Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 May 1895 — Page 2

tilufft* (Eonnttj frnumrat M. XoG. f IT00P8, Editor aid Proprietor. PBTBRsilJBQ. ... INDIANA. Apmitui. John J. Almt, United States navy, retired, died at his residence in Washington, on the i6th, after a long illness. Owing to the ruin of the crape crop by frost, sixteen grape basket factories in Chautauqua county. N. Y., hare closed down, throwing 1,200 men out of work. Matos Stbono of New York city has approved the bill providing for another bridge between New York and Brooklyn, and it will undoubtedly become a law. The treasury gold reserve was increased over 2800.000, on the 10th. by payments made by the Morgan-Bel-mont syndicate, the reserve standing at 207,043,114 »t the close of business. Th* United States cruiser Marblehead will go through the Baltic-North Sea canal, on the occasion of the opening of that waterway, with, the war ships comprising the emperor’s escort. The Pimgree farm idea, or Detroit plan, has been put into practical operation in Brooklyn, though in a rather smaller way than was at first hoped for., owing to the lateness of the start. ^_ The failures in the United States for the week ended on the 17th, as reported by R. G. Dun A Co., were 211, against 2*19 for the same week last year. For Canada the failures were 37, against 24 last year. Reports from the Michigan fruit belt, on the 15th, indicated that the low-hanging clouds had saved the peaches and other fruit from the effects of the recent cold weather, slight damage having been done.

Arrangements have been perfected between the treasury and agricultural departments for the proper inspection of cattle coming from Mexico to the United States at the principal ports of entry along the Mexican border. On the 14th the New York state assembly defeated a motion to insert the referendum in the Halpin greater New York bill by a vote of ayes, 43; nays, 69. The bill was then passed without amendment by a vote of ayes. 80; nays, tl. ~ The twenty-ninth annual encampment of the New York Grand Army of the Republic met in Saratoga on the 14th. Hon. Charles H. Sturgis, president of the village of Saratoga, delivered a lengthy address of welcome to the visitors.__ Lieut. -Gen. Schofield started from Washington on his tour of inspection, on the 16th, going first to Memphis, Tenn., where the interstate drill and encampment was being held. He was attended by Lieutenant-Colonels Schofield and Sanger. Mbs. Mary Brown, a monogamian pensioner, died, on the 16th, at her home 5 miles from Knoxville, Tenn. She was the widow of Joe Brown, a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was born in 1804. Her husband died fifty-one years ago. On the 16th the Japanese legation In Washington received a brief telegram which stated that the complications wi th the European powers had been so adjusted as to leave no reason to doubt that a further conflict in the east will be avoided. The powers have submitted to the * porte a scheme of reforms in Armenia which includes the appointment of Christians as public officials, and gives the powers the right to veto the appointment of governors if they shall not seerfi satisfactory. Mrs. Adkle Ford, wife of Patrick Ford, of the Irish World, died, on the 14th, in Brooklyn, after a lingering illness. For the past thirty years Mrs. Ford had been untiring in her efforts to ameliorate the sufferings of her kinswomen in Ireland. \ Countess Marie of Lein ingen, Baden, was, on the 13th, arrested in Vienna upon charges of having obtained large sums of money by fraudulent practices, and also with having acted as an intermediary in leading a young English girl astray. At the convention of the coal miners of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) district, on the 17th, it was resolved almost unanimously to immediately call out every miner working in the district, irrespective of the wages they were receiving. There are nearly 20,000 miners in the district.

The funeral of ex-Gov. Ira J. Chase, of Indiana, was held from the Central Christian church in Indianapolis, on the 16th. The body lay in state at the capitol most of the morning. The Northern Indiana Ministerial association, in session at Frankfort, attended in a body, as did the G. A. R. post of which he had been a member. On the 18th the London People pub* lished a statement by the Tichborne claimant which is a virtual confession of his fraudulent attempt to obtain possession of the .Tichborne estates and title. He admits that he is Arthur •Orton, the son of a butcher of Wapping. The statement is accompanied by a sworn affidavit by the claimant attesting the truth of his confession. Bt the terras of the will of the late John Herron, whiph was probated at Indianapolis, Ind., on the 17th, $200,000 goes to the Indianapolis Art association, while the free kindergarten, orphans’ home and other benevolent institutions of that city receive smaller sums. Miss Annie Turrell, the niece who was severely burned in attempting to save Mr. Herron from the flames in California which caused his death, receives $10,000.

