Nebraska Newspapers

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RED CLOUD CfflEI
A. O. HOSMEIt, Proprietor.
BED CLOUD. - - - NEBRASKA
CURRENT COMMENT.
The venerable Nelson Dewey, the
first Governor of Wisconsin, was re
ported lying at the point of death at
his home in Cassville.
James Beggs, a well known me
chanical engineer of New York, com
mitted suicide recently. He showed
symptoms of insanity.
Dubuque, Iowa, was recently in
vaded by swarms of Mormon" or
sand flies. The insects had possession
of the town for several days.
Judge Gakdexshire, of the circuit
court at Lafayette, Tenn., has charged
the grand jury that a man is indicta
ble for talking infidelity in public
C. P. Huntington and the directors
of the Brazil Mail Steamship Company
have filed at New York a certificate
stating that the (1,000,000 of stock is
fully paid.
The Chicago Board of Trade has
adopted a resolution declaring against
the recent decision of the court, but
resolving to restore the market quota
tions withdrawn May 31.
The New York Graphic says that
the National Democratic Committee
still owes over $200,000 for campaign
expenses, and that Messrs. Brice. Gor
man and Scott have made up $120,000
of that sum.
Chairman Abbott, of Carnegie,
Phipps & Co., emphatically denied
that his firm had reduced the price of
steel plates $6 a ton or made any other
cut whatever in the selling price of
their products.
The Cologne Gazette publishes a
dispatch from St. Petersburg stating
that the Czar has expressed the inten
tion of meeting Emperor William on
the German frontier. Tho Czar is
averse to going to Berlin.
Anita and Miriam Boggs, maiden
sisters living in Jackson County, Va.,
committed suicide the other day by
taking arsenic. They left a letter
signed jointly saying that there was
nothing in life for old maids and that
they were tired of it. They were in
fair circumstances, but had no rela
tives living.
The Civil-Service Commission has
submitted its report in the case of
Postmaster Blair, of the Grand Rapids
(Mich.) post-office, who, it was
charged, exacted political favors from
his subordinates. The Commission
finds the. charges not sustained and
says that it had no authority to ex
amine witnesses and make a thorough
examination.
TnE Massachusetts State police, on
board the .steamer Nellie, recently
overhauled the steamers Asterral and
Sea Comet, 'of Newport, R. I., whose
crews were fishing near West Island,
in violation of Massachusetts law.
The crews, numbering twenty-nine
men, were arrested. The penalty is
confiscation of the vessels and $200
fine for each man.
Joe Friedman was grinding sausage
at his meat market in Carbon, Wy. T.,
the other day, when William Miller,
an employe of a rival establishment,
entered. The visitor hinted that de
ceased canine entered largely into the
mixture. Friedman became crazy mad
at once and without any warning
rushed upon Miller, and with both
hands sank a cleaver into his skull.
TnE board of review and equaliza
tion, of Minneapolis, Minn., came to
the conclusion at a recent session that
under the decision of Judge Seagrave
Smith they could not assess tho wheat
in store in the elevators. Under this
decision, which was delivered in tne
Eugene Wilson case, it was necessary
for them to locate the 'ownership of
the wheat on May 1. This they could
not da
The following is a statement of total
pross postal receipts in tho chief West
ern cities for the quarter ended June
30, 1889: Chicago, $696,623; St. Louis.
$255,139; Cincinnati. $190,740; San
Francisco. $169,672; Pittsburgh, $121,
638; Cleveland, $104,133; Detroit, $90.
743; Kansas City. $98,805; New Orleans.
$86,123; Milwaukee, $87,043; Minneap
olis, $73,065; St. Paul, $73,298; Louis
ville. $72,060; Indianapolis, $49,749;
Toledo. $36,547. The total of thirty
leading cities in which the above are
included are $5,402,706, and the aver
age rate per cent, of increase over the
tame quarter of 1888 is 8.5.
A delegation of Creek Indians re
ently called on Secretary Noble and
argued for a per capita payment
among the Creeks from their fund of
a'aout $3,000,000 to meet the present
needs of their people, who now num
ber about 14,000. The Secretary ex
pressed himself as favoring the pay
ment provided it could be done by
executive authority, but said "it was
doubtful whether .any portion. of the
principal eould be so paid without
legislative action. The delegation,
antkipatiag a decision that legisla
tive action would be necessary, asked
the Secretary for such indorsement as
would enable tbem to borrow the
money from capitalists, pending such
action. This proposition, however,
did not meet with the Secretary's
approval.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gleaned by Telegraph and Matt.
