rescue twelve persons last night alive off floating drift He said he got into Johnstown about tour o’clock yesterday afternoon, and all that could be seen Was the tops of the houses. He left Sang Hollow this morning about nine o’clock. He counted eighty-five people going down on drift One of the most touching incidents. he said, was the drowning of a father, mother and three children. They came down on a roof, and just opposite the town the raft struck a pile of drift and went to pieces. All five went down In the mad current. A moment later two heads were seen above the water, and their two hands clutching at the roof. That was the last seen of that family. This tv but one incident of a hundred that are related by people living along the river. Mr. De Lozier said the scenes can not be overdrawn. He saw oue woman go down on a raft with both eyes lying out on her cheeks. She was dead, having been crushed, among the timbers. Men and women with arms broken, blood streaming down over their faces, and their bodies cut, bruised and bleediug, were a frequent sight. Oue Thousand Dead and Drlng Bodies In a I’yre. Job.vstowv, Fa., June 3.—It is impossible at this hour to state the exact loss ot life, b%it is safe to place it anywhere from eight to twelve thousand. A step can not be taken without finding some one afio Impost friends. Some of them have lost whwke families. The scenes in Johnstown are beyond description. In the once peaceful river houses are strewn without a limit.' The worst of the wreck is at the Pennsylvania road bridge. It was an arched bridge, and the arches were very narrow. When the flood came and swept the buiidiugs with it, all of them clogged in those arches. For fully one mile houses and parts of houses nro lying along the stream. In this very debris is where the most of the bodies are supposed to lie. It is a conceded fact that at least one thousand bodies are here, with little or np possibility of ever being brought out. THK CLIMAX OF HORRORS. About eight o’clock this morning, by some means or other, the debris took fire, and burned as fiercely as if it were fed by oil and fanned Dy the winds of Heaven. It started at the bridge, and burned clear up the river as far as there was any fuel for the flames.

Summary J untie*. Johnstown, Pa., Juue 2.—A party ot searchers saw two uien robbing the body of a woman to-day. The thieves were caught In one of their pockets was found a woman’s ear, entire, sliced from the head with a sharp knife. In the ear lobe was a sparkling diamond ring. The captors placed ropes around the necks of the villains, and then strung them up to the nearest tree until they were dead. They then cut them down and buried them. Further investigation of the contents of the pockets of the fiends brought forth large quantities of jewelry and tha mutilated finger of a little girl, on which was a gold band ring. Tbe Farmers Take a tlaml. John stows. Pa., June 3.—At five o’clock yesterday a posse of farmers surrounded a gang of fourteen Hungarians, who were robbing the dead, and succeeded, after a lively battle with rocks and clubs, in driving three of them into the middle of the stream, where they sank beneath the waves to rise no more. Threa Hundred Bodies Recovered. Johnstown, Pat, June 2.—The recovery of bodies has taken up the time of thousands all day. The theory now is that most of those killed by the torrent are buried beneath the debris and the events of to-day’s work in the ruins in a large degree justifies this assumption. Six bodies were taken out of one pile of rubbiahjhot eight feet square, this morning. The truth is that bodies are almost as plentiful as logs, only the swirl of the waters put the bodies under and the logs and boards on top in the general stacking up of the animate and inanimate. The rigidity of arms, standing out at right angles to the bloated and bruised bodies, shows that death In ninety-nine out of one hundred cases took place amid the rains, that is, after the wreck ot houses had closed over them. Dr. D. G. Foster, who has been here all day, is of the opinion that most ot the victims were killed by coming in violent contact with objects ia the river and not by drowuing. Three hundred bodies have been recovered to-day. _ Without Boats or rood, and Craaed with Anxiety. 8a.no Hollow, Pa, June 8.—Advices from Johnstown are that practically every building in the city has either been entirely wrecked, or damaged so that it will have to be rebuilt. Whole streets were swept clear of all trace of habitation. The people who escaped to the hillsides have no boats to get around with, and are' hard pressed for food. They are camped out in the brash, and the women and children softer greatly from hardships, besides beiug half erased with anxiety OTer the fate of friends and relatives. The water is not re ceiling much, because the choked np railroad bridge acts as a dam, and will do so until the debris that clogs the arches is removed. which will be a big job. Tha Pennsylvania railroad track Is torn away bodily tor distances of a mile or more ia two or three places. The Baltimore A Ohio track suffered also, but not so severely. From Eight to Fifteen Thousand Lives Lost. ‘ — . Pittsburgh, Pa, June 2.