CURRENT TOPICS THE SHEWS IV BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A boiler in the Carnegie steel works at the Homestead (Pa.) 33-inch mill exploded, on tjhe 14th, wrecking a portion of the building and fatally scalding Theodore McHenry, a visitor. James Anderson, a machinist, was struck on the head with a flying brick and badly cut. Be is also terribly scalded, and his recovery it> doubtful. Fuentes, the New York newspaper correspondent who was arrested in Santiago de Cuba, and Richelieu, the American sailor, who was imprisoned fora time on suspicion of being implicated in the insurrection, sailed from Santiago de Cuba on the Niaja, on the 14th, for New York. Mexdal Bowabi>, the American recently arrested in London as a counterfeiter, wjss again arraigned in the Bow S treet police court, on the 14th, when an official of the bank of France testified to the uses to which enlarged envelopes are put in forging bank notes. Ox the 14jtli the president appointed John F. Connolly, of Pennsylvania, consul at Osaka and Hioga, Japan. The Hungarian house of magnates, on the 14th, for the third time, rejected, by s| vote of )19»to 115, the section of the ecclesiastical bill granting equal right to persons who do not profess religion. The trial of “Messiah” Schweinfurth at Rockford. III., was, on the 13th, postponed until the next term of court. Shortly after midnight, on the 14th, an explosion occurred in the new $24,000 school building at aSleepy Eye, Minn., and in an instant the structure was in flames from foundation to tower. In the basement was the village electric plant. The total loss is $32,500; insurance, $23,500. The cause of the explosion is a mystery. Ex-Secretary Hugh McCulloch was reported, on the 14th, as very ill at his country home, Holly Hill Farm, Priuce George’s county, Md. He is suffering front debility, due to old age, and from kidney trouble. Mr. McCulloch is nearly 90 years of age. Gov. Evans of South Carolina has issued a lengthy address to the citizens of the state in which he deals very harshly with the recent decisions fn the dispensary and registration cases. He (refers to the political history of the state and argues that the state can conduct its business without national interference.

Charles Simmons, aged 45, was decapitated in the Gagnon mine at Butte, Mont., on the 14th. The engineer mistook a signal and hoisted before Simmons was in the skip. His head caught between the skip and the shaft timber and was torn almost completely from the body. The president is said to be determined to punish Admiral Meade for his alleged attack on the administration, but hekitates to order his trial by court-martial because of the difficulties that might be found in proving that Admiral Meade made use of the remarks attributed to him. The treasury deficit passed the $50,000,000 mark on the 14th, the exact amount of the excess of expenditures over the receipt since July 1, 1894, being $50,404,887. This is the second year since 1865 that the expenditures of the government have exceeded its revenues. Emperor William, on the 14th, accepted the resignation of Freiherr von Der Goltz, the admiral commander-in-chief of the German navy. Admiral von Knors succeeds Admiral von Der Goltz as commander-in-chief. A cabinet rumor is floating about Washington to the effect that Secretary Lamont is to resign and ex-Con-gressman Outhwaite is to be put at the head of the war department. Charles Bayard, a wealthy cattleman of Arizona, was in Los Angeles; Cal., on the 15th, and said he looked for a big uprising of the Apache Indians in the territory. He thinks the Kid has rallied all the Apaches, and the absence of the troops gives them a chance to do great damage before they can be reached.

