. .THE NEWS; t ....
. 1 CbartesUlackmar, of East Saginaw, Mich.,
wbiie drunk ihot hia mother, and a grandson
the noniantben shot tbe drunkard.
fire destroyed the busir&a section of Car
on, Iowa. ; Loss 102,003,' insurance $35,000.
"-Efforts are being made to settle the Mi-
, Jois miners . strike by arbitration. -J.
Ilojw Winfield, son of the Episcopal bishop
W California, was fatally shot at Benicia,
val., by J. E. Crooks In a quarrel oVer a
newspaper article. An ait inapt was made
to blow up the Salvation Army barracks in
Indianapolis. w-AusuRt Belz, of Appleton,
: Pt o flight a dozen whitecaps who
lad come to flog him A shortage of $21,
has been found in the account! of ex
Vounty Treasurer T. VV. Colo, of Marshall,
. Rov. K. F. Flomen, alias John Geldell
was arrested in Pittsburg, charged with a
iuiuer eommiuea in Houth Carolina.-
The United States steamer Enterprise has
v irrlved at Southampton. Mary ' Arnold
as fined $350 in a New York court for
7 smuggling jewelry from France.- -Michael
f (Rooney, under a ten years' sentence at Dan
oemara state prison, N. Y.. for manslaughter
Committed suicide" by banging. --Henry
plakand Michael Frawley while drunk at
Buequeh'jina, Pa., fell into the river and
received fatal injuries. Albert OriaroskJ,
a young German, committed suicide in New
York city by first shooting and then bang
ing hhuself. By iths, wreck of a freight
train on tbe . Pennsylvania Railroad, near
Pittsburg, three persons were killed, a Dum
ber Injured and thirteen cars -demolished.
Dennis Depauw, a crazy man, was found
in'a Chicago court room threatening to kill
Judge Grionell. Einil Flettig and August
John, of Chicago, in attempting to run a
dam at Kilbouru City, Wis., iu a rowboat,'
were drowned by the boat capsizing. The
new census of Buffalo, N. Y., just completed
shows a population of 82.027.
s Advices rrom Melbourne, via San Fran
cisco, state that the steamer Moltoi, bound
from Melbourho to Auckland, struck on the
reks and was Bunk, and two lives lost. -?
The Pittsburg and Western express train
. was wrecked neai-Akron, Ohio, and tho en-
gineerud fireman injured. -Goneral W.
Man was killed in the Chinese theater at San
i Francisco in a Highbinder quarrel. A. M.
Park, of Agnews, CaL, shot and killed Jesse
Hunter, his mistress, and tlien committed
suicide. A shock of earthquake wus felt
at Farmington, Me. The Chippewa In-
'dians held a council at Red Lake reserva
tion, Minn.,' and declared that the govern
ment's plan for providing for them was a
i failure, but the members of the commiraion
tried to persuade them that the offer of the
government was very liberal and should be
accepted Herbert A. Pearson, a million
aire mine owner of Chrster county, Idaho
was drownvd while bathing at Chicago.
Two men ' wore killed; by tho . falling of a
trestle in the power house of the Milwaukee
Avenue' .Cable Company, in Chicago.
Tho steamer Unytieu Republic, which it
was feared hurt been lost, has arrived at
San Francisco. -7-0. W. and P. Terwillinger
shoe manufacturers of-Newburgh, N, Y.,
made an. assignment. The Ministerial
Union, of, Charleston, 8. C, adopted resolu
tions denouncing the result of thj trial of
Dr. McDow for the murder of Captain Daw-
. FonAMfRVcikiniT the state to unifn with
. the niilDlt in uuttina down deeds of vii-1nrv
' In that community. -At a meeting of rep
resentatives of 14,000 miners, at Altoona, Pa.,
it wns decided noc to generally suspend, but
to call out all miners who are working under
.' district prices. Charles Orbann, a news
boy whose leg wan amputated as a result
of injury on a street cur, has recovered $20,
000 damages from the Philadelphia Traction
' Company. The little vil luge of Kronsberg
in South Dakota, was destroy ed ' by a wind
storm and several persons Injured iu the
ruins of their houses. .
; Frank Sullivan, an ex-convict, fatally
stabbed bis wife as she was coming out of a
.New xork dive. The Liawson Manutac
' turing Company's works, at Roxbury, Mass.,
were burned. Loss $18,003: insured. Isaac
Valentlne, an importer of diamonds, New
York city made an assignment. A freight
train on-the Pennsylvania Railroad wai
wrecked at Locust Grove, near Lancaster
Fa., and twelve cars derailed. The Indiana
miners refuse, to yield, and the operators
will introduce machinery to do the work.
