Bloomington Telephone, Volume 14, Number 22, Bloomington, Monroe County, 30 July 1889 — Page 2

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HUMAN SACRIFICES IN GEORGIA Horrible Besults of the Preaching of the False Christ. A Savannah (Gs.) dispatch says the negroes of Liberty County, Georgia, are in a state of excitement over the preachings of a man named Bell, a pseudo "Christ," wbo has been inciting the ignorant people of the county and telling them that he will lead them into the Promised Land of Canaan next month. Hundreds have left their farms &nd occupations to follow the false Christ. Bell was tried for lunacy and sent to an asylum. His successor, a negro named James, began preaching and telling the people that human sacrifice was demanded. Several days ago in a remote part of the county a woman who v as one of James' followers slew a little child, her niece, catting symbols on the head and body and then throwing the body into a ditch. The woman was arrested and is in jail. The white people fear the violence of the excited negroes, who are crazed with Bell's and James teachings. WHITE CAPS IN WISCONSIN. A Wife-Beater and the Salvation Army Excite Their Displeasure. A few days ago a young girl named Meyer became insane at the Salvation Army meeting at Neenah, Wis., and the Salvationist? were blamed as the cause of her insanity. A number of threats were made against them by excited citizens and Capt Dallee of the army received a regulation White-Cap letter of warning for himself and his associates to leave the city inside of six days or suffer the consequences. It was signed "Neenah White Caps." Another White-Cap outrage occurred six miles south of Brodhead, Wis. The victim was a wife-beater, a rich farmer named Perry Nelson., known os the strongest man in Southern Wisconsin. He had beaten his wife terribly of late. He was caught going home by a gang of White Caps, terribly beaten, and tarred and feathered. They then warned him to give his wife $7,000 and leave the country in ten days, or they would return and kill him. MURDERED HIS SWEETHEART. A Jealous Man Shoots the Girl He Loves and Then Sills Himself A Pebtt (Ind.) dispatch says: At Xenia, a village a few miles south of here, Jesse Overman shot and instantly killed his sweetheart, Miss Maggie Smith, daughter of a prominent physician. The shooting was dene near the front steps of the doctor's residence. Overman has for the last two years been paying attention to Miss Smith. He was of a jealous nature. He called, as usual, and the couple were out on the front porch. What was said is not known, but Overman suddenly drew a revolver on the girl and fired, when she ran screaming around the house, traversing it twice before falling down, dying from the shot. Overman then placed the revolver to his head, filing with fatal results. Both parties were young, the man being 22 and the girl 18. No cause is assigned except jealousy. CIRCLING THE BASES. The Varioss Ball Clubs That Are Racing for the Pennant. Relative standing of the base-ball teams that are working for the championship of their respective associations is as follows:

National. W. I. Boston 45 24 New York.. 42 27 Cleveland... 43 30 Pfailada 42 30 Chicago..... 35 39 Pittsburg.. ..28 43 Indianap 27 45 Wash'gt'n...!a 45 Wet tern. W. Jj. Omaha 47 19 St Paul 44 25 MinneapoliH 37 32 Sioux City.. 32 35 Denver 30 37 St. Joseph.. 26 37 Des Moines.. 38 Milwaukee. .iW 43

f3C American. W. L. f?c .C5-J St. Louis 54 2G .075 .60S Brooklyn... .48 27 .640 .Baltimore... 42 32 .567 .583 Cincinnati... 43 34 .556 .472 Athletic 40 32 .555 .394Kns'sCity..31 44 .413 .375!Columbus...29 49 .371 t31Bj Louisville... 17 60 .220

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.(537 .536 .477 .447

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.406 .358

Interstate. W. L. $c Springfield .38 30 .558 Quincy 38 30 .558 Davenport.. .36 32 .529 Peoria 34 3-t .500 Burlington.. 30 40 .428 Evanaville. .29 39 .426

Minneapolis' Population. The Minneapolis Directory has just been issued and contains 80,000 names, an increase of nearly 5,500 over 1888. According to the multiple used during the State cenHus of 1885 the city of Minneapolis contains 235,000 people. This estimate is confirmed by other statistics. Minneapolis cast 38,000 votes for President last November and has 19,000 school children enrolled upon her books. The taxable valuation of Minneapolis exceeds 132,000,1.4m). Sent Back the Governor's Spoons. The burglar who stole ex-Gov. Long's (of Massachusetts) silverware recently from his home at Hingbam must have been a humorist. He has returned the spoons, markiug on the package the words B. F. Butler." The spoons were highly valued by Mr. Long, as the two small ones belonged to his mother and i&e large one to his wife. The Governor, however, laughs at the old Butler etory, which the thief evidently remembered. The Chinamen Win. The Attorney General has given the Secretary of the Treasury an opinion to the effect that there is no legal objection to the transit through United States territory of the Chinamen recently arrived at New Orleans from Cuba en route to China via San Francisco.