1 hr Spanish government, having no more soldiers to press into service, is taking convicts from the prisons and enrolling them for active military service. This is being done not only in Spain, but also in Cuba. A soldier who enlisted with patriotic motives may have to fight side by side with an assassin, burglar or coulmon thief. Tub La Fama cotton mills, situated near Monteriey, Mexico, were destroyed by fire recently. They were a the largest in northern Mexico, and the loss is placed at $125,000. A company of Monterey capitalists owned the mills. Thk railways of Mexico have-not been troubled during the last cujpado with many robberies, but a provision in the new constitutional amendment authorizes the shooting on the spot of train robbers, if murder has been committed. | The senatie of the Breslau university declined, on the 15th, to accede to the request of the German government that disciplinary measures be taken against the students of that institution who signed the protest against the anti-revolution bill. Honolulu advices by the steamer Australia, which arrived at San Francisco on the 15th, state that the Hawaiian foreign office had made reply to the note of Secretary Gresham on the recall of Mr. Thurston, whose oourse it upiholds. Four mills of the Schaghticoke (N. Y.) Powder Co. blew up on the 15th. The shock was terrific. Chauncey Loanes, unmarried, was killed, and Charles Clum, who had a wife and three children, was fatally injured. Sir Charles H. Tupper, Canadian minister of justice, having been peremptorily ordered by his physicians to take a rest, went to Lakewood, N. J., on the 15th, for a couple of weeks. The kerosene factory of the Rothschilds at Baku, Russia, was destroyed by fire, on the 15th, together with a number of oil reservoirs and other property. The loss tv as very heavy.

The Madrid government has decided to send no more troops at present to Cuba. ' The National Woman Suffrage convention at Salt Lake City, Utah, came to a sudden end. on the 15th, by Miss Anthony’s being called to return home. Admiral Morin, Italian minister of marine, in a speech at Spezzfa, on the 15th, said the total retrenchments in the Italian navy department for the current year would be 5,000,000 lire, and boasted that it would be the most cheaply administered marine establishment in Europe. Col. JtrDWK D. Bingham, assistant quartermaster general, was placed on the retired list of the army, on the 10th, having reached the age of 04 years. Thb British steamer Billiton, from Langkat, was reported burned outside of Penang. Malica strait, on the 16th. All on hoard were supposed to be lost. The powder factory at Dollar Bay, Mich., exploded on the 16th. Fred Shepard, the only man in the mixing house, was killed by the explosion. The works were badly damaged. They had just been rebuilt, having been blown up with loss of life at the noon hour two months before. Jons St Laughlix, operating- the extensive American iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 16th voluntarily advanced the wages of all their skilled workmen 10 per cent. The wages of laborers, remain at SI. 20 per day. About 4,000 men participate in the advance. Owing to an epidemic of rabies which prevailed in that state the house 6f representatives of Florida passed a bill, on the 16th, putting the control of’animals affected with hydrophobia in the hands of the state health officer. The one hundred and seventh general assembly of the Northern Presbyterian church opened its sessions in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 16th, in the historic Thiid Presbyterian church, with the customary ceremonies. Dr. Robert Russell Booth, of New York, was chosen moderator. Prince Francis Josepii of Battenberg and party arrived at Chicago, on the 16th, from San Francisco and spent a day or two in looking over that citjr before proceeding eastward.