Black rot will cause total failure of the
grap? crop in the Mississippi Valley. Six
men were thrown Into the water by the up
setting of their boat on the Mississippi riven
near Savanah, Ills. , and Thomas Rogers,
Edward Howard and Patrick, Flinn were
drowned. Charles Eggers, a St , Louis
Brewer, committed Suicide. In a collision
between a passenger and a freight train on
the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Rail
road, near Jamestown, N. Y., one engineer
and a baggngemaster were killed and one
passenger hurt. Louis Cherier, cashier of
the bank at Houghton, Wis. has disappeared
!-, tiSMi f: C:ifl f HIT) MteTvolva atramnta kattA
TV 1LU PiUVWII ww. ww w W WW SMJ VCT U V XJ
boon mado to burn tho town of Danbury,
Conn., the Inst one, causing considerable
damage. George Duaue, aged lif teen years
was shot and killed by James Allen, a night
watchman, in Chicago, while trying to es
cape with stolen cigars. The late General
Cameron's will includes a number of bequests
to churchts and charities. Tbe 2,800 for
mer employes of the Reading Iron Works
have bea notified that the works will soon
resume, but that none will be re-employed
-jcbo belong to labor organizations or who
indulge in strong drink. In a riot of strik
ing street car employes at Duluth, Minn.,'
two strikers were killed and several hurt by
the police, whom they attacked. Peter
Cnrr, a prominent young lawyer of Spotsyl-
vania county, Va, died from injuries by
tx?ing kicked by a horse John N. Railing
cf Ki'isnsbiir, Pa., wus kil'.y i by a fi t'ij-bt
(rain, s. R. llorton, a farmer of RutKlge
Hi., v i TaU! fchot ' 'a t. U'ia!),.
i
TRfVPE OF THE WEEK.
Inactivity Ruled Owing- to the
, Holiday and Heavy Rains, ;
Not Mich Injury to Crops by Kalna
Stocks and Bonds Strong Money - -Kasy
at New York.
General trade throughout the country a
reported by wire to Bradsl reeVs, has beh
quite as Inactive as is customary during the
week In which the Fourth of July holiday
occurs. Semi-annual stock-takings, settle
ments, and- a persistent : and wide-spread
rainstorm tended to further check trade.
In Texas and Georgia rains are said to have
done some damage to tho crops. Contradic
tory reports come from the Spring wheat
region, but no evtdeuoj has arrived yet of
serious disaster to that crop. The business
outlook for the remaining half year is re
garded as brighter, with higher prices and
more active demand for iron, steel) wool and
cotton.
Bear pressure and lower prices hive ruled
(n 6tock trading at New York. Railroad
differences at the West, fears of a reorgani
zation of Atchison and the too rapid advance
of trust securities, seem to be the basis for
this action which is accompanied by heavy
bear manipulation, Bonds are strong and
steady witn a good reinvestment demand.
Money at New York is becoming easier, and
call loans are down to 8a4 per cents For
eign exchange is easier, and demand sterling
U l4.e7a4.WJ. o .
Cotton goods for Fall wear and woolens
are fairly active. Midsummer trade with
jobbers is very quiet' Prices for print cloths
and low grade bleached goods tend upward.
Raw wool sales at seaboard are limited by
light stocks and high prices, Riw cotton is
u higher on fair demand. r
Repots of damage to the domestic Spring
wheat ; crop, to the wheat crop in Russia,
together with small stocks of good quality
on hand' more than supported prices and
both wheat crop aud fljur tend upward.
Indian corn, too, is higher. Pork and lard
both declined on limited demand at Eastern
-centres." .! u : ; .;::;: .,- -.-:-.',-
Hogs and cattle at the West are selling
higher. San Francisco sent 73,000 bushels
of wheat to Rio Janeiro, but expects the
Australian and South American demand to
disappear anon. Stocks of wheat at about
000 poinUof accumulation and in transit,
East of the Rocky Mountains, July 1, as re
ported to BradstreeVs, aggregate 30,384,000
bushels, a quantity less than has been held at
the points referred' to on a like date for
seven years. '
Raw sugar has been In less active request,
but is just as confidently held at o advance
for centrifugals. Refined maintained the
high range of last week." Coffee reacted
somewhat after the heavy decline of last
week, but relapsed into heaviness on a re
port that Brazil would carry over 1,700,000
bags of cofft into the new crop year begin
ning July 1. ' -- . ' ,
. There were 349 strikes in the United States;
Involving 03,353 striker for six months of
the xear, against 43d strikes and ; 172,433
strikers in the first half of 1888 and 554
strikes and 223,023, strikers in 1887. The
failures among? commercial and industrial
traders in the United States since January 1
numbered 5,918, or 12 per cent, more than in
the first half of 1883. With a dozen failures
eliminated, this report contains only favor
able features, as the recent growth of gen
eral business has. not been fully reflected in
the higher commercial death rate. iJank
clearings at thirty-seven cities for six months
aggregate $27,097,480,956, or 13 per cent,
more than in 1888, 7 per cent In excess of
1336 and 17 per cent more than in 1886.
