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VOLUME II.
WASHINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1887.
NUMBER 17.
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DIRECTORY.
MAILS.
Northern and Greenville Due daily
IV I - - -
Xortli ana ooucn siae river mail
puc Monday, Wednesday and Friday at
n m (J loses at i
iollowine mornings.
Office hours 9 a. m. to 10 p
rn.
Depart-
Monov Order and
Registry
aient
-j a. m. to o p. m.
STATE GOVERNMENT.
governor Alfred M. Scales.
Lieut. Governor Chas. M.
Secretary of State William
Stedman.
L. Saun-
der.
Auditor W. P. Roberts.
Treasurer Donald W. Bain.
u, t. of Public Instruction
-S. M.
Attorney
General T. H. Davidson.
STATE HOARD OP AGRICULTURE.
Commissioner John Robinson.
Secretary T. K. Bruner.
Chemist Charles W. Dabney, Jr
General
Immigration Agent J.
T.
Patrick.
COUNTY.
Sheriff and Treasurer, R. T. Hodge s.
i S I 1 f - TTT 1 1
Superior uourt uierK wiiKcns.
Register of Deeds Burton Stilley.
Surveyor J. F. Latham.
Commissioners Dr. W. J. Bullock,
chair n, J. T. Winticld, F. P. Hodges,
F. B. Hooker, H. N. Waters.
Board ot Education J. L. YVinheld,
chair' n, P. H. Johnson and F. B. Guil
ford. Superintendent of Public Instruction
Rev. Nat Harding.
Superintendent of Health Dr. D. T.
Tavloe.
CITY.
Mayor--C. M. Brown.
Clerk John D. Sparrow.
Treasurer W. Z. Morton.
Chief of Police M. J. Fowler.
Councilmen C. M. Brown, W. B.
Morton, b. R. Fowler, Jonathan Havens,
W. II. Howard, Alfred D. Peyton.
CHURCHES.
Episcopal Rev. Nat. Harding, Rec-
tor. Services every Minoay morning ana
nig'.it. Sunday School at 3.30 p. m.
Rev. Nat. Harding. Superintendent.
Presbyterian Rev. S. M. Smkh, pas-
tor. Services every Sunday morning ana
nirrlif Siinr?r Sr-hnnl .it 'A HO n m
Superintendent, Jas. L. Fowle.
Methodist Rev. W. Li. Ware, pastor,
i
Evict's every Sunday morning and cv-
j i. nr at
Sun lav School, 3.30 p. m.
EMPERANCE MEETIN
Kt. form Glut) Regular meeting ever?
Tues iav night at
30 at Club Rooms.
W. C. T. IT. Regular meetings
cvprv
j
jnursaav. 6 n. m.. at Kooms
of Reform
Club.
C ub and Union Prayer Meeting every
Sunday, ia Town Hall, at 2.30 p. m.
Ms Meeting in Court House every 2d
Thursday night in each month.
LODGES.
Orr Lodge, No. 104, A. F. and A. M.
meetv at Masonic Hall, 1st and 3d Tues
day nights of each month E. S. Hoyt,
W. M . , H. T. Hodges, Secretary.
Phalanx Lodge, No. 10, I. O. O. F.
Meets every Friday night at their hall
Gilbert Humbcy, P. N. G., J. R. Ross,
Secretary.
Washington Lodge, No. 1490, Knights
of Honor. Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday
nights at Odd Fellows' Hall A. P.
Oabtree, Dictator, J. D. Myeis, Repor
ter, J. II. Ross, F. Reporter.
Chicora Council, No. 350, American
Legions of Honor. Meets every 2nd and
th Thursday nights at Odd Fellows'
Hall C. M. Brown, Commander, Wm.
M. Cherry, Collector.
Pamlico Lodge, No. 715, Knights and
Ladies of Honor. Meets 2nd and 4th
Monday nights at Odd Fellows' Hall
Wm. M. Cherry, Protector, T. B. Bowen.
Secretary.
Excelsior Lodge. No. 31, O. G. C.
-HC('l S 1 t i uA OnA Tnocrl uxr ninrlif a nf.
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Fellows1 R.ill-f! W. Tftvlne, Cnra-
Riander, Wm. Cherry, Secretary.
Tlie Mutual Live Stock Insurance
Company, of Washington, N- C
OFFICE, CORNER MARKET & SECOND STS
Opposite the Court House,
Washington, n. c.
Washington Mutual Benefit Insurance
Company.