On the 17th the Swedish chambers jointly voted 1,00G,OOP kroner to the government to supply its immediate wants in the event of possible war, or to send Swedish troops to Norway in case of a revolution there. George J. Goals, a very prominent attorney of Denver, Col., was taken with convulsions in his office, on the morning of the 17th, and died at noon. The appointment of Count Golchowski to succeed Count Kalnoky as imperial prime minister of Austria, was gazetted in Vienna on the 18th. It was stated at the interior depart* ment, on the 17th, that the Siletz Indian reservation in Oregon will be opened July 25 next. The Spanish steamer Gravina, with her cargo, was, on the 17th, lost off Capones in a typhoon. Only twqpol her crew were saved. A dispatch from Madrid, on the 17th, said the Spanish government was making arrangements to send 1,500 cavalry to Cuba. Frederick Cleveland, a distant relative of the president, died at Phelps, N. Y., on the 17th, pf Bright’s disease, aged 7S. Edward Payson Pitcher, principal of a New York city grammar school, died suddenly in Newburg, N. Y., on the 16th, eight hours after his marriage. Organic heart trouble was the cause. LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Ambrose Hamlin, a mail' carrier m the Indianapolis (Ind.) office, was arrested, on the 19th, by Post Office Inspector Fletcher for pilfering' from the mail. At roll call he was seen to take a package from anQther carrier’s desk and put it in his pocket. He confessed to robbing the mails for six months past, and was committed in default of gl.QOO bond. The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 18th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, $6,517,800; -loans, increase, $6,874,600; specie, decrease, $643,900; legal tenders, increase, $11,148,100; deposits, increase, $15,945,600; circulation, increase, $29,000. The most violent seismic disturb* ances felt in Florence, Italy, since 1445, occurred on the night of the 18th. People rushed panic-stricken into the streets, many being injured and _ some killed in the panic and by falling* roofs and walls. The shocks were felt in many other Italian cities. Cuthbert Powell Wallace, pay director of the United States navy, retired, died at the Hotel Marlborough in New York city, *on the 19th. He was born in the District of Columbia and was appointed in 1861. He was attached to the sloop Preble in 1861-62. The London Times published, on the 20th, a dispatch from Tien Tsin stating that Li Chang Fang, Li Hung Chang’s son, had been appointed commissioner to perform the odious duty of handing over the island of Formosa to the Japanese. The United States cruiser New York left the Brooklyn navy yard, on the 18th, under orders to sail for Kiel to be present at the opening of the Baltic canal. On the 19th the Columbia followed the New York, f The Paris La Lanterne in an article on the Japanese situation, expresses the hope that France will decline to support Russia if that power insists upon having an open port free from ice in Chinese territory. On the 18th the Florida senate passed a bill to prevent the operation of lottery companies in that state. The bill had already passed the house. The measure is very stringent in its provisions. The United States circuit court of appeals at Boston, on the 18th, handed down a decision in the Bell-Telephone-Berliner case, declaring the Berliner patent valid. The steamer Santo Domingo arrived at Gibrara, Cuba, on the 18th, from Spain, with a battalion of infantry.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. At Indianapolis, between 1 and > o'clock the other morning, an. unknown man deliberately mounted the Big Four bridge over Pleasant run and jumped off, sustaining a compound fracture of the skulL He was removed, to the city hospital and identified as James N. Wheat fill, who has been a member of the police and fire depart* ments of Terre Haute for the past twenty-five years. Several years agohe was seriously injured at a fire, and last November he was transferred to the Central Indiana hospital, where he was discharged as cured. SHis recovery is doubtful. Michael Rkybrodt found a twobushel sack in some shrubbery near South Bend. It contained a dead child.. At ML Vernon, Naylor Bentley, a prominent farmer, was kicked to death by a vicious mule. Mast Shekley, a young farmer of Peru, was probahfy fatally injured the other day by the Accidental discharge of a shotgun. Frank Coakley, aged 32. a fanner, was murdered for his money near Indianapolis Seymour reports squirrels plentiful about there. George Washington Bradshaw is the name of an eccentric colored matt of Frankfort, who claims to be a second Christ, and will endeavor to establish a new church in that city. He says he is a seventh son of a seventh son, born on Christmas day, and has the power to either punish or reward mankind. In a bright red flannel vest, which he wears at all times, the Negro believes lurks the mysterious charm which gives him his influence over all children of the earth. Jim Bagley and Oscar Mc’Duff were lodged in the county jail at Winchester by Union City authorities for robbery. They are alleged to have broken into the Branham hotel in Union City. Black insect is raising trouble with Rockville crops. Anderson's unions are fighting nonunion bricklayers. An unknown man struck by a Lake Shore passenger train.betweed South Bend and Mishawaka, is thought to be George Dish, brother of John Dish, a well-known farmer near South Bend. The death of Ira J. Chase leaves Albert G. Porter the only living ex-gov-ernor of the state. Two ex -governors have died within the year—Gray and Chase. Of defeated candidat es for governor there are three survivors. Gen. Harrison was defeated for governor by James Williams in 1876L Franklin Landers, who was thrown down by Gov. Porter in 1880, still resides ni Indianapolis, hale specimen of vigorous old age, and Courtland C. Matson, who was defeated by, Gov. Hovey in 1888, still survives, with a good long expectancy ahead of him.