ASTERN OCCURRENCES. Arnold Fbakctb and a boy named Kimes were killed at Pboenixv.lle, Pa., by the bursting of a separator at the Xhnberton Creamery. Francis was disemboweled, and the boy was struck on the head and body, his ribs being torn from his backbone by the flying fragments of the casting. John Heim, owner of the property, had his arm badly fractured. The passengers and crew of the steamer Lorenzo D. Baker, of Boston, with

cojjfjfnod to the Boston Fruit Com.

of the explo-

and boys were the e-hed. The King; engineer;

pany, have arrived at New Bedford, Mass., on the whaling schooner Franklin. The steamer was burned at sea. She carried six passengers and twentyone officer and crew. Tp firemen, Hugh Wylie, of Liverpool, England, and Ralph Robinson, of Boston, Mass., lost their lives. Ail the otter persons on board were rescued by the Franklin. The fire which destroyed the steamer started in the engine-room and spread with great rapidity. The people on board tDok to the boats and a raft, and after floating about for several hours were picked up by the Franklin. Michael MoGbath and his wife, an aged couple, perished in their burning dwelling rear Franckville, Pa. The house was remote from any other, and help could aot arrive in time "for the rescue of the inmates. Pittsburgh steel manufacturers disclaim all intention of selling out to English capitalists. They do not think Englishmen c ire to invest $100,000,000 for the privilege of controlling America's iron industries. At Old Trinity Church, New York City, Mrs. Harriet Atwood Aymar, of Jersey City, was married to Bishop George Franklin Soymour, of Springfield, 111. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Three men were killed and several injured by the explosion of a boiler in the yards of the B. B. Stone Lumber Company, at Chicago. The boiler was under a hed and was used for run- . i . 5