—AdjutantGeneral Hastings, who was in the vicinity ot Johnstown last night, stated that tha total list of dead in the Couemangh disaster will not fall below eight thousand, and may reach fifteen thousand persons. General Hastings has ordered tiro thousand coffins to be sent to Johnstown. Twenty-six undertakers are to go there at once from this city. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company are sending a carload of skiffs to Ntnevah, hoping to get Into Johnstown by this means. It was reliably stated last night that not a living soul had entered or departed from Johnstown since the hour of the disaster, all refxjrt* to the contrary notwithstanding. y.nt, boar adds new horrors to the store. Borne of the reports reaching the city to-night are appalling.' Ia Complete Foeseesloa of the Flames. Johnstown, Pa^ Jane 2.—The massive accumulation of debris extending from eight hundred to one thousand feet along the south shore of the Conemaugh and immediately above the bridge is now in complete possession of the flames, and will be nntil further relief from the Pittsburgh fire department is received, so that another pang is added to these who had hoped to rescue the remains of their friends and relatives fro» UtedefcriV c ■ I'''.-' -["'' i.r'. -:

EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. His Magnificent Address on the Principles and Alms of True Democracy, The dinner recently given by the Young Men’ll Democratic Club of'New York to Grover Cleveland,ex-President of the United States, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, was attended by about four hundred guests, comprising a good representation of all factions of the Democracy. At the head table with John H. V. Arnold, president of the dub, sat ex-President Cleveland, Governor Hill, Mayor Grant, Comptroller Lowei Jefferson M. Levy, exMay or Grace, William Bourke Cochran, Ashbel P. Fitch, W. CL P. Breckinridge, W. D. Garrison and other invited guests. When the presiding officer introduced Mr. Cleveland there was a furor of applause, and when Mr. Cleveland himself arose the enthusiasm of the assembled Democracy reached a point that at one time threatened to overstep all bounds. Men stood on the tops of the tables. Cheers became yells of delight^ and as one round of applause seemed about to subside some one else would propose three more cheers for Grover Cleveland, and ere these had ceased to echo another call would be made, until the tumult ceased , for lack of force. Mr. Cleveland stood calmly awaiting the pleasure of his friends. His imperturbility was remarked by all who watched his face. He began his speech in a clear ringing tone, and kept it up till he finished. He said: “Many Incidents of my .short residence in this good oity have served to fill mjr eupof gratitude and to arouse myrappreolatlon ot the kindness and conatderatlon cf those with * Whom I have made my home. The hosp taiity (or which the citiieos ot New York have long been dlstlngu shed hae outdone itself in my welcome. Tbe members ot my profession hsve, upon my return to Its activities, rece.ved me with fraternal greet ngs, snd personal friends hsve not permitted me to feel like s stranger la a strange oity. And yet I ean truly aay that none of these things will he more vividly pr gratefully remembered than the opportunity afforded me by this occasion to greet the political friends I see about me, while l believe I that no one la more susceptible than 1 to every personal kindness, and while I am sure that no one values more his personal friehdships, It certainly should cause no surprise when I say that these lhings*are not more cherished thau my attachment and loyalty to true Democratic faith and my obligations to the cardinal pr.t doles of its party organisation. I have been honored by my party far beyond my deserts. Indeed, no man can deserve its highest honors. After six years of pnblie service I return to you, my party friends. Six years have I stood as your representative la the State and Nation, and now I take my place again in the ranks more convinced than ever that tbe cause of true Democracy is the cause of the people, their safeguard and their hope. “I come to you with no excuses nor apologies and with no confession of disloyally. It is no: given to man to meet all the various and conflicting views ot party duty aad pol cv which prevail iu an organisation where ind vulual opinion is so freely tolerated as in the Democratic party. Because these views are .various and conflicting some ot them must be wrong. Aad yet when they are honestly held aad advocated they should provoke no til»ernet\nor I condemnation, but dhon they are dishonestly I proclaimed as a mere cover and pretext for ! personal resentment aad disappointment they should be met by the exposure and contempt which they deserve. It w.th sincere design I y.d intent one charged with party representaI lion has kept the party faith, that must answer | bis party obligation. No man can lay do«D the trust which he has held in behalf of a generous and conttding people and feel that at all times he has met in the best possible way the requ remeots of his trust, but he la not derelict in duty if he has conscientiously devoted his efforts aad his judgment to the people's aervlee.