Chartered by the legisla
ture OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Issues Policies on Life, Health and
Occidents risks: also Fire risks taken.
nd a General Insurance business done.
Office, Opposite the Court House.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
TOBACCO STORE
Sn I J AITTt T I T r TTk 1
vv -LiJiXAlVLjirxop r.
Sole Agent for Ralph's Sweet Snuff
All Brands of Srfuff; Cigars
and Tobacco.
Everything in the Tobacco line, and New
5oods constantly on hand 7 :1 :ly
A
TREASURY FORGERY
AS EX-CHIEF IS THE THIRD AUDI-
TOR'S OFFICE ARRESTED.
Passing Many False Claims for the
Payment of Horses.
Something of a sensation has been created
ir. the United States Treasury Department by
the discovery that a trusted official had been
guilty of a systematic attempt to defraud the
Lrovernment. The officer was arrested in
Wilkesbarre, Penh.
where
and
he had been
his dismissal
on
vacation,
Ji j i
irom tne service
Secretary Fairchild.
Harvey, and he has
was ordered by
His name is Oscar J.
been employed in the
department since JuneJSso, when he was ap
pointed Chief of the Horse Claims division
of the Third Auditor's office. It was while
he held this office that he perpetrated the
frauds with which ho is now charged. On
June 2 he was transferred to the head of a
division in the Second Comptroller's office, a
division which has charge of claims of the
same nature as those in the division he had
left.
Mr. Austin H. Brown, of Indianapolis, suc
ivedod Harvey as Chief of the Horse Claims
di vision, and soon after he took charge of the
oiiice he discovered the frauds, which consist
ed of the passage of forty-three fraudulent
claims for horses, aggregating 9,200, and the
preparation of 101 additional cases of a
similar nature, which were under con
sideration in the office. Mr. Brown
reported the matter to the Secretary.
He said his suspicions were first aroused by a
peculiarity in the autographic signatures to
a number of claims for horses lost or aban
doned during the war by officers of Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey regiments. On June
20 he discovered a palpable forgery in one of
these cases, all of which appeared to have
been prosecuted by W. W. Wynn, first of
Philadelphia and then of Washington.
The investigation lasted over a w eek, and
during that time Mr. Oscar J. Harv ey was
on duty at his desk in the Second Comp
trollers office, and there was every evi
dence that he was concerned in the pre
paration of all the suspicious documents.
The stamp of the mail room, Third
Auditor's office, and the stamp of the Horgj
Claims division had been forged, and
the dates arranged so as to bring them within
the limitation fixed for the filing of these
claims. The stamp of the Quartennaster-Gen-erals
office was also forged. In this way forty
three fradulent claims, aggregating $9,200,
were paid. The drafts were regularly issued,
and an examination of such as have beei re
turned as paid shows that Harvey
and Wynn are one and the same
person, and that although the
drafts were drawn in favor of the claimants,
the money, with one or two exceptions, went
directly to Mr. Harvey or to some of his rela
tives. He had procured their payment by
forging the signature of the payee and then
endorsing the draft with his own name. Mr.
Moufort, the Philadelphia notary, like Mr.
Wynn, the attorney, was found to be a myth.
Most of the notaries and persons named in
the claims are unknown to the department.
In addition to 1 he forty-three cases passed
there have been 150 similar cases adjusted,
aggregating &0,00O, and there are still pend
ing and unadjusted sixty -three cases, amount
ing to $13,0W),makingatotalof 1(51 fraudulent
cases which might have eventually been paid
i ut for the discovery.
Harvey was brought from Wilkesbarre to
Washington by secret-service officers and
-iken bofore Secretary Fairchild, to whom he
made full confession of h.s guilt. He had
been driven to it, he sa d, by pecuniary
necessities, brought upon him by a man with
whom he had been in partnership, and who,
?ver since he received his apjointment in the
Treasury, had goaded him on to make the
most of his opportunities. "My partner,"
concluded the prisoner, ' told me I had a
good office and that I could raise the money
be wanted. I did it, and now see w hat has
come of it."
Harvey was taken before the police court
in Washington and was committed to jail for
the action of the Grand Jury, bail being fixed
at $12,000. He is described as a man of unus
ual intellectual attainments, and as having
secured the unlimited confidence of his supe
rior officers.
A.B0UT NOTED PEOPLE.
Rpurgeon, the celebrated London preacher
is fifty-three years old.
Dom Pedro has sailed from Rio Janeiro for
Europe and the Holy Land.