nmg tne company s gang ana rip

saws. At the time sion a dozen men working in and about killed are: Jefferson

Albert Dollar, off-bearer; unknown man, who was in the mill looking for employment. Some of the wounded are: Thomas Sthwever, teamster, injured about the head and bruised; Fred Runvill. teamster, skull fractured; John Piper, sawyer, injured on the head; M. Lane, dockhand, head cut and right arm injured. A dispatch from Washington Court House, Ohio, reports a terrible boiler explosion. A portable saw-mill engine of 25-horse power was pumping out water from wells for the new water-works in process of construction at that place, when suddenly the boiler went to pieces with a terrible report. The dead are: Fred W. Worrell, eugineer, torn ll to pieces ; Nathaniel Taylor, of Blooinintjburg, badly mangled. The injured are : John Taylor, colored, badly hurt, both legs broken ; Bam MoClean, bruised badly; Dan Hoprina, colored, bruised and scalded badly ; Charles Robinson, bruised slightly; George Kowe, arm injured badly ; Jamas Harper, side bruis&d badly ; William 3mott, of Bridgeport, 111., bystander, head and ankle, badly; John P. Morton, contractor for construction of water-works, very seriously. The bouer was hurled through a forest for 150 yards, and the nre-l.ox was sent 100 yards in the other direction. The accident was caused by an overheated boiler, low we-ter, and an inexperienced .engineer. At Santa Bob i, Cal., William Bolle, eldest sou of Henry Bolle, one of the leading wine-makers of the State, and Martin Pipher were suffocated in a fermenting tank. The supposition is that Pipher entered the tank thro ugh the manhole at the top before the gases generated from the pumice had time to disperse, and, being overcome, young Bolle went to his assistance. Both were taken from the tank dead. Neaii the Standing Rock Agency during a terriiio thunderstorm, a blinding Hash of lightning, accompanied by a deafening clap of thunder, came from the heavens and struck a wigwam a few rods below the agency in which were huddled five terrified Indians, instantly killing White Horse and Black Eacle, and stunning another so that he will not recover. Chief Mays is undecided regarding the sale of the Cherokee strip, 6,000,000 acres, to the United States. The Government Commissioners, Hartranft, Fairchiid and Wilson, appointed by President Harrison to negotiate the sale, are due at Tahlequah the 25th. Mays will probably call a special session of the Cherokee Legislature to' consider tho proposition of the Government, and also that of the live-stock company, the present lessee, who want their lease extended. Mays says the Cherokee title is perfect, and that a sale will be made to the highest bidder. At Lima, Ohio, William Deming and George Huber, two laborers, quarreled, when the latter threw a brick at the former. The brick hit Deming's forehead and broke the skull, indicting a probably fatal wound. Eate Maxwell the noted "Cattle Queen," itnd her partner, James Averill, postmaster at Sweetwater Biver, Wy. T., have been lynched at that place by cowboys. The bodies of the Postmaster and the "Range Queen" were found dangling from the same limb of a big cottonwood. Stockman have suffered from cattle thefts for yean, and the "rustlers" have been very bold. Averill and his partner have been among tiie most active. Fifty freshly branded yearlings were found in their herd the other day by a stock detective, whorepcrted the 'fact to the ranchmen. About twenty of the men drove to the cabin occupied by Averill and the Queen. The pair were surprised and were quickly overpowered. Ono end of a rope was fastened around Kate's neck and the other around Averill'ii as they sat on their horses. They were invited to speak. Kate said that for her mother's sake sho wanted the affair kept as quiet as possible. She wanted the cattle sold and the money given for a home for homeless girls. She bade her nephew adieu an I then wound up with a blasphemous harangue. The horses were driven from under them. Kate wan not shot at, but Averill's body was filled with bullets. Kate Maxwell was one of the most unique characters in the West. Aho she was or where she came from is not known, but for ten years ormoro she had been the leader of a gang of 44rufiCerB,n or cattle thieves, and has stolen more cattle than any single man in the Wes;. WhiIiG Lieutenant Governor Meikeljohn ami W. H. Paton, a stockman, were bathing in Cedar Biver, near Fullerton, Neb., the latter was drowned, and the Lieuten mt Governor barely escaped with his life. An Albuquerque, N. M., dispatch says: Last Saturday three cattle and horse thieves, members of a notorious band of Mexlcaiis who have committed nany depredations in this city, were captured and imprisoned in a vacant house near Kelly, N. M. Last night a party of cowboys proceeded to the house where the thieves were imprisoned, overpowered the guard, and hanged the prisoners after riddling; their bodies with bullets. Secketary MohIjER, of the Kansas Board cf Agriculture, states that the corn crop will be unprecedented in extent

owing to recent rains, and that a drought now can in no way injure it. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. In a wreck on the Savannah. Florida

and Western Railroad, south of Savun- j nab, William Waitings was killed ond several train hands were injured. The : 1 1 . . .!