HAND PRESSES ADOPTED.
Steam Plate Presses tn the Bureau of
Engraving Abandoned.
Secretary Windom has decided that the
recent act of Congress concerning steam
plate printing presses for the Bureau of En
graving and Printing is intended to be pro
hibitory of the use of all steam presses.
Under this ruling the Milligan presses now
used by the bureau will have to be dispensed
with. There are eighteen Milligan and one
Hemer Lee steam presses in use there.
Tbe Secretary's decision is a clear victory
for the labor unions, who have been fighting
for the introduction of hand presses. Tbey
were successful is their efforts in this direc
tion when the act of Congress was passed,
but the language of the bill was such that a
question arose as to whether it was strictly
prohibitory and tbe matter was referred to
Secretary Windom for decision. The Secre
tary has refcsxl to sign any contract with
the Milligan Company.
The work of removing tbe steam presses
will begin at once; they, will all be put out
of tbe building by the end of the week. In
place of them Captain. Meredith will put at
once into , operation twenty-eight band
presses now iu stock. The chief says that
by working an hour longer every day, the
bureau will soon catch up with current bus
iness, which has fallen behind because of a
week's stoppage while negotiations nere In
progress. He says the work will be better
done, too, ana toe expenses oi iuo iurou
not UnuJv increased tnereuy.
MARKETS.
Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra, $4.90
a$5.00. Wheat Southern Fultx, 90a92;
Corn-'-Southertt 'White, 44a45cts, Yellow
41a42 cts. Oat Southern and Pennsylvania
S0a34 cts, j Rye Maryland & Pennsylvania
9a50cta. ; Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania;
15 00a$15 50;Btraw-Wheat,8.00a$.5O;Butter,
Eastern Creamery, 18a20Gte., near-by receipts
17al8cts; Cheese Eastern Fancy Creanv y
alO cts., Western, 8a9 cts; r Eggs la
a 16; ! Tobacco Leaf Inferior, lata 00, Good
Common, 3 00a f 4 00, Middling, 5a$6.00 Good
to fine red,7a$9; Fancy, lOatU.
New York Flour uthern Common to
fair extra,2.90a$3.40; Wisafr-Nol White 87
a87Ji; Rye State, 54a50; Corn--Southern
Yenow,41a4.c.Oat-White, State 3:$Ka33J '
cts. : Butter-State, 14Wal7cta. ; Cheese-fttate.
79iots.; Eggs I4al5 cts.
v.-" xTitLADKLPHi a lour rennsyivaiua
fancy, 4,35a4. 75; Wheat Pennsylvania and
Southern Red. 82Wa83: Rye Pennsylvania
52a58ct4rCorn-8outhern Yellow, 41a42cU
Oats-3aMa34ct8.; Butter-State, lUal7 cts.i
Cheese N. Y. Factory, 9a9' eta. Eggs .
State, 15al6 cts.
. CATTLR
BAwrjfOitt B.ef. 4 B5a4 35; Shoeiv-$3 00
a4 50 Hops $fl 00n6 25. , , '
. IS kw YoHK-Bef-$3 87ka4 85 : Sheep-4 i 00
a5 25; Hogs $4 0Qa4 90.
East Liberty Beef f 4 50a5 00; Sheep
f3 50a4 7G;Uos Il65a4 70 '
Till! !'l tucket thops" in Wall street,
vrk "' ', are v ry gi rally I :u
.tl !.iud? jisccstiuyrt ,
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
INTERESTING! NEWS COSI PILED
FROM MANY SOURCES
The Roanoke, Va. Machine Works have
a full force of hands employed and Is work
ing extra time.
A summer normal Institute, with 340
teachers in attendance, has been opened al
Lynchburg, Va. .- . '
-Twenty, si illicit distilleries hare been
destroyed in Surry county, It. C, during
the past teti days.
Turner A. Willis, accidentally shot ofl
his left hand while gunning near Bealeton,
Fauquier county, Va.
W. E. Sponsellor brought Into Frederick
Md. , a ben's egg that was perfectly round,
about the size of a small base ball.
The Light Artillery Blues of Lynchburg,
Va., have decided to go into camp at the
Fauquier .White Sulphur Springs in July.
-A blxteen-year-old daughter of Andrew
Miller, Jr., of Jackson county, W. Va, com
mitted suicide by shooting herself in the
head. ,
MrSi Pblllp En tier, living near Shep
herdstown, W. Va.,aas seized with a con
vulsion, during which she dislocated her
lower jiw. r i . :- ---.-fv
Ches. Craddock, a white man bad his
throat cut at Martinsville. Va., by Booker
Redd, a negro His wind pipe is almost en
tirely severed.
Captain B. Stanley,, of Wheeling, W.