Frederick Douglass is expected to re
turn to this country in September.
General Simon Cameron has sailed for
Europe, to be gone until September.
Secretary Lamar is a Jersey cattle
fancier, and has a small herd at his home in
Oxford, Miss.
Queen Margherita of Italy, is a pro
ficient Hebrew scholar, and reads the old
testament in the original with ease.
Judge Hilton's park at Saratoga now
comprises 1,000 acres. lt is said to be the
handsomest private park in the country.
Rev, James Robinson, of Money Creek,
111., has baptized over 15,00(1 persons during
his ministerial career of forty jears.
United States Senator Sabin, of Min
nesota, has no children of his own, but gives
paternal care to nine friendless orphans.
Governor Knott of Kentucky is passing
his vacation season by a sea voyage on a
coaster from Baltimore to Halifax and re
turn. Mrs. Livermore has delivered more than
800 temperance addresses. For many years
she has lectured five nights a week for five
months in the year. She travels yearly
25,000 miles.
Bonanza Mackay has just invested $250.
000 in an Alaska mining expedition. It con
sists of a vessel and a force of miners, with
tools and supplies. Linga Island is to be the
scene of operations.
Mrs. General Logan is in very poor
health. She has been in Chicago arranging
some busness affairs of the late Senator, but
will return to her Washington home soon,
and take a long rest.
Meer Baboor Alliy, a Hindoo resident of
San Francisco, has filed a declaration of his
intention to become a citizen of the United
States. He is the first of his race who, so far
as is known, has ever done so.
The Empress of Japan expects to visit the
United States in October. She will land in
San Francisco, come east by way of Salt
Lake, Omaha and Chicago, and return in two
months by the southern route.
Mrs. Levina Fillmore is the oldest
woman in Buffalo, N. Y. If she lives until
August 13 she will celebrate her one hundreth
birthday, at the Methodist Church over
which her late husband presided for a quarter
of a century.
The only member of the late Horace
Greeley's family now living, is his daughter,
Miss Gabrielle M. Greely, who four years ago
bought her father's house and farm of eighty
two acres at Chappaqua, for $10,000, and
now resides there.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.
Orders were sent from Rome on the 4th to
the Archbishop of New York to excommuni
cate the Rev. Dr. McGlynn, and to publish
the degree of excommunication in the jour
nals. f
Luke P. PoLAND.ex-TJnited States Senator,
died of apoplexy a few days ago at his resi
dence in Waterville, Vt. He was born in
Westf ord, Vt. , in 1815, and had been Chief
J ustice of the State Supreme Court and a
member of both Houses of Congress.
A statue of General Burnside was unveiled
at Providence, R. I. , with appropriate cere
monies. John Slade & Co., of New York, one of
the olde: t wholesale drygoods houses in the
country, have failed for a large sum.
Professor C. H. Grimley, an aeronaut,
and a companion in a balloon ascension at
Portland, Me., were carried out to sea by the
wind and struck the water, but were rescued
byayacbt.
Jan Peon Lee, a Chinaman who grad
uated recently from Yale College with high
honors, was married the other day in New
Haven to Miss Elizabeth Maude Jerome, a
good-looking heiress to $100,000.
More than 100 persons on the west side of
New York were made very sick by partaking
of ice cream that had been poisoned.
An explosion of half a ton of material re
sembling gun cotton at the works of the Cel
lonite Manufacturing: Co.. Arlington, N. J.,
destroyed the factorr', killed a man and a
girl,fatally injured another man and inflicted
injuries on fifteen other persons. Buildings
near the explosion were wrecked, nearly
every store in the town had its show windows
blown out, and window giass was smashed,
ceilings injured, and crockery destroyed for
a quarter of a mile in every direction.
The United States sloop of war Ossipeo
was prevented from sailing from Boston, a
few days since, by the desertion of twenty-one
of her crew.
Mrs. Isabel Lyon, wife of Dr. Randolph
Lyon, who in a fit of passion shot and killed
Rhode Moe at Towanda. Penn. , a few days
since, and then committed suicide, took
strychnine and died in great agony.
John D. Van Gorde, of Dingman's Ferry,
Ponn., was stflng by a bee on tne wrist, and
died in a short time.
South and West.
Ax aeronaut named Bald vin ascended 5.000
feet in a balloon at Quincy, 111., and then
jumped out, holding an open parachute. The
descent was made in three and a half min
utes, and the daring aeronaut was unhurt
Later particulars of the recent riot at
Oak Ridge, La., state that in all about
twelve negroes were killed or hanged, One
white man was killed and two were wounded.