smash-up was causea u a misplaced switch. The partial destruction of the excursion steamer St. Nicholas occurred on the Savannah Biver, killing several persons and intiicting 6erious injury on many others. The St. Nicholas was carrying 500 colored passengers, and shen passing Tybee railway bridge the boat was drawn by tho cut rent against the bridge with great force. The forward deck was crushed and torn into splinters. Two women were killed instantly and thirty other persons seriously wounded. A panic ensued among those on board, and a scene of wild excitement followed. During the confusion several persons were knocked overboard, and one woman was drowned. Several of the persons injured will die. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Secretary Noble has issued an order directing Dr. George Ewing and H. L, Bruce, of the Board of Pension Appeals, and Judge FraDk L. Campbell, of the Assistant Attorney General's OrBce, Interior Department, as a committee to forthwith enter upon an investigation of all reratings of pensions as made by the Pension Bureau during the last twelve months, and especially those of pensioners in the Government service, with a view to ascertaining whether any such reratings have been made in violation of law. ACROSS THE OCEAN. The Government has accepted a proposal by John Morley that an increased allowance to the Prince of Wales, enabling him to provide marriage portions for his children, be substituted for the proposed special grants. The steamer Zealandia, which has just arrived at Auckland from Honolulu, reports that all is quiet at Samoa. The American war-ship Alert had left Honolulu with supplies for the Nipsic, which was waiting at Fanning Island. The Alert was to taker the Nipsic in tow. Arrangements have been made to extend the Dolagoa Railway to the frontier of the Portuguese possessions. At Bayreuth the Wagner Festival opened with a fine rendering of ''Parsifal." The attendance was enormous, hundreds being turned away from the doors. The King of Saxony and other royalties were present. There is an unprecedented demand for tickets. The Spanish Government has forbidden any demonstrations calculated to encourage the Pope to go to Spain in the event of his leaving Borne. It is reported that Emperor Francis Joseph has asked that there be no public festivities on tho occasion of his visit to Berlin. The Parnellites have decided to appoint Messrs. Davitt, Healy, and Sullivan as a committee to receive moneys for the new Tenants' Defense League. They will also undertake the duty of registering the members. Pending the time when an election of the league's council can be made, Messrs. Campbell and Cox have been appointed temporary secretaries. The Bussian Government has allocated a large tract of land to the Mussulman population of Kabardah. Such gifts are unusual and are generally the prelude to a conflict with Turkey, being intended to keep the Mussulmans quiet. The Governors of Odessa and Kischeneff in recent addresses to the troops hinted that Russia was preparing to advance southward. The Navy Department has received a report from Admiral Gherarcti, stationed at Port-au-Prince, dated July 10, in which Hippolyte was reported to bead vancing upon Port-au-Prince and that upon the beginning of an attack a force of marines would be landed from the United States ship in the harbor to protect the American representative and the interests of American residents. The Admiral also reported that Legitime had appealed to the American minister, Mr. Thompson, to meet Hippolyte and endeavor to arrange some basis upon which the conflict between their forces might be stopped. Advices from China state that during a recent fire at Su Chow, which burned fiercely for twenty-three hours, 87,000 dwellings wrere destroyed. Twelve hundred persons perished in the flames and 400 were crushed to death during the panic that prevailed, while trying to escape. One hundred and seventy thousand people are without shelter, and they have been dying at the rate of 100 a day from want and exposure. The authorities are soliciting help from the benevolent and providing assistance as rapidly as possible. In the English House of Commons it has been agreed, by a vote of 230 to 70, to grant a lump sum of 000,000, or, as nn alternate. 20,000 annually, to build railroads in Ireland. The German Government has denounced the treaty with Switzerland which regulates the settlement of foreigners in Switzerland and which expires at the end of 1800. The Pesther Lloyd asserts that Prince Bismarck's- denouncement of the treaty is far from constituting a settlement of the controversy between the two countries. The paper says that some pronounced action will probably be taken by Germany when Emperor William returns from his yachting tour, and the whole controversy will assume a new aspect.

FRESH AND NEWSY. The Northern American Salt Company has filed articles of incorporation in the Secretary of State's office at Albany. Franklin Woodruff, Hor.u-e K. Thurber, William A, Hazard, and Char'eis F. Burger are ihe incorporators, with a capital of U1. 00,000, divided into 27V 000 shares of $50 e ach. An international cuttle show is to be inaugurated in Buenos Ayres by the Argentine Bural Society, April 2!), 1S90, under the patronage of the Argentine Government and with the co-operation of the province of Buenos Ayres. The United States Government has been invited to take pf.rt. Tho Consul of tho Argentine Bepublic at New York, A. G. Cairo, is arranging to forward fancy stock to the exhibition. The schooner Alpha has arrived at Frenah Village, N. S., from the banks of