Va., is Just recovering from a five week's
confinement, caused By a heavy steel pips
falling on his foot
At a dauce at Horse Neck, Pleasant
county, W.Va., Frank McMillen and Samuel
Cronin quarreled about a girl, when Cronin
shot McMillen dead
The sandstone quarries of Seneca, Md.,
have made arrangements to ship their pro
ducts by tbe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
instead of by the canal.'
-Willie D. Yerby, formerely of Fred
ericksburg, Va., was killed in a St. Louis
street car by the discharge of a pistol which
fell from the pocket of a policeman. v
The historic lands at Appomattox Court
House, Va., are to be bought up for a North
ern syndicate. Options have already been
secured upon most of the desired property
Jessie Weston, employed on the Seaboard
and Roanoke Railroad, while grinding some
tools had his arm caught in the belting, and
w is thrown violently to tbe floor, bruising
him about the head and body.
Hon. H. 0. Davis and Stephen B. Elkins,
accompanied bv Commander Brown, of tbe
United States Navy, left Piedmont, W. Vs.,
to make a tour of inspection south over the
West Virginia Central RiUway. .
--Repairs and alterations are being rapidly
completed on the custom house in Wheeling,
W. Va., in spite of the fact that the post
office remains in full operation while they
are going on. , . , . t,
The sheep farmers of Wood county, W.
Va, are turning their attention from tbe
Spanish Merino to the Southdown breed of
sheep, believing them to be a better paying
investment -
The brakemen on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad are carrying clubs now, and tbe
tramps along tbe road in W. Va, will re
ceive a warm reception if they attempt
stealing rides. 7"
The huge opening in the earth which
was noticed on Stainback's farm, in Prince
George county, Va., soma weeks ago, has a
counterpart at High Peak, in the same
county, which is supposed to have been
made at the same time as the other.
Irvin Taylor, a brakeman on the Western
Maryland Railroad, in attempting to descend
from a gravel train, at Frederick, Md., wai
struck by tbe steps of the cab and fractured
his skull, rendering him insensible.
A m vement, inaugurated a few days
since, for the estaolishment of a mill for tbe
manufacture of cotton jeans, at Raleigh, N.
C. , is in a fair way of success. The capital
proposed is 25,000 of which several citizens
have subscribed $2,500.
A huge carp was found on tbe banks of
Broad Run, in Md., having evidently been
stranded by thj flood. It measured over
three feet in length, its body being as large
as a four year old child. Its weight was
nearly forty pounds.
While young Frank Puitz, of North
Wheeling, W. Va, was bathing, in company
with some of his companions, he becams
chilled through, and being seized with cramp
in deep and swift water, he sank before aid
could reach him. - .
Charles Carr, a workman on the Union
Railroad bridge at Wheeling, W. Va, fell
from the top of a derrick, where be had
climbed to oil the pulley, falling about
twenty feet on a pile of : stone. He was
knocked senseless, but as no bones were
Droxen nis injuries are noc aangerous.
Hainan jjox, a mgnry respected iarmer
of Person county, N. C commitutd suicide
by taking a dose of "Rough on Rats." He
was just recovering from a protracted spree,
and it is thought the act was committed in
a fit of despondency. He was about sixty
yearsofage. ; ;
Tho courts of the counties of Hancock,
Brooke and Marshall, W. Va., have only
two judges to preside over them. Should
an important case come up during the July
term, a judge pro tern, will have to be elected
for' Hancock county.' The law makes pro
vision for such a contingency, although it
has never; been known to arise in actual
practice.
Marvin Himmel captured a peculiar
animal near the McMurray- factory, in Fred
erick. It is about the size of a dog, and
has feet shaped somewhat like the human
band. The ohief diet of this strange being
is cabbage. .
Mr. James Burke, of Hagerstown, Md.,
has a blue chicken with a rose comb that
lays eggs of an extraordinary size, averaging
six and a quarter inches in circumference
and eight inches from . butt to point She
lays these mammoth eggs regularly every
day. , v,
Lewis Summers, of Petersvillo, ,Md.,
started bis binder to work, and tbe machine
not delivering the wheat as it should, be put
Id his hand to pull it through. The needle
ran entirely through bis hand, making a
painful, if not dangerous wound. f
Aluable horse belonging to Bv H.
Wyand, . KeedyBVille, Md., received a sun
stroke from tbe effects of which the animal
became craay. Dr. Cozzen pronounced tbe
horse beyond recovery, and it was shot to
relieve Its sufferings. M ; . 4
- i-M. J. ' Davis of : Alaska, W. Va., while
leading bis team down Knobley Mountain,
Md., made a narrow escape from death. His
team took fright and ran away, Mr. Davis
holding on to the lines until he was thrown
Over an embankment several feet Ho was
considerably , bruised, but had no bones
broken.. .
Charlie Lewis and a colored man named
Johu Taylor at tempted to ford the Monowicy
in a wagon at Reich's ford, Md.- When bulf
way over, tbe water entirely covered the
wagon, the horse's bead being just above the
current and the- water U( to their necks.