section loyalty to Democratic principle* and devotion to the interests of the people, tor it/ my view they belong together and should mean the seme thing. But in this day of partisan fceltng and attachment it is well for us to pause and recall th* truth, that the only justification forth* existence of any party is the claim that In principle and performance its object and purposes are the promotion of the public good and the advancement of the welfare and prosperity of our entire country. There never was a party platform or declaration of principles which did not profess these things and make them the foundations of party creed: and nny body of men who should openly proclaim that they were associated together for the express purpose of gaining supremacy In the Government with the sentiment of distributing office* and the spoils of victory among the associates would be treated with ridicule and scorn. Thus ape we brought face to face with the proposition tbnt parties should, no more than ind viduals, be untruthful and dishonest Of course in the supremacy of party there are advantages to its members, and this is not amiss. But when high party aims and professions are lost »'gpt of or abandoned, and th* benefit of officeholding and personal pelt are all that remain to inspire party activity, not only' is th* confidence of those relied oa for patriotic support forfeited, tut the element of cohesion and of effective and lasting political strength arc gone. The honest differences of opinion that must always exist upon quest ons of principle and public policy should furnish abundant occasion ror the existence of parties and point out their field of useful nets The study and discussion of these questions can not tall to result in more valuable citizenship and more intelligent and better equipped partisans, “When we seek for the cause of th* per* petnity of the Democratic party and its survival through every crisis end emergency, and. in the face of all opposition, we find it in the fact that the corner stone Is laid In devotion to the rights of its people and sympathy with all things which tend to the advancement of their welfare and happiness. Though heresy may sometimes have erept Into its organization, and though party conduct may at times have been lnflaeneod by th* shiftiness which la the habttnal device of it* opponents, there has always remained deeply Imbedded in its nature and character that spirit of true Americanism and that lov* of popular rights which hat made tt indestructible in disaster and defeat, and has constituted it a boon to its country la Its time of triumph and supremacy. The great founder of th# party, an ho consecrated himself by a solemn oath to the faithful performance of the dut es of th* Presidential office, nod pledged himself to the preservation, protection and defense of the constitution. after presenting to hi assembled fellowcountrymen the causes at congratulation found in the condition of oar country and the character of our people. Impressively added: ■With all these blessings what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people! Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave tfcem otherwiseJWre* to regulate their own pursuits of Industry and Improvement, and shall pot eke from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This Is the sum of good government, and this Is necessary to eleo# the circle of our felicities.’ _ \ “In the lexicon of true Democracy these words are not obsolete, but they stIU famish the inspirit on of our efforts end an interpretation of our political faith. Happily the party creed which we profess is not within sueb narrow Unas as that obodience does not permit us to move abreast with the advanced thought of the country and to meet and test every question and apply a principle to every situation. True Democracy, stanch in Its adhesion to fundamental doctrine, la at the same time. In a proper sense, progressive. It recognizes our growth and expansion and th* birth of new thought and sentiment. It will judge them aU by safe standards and la all phase* of National development it will be prepared to answer, st they rise, every need of the people and every popular want True Democracy honestly advocates National brotherhood, to the end that all our fellow -countrymen may aid ta the achievemoat of the great dsstlay which awaits us as a Nation, and tt condoms* that pretext of liberality and harmony which, when partisan advantage Is to b* gained, gives wap for Inflammatory appeals to sectional hate sad passion. It las Ml upon that equality before the law which concedes the care and protection of the Government toeimple manhood and citizenship. It does not favor the multiplication of office* and salaries merely to make partisans, nor use the promise sad bestowal ol pl»c« for tut purp** 9i tVSUwr ** pm* • V.. V -. ■ . - V

bribing tbs people. It seeks to lighten the barden ol llte in evelry home end to tnke from the oitlssn tor the cost ot goTernment the lowest , possible tribute. “We know that we here espoused the cause ot right and justice. We know that we hare not permitted duty to country to welt upon oar expediency. We know that we hare not trafficked our principles tor success. We know that we have not deceired the people with false promises and pretenses, and we know that we here not corrupted nor betrayed the poor with the money ot the rich. Who shall say that these things promise no reward and that triumph shall not follow the enlightened judgment aud the sober second thought ot eur countrymen f There are to-day no weak, weary and dependent members ot the true Democracy, mnd there should be \ none. Thoughtful attention to polltloal topics is thoroughly aroused. Brents are day by day leading men to renew the reasons for their party affiliations, and the lupportere of the prinolples wffiprotrss are sonttently recruited by Intelligent, young and sturdy ndhsrents. Let as deserve their confidence, end, shunning all Ignoble praottoes. let us remain standfast to Democratic faith and to the enuse of our oountrj. If we are truo and loyal to these the day ot our triumph will aureiy nod qutekly come and our rlctory ahull be fairly and nobly won through the Invincible spirit of true Democracy^ __ WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. -To shoot John Jarrett with a Consulship and miss Br’er Dudley was a feat of markmanstalp. indeed.—Philadelphia Record (Ind.). -We wish we could regard the thing as improbable, but in view of the very low plane upon which Mr. Harrison's thinking with respect to appointments is done, there is not the least improbability in the report that Miller is tp be a Supreme Court Justice.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. -Bishops and other clergy have to be mighty careful nowadays about making any reference in their sermons to political frauds and crimes. Any Republican who happens to be in the Congregation is sure to take such references as a personal attack upon himself. —St Louis Republic. i -The venerablo Simon Cameron, who is a man of some experience in politics, li^Ht down as a wise political axiom umt it is better to travel one hundred miles to see a man than to write him a letter. If Mr. Dudley bad traveled West with that “blocks of five” scheme, instead of writing it, perhaps be might have dined at the White House since the election. —Providence Journal.