Newfoundland, leaking badly. The vessel has been struck by a uwordfish and a piece of the sword is still remaining, driven quite through a plank. Near Ottawa, Out. , six men wera drowned while attempting to shoot Boche's Bapids with a raft.. They were lumbermen, but their names are unknown. E. T. Jeffery has tendered his resignation as General Manager of the Illinois Central Railroad Company. The resignation was forwarded to President Stuyveant Fish before the latttr's departure for Europe in the early pirt of the present mouth. No action hue yet been taken on Mr. Jeffery's resignation, and it is probable that nothing definite regarding it will be done until Mr. Fish's return from Europe next October. There is a movement on foot looking to the consolidation of all cf the naturalgas companies in the Ohi3 and Indiana lields and putting them into a trust. Dr. S. A. Baxter, of Lima, Ohio, is quietly engineering the matter, with the aid of J. B. Townsend, H. M. Ernst, and others. It is understood that thin arrangement has the sanction of Calvin S. Brice, Oliver H. Pavne, and other Standard Oil managers, '.they now own the majority of all the stock of the companies ia Ohio and Indiaua, and will buy up the stock of the remaining independent companies. It is a gigantic scheme, which will probably mature fully in a few weeks. The goods and chattels of District Assembly 48" of New York City have been, sold at auction. It is the last act in the drama of the disruption of the wellknown and once powerful Knights of Labor organization. A representative of the Vanderbilts has purchased the interests of a number of heavy local stockholders in the Beech Creek Coal Company, at Shamokin, Pa, Over $3,000,000 was involved in the transaction. The Vanderbilts are now sole owners of the Beech Creek Railroad. The American fishing vessel Mattie Winship, recently seized by the Canadian Government for illegal fishing, is forfeited. Her owners offered $2,000 to the crown and the total expenses of the seizure, for her restoration. The ofxer will be accepted. Sagua (Cuba) papers irtate that an American syndicate will es tablish a large sugar factory near Encrucijada. li. G. Dun's weekly review of trade says: For the dull season of the yea.r business continues remarkably large, hew business of a non-speculative character evidently exceeds that of tho same month in any previous year. From all parts of the country, also, come reports that an active and prosiorous fall trade is anticipated, and the crop prospects continue, favorable. But the financial out.ook is rendered uncertain by tho continual experts of gold, the liquidation of foreign holders of securities, and the doubts about trust operations. Reports from interior cities indicate that the demand for money is. everywhere met by -n ample supply, and at nearly all points is still but moderate. Trade is clearly larger than a year ago at Cleveland, with good collections; improving at Pittsburgh ; by no means active at Milwaukee, though collections are better ; excellent in both resjiects at Omaha, and a fair average at Kansas City; fair at New Orleaus, with collections up to ' expectations ; unchanged at Detroit, though money is in brisk demind, and rather more active at Philadelphia and New York. ( Of the great industries the woolen manufacture' seems in most uncertainty, for the price of the material has f urtber advanced about 1 cent on the average and the tone is very firm, while manufacturers do not care to sell wool short by disposing of goods at present' prices. Wheat has bieu advanced 1 cent ou reports of extensive damage in Dakota, with sales of 17,000,000 bushels here. Tho accounts do not warrant expectation that the yield will full as low as 485,000,000 bushels, which, with the large surplus still in hand, will much exceeci any demand at present probable. Corn has tulvauced cent and oats i cent without special reason. The general average of prices is lewer by of 1 per cent, than a week ago, and unless crops sustain great injurv is likely to go still lower. The business failures number 208, as compared with a total of 209 the week previous. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were ;;&J. PRESIDENT HARRISON'S CHOICE Prominent Offices Being Filled by Late Appointees. The following appointments have been made:

William Kule. of Tennessee, to be Pension Axent at Kuoxville, Teun. ; William A. Kichaids, of Wyoming, to bo Surveyor General of Wyoiuing; Boeiius H. Sullivo.n, of Dakota, to bo'burvevor General of Dakot a. To be Kegi titers of Land Otticos Charles K. Cornell, of Nebraska, at Vulemiue, Nob. ; Kdward H Champhn, of Wyoming, at Cheyenne, Wyo. ; Martin J. Wright," of California, dt Visalia, Cal. ; John A. Mcheth, of Colorado, at Louver, Colo. To be Receivers of Public Mercys Robert L. Freeman, of California, at A isalia, Cal. ; Leroy Grant, of Wyoming, at Cheyenne, Wyo. To bo Indian Agents T. J. Buford, of Oregon, at the Hiletz Agency, in Oregon; John P. M01 Gliiui, of Washington Territory, at the Neoh Bay Agency, in Washington Territory i D. J. M. Wood, at the Pouca, Pawneo. Otoe, and Oakland Agency, in the Indian Territory. Capt. George Dewey, to be Chief of tho Bureau of Equipment aiid Keeruiting in the Department of the Navy, with the rank of Commodore ; John F. Groenvelt, to be Asbistant Surgeon in the Marine Hospital of the United States; Charles C. Austin, of Alabama, to b i Marshal of the United states for the Northern District of Alabama. MAKKtT KKPCKTS CHICAGO. Cattle Prime $ 4.23 4.50 Good 3.50 & 4,00 Common 2.50 3.50 Hogs Packing Grades 4.00 $ 4.50 Shkep A.50 ( 4.50 Whkat No. 2 lied SI & .82 Co UN No, 2 33?2$ .364 Oats No. 2 .$1 .23 Uye No. 2 41 ( ,4ii Bottem -Choice Creamery l.'f c9 .15 (Iheksk -Pull Cream, flats 07U$ ,tts Eggs Fresh 11 ,ll Potatoks Choice new, per bu. . & .33 " Pobk Mesa 11.00 (tf.ll.a5 MILWAUK.fc.lii. Wheat Cash 70 tt .80 Cohs No. 3 'M & .37 Oats No. 2 White .28 c .529 Kye No. 1 .42 tfji .43 Barley-No. i! CO 0 .62 Pork Mess 11.00 11.25 DETROIT. Cattle. 3.00 4.00 Hoes 4.00 t 5.00 Sheep 3.25 & 4.00 Wheat No. 2 lied .ns Cokn No. 2 Yellow j .117 Oats No. li White 2J & .30 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Bed .83 .fi3U CoitM Cash 37 tfc .33 Oats No, 2 White 32 v .32, NEW YORK. Cattle....- 3 sa 4.75 . Hogs 0.00 ii 0.75 Sheep 3.50 t4 5.25 Wheat No. 2 Red ,0; V M Conx No. 2 .45 & .50 Oats Mixed vvestern 25 ,'rt .20 Poiuc Now Mess 12.50 (&13.0J ST. LOUIS. Cattle '-50 c; 4.25 Hook 4.00 ('4 4.50 Wheat No. 2 Red 72 & .73 Corn No. 2 .33lv( .34. Oatb 23 ,24 RE No. 2 40 J .41 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle 3.00 4.25 Hons 4.26 & 4.75 HliKUP 3.10 4.50 Lamhs..., 4.00 5.50 CINCINNATI. Hoes 4.00 4.75 Wheat No. 2 Rod S3 e .3l6 C'oux No. 2 .3.1 ( .3iii$ Oats--No. 2 Mixed - 20 .20lu RYE No. 2 .47 .49 Poua Mess 11.50 $12.00 KANSAS CITY. Cattle-Uood 3.5f) 3 AjM Medium 2.50 & 3.5 Butchers' 2.00 & 3.00 Hoas 4.00 & 4.30 Sheep 3.00 4.00 Lambs 2.V t& 150