Tho horse beiujr a good swimmer brought
tlii. in over safely. j
A. . J. JWiller'sfurnltiifl warehouse at
fir, i nab. Oa.,- was barnnl.- IMrfng the
j s v4 . : t n fif f 1 he frn;. wall fvil, burv-
,.. - 5.. ... ,-. !. 1 'r - !-'
and Murray Lapinsky, Thomas Davis, Mau
rice Buttimer, Henry Uoodson, Richard
Hart and Edward Pacetti are seriously in
jured. Lapinsky may die. Loss $150,000.
A farmer residing near Bent Mountain,
Va. discovered a rattlesnake lying at full
length on the front porch of his residence.
With a double-barrelled gun he blew a hole
and the snake's bead entirely through tbe
floor. - The reptile measured ten feet in
length, possessed eighteen rattles, and is tbe
largest snake seen in this neighborhood. .
-i As several train " hands on a band-car
were crossing Walter's bridge, near Withe
Villa, Va, they beard the whistle of a loco
motive bearing upon them;. Finding it im
possible to escape, they abandoned the car
and stretched themselves on the ties outside
the rails. The train lemolished the. hand
car, but the bands escaped unhurt
While James Compton and his brother
were walking along tbe road near Oakland,
Md., a flash of lightning came, and James
fell on his face in the mud. The younger
brother says he heard a whizzing noise be
fore his brother fell. ; His face is badly
burned and his bair burned off. Hia escape
from death was miraculous.
Governor Wilson, of West Virginia, has
appointed as commissioners to select the
location and purchase the site for tbe Stats
Reform School, authorized by chapter 3,
acts of 1889, the following gentlemen; State
Superintendents of schools, B. S. Morgan,
A. A. Franzheim, of Ohio county; J. p.
Scott, of Tucker county: J. P. Shanklin, of
Monroe county, and Linsley Merrill, of Wirt
county. . .
The town commissioners of Monroe,
Union county, N. C, have fixed the license
tax for selling liquor in that town at five
hundred dollars in addition to the State and
county tax. . This will amount to prohibi
bition, although the town went "wet' at the
fecent election, It was also ordered that
any parson found drunk on the streets, so
as to stagger, should be arrested and fined
no more than fifty dollars. , .
Ralph Graves, professor of mathematics
at the State University, attempted to com
mit suicide at Raleigh, N. C, at the bouse
of his brother-in-law, Spier Whitaker, by
cutting his throat with a penknife. He had
been in bad health for months and hod at
times shown symptoms of derangement He
resigned his wortc at the University last
February. His wounds are not believed to
Mw fatal, ;
Michael Gillie, of Baltimore, a sawyer
at George Q. Tyler's mill, at Money Point,
Va., Claude Strieker, brother of the super
intendent, and Claude C. White, of Norfolk,
a clerk in Tyler's ofllce, were out in a boat,
near the point, when a sudden flaw of wind
capsized tbe cratt, and Gillie and White
were drowned. - Gillie was nineteen years
of age and White sixteen. Strieker suc
ceeded in reaching the shore.
A despatch from Wetumpka, Ala., says:
'Three colored men were drowned by tbe
accidental sinking of a ferry-boat at Hatch
er's Ferry, on the Tallapoosa river. Five
other persons narrowly escaped, some of
them drifting down the river for a mile.
Two wagons loaded with merchandise for
Wetumpka merchants were also lost The
accident is said to have been caused by caro
lessness. ;
A fight took place at Fredericksburg,
Va, between a number ot colored men
at the depot. Haywood Johnson" and
Luther Scott, of Caroline . county, were
severely -cut Johnson dying from the
effectsts of the wounds several hours after
wards, and .Scott now lies in a critical
condition. Joidan Washington, Robert
Washington and grant iewis, were arrested
on suspicion. A coroner's jury rendered a
verdic that the deceased came to hit death
from a stab by a sharp instrument in tbe
hands of Jordan Washington, and that Rob
ert Washington and Grant Lewis were ac
'cessoriea. ... .
Just before the eleven o'clock train on
tbe Wheeling and Elm Grove road wns due
at Fulton, W. Va., one mile eamt of Wheel
ing, two men piled ties on the track at two
different points, with intent . to cause a
wreck. The locomotive struck tbe first pile,
but fortunately was not derailed. Tbe
second obstruction was on a trestle. There
were two hundred passengers on tbe train,
and a frightful wreck might have occurred.
A double tragedy, horrib'e in its details,
was committed at Memphis, Tenn., the mur
derer and suicide being Frank Brenisb, and
tbe victim his wife. Brenish's wife left him
some time ago because of his failure to sup
port her and their two children. Brenish
met his wife on the street and requested, her
to return home with him. She refused, and
grabbing her by the hair, he pulled her bead
over backward and, with a large butcher
knife, cut her throat from ear to ear. She
died within a few minutes, Brenish then
slashed at his own throat, causing a wound
from which be will probably die. He wrote a
statement declaring that bis wife was untrue
jtn and that be bad nothing to live for.