at jueuzervme wnue at a country dance Misses Elizabeth Worland and Mollie Wilson collided during a quadrille. Both were knocked senseless and carried from the room. Medical aid was summoned and Miss Wilson was restored to consciousness, but not so with Miss Worland. All efforts to restore her have proven futile and her physician has given up all hopes for her recovery. Sile Miller went to shoot a do|r at Warsaw. A policeman had the same idea, but missed the canine and shot Sile in the leg. Will Gayer, Elkhart, bought a guinea pig and put it in his barn to kill rats. The next morning he found the rats had devoured the supposed rodent exterminator. Miss Asrx a Soske, daughter of Archibald Soske, of Elwood, was compelled to have her left leg amputated above the knee to save her life. She has been suffering from a white swelling for years. ; Jesse Davis, the farmer who shot his divorced wife a few days ago, near Montezuma, and then shot himself, is in jail and may not recover. The wife’s injuries are also thought to be fatal. Louis Schmidt, of Laporte, has just found his brother, Charles Schmidt, whom he had mourned as dead for forty-two years. The brothers came from Germany and separated at Buffalo, N. Y. Repeated efforts on the part of Louis to locate his brother failed until recently, when his whereabouts were ascertained through Buffalo officials. The result will be a joyous reunion in a day or two. James-Wade, a wealthy Frankfort farmer, is dead. A quarter-mile cinder path will be built by Elkhart bicyclists. Crocier, son of W. A. Landon, was found in the mill pond, drowned, at Lancaster.

Just 236 bicycle licenses have been issued at Elkhart. The Indianapolis post office force handled 4,036,180 pieces of mail in April. Aether Elliott’s 3-months-old child died at Anderson from a Spider bite received three weeks before. Anderson is figuring upon securing a national orphans’ home through the Junior Order of American Mechanics. Near Shelbyville Mrs. Lizzie Enslev, of Indianapolis, is said to have beaten Farmer John Teltoe badly with a club and whip because it was alleged he made remarks about her daughter. Green field citizens will bore for oil. They have incorporated under the name of the Hancock Oil Co. At Indianapolis George Davidson, aged 70, who had been committed to jail in surety of peace proceedings, was found dead in his cell He had threatened self-destruction, but an examination disclosed death from natural causes. Near Richmond a homestead belonging to a family named Weber, burned, and in the ruins in a little safe was found $30,000 in gold. Masked men at Gilead, near Peru, held up Frank Moore at his residence, securing over $200 in cash, besides jewelry and other valuables. Entrance to the house was effected by means of a bogus telegram.

THE GOLD STANDARD. A Sound-Money Letter from John H. Inman, Aaawertaf QmHm trout the 8o«th—Why Um DepNMiM UltMlw Loac Aftcrtia 1«>mI •> th* Shtraua itUmUw-' CoofldMce Agate Graviag. New York, May 20.—The sound money subcommittee of the New York chamber of commerce has received the following communication from John IL Inman: ' “During the past year we have had many inquiries from the south asking why the general depression lasted so long after the repeal of the Sherman law, when it was promised that we would have better times after its repeal. The answer Is that there was constant fear, even after the repeal, in leading financial centers that owing to the uncertainty of congress, this country would go on to a silver basis, and those who took this view were pretty nearly right, as all who are familiar with finance know that we were on the verge of this very thing only three months ago; that is to say early in last February, when the situation was gloomiest with cotton and other products at their lowest, we were on the verge of a silver basis. “With the immense crops maturing all over the south last fall, we would have had recovery then, but for the dread in the money centers of the east that we would go on a silver currency. What we were afraid of was,that,when Mr. Cleveland sold the two lots of 850,000,000 bonds, he would say that he had done his duty and would leave the balance to congress. But when he got into the month of February and he sold the 862,000,000 to the syndicate and assured the gentlemen who went to Washingt^k that he would sell as many more bonds as was necessary to.keep the country on a sound basis, we were assured that the finances of the nation were settled for at least twq years, or at least during his administration; and believing that we could elect a hard-money candidate in 1896 felt that the country was permanently on a sound money basis. “Take cotton as an example; a party of men who were quick to see future results, looked over the situation at once, and feeling that the money question was settled for a long time, made up their mind to go heavily into cotton at 5K to cents in the New Yorl^.market. But for that sixty-two-million-bond transaction, however, the same set of men would not have touched cotton or any other commodity, but simply kept their heads under cover; in this I am