S WEPT AWAY BY FLOOD.

DESTRUCTIVE CLOUD-BURST Hi THB KANAWHA VAIXEY.

The Sudden Rlsie of the Streams Sweeps Away Much Property and Endangers Life in Various Parts of West Virginia and Ohio Various Losses Recounted A Parkershui'gr (W. Ya.) dispatch says: The storm along the valley of the Littfe Kanawha was one of terrible violence, and the rush of water down tho channel of the river and over the lowlands bordering it Ava8 unprecedented in its suddenness and about as large in volume as ever NforA kn wn. It is reared drownings have been numerous in tl e narrow valleys upstream along the tributaries of the river. The storm extended across the Ohio, and railroad washouts, wrecked bridges and rained crops are reported over a large area in Ohio. The storm burst about midnight, and by .'I o'clock in the morning the river had jumped up twenty feet, and at daylight the scene presented alone the channel in front ot this city was an alarming one. The entire surface of the stream was covered with a tangled mass of logs, barns, fragments of Louses, and raf to of valuable timber About 6 o'clock Mrs. Isaiah Tucker went to the door of !ier boat house opposite this city to view tte wreck-covered river. As she stepped u: on the deck a huge raft of logs struck tbo boat and she was tossed into the water arid never rose. She left a fa miry of five children in the boat, who were saved. Another s:aanty boa t said to contain three women, passed the city about daylight. A iihort distance below it was overturned and all were drowned, The Ohio jftiver railroad is broken at Harris Ferry, the Baltimore & Ohio at Kanawha Stution, and the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore at Londonderry. Many lumber firms have lost about all their summer cub of logs, and thousands of acres of crops are totally destroyed. Details of losses are constantly coming in and the aggregate damage will exceed $100, 000. Above the iestmction was still greater. Big Tygart valley is completely ruined. The big mill near its mouth went out and took the Tygart bridge with it. In the valley all the fences, croos, and live stock were loot. A ; Chester ville, a small town about ten miles above, half the residences were carried off bodily and lett in corn lields. In Cltiv district a fine church and three dwellings were wrecked.

About noo:i information was received that the steamer Oneida had been wrecked and sunlc at Enterprise, above. Still later a report cam that the steamer S. C. Martin was sunk at Burning Springs. The Little Tygart is also reported completely ruined. Heatherington's store, Capt. Spencer's residence, C. P. Cooper's residence, and that of J. V7. Smith are completely demolished, but no lives are reported lost as ye!-. The worst ;;tory of all comes from Mor ristown, a small village near the head of Tucker creek, wlaere the cloud burst concentrated in all its fury, coming down on the village and totally destroying it, together with many of its people. The first report gave the loss of life at eleven, but later news seerns to fix the loss at a greater number. The houses of the citizens are said to have been picked up f.nd