The affair grew out of an attempt to convey
to prison a negro accused of assaulting a
white woman.
Henton Mj r.LER, Treasurer of Perry
County, Ind., is a defaulter to the extent of
$77,000, and has fled. His predecessor is
serving a term in the ixmitentiary for a simi
lar offense.
The discovery of gold near Wheeling, W.
Va., has created considerable excitement.
The left leg of Howard Williamson, a Ken
tucky farmer, has Income gradually hard
ened until it seems to all appearance a piece
of marble, from the hip down.
The disease known as Texas fever is
spreading among cattle in Nebraska. Last
year this scourge cost the stock interest in Ne
braska upward of $2,000,000.
The members of a gang which lynched
John Davis near Eckerty, Ind., have put the
neighborhood under a regin of terror, and
threaten death to anybody giving informa
tion to the newspapers. Davis was horribly
mutilated and was probably dead before be
ing hanged.
At a mass meeting of St. Louis citizens
President Cleveland and his wife were in
vited to become the city's guests during Fair
time next October.
Petroleum has been discovered near Naeo
doches, Texas. !Six welLs have been opened.
Mrs. Lydia Wilson was married on Satur
day, July 2. at Lafayette, Ind., and procured
a divorce Tuesday, July 5.
Governor Gordon was hanged in effigy at
Dalton, Ga., because he commuted the death
sentence of William Holman. a wife mur
derer, to imprisonment for life. Five thou
sand persons had assemb'ed at Dalton to wit
ness the execution, and when they heard of the
commutation they took possession of the prison
and hanged the Governor's effigy on the gal
lows prepared for Holman.
Washington.
President Cleveland has appointed As
semblyman Leonard A. (iiegerieh (Tam
many) to be Collector of Internal Revenue in
the Second District of New York State.
Twenty-seven national banks with an ag
gregate capital of $3,590,000 were organized
during J uue.
Foreign.
A meeting of Americans was held in Lon
don on the Fourth. To the toast proposed by
United States Minister Phelps ("The
Fourth No country to an American like
home"). James G. Blaine responded.
Extensive preparations havo been made
for the eviction of seventy tenants in Comity
Wexford, Ireland. The tenants will resist to
tho best of their power.
A man named Schimak, who has just been
arrested in Moravia, has committed six mur
iers, three great robberies, and numerous
bhefts. He had in his possession a programme
for the murder of eighty of the richest in
habitants of Moravia. He had several ac
complices, some of whom have been arrested.
A part of St. Remi, Quebec, has been
burn.,d. Thirty private dwellings and five
pi ices of business were destroyed. Loss,
100,000.
A fire in the Citadel at Quebec destroyed
the barracks, stables, ammunition wagons,
etc.
A terrible famine prevails at Skagef jerd,
Iceland, and many peasants and thousands of
cattle have died from want of food.
The town of Nagy Karolyi, in Hungary
has been destroyed by a hurricane and water
spout. The site of the town and the adjoin
irg district are converted into a vast lake.
A";ny persons lost their lives.
Hon. James G. Blaine has been visiting
Edinburgh, accompanied by Senator Hale, of
Maine. At the Scottish capital he was the
guest of Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish
American manufacturer, and spoke at a
public reception.
Japan will build three new war vessels
at a cost of $2,000,000 each.
A farmhouse at Ardnahoe, Scotland, was
burned, and seven persons three women
and four men servants were incinerated.
The grasshopper plague is giving serious
trouble in Algeria this vear. The efforts
madV to destroy the eggs have proved useless,
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ltiOne district ou,uuu gauons nave Deen coi-
and burned. This represents the de-
f 7,250,000,000 insects.
IN A THEATRE.
SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST AND MANX
INJURED.
Business Houses Destroyed Half a
Million Dollars of Property Burn
ed up Names of Those Who
Perished.