-it a man can ouy a snip «r n steamship cheaper than he can build one, what reason, founded In common sense, can be given for denying him the privilege? If he can raise our flag over one he builds, why may he not ^ float it over one he buys? It is easier to ask questions than to answer them, but these Seem to be proper questions to ask and easy ones to answer- Will our protectionist friends reveal?— Grand Rapids Democrat, —If the Chief Magistrate of this great country is not to be utterly worn out by the innumerable petty annoyances connected with the clairn^or the supposed claims of the scramblers for office, some way must be devised to relieve him of the heavy burden he is now compelled to bear. This relief may, in good measure, be secured by a more extended civil-serv-ice system. Make tenure of office to depend on character and fitness, and no small part of the load will be lifted from the President’s shoulders. —Morning Star (Baptist). -Mr. Robert T. Lincoln. Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to England, has presented hts official letters to her ancient, fat and gracious Majesty, Quean Victoria; and, this matter of form being disposed of, he may settle himself down to the comfortable business of eating dinners with the English lion-hunters for the next four years. That will be his chief and almost his only duty, and with the help of a few short speeches, in which great care must be taken to say noth- ^ ing, he will doubtless survive it.—Chicago Globe. , The Farmers and Protection; No* is • first-rate V.me to buy land. It h«* boon many yean since land In this section baa , boon held at 'prices so to* as at present. There is no need of going West when you can buy improved Eastern larms for twenty-tire dollars an acre, aad good buildings on the land at that.— Granville Journal. Improved farpas with good buildings for twenty-five dollars an acre! Yet the farmers have bad the benefits of the boasted “home market” and “protection,” and all that for these many years. Mr. Tiller of the Soil, ^ you are Peter, and you are being impoverished to make “protected” Paul rich. And he makes a fool of you with it all He tells you that you, too, are protected, and for proof points to the tariffs on^wool and potatoes and grain, etc. But what have they profited you? You are running behind all the same, growing poorer, that’s certain; you know it, and the fast-accumulating mortgages in the county clerk’s office prove it. For every cent that “protection” puts into your pocket it takes out a dollar. That’s why you are becomings pauper and Paul Is becoming a millionaire. “Protection” is a fine thing for the Pauls, but how has it been with the Peters during this twenty-six years’ experience? The twenty-nine thousand tour hundred and eightyeight pages of mortgages written within that time in the books at the clerk’s office of this county speak eloquently is, answer.—Catakill (N. Y.) Recorder. ' Bankrupted by Protection. The Alma Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia, which has just made an assignment, appears to have fallen avictimtoour tariff laws. Its business was the manufacture of worsted and woolen goods. The managers of this company were stanch Republicans, and last fall expressed themselves very confident that if Harrison was elected the manufacturing interests of the country would be safe. The recent failure shows that these views were dictated rather by party prejudice than by business sagacity. In business circles in Philadelphia the failure has attracted a good deal of attention, not oa account of its magnitude. but because it is regarded as significant of a trouble which is widely prevalent. The opinion is freely expressed that the high tariff on wool is responsible for the failure. Other similar failures have other establishments reductions in the extent of I ««*».-kwtariU. C°«rl« ftwrMb fi _-_L_