hurled against each other in such p'oort space of time that no chance to escapawas given the people. Among those lest at Morristown are Jake Kiger, his brothers Joseph and Thomas, a man named Bailey, Orville West, wife, and child. The body of a man believed to be another Morristown victim was found on the Richardson farm. At Pill Brush all bridges and culverts are washed away and it is impossible to reach or communicate with that point, or any other on upper waters. It is impossible now to onutnerate the loss even here, as the river is still rising and tearing everything loose. A family boat containing three or four persons went out during the night, and it is believed al1. are lost, as last seen of them was when a woman held up a child in her arms and beckoned for assistance as the house disappeared in the flood. Later a might tram on the Ohio River railroad broke through a trestle at Harris' Ferry, completely wrecking the train and fatally injuring William Neptune, an employe. The wreck was caused by a heavy washout. The Baltimore & Ohio train, delayed by washouts at Kan awha station, has just been reported. Lock No. 1 e bove the city on the Little Kanawha haft givtn, way before the flood Ad vie as from Ohio show that heavy rains fell in many places. A cloud-burst is reported at Lancaster, which caused a big washout on tiie Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo railway. At Logan, Ohio, heavy rain caused tiuch damage tocropa. Light ning struck a. house in the little village of Georgesville, in franklin county, and set it on fire and burned half the town. At Marysviile, Ohio, great damage wa done. Lightning struck the electric-light works, ruined a dynamo, and put out the lights of the town. THE SALT TRUST ORGAN LXED. Articles of Incorporation Have Been Filed ' at Albanvt N. V. Abbany, N. Y,, July 21. The Northern American Salt company has filed articles of incorporation in the Secretary of State's office Franklin Woodruff, Horace K. Thurber William A. Hazard, and Charles F. Burger are the incorporators, with a capital of $11,000,000, divided into 220,000 shares of $50 each. They state that they aro to manufacture and soil salt and salt products in their various ramifications. Tho principal part of their business will be located in Warsaw, N. Y., but they will also carry on their business in the iollowing ph.ces: Meigs and Tuscarawas counties, Ohio; Mason county, West Virginia; Reno and Rice counties, Elansas; Hidalgo county, Texas; St. Clair, Huron, Saginaw, Hay, and Iosco counties, Michigan. The following thirteen trustees, who will

manage tue concerns or Tine company ior the first year, are named: Wellington R Burt, Franklin Woodruff, Horace K. Thurber, William A. Hazard, John Canfield, Willicm S. Conklin. Albert R. Boardman, Jay Morton, Richard T. Wilson, Henry W. Cannon, Charles F. Burger, Lord Thurlo v and Joseph Verdin. Charley K Bmger and H. Aplington were in Albany to-day and paid the company's organization tax, amounting to $18,750. This is the third largest organization tax ever received by the State.

Bad Sniash-tL'p on the Biff Four. Indianapolis, Ind., July 2. A Big Four freight train was wrecked near GreensburR Friday night, colliding with an express train near Batesville. Both trains wer badly wrecked. Several cars were demolished ttnd an unknown tramp was killed, while Fred G. Ketchaui, a postal clerk, received injuries which will prove fatal. The engineers and firemen escaped serious injury by jumping from the locomotives.

Misers love their money most, and wise men lve their money least.

ROUGH ON A POSTMASTER

MULWALKEE'S BIAIL OFFICIAL 8K YJKKEXY S COKED.