A dispatc h from Hurley, Wis. , says : Fire
broke out on the stage of the Alcazar Thea
ter at eight o'clock Saturday night, and
within an hour the entire business portion
of the town was in flames, while eleven per
sons had perished in the theater. The char,
red remains of nine people have been taken
from the ruins. The loss is fully half a
million dollars. The Alcaz ir was a variety
theater, chiefly frequented by miners, and
was one of the resorts of unsavory repute
associated with the notorious dance housse
of the mining regions. Only a small audi
ence had gathered when the fire broke out
and they scrambled out in a hurry. Several
of the actors, however, rushed upstairs to
save their wardrobe, and when they sought
to escape found that they were hemmed in j
all sides, the flames having spread through j
the wooden building with incredible rapidi-
ty. How they struggled to nee will never
be known, as none of them, except Sdie
Wells and Mabel Powers, were ever seen
again. The former appeared at a second
story window, and called piteously upon the
crowd outside to save her. Before a hand
could be i aised the flames reached her, and
communicated to her clothing. She made
frantic effort to jump through the window;
then, with a piercing shriek, fell into the
furnace below.
Mabel Po ers had reached a third-story
window, she jumpiand was so badly injur
ed that her recovery is doubtful.
Apiong those who perished in the theater
were :
Frank Young.
Sadie1 McCabe and George Jackson, colored
comedians.
Tilbe Moore, song and dance artist.
Mabel Goodrich and husband.
Sfedie Wells.
Mrs Fenton and two or three others whose
names are not known.
The Alcazar was in the very heart of the
cir. It was a mass of flames in a very short
time. The Are seemed to leap from building
to building, until several blocks became a
roaring oven. It was not long before every
business building between Third and Fifth
avenues was in flaihes. Ail efforts to et
the Are under control seemed futile. The fare
department, reinforced by scores of volun
teers, seut its puny streams against the ad
vancing walls of llama, but had to retreat
as the. fire swept resistlessly on. It did not
stop'nuitil the material for it to feed upon
was lacking. The individual losses over
$5,000, are as follows: Moore, McFarran &
Co., merchandis3 and clothing, $50,000;
Jtfoore, Agnew & Co., general hardware,
$40,000; Heinemann Bros. .& Co., dry goods,
$25,o?X); Cohn & Ninu, general merchandise,
$ 10,000; Brill anil Langdon, same, $30,000;
Cirrothers Bros., st ick of liquors, $5000;
J. B. Lanlois, saloon and household goods,
$),000; Oscar Hanson, furnishing goods, $6,
U0O; Lemon & Coster, drugs, $S,000; Proprie
tors of the Fair, , 000; John E. Burton,
sixteen building, s $50;)0; Charles Leclaire,
Alcizar theater, $:i000; D. P. McNeil, sa
loon a-id household. $10,000; P. S. Birdie,
wholesale liquors, $5,000; A. E. G llagher
law library, $5000; Paeske Bros., groceries
v ith building, $11,000; C. Perrit, restaurant.
$5,000; F. A. Day, h ml ware, $5,000; J,
Ridgeman, saloon and restaurant, $5,000.
A special from Iron wood, Mich., across
the river from Hurley, Wis., says. Seven
teen people lost the r live, in the Alcazar.
The following additional names of dead are
given: J. W. Vanquick, Samuel Haley,
Lauris Brainerd. It is probable that John
Jarrett, the stage carpenter, will die from
his injuries. Jennie Sheridan, an actress,
who leaped from the third-story, is also
severely hurt, She said that she tried to
pursuade several others to jump, but they
delayed and the floor fell in, taking them
with it.
STAGE SPARKS.
Christine Nilsson has been engage! dol
nitely for an American tour by Mr. Abbey, i
Patti's seventeenth farewell tour in
the United States will not begin until wintar.
M. Gounod's "Joan of Arc" mass is to ba
first smig in the cathedral at Rhenns next
month.
Charlotte Wolter, the famous tragedi
enne of Vienna, is making ready for a tour
in America.
Mrs. Langtrt helped the American eagle
to scream on the Fourth by reciting a patri
otic poem in San Francisco.
Mrs. Tom Thumb and her second husband
will make a tour around the world, unLr the
management of Messrs. Simmon Js& iirown,
Nicholas Crouch, of Baltimore, Md.. has
been made a member of the London Society
of arts. He is the author ol "Kathleon Ma
vourneen." Commodore Nutt, who rivaled Tom
Thumb as a dwarf some years ago, is selling
tickets for a dime museum in Boston. He is
gray haired.
" The Amber Heart" which was tried in
London recently failed as a play, even though
it had Miss- Terry in the caste, and is said to
be a very pretty fable.
An Italian paper calls attention to the fact
that, notwithstanding the flourishing condi
tion of music in Germany and Austria, only
twenty-six new oparas and operettas were
made known to these Empires during the year
ISSti, while thirty-nine were brought forth in
Italy.