BOUND AND ROBBED.
Henry riajro Left Helpless Tor Throe
Days After Losing $30,000,:
' The boldest highway robbery ever at
tempted in Minneapolis, Minn. , occurred in
the glaring light of day Tuesday morning
and bas just come to light Henry Hage
came to thai, place to be married. Hage
left the house for the purposa of getting
shaved.- He found no one at the shop, and
started homeward. Soon after he was ac
creted by a stranger, who told him he was a
bar bar and would take him. to, bis house and
shave him. Hage accompanied hitu, and
they proceeded but a short distance, when
the newly-made acquaintance dashed a quan
tity of vitriol in Hage's face. Hage was
then taken outiuih woods by the robber
and his accomplices.
After robbing him of about $20,000 the
brutes bound hino band and foot and tied
him to a tree. Haze remained in the woods
uu conscious, bound and helpless for three
days. He succeeded in freeing himself and
wandered home. He bas not yet regained
consciousness and may become permanently
deranged. There is no clue to the thieves.'
The f 30,000 of which he was robbed was in
tbe form of two negotiable drafts, one on a
Milwaukee and the other on a New York
bank.
Mrs. Bloomfteld Moore, of Philadelphia,
who makes her home in London, is one of
the wealthiest American widows. She is
about sixty years of age, of little more than
average height, and inclined to plumpness.
Her bair is snow white and rolled high up
from her forehead. Mrs. Maore has written
one or two books, besides pamphlets and
magazine articles tbe latter two ad vacating
the Keeley motor, in which she is a firm
believer aud lares stockholder.
The University of Oxford is aboat to con
fer the honorary degree of D.CL upon Dr.
J. S. Billings, of the Surgeon General's Office
at Washington, and medical director ot the
Johns Hopkins Hospital.: Dr. Billings was a
surgeonduring the civil war in Grant'sarmy,
and since the peace ha bas been in charge of
the medical library and muteum in Wash
ington Through bis management they have
become of special inT.Krtance, not alone q
thn t ' .-. . ' . i. , I,
TWO MORE DAMS BREAL
Johnstown N. Y., This Time
the Scene of Disaster.
Lives I tout and Bridges Washed Away
- SeTeral Factories Demolished by
the Terrible Rush ot Waters
Railroad Tracks Torn Up.
Advices from Johnstown, N. Y.. are thai
a heavy rain caused tbe Cayadutta creek to
become a raging torent, and it soon burst its
bounds. Two dams gave way,and tbe torrent
quickly carried with it the several skin fac
tories along its banks, valued at many hun
dreds of dollars. A number of other build
ings and outhouses were also swept away.
The Fonda,' Johnstown and Gloversville
Railroad loses some seven or eight bridges.
There was another bridge crossing the creek,
and on it viewing tbe flood, were some thirty
or forty persona This bridge was torn from
its foundations, but it is not known positivey
how many persons were lost
At Fonda tbe Central Hudson Railroad
bridge was carried away almost bodily,
taking with It the telegraph wires.
Passenger trains from the East on the
Central Hudson are all several hours late.
They rench Utica by the West Whore, and
take the Central Hudson tracks here. Trains
going east on the Central Hudson take the
West Shore tracks at Utica There has been
no storm in this vicinity.
Further particulars from Johnstown are
not obtainable, as there is no Western Union
wire to Albany, and the only railway wire
in use is occupied entirely with railway bus
iness. .
A cloud-burst washed away the Central
Railroad tracks between Akin and Tribes'
Hill stations, about Ave miles west of Am
sterdam, causing another.delay to all trains.
The wreck of the freight train, which blocked
all four tracks in the morning, has just been
cleared, and delayed trains began to move
both-east and west, when some of them were
caught by this new mishap, and a second
blockade occurred, more serious than the
first The west bound-limited and two other
express trains which left here about three
o'clock in the afternoon came back here be
tween seven and eight o'clock, and we're
sent West over the West Shore road. ,
It seems impossible to get any particulars
as to bow bad the break is or how long it
will take to repair it
Some of the trains hurrying to makeup
lost time narrowly escaped the cloud-burst,
but all did escape. One house was partially
Washed away, but no lives have been lost.
There is no wire west of Amsterdam, and
there is a rumor that tbe storm extended to
Johnstown, in Fulton county. . ..
CABLE SPARKS:
The Norwegian ministry have resigned.
Bishop Lambrecht, of Ghent, Belgium, it
dead.
The Massachusetts riflemen defeated the
London Rifle Brigade. ,
Archdeacon Goodyear, of the East Africa
missions, has died at Magila
Michael Davitt continued his ' testimony
before the Parnell commission.