BpeaKing irom personal knowledge and may say that in my opinion unless the bond sale had occurred, or some such action taken by the government there would exist to-day throughout the country a worse condition of affairs than we have had at any time and that cotton, instead of selling as it now is, at about 7 cents in the New York mar* ket, with prospects of a considerably higher price before January, would still be selling in the neighborhood of 5 cents. “It is asked who are the chief advocates of free - coinage. Ask the mine owners in the west who wish to profit by the increased price of their product. It is a fight between politicians in the south and west and the solid business men of those sections and the east. In the south we find a large proportion of the conservative men in favor of sound currency, and my information »is that there are a great number of intelligent farmers who take the same stand and many others who have not made up their minds on this question and will not do so until they have sufficient information to analyze it fully; and when they do, I am of the conviction that they will vote on the side of sound money, it being clearly to their interest to do so. “As to the final outcome, I think there is no question about it. Sound finance will whip in the fight. The politician who expects either to retain or ride into office on silver will nationally be snowed under, and the sound-thinking American people will win. “Let us see who would be the gainers by the free coinage of silver. There would be practically none, except the silver miners in half a dozen Rocky mountain states and the silver producers of Mexico. These few Rocky mountain states mined in 1893 and 1893 a yearly average of silver bullion worth $40,000,000 in the markets of the world. If they could get free coinags of silver they would receive each year about 80,000,000 silver dollars for this, same prod; uct; therefore, the miners of these few states would be benefit ted something like $40,000,000 per annum. Mex

ico in the same two years mined S-*4,-000,000 each year, two-thirds of which was sent into the United Stages and for which two-thirds they get SI6,000,000 annually. Whereas, under free coinage they would get =82,000,000 silver dollars per annum for this same product, so that the two sections would receive annually $56,000,000 more for their silver than they do at present. 1 do not believe the south and centralwest will, when informed, wish to contribute by a free silver law $36,000,000 to these miners, and we shall find in the end that they will not do it. “To the inquiries, should anything be done, I will say, first: The increased production of gold all over the globe is growing so rapidly from year to year that within a short time there will be more than ample gold to do the business of the world- Secondly, we should have state banks. Congress, in my opinion, ought to pass a law removing the tax on circulation and permitting every state to have its own banking laws, allowing state banks to issue circulation, thus affording elastic currency. “In the outlook for the future, I see nothing ahead but prosperity for the next five or six years, “