It is said that few debutantes have made a
more decided success in London than Miss
Amelia Groll, of Cleveland, Ohio. When sha
ippeared at Drury Lane recently as Mar
jaerite in Gounod's " Faust," she carried the
ludience by storm. She has a mezzo-soprano
roice of great volume, notably strong in the
ipper register.
UNHEALTHY MILK.
Dairy Full of Cows Sick
Pleuro-Pneumonia.
With
A dispatch from St. Louis, says: The
health department made a startling discov
ery in Henry Weasel's dairy. He keeps fifty
cows and supplys a large section bf the city
with milk. Fifteen cows died "during the
last week of pleuro-pneumonia and the
others are down with the fever. The milk
however was distributed until Thursday.
The inspectors destroyed fifty gallons of
inf ectwa milk which he found on the prem
ises. An investigation showed that a herd
of Texas cattle had been driven through a
pasture where Weasle's cows had been feedj
I n. a i.1 Jl ' I T .
me ana tne disease is supposed to nave
been communicated in this manner. One
tther dairy in the same vicinity is infected.
BANKERS FOR IMMIGRANTS.
A New York Institution Being Inves
tigated by the Commissioners.
A dispatch from New York, says: At a
meeting of the Immigration Commissioners
Commissioner Stephenson produced a Ger
man paper published in Ohio, and called
attention to an advertisement in it of "The
American Immigration Company, 80 State
street, New York, P. O. box 1040, R.E.
Jeanson, agent." The advertisement solici
ted deposits of savings, and oflered to trans
act all kinds of financial business. The
commissioner said his attention had been
called to the case of an immigrant who had
deposited $2,000 with the company, and who
when he asked for his money, received only
a part in cash and the rest in Missouri bonds.
The commissioner called at the office of the
company, and when he asked for the presi
dent, a man named Warner presented him
self. He afterwards said he was not the
president, but only the manager. This man
said that up to December last the institution
was known as the "American Immigrant
Company, of Hartford. Ct." At that time
Mr. Bartholomew, who had charge of its
finances, skipped out with the assets, and
the concern was bought by J. C. Savery and
James Callahan, Mr. Savery stbsequently
told him, the commissioner said, that the
company had a charter, but dilligent search
failed to show any record of it. Mr. Savery
admitted that their present liabilities were
$350,000, an i that the only security the
depositors had for their money was the per
sonal security of J. C. Savery, This sort of
a thing the commissioner said, had been
going on for years, and he asked that the
board rescind permission to enter Castle
Garden, on the plea of helping immigrants,
from all persons except agents of railroads
and steamers. The board ordered that a
list of persons possessing such priveliges be
prepared, ? nd also decided that the attention
of the city authorities be called to the mat
ter. Commissioner Stephenson also spoke
of anothir similar institution, managed by
O. R. Sjostrom, at 27 State street, in which
the depositors had no security.
TERRIFIC SUMMER STORMS.
Churches, Barns and Mountain For
estj Fired by Lightning.
Reading, Pa, Thursday night's storm
did a vast amount of damage in this section
of the state. At Weisenburg, Lehigh county
Zaegle's Church was struck by lightning
and entirely consumed; loss $8,000. Near
Kutztown, this county, Peter Kline's large
barn was struck and destroyed, with all the
contents: loss $5000. Hundreds of acres of
growing corn were washed out by the heavy
rainfall. Lightning set fire to the dry tim
ber on the Blu Mountains, and the flame
spread rapidly over five hundred acres of
timber, until extinguished to-day by hard
work on the part of residents of the
neighborhood.
Iew York. During the thunder storm
Thursday evening lightning struck the wire
connected with the dynamite cartridges
placed in the holes drilled for blasting at
shapt 6, on the new aqueduct, causing their
premature explosion in both the north and
south headings of the tunnel, killing Buzze
lia Stranker, an Austrian, The men in the
tunnel ban just been called away when the
the explosion took piace, otherwise the loss
of life would have been large. The wire was
disconnected with the battery at the top of
the shaft when the lightning struck it.
St. Louis. A special from Little Rock,
Ark. says depatches from Carlisle and Jack
sonville, Ark., state that those places were
isited by a severe wind and rain storm
TVirsday afternoon. The Baptist Church
at Carlisle was blown down, and several
other buildings were completely destroyed.
It is impossible to estimate the loss to crops
and property. So far as ascertained, there
has been no loss of life.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The number of religious sects in England
and Wales now number 2'SQ.