The regent of Bavaria opened the first
annual art exhibition iu Munich. -
It is announced at Berlin that the Ger
man officers in the Chinese service will re
sign. ' Herr HasencleVer, formally a leading so
cialist member of the German Reichstag, is
dead, : . ,
The art jury of the Paris exhibition has
awarded medals of honor to Tadema and
Moore. .
Herr Von Weilen, editor of the late Crown
Prince Rudolph's work entitled "Austria
Hungaria," is dead.
P. T. Barnura bas leased the Olympia, the
largest building in London, and will take his
circus there next year.
A number of the American engineers now
in Europe were received by the Dowager
Empress Augusta at Coblentz.
Tbe World's Sunday-school convention
opened in London, over 300 delegates being
present from tbe United States.
Charles P. Psotta, the American amateur
champion oarsman, defeated Blackmore, the
English sculler, on tbe Henley river.
Emperor Francis Joseph and the Czar have
telegraphed to King Alexander of Servia
congratulating him upon his anointment
The Shah of Persia waS escorted by a
procession to tbe Guild Hall, London, and
Lord Salisbury's carriage was lost in the
crowd. .
The Pope bas sent a copy of his recent allo
cution to each of tbe powers, asking whether
or not they would interest themselves in his
position. ' w .
The Columbia, the new Hamburg-American
Line steamer, made an average of over
19 knots an hour, and occasionally exceeded
20 knots.
Mr. Hirsch, tbe new United Minister to
Turkey, presented bis credentials to tne tsui
tau at Constantinople and met with a cordial
reception. .
Ruggieri's Fireworks factory at Auber
villers, five miles norte of Paris, France,
was destroyed by .an explosion, seven per
sona were killed. '
The Rome correspondent of the London
Chronicle says it is certain that arrange
ments for the refuge of the Pope in Spain
have been completed, '
Tbe St Jamas Gazette states that the
marriage between the Earl of Fife and Prin
cess Louise, daughter of the Prince of Wales,
will take place next spring.
The dervishes who were defeated at Are
quin by Col. Wodehouse's troops have fled
to the hills. Tbe gunboats have cut off the
dervishes' water supply. .
Toe bureau of the French Senate has ap
pointed a committee to consider the Pana
ma canal relief bilL Four of the committee'
favor tbe measure and five oppose it
A sailors' boarding-house keeper in Liver
pool has been fined five pounds for furnish
ing workhouse paupers as able seamen to
tbe White Star Line steamer Adriatic.
President Carnot and M. Spuller, minister
of Foreign affairs, have promised to be pres
ent at the unveiling at Par s of tbe Replica
of Bartholdi's statute in New York harbor
of Liberty enlightening the world, v ,
The Shah, after receiving Lord Salisbury
and the other memers of tbe cabinet and tbn
members o the diplomatic corps, departed
for Wipdsor Castle, where he was received
by the Queen.
Th Berliner Tageblatt says that England,
Germany, France, Portugal, Belgium, tbe
Congo State and Italy are making arrange
ments for' a conference to settle the limits
of. their respective settlements in Africa.
v Count Kalnoky's speech to tbe Austrian
delegation expressing confidence in the in
tentions of tbe Servian regeoey ha tended
to allav tbe alarm in Berlin rvhtcu Emperor
' Vranm Joseph's speech produced.
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
John .Bromwell, a bricklayer, was run
over and killed by a locomotive la Balti
more. ; , . , ,-. .. " '
Carrie, the 18 year old daughter of Eiraoi
Frost, was burned to death at Hopkins, Min
nesota. . . j
, Bixty cases of typhoid fever are reported
la Wilkesbarre, Pa, and an epidemic Is
feared. , . . . ,.
Two unknown men were Instantly killod
at Baltimore by the Chicago express on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.. . . .
Elwyn Latham, a young drug clerk or
West Washington, was drowned in tbe Po
tomac by the upsetting of a boat .
William Schletx and Charles Schroeder,
boys, were drowned while boating, on the.
picnic grounds, at Riverside, near Chicago.
By the explosion of a boiler in the works
of the Asphalt Paving Company, 'in Wilkes
barre, Pa, John Boyle, the engineer, was.
killed. :
. Mrs. L K. Cameron, Mrs. Losee and her
daughter, Myra Losee, were drowned in
Lake Roeseau, Ontario, by tbe upsetting of
aboat -
Local rains in Richmond, Va., caused the
water in Shockoa creek to back up, and the
lower floors and cellars of at least fifty bus
iness houses were submerged. ; --'
' By the sinking of a ferry-boat in tbe Tal
lapoosa river in Alabama, three colored men
were drowned, and two wagons loaded with
merchandise for Wetumpka were lost.
' Two hundred persona were injured, about
half of them severely, and a child was killed
by the fall of a grand stand during races
at Oklahoma, Indian Territory.