THE EARTH SHIVERED. Thm Mott Sever* Seismic Dittortxutccs Ml la Italy for Very Many Taart-Tkit* Thousand Hootet Dtatftd la Florence, with Maay Kitted aad Injured—The Deitroetloa WldMptvtd. Maay Ct&lcs Snt^ ferine. Florkxce. May 19.—The population, of this city was thrown into a state of panic last night by a series of earthquakes that did much damage hero and in other places. People who were in their booses when the first shock camo ran terrorstricken into the street, and their wild cries 'were heard everywhere. The shocks were so violent ° that houses swayed like ships in a seaway, and in a number of cases roofs fell in, injuring many persons who had not sought safety insight. The wildest scenes were at the theaters. where performances were going* on as usual. The first shock caused those in the audiences to look wonderingly at each other. Then the earth swayed again and amid shouts of “earthquakes,” the crowds made wild rushes for the exits. Mad with terror, no respect was shown for the women, weak or aged, and in the crush many were badly hurt. Upon reaching the streets the crowds from the theaters met those who had fled from their dwellings, and the excitement that ensued made confusion worse codfounded. At Grassina, a suburb of Florence, the shocks were very violent. The extent of the earth movement may ba gained from the fact that a loaded omnibus was overturned. Twelve residents of Grassina were hurt. A number of persons refuse d to re enter their houses during the night. They remained on the streets until after daylight this mornira Many of them took shelter in vehicles. After the first severe shocks they were felt at Lucca, Pouted ora and generally throughout Tuscany. The center of the movement was at Florence, where; for many years, nothing similar has* occurred. Around Florence a number of houses were destroyed, and four persons were killed; The Prince of Naples, the crown prince, started for Grassina at 4 o'clock this morning. Later.—As further reports of the earthquake come to hand the extent of the disaster widens At Lappigna, a village near Grassina, no less than , forty houses were thrown from their foundations and completely wrecked. A sad feature of the disaster at this place was the finding of the body of a young mother, with her infant clasped to her heart She had evidently attempted to flee, but, together with hey child, was crushed^ to death beneath the falling walls of her home; Great damage was done in Florence. Today an investigation was made by the municipal authorities, who estimated that 3,000 houses were damaged. The Cathedral (La Cattedrale di Santa Marie del Fioree), an imposing example of Italian Gothic archi- ! tecture, and probably the most remakable building of its kind in Europe, was somewhat damaged.

DISASTROUS DEFEAT Marks the End of the Pittsburgh District Miners’ Strike. Philadelphia, May 2Q.—A special from Pittsburgh says: The miners* strike is ended in a disastrous defeat all over the district. The refusal of the convention to accept the 60-cent rate or meet Dearmit's price with the abolition of company stores brought about the result. The convention called for 69 cents op nothing, and the miners got the latter. Ten mines went to work Saturday binder an ironclad agreement at 60 cents, and seven mines resumed at 16 cents for thick vein coal. The ironclad agreement includes a deposit of 10 per cent, of the earnings as a guarantee, the deposit being forfeitable if themen join a labor organization, attend labor meetings or strike. The resumption of work is general and the lowest estimate is that 30,000 men are now at work under the contract, leaving 1,000 unemployed. SYMPATHY, BUT NO MONEY Is What the Canadian Sealers Receive from the Imperial Government. Ottawa, pnt., May 20.—The govern* ment has received formal answer front the home authorities tea the reqnest lately made-on behalf of the Canadian sealers that the imperial parliament advance the sum of $425,000 which it had been agreed the United States should pay in lieu of full claims of the Canadian sealers, hut upon which agreement the United States congress declined to act. Lord Ripon’s dispatch states that the imperial government sympathizes strongly with the Canadian sealers in their present position, but at the same time it does not feel it ' would be justified in asking parliament to advance the money to them.

A MAIL CARRIER ARRESTED With Stolen Letter on His P< Made n Confession. Indianapolis, Inch, May 20.— Ambrose Hamlin, a mail carrier in this office, was arrested yesterday by Post Office Inspector Fletcher for pilfering from the mail. At roll call yesterday morning Inspector Fletcher saw Ham* lin take a package from another car* rier's desk and put It in his pocket. He was arrested just as he was get* ting on his bicycle to go home with the package on his person. He confessed to robbing the mails for six months past. He was committed in default of SI,000 bond. THE INTERSTATE DRILL., Arrival of Xient..Gen. Schofield and Hh Staff—Reviewed the Troops. Memphis, Tenn., May 20.—The feature of Saturday’s exercises of the big interstate drill at Montgomery park was the arrival of Lieut.-Gen. Schofield and his staff. Escorted* by Gen. Snowden and his staff. Gen. Schofield was driven to the parade ground at 5:30 in the evening. Deafening applause from over 1C,000 throats greeted his appearance on the field and seventeen gnns were fired in recognition of so important a personage.