There is complaint in all parts of Cali
fornia of a scarcity of harvest hands.
The Soci
:ietv of Christian Endeavor, only
)ldnow numbers 100,000 members.
six years ol
Two years ago Findlay, Ohio, had 5,000 in
habitants; now it has 20,000. Natural gas
did it.
Railway cars are now fitted up as chapels
in Russia, so that people may worship as they
travel.
A mitrailleuse is being tried in the
Austrian army which wll fire 1,000 bullets
hi ninety seconds. '
The United States Fish Commissioners
have distributed 91,000,001) shad in the rivers
of the country the past season.
A Vermont physician reports the recent
death of a patient at sixty years of age who
never possessed a natural tooth.
Sixty-two sheep huddled together under
one tree in Oshtemo, Mich., during a recent
storm were killed by lightning.
Emanuel Cross, of Stoddard County.Mis
souri, is nearly 105 years old. He draws
pension for services in Indian wars.
Mr. James S. Richardson, of New Orleans,
the largest cotton planter in the world, has
this year oS,000 acres in cotton and 7,000 acres
in com.
Hon. E. E. Jackson, of Baltimore, has
purchased 40,000 acres of agricultural land in
Alabama. He intends to go to raising cotton
on an extensive scale.
Ex-Mayor Davis, of Tuscola, 111., has a
sand hill crane that gives a shrill call twenty
four hours before every storm. The crane is
fifty years old, and has never failed in its
prophecy,
MARKETS.
Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra,?3.25
i$3.75; Wheat Southern Fultz, 83a84cts;
Dorn Southern White, 56a57cts, Yellow, 48a
19 cts. ; Oats Southern and Pennsylvania,
37a38cts. ; Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania,
58aOOcts. ; Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania
14a$1450; Straw Wheat, 7.50a$8.00; Butter,
Eastern Creamery, 18a20cts. , near-by receipts
16al8cts. ; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream.lOK
stllcts., Western, 9aKcts.; Eggs 12al4;
battle 3.25a4.C2; Swine OaOcts. ;
Sheep and Lamb 3a4V cts.; Tobacco
Leaf Inferior, la$l.50, Good Common, 3a$4,
Middling, 5a$6, Good to fine red, 7a$9, Fancy,
dam.
New York Flour Southern Common to
fair extra, 3.50a4: Wheat No. 1 Whit , 84
a85 cts.; Rye State, 54a50; Corn Southern
Ycfiow, 47a48cts. ; Oats White State, 38a30
cts. ; Butter State, 13al9 cts. ; Cheese State,
lla!4cts.; Eggs 14al4V cts.
Phtt.delphia Flour Pennsylvania
! fanev. 3. 50a 4: Wheat Pennsylvania an
Southern Red, 85aS0 cts ; Rye -Pennsylvania
i 57a58cts.; Corn Southern Yellow, Wa47 cts:
! Oats 25a37 cts. ; Butter State, 1819 cts.;
cheest N. Y. Factory, llaia cts. ; Eggs
State, iiaUi Cts.
A
TERRIBLE
GALAMTT
FORTY HOUSES AND TWO HOTELS
SLNK INTO A SWISS LAKE.
A
Strange Disaster in Which
lives Were Lost.
Many
Tho beautiful town of Zug, nestled at the
foot of the towering Zugerberg, on the shores
of Lake Zugersee, in Switzerland, was visited
by a terrible calamity the other night, result
ing in the loss of more than one hundred
fives. Without warning and almost
simultaneously several large quays recent
ly built into the lake, and upon which had
been erected the Hotel Zurich, a handsome
four-story structure, and an inn and some
forty dwellings, silently sank with great
rapidity into the water. Not a vestige
was left of the great structures except
such furniture and framework as floated
from the general wreck. The horror of the
scene was greatly heightened by the oppres
sive silence when the waters closed over all.
The cries of the few victims who were awake
were hushed in a moment, and those who
witnessed the awful sight were too dazed by
the strange phenomenon to utter a sound.
The Hotel Zurich was full of visitors and
the inn was crowded also, and many entire
families were in the private houses. It was
dark when the accident occurred and many
undoubtedly were ingulfed while they slept.
Among those known to have been lost is M.
Collin, President of the Canton of Zug.