Tbe Buffalo fly is reported to have ap
peared among cattle at Three Mile Run near
New Brunswick, New Jersey. Its presence
was disclosed by two fatal cases.
Lizzie Hawks, aged 14 years, and Mamie
Hawks, aged eight years, were killed by
lightning while in a swing on the farm of
John Hawks, about three miles from Lock
port, N..Y. . r
A passenger train on tbe Mobile and Ohio
Railroad was thrown into a ditch by a cow
- u - . : t u nn:.- Til c .
Nellie Burton, aged 18 years; May Royal,
aged 16; Ida Cassidy, aged 22; Fannie Me
Court, aged 18, and Bert Freeman, aged 20,
were drowned by the upsetting of a barge
near Allegheny City, Pa
A passenger train from Macon to Colum
bus, Georgia, was thrown from the track
and into a ditch while rounding a curve,
near Geneva Eight passengers . were in
jured. A cloud burst over Akron, Ohio, and two
inches of water fell iu an bcur. Consider-
auto UtUJBKjO nns uvuu ass isivt- ij j mm m
was washed upon the railroad tracks in such
quantities as to prevent transportation.
John Boyle, fireman in the stone crushing
works of the Barbour Asphalt Company,
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, was blown through tbe
roof of the fire house by the bursting of a
valve, and fatally injured. .,
A locomotive on the Northwestern 'Rail
road crashed into a farmer's wagon at May
wood, near Chicago, killing August Mul ten
tour and fatally injuring his brother-in-law,
Frederick Liebentour. Three children were
badly hurt - . ,
'While ex-President Cleveland and Joseph
Jefferson were taking a ride near Buzzard's
Bay, Mass., one of their horses became un
manageable, and both gentlemen were
thrown out Both escaped with slight bruises
and a severe shaking up.
The steamers Bay Queen and Eolus col
lided near Gould Island, in Narragansett
Bay. A thick fog prevailed at the time.
Both vessels were badly damaged and had
to be towed to Newport. No person is be
lieved to have been injured on either boat
An explosion of gas occurred in the Boston
Towbo.it Company's offlce, in the Fiske build
ing, at Boston. , A leak in the pipes was ig
nited in some unknown manner. Two man
and a woman were injured, the latter Miss
Laura Lincoln, severely. : "- v
There was a collision on the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quiucy Railroad, near Glendale,
Ohio, between a passenger and live stock
train. . Express Messenger Blackburn was
Considerable of the lire stock was killed
and injured. '
It is reported that the engine, baggage
car and one coach of a railroad train broke
through a defective bridge near .Terrell,
Texas, and that one man was killed and sev
eral persons were injured. No particulars
are given. ; . .
An autopsy on tbe body of Mrs. Morris
Rubens, who was found in Albany, Naw
York, dying beside her dead child, showed
tnat death was caused by uraemia poisoning,
the result of acute Bright' disease,. The
child was suffocated by the mother's rolling
over upon it in her death struggles. '
4 A steam bleacher in tbe mill of the Lyons
Paper Company, near Clinton, Iowa. - ex-
Eloded, wrecking half of the large brick
uilding and killing Alexander llart and
Thomas McBride, workmen. . A man named
Callahan was badly scalded.
George Gould, president of tbe Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, received a de
spatch from San Francisco rerif 5 lug the re
ported loss of too company's steamer Gran
ada on tbe rocks at Punta Tejohan. The
vessel and cargo will be a total loss. The
Granada was valued at $200,000, and tbe
cargo at $75,000.
A FIERCE DAKOTA BLOW.
Houses Rlown Down and Barns Car
ried Awaw by the Cyclone.
Tbe beavies wind and "rain storm ever seen
In Dakota struck Kranzberry about 5 o'clock
In ths afternoon. It came from northeast
and was accompanied by heavy bail. Van
Dusen's big warehouse and elevator was
lifted from its foundations by the wind and
thrown up on the railroad track, utterly
ruined. A blacksmith shop was blown down
and the owner was injured.. The Catholio
Church tower was blown ovsr on its side and
other buildings were badly racked. There is
hardly a chimney left in the town, and many
buildings were blown down and several per
sons were hurt
la the country the storm was afro sever.
Joseph Tisuier, a large farmer, had jui
completed a new house, a bsra and a gran
ary, Tbe bouse was wrecked and tbe bsi i
and granary, were dashed into kmdtin
wood. Crops are 1 considerably dama?!.
The storm mowed a strip half aitnlewi ia
right through farms and the grain was de
stroyed by tbe hail, wind and rain. Mtvtry
mall buildings were blown away and th
windows on the north side of all hou-3
wers broken bv the bail and wind.
Statistics show a rrovth of ,?.W,0i
-3s sli
00!) in tl vaUio of the (mnlry'a exy:
in a tv 1 oni't, an 1 a gU. r. lis, s.'. ,