TheCMl Service Com mlsftlon ftEaJUt Another Report on Their FlndiSirsIa Connection with That Ofllce What; tho Evidence. Shows. A Wishing ton dispaixm say: The dvH service commission mttde public its second report in the Milwaukee postoitae caan. The commissioners say that Postmaster Paul was given every opportunity to explain the cbargea against him, and thafr his declaration that he was condemned without a hearing and without being la formed, of tho charge against him ia gross misstatement. The report then recites the examinations made by Secretary Doyle and Chief Examiner Webnter, whose reports showed t uch gross violation of the law that the three com misrioneradeemed the accusations of such iinportiuto as to v arrant an investigation by the full board. The report cor tinues: 'Ex cept in two important caHi we did not try to get at any new facta; we ainapijr examined Mr. Paul to see wlrether he could disprove the statements or give any satisfactory explanation of tho charges made in the two preliminary reports. Ho entirely failed to do sc. That there hasbeen crooked wovk in the office ii admitted by all. The only question ia whare the reap8ibititv lies. We examined the secretary o: the local examining board, Hamilton hidy, and the chairman, J. B. John son. Jihidy is admitted by all to have dona the work of the board, the other members doing little save assistiog in marking tho papers and attending occasional formal meetings. Shidy testifies that he was compelled by the postmaster t jrfve the latter free access to the list of eligible, although such access was at that timeBtrictlf forbidden; and he further testifies that tlie postmaster, knowing these wno were eligible, as well as their standing, appointed whomsoever he chose, and then forced him (Shidy) to torture th lists and certification books so as to produce a certification which should lear the appointees' namai The report further cites the evidence of Bhidy and Johnson th show that they warsforced against their own judgment fc remark the papers of ;tn applicant, and also the statement of Mr. Paul that he had. not' forced them to alter the mark, but that; they luid been altered lecanse hs expressed great dissatisfaction at the marking.. Shidy, in the presence of both Sir. John sen and Mr. Paul, a:i well as of the threecommissioners, stated i;hat the reason for their ohaning the graie of tae unfortunate applicant was to get him out of the way c f another man whom the postmaster7 desired to appoint. Continuing the report says: "Ir short, the official records show beyond possibility of dispute that the lists of eligitles were twisted: and garbled in almost ftvery conceivable manner in order to. produce swindling certifications wkereby certain men could bs reject i, although' entitlad to appointment, and other ment appointed, although liaving no rightful; claim to the chance. For Itr. Paul to plead innocence is equivalent to his pleading imbecility, for no :sane man could have made appointments from a succession of such certifications without perceiving their chara cter, and it is quite incredible tha he could by mere char.ee have picked oat from each certification the very individual1 to fa"or whose choice it was designed. Mr.f Paul alone benefited by the crookedness of these certifications, for he alone had the appointing power;' there could be no possible object in Shidy 's conduct unless it was fear of thwarting the wishes of his superior c nicer."

DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS. Interesting Papers Kad Before the Nsvtional Educational Association. Na bhville, Tenn., July 19. Tfca question of denominational schools occasioned a bri ik debate in to-deky's session of the National Educational association Bishop John J. Keane opened the discussion by. readings paper prepared by Cardinal Gibbons upon the question: "Should? Ame ricans Educate Tiieir Children in Ds nomi national Schools" Bishop Keane after ward read a paper of his own on the same subject, taking the position that Chrh tianity was the basis of all true government and should be inculcated during, the period when children wer attending schcK'L If the intiuene of the church was beneficial in the lamil it was iUso in thf schoL Hi. Edwin D. Mead of Boston followed in a paper in which h said that th arguments advanced by Cardinal Gibbons in the magi.zines in favor of the non-interference of the state with the family in the matter' of education was only a device to damage the State's authority in publit: opinion to thee ad that the Konan Catholic church especially should take charge when possible. He said the plea of the Romanist chun h was to comel all (athclics to withdraw their children froti the publio schocls to parochial schools where they wouli be taught tho doctrines of the church. Bishop Keane replied and denied Mr. Meac.'s assertion that the I 'ope or the Romiin Catholic churoh was seeking ternporal power and the control of the government Both addresses were forciMs and were heartily applauded. OVER SMART CORRESPONDENTS, Their Stories Regarding the Croniu JkCorder Were Pure Fabrications. Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 19. Careful ir vestigation shov beyond any doubt that the stories concerning tte letters re centlj picked up heie and at Stamford, Ont., endeavoring to create a mystery in connection with tbe body found in the whir pool rapids and to associate it with the Cronin. murder in Chicago, were pure inventions of special correspondents. The story of the attempt to steal the loiy of an unknown man buriod at Welland. Ont, was also absolutely false, as no such attemp t ever occurred. The InternatiouHl Labor Congress.

Pari?, July 19. The labor congress, which is in session bore, to-day completed its organization. Allemane of France aud Brov n of America were ejected joint presidents. Mr. Bo wen, on bohalf of the Knig hts of Labor of America, urged the necessity of severely punishing emigration agents guilty of dishonest nireprentations. The chief difficulty wh ch the labor organizations of America encountered arose, he said, from the endleis inJiux of iinm grants. Great Strike of Miners in Germany. Bk:kxikv July 19. -The strikes in the Voifriberg district have become general and svery miner is now out. The strikers frost the Loebon district are flocking to Voitsberg, and serve to aggravate the discontent. The military are ke pt in read!" ness to quell and disturbances and rein foromients are on the way from Grasv The mine owners offer an advance of 2 per ?ent in wages, but the nu n hold out for '0 per cent. Troops am occupying the .lass works and puper mills in Volts lerg, but in the mines it Is faired that tbe

men will set the pit on tire. iSevsn

of y oient strikers werj made te4e;f.