People came flocking in from neighboring
cities to learn the fate of relatives and friends,
but all stood helpless on the shore wring
ing their hands. A few bodies came to the
surface, but the majority were held down .
by being pinned in the wreck. Men from
the silk and cotton mUls and from the tan
neries offered their services, and active steps
were taken to recover the bodies. Fully half
the new quays have vanished, and it is not
probable that they can ever be rebuilt, as there
is no certainty that the foundations will be
secure enough. People moved precipitately
from the houses on the other quays and sought
homes farther back from the lake. Great
terror seized the inhabitants because of the
mysterious accident. Some ascribe it to
earthquake causes, while others believe it is
but a kind of a landslide on the mountain
side which was caused by the action of the
lake.
One of the most striking incidents of the
terrible disaster was the discovery at day
light of a cradle floating on the lake several
hundred feet from the shore. Several boat
men put off to secure it, but what was their
surprise on rowing alongside to find a babe
sleeping peacefully. Whether the cradle
was pushed from a window in one
of the doomed houses or was accidentally
released from the wreckage will never be
known. The little child was uninjured. The
scene on shore among the matrons who had
gathered there to join in the general lementa
tion was pathetic, each woman in turn
gazing wistfully into the little face -in the ef
fort to identify it. The people of the whole
town were on the lake shore all day, and
work in the factories and homes was neg
lected. The town of Zug has a population of 4 277.
There is a gymnasium and public library,and
the inhabitants are engaged in fishing, cattle
raising, in tanning and in silk and cotton
spinning. The lake on which it is situated is
nine miles long and two to three miles broad.
The Zugerberg towers from the east shore of
the lake to a height of 3,251 feet.
The Canton or State in which it is situated
is Zug. It is the smallest State of the Swiss
Confederation, and is surrounded by the
cantons of Schurtz, Unterwalden, Lu
zerne, Aargau and Zurich. It has
a population of 22,775, and an area
of ninety -two square miles. The town of Zug
is fifty-two miles northeast of Berne, and the
lake is 1,301 feet above the level of the sea.
The town is about seventy-five miles south of
the southern boundary hue of Germany.
SLAUGHTERING CHINESE.
Many Mutilitated. Bodies Found
Floating Down Snake River.
A dispatch from Portland, Ore., says:
Recent reports from Idaho territory are to
the effect that a number of Chinese mining
camps scattered along Snake river have
beerfraided. It is reported there are from
DO to 60 Chinese miners on the Oregon sidefof
the Snake river about 40 mfles above Lewis
ton, and from the many mutilated remains
that have floated down the river it is expect
ed that either Indians or whites have raided
the camp and murdered most, if not all, of
the Celestials. Every few days bodies have
been discovered lodged in the stream, and in
most cases the remains were found to have
been stabbed of shot. The general impres
sion is the murders were committed by white
who killed the Chinese and robbed them of
their gold dust.
The Chinese residents of Lewiston, Idaho,
are greatly terrified over the reports and
the discovery of the mutilated of their
countrymen. They have sent up several
scouts to make an investigation of the mat
ter. They are also said to be in correspon
dence with the Chinese minister at Washing
ton regarding the outrages. Some of the
Idaho papers are calling loudly on Governor
Pennoyer, of Oregon, to make some effort to
discover the perpetrators of these mnrders
by offering rewards.
Among the Chinese the impression prevails
that there is an organized band of anti-Mongolian
vigilantes raiding the placer mining
regions.
A WHEAT DEAL DISCLOSURE
The
Bank of Montreal Has a
Bis
Suit Against the Fidelity.
A dispatch from Chicago says: Some im
portant facts have just come to the surface
in regard to the great wheat deal which were
suppressed at time of the collapse. Two
drafts for $100,000 each, payable to the order
of J. W. Wilshire on the Chemical National
Bank of New York, were drawn June 14 by
the Fidelity National Bank, and signed by
Benjamin E. Hopkinkins, cashier. These
drafts were indorsed by Wilshire, Eckert &
Co. to J. W. Hoyt, by Hoyt to Irving Green
& Co., and by them to the bank of Montreal,
which, upon refusal of payment by the Chem
ical National Bank of New York, brought
suit in attachment against the Fidelity Na
tional bank and garnishee the Metropolitan
Bank of Chicago, which had $75,000 to the
credit of the Cincinnati bank.
D M. Kirton. attornev for the Bank of
d I Montreal, refused to say anything in regard
to the matter, except tnat tnese two draits
furnished the basis of a vigorous prosecution
to be instituted by the federal authorities
against the officials of the Fidelity National
Bank of Cincinnati.
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