PERSONAL AND FOUTICAC
Judge Tyneb, formerly Postmaster
General and now Assistant Attorney-General
of tba Post-office Department, was re
ported critically ill with congestion of the
liver.
Br some hocus pocus or another New
port, Ky., finds itself with four mayors.
Miss Anna Kellt. daughter of Anthony
Kelly, and James F. Blaine, of St. Paul,
nephew of J. G. Blaine, were married at
the Immaculate Conception Church at
Minneapolis, Miaiu, recently.
John L. Stone has been nominated by
the Democrats for Governor of Missis
sippi. Charles H. Bollman. of the National
Fish Commission, died recently in the
swamps of Southern Georgia while at work
for the Government.
Tns captain of the steamer Caroline
Miller, which arrived at New York recent
ly, declared that when he left all was
quiet in Northern HaytL He denied that
Legitime had enlisted female troops.
A crank recently shot at the Emperor
of Brazil at Bio de Janeiro without effect.
The New York Express states that
Archbishop Corrigan has been summoned
to Rome to give an account of his admin
istration of the New York diocese.
The report of the Civil-Service Com
mission on Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee,
Wis., recommends his removal.
Secretary Noble has issaed a peremp
tory order to the agent at the Quapaw In
dian agency in the northeastern part of
the Territory to immediately remove from
the reservation all the cattle unlawfully
herded thereon.
The Prohibitionists of Virginia have
nominated a full State ticket, headed by
Thomas E. Taylor, of Loudon County.
The Egyptian Government has notified
the French Government that the tatter's
refusal to accept the conversion scheme
will cost Egypt 200.000 yearly.
The anniversary of the death of ex
President Juarez was celebrated through
out Mexico on the, 18ta by imposing dem
onstrations of the Liberal party. In the
capital there was an immense procession
and considerable excitement among the
people. A bitter factional feeling pre
vailed and yells, "Death to Conservatism"
and "Death to the clergy," were heard
everywhere. There was no serious dis
order. The Government printing office will is
sue a publication entitled "State Papers
of Grover Cleveland." edited by Lamont.
It will consist of nil Cleveland's messages
to Congress, vetoes and otherwise.
Mas John A. Logan returned from Eu
rope recently on the steamer Trave.
M. Rouvier, the French Minister of
Finance, has dismissed five treasurers
general (collectors of inland revenue) for
being active members of tho Boulaugerist
party.
The Tory candidate was elected in
Marylebone, London, on the 19:n, receiv
ing 2.570 votes to his opponent's 2.0S&
R. G. Horr, of Michigan, has declined
his appointment as Consul to Valparaiso,
Chili.
Ma. Parnell addressed 30.000 of his fol
lowers at Edinburgh, on the 19th, and was
received with great enthusiasm.
East Guthrie. Ok- bad its first election
on the lA.b, C38 votes being registered. T.
H. Stockslager was elected mayor.
Rumors were prevalent in Europe that
the widow of the late Emperor William
of Germany had joined the Catbolio
Church.
A Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says that the Government
is disputing with-France the possession of
Great Inagua, an island near Hayti.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Bush House at Fresno, CaL, was
burned the other morning. Several peo
ple were seriously burned, but no lives
were lost The stables were burned in
cluding a number of horses. The loss was
estimated at $40,000.
Serious difficulties continue to be re
ported from several towns in Oklahoma,
caused by lot jumping, ejectments and ef
forts to change the local governments.
The troubles have their origin in the
doubt prevalent that the authorities have
no legality for any of their acts in fact,
that there is no legal government for the
Territory except the coercion of Federal
troops.
The demands of the engineers of the
Pittsburgh & Western railroad for an ad
vance in wages were acceded to and the
threatened strike was abandoned.
Shellrock, Iowa, has been destroyed
by fire.
A wins area of country in Prince George
County, Va sunk the other day, creating
much alarm. A lake formed, and as no
stream existed in the vicinity, the sub
sidence was credited to the action of a
subterranean river.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is re
ported at Path Valley, near Chambers
burg, Pa.
The three-year-old child of Italian
steamboat passengers and Henry Shelton,
colored, who tried to save it, were
drowned near Paducah, Ky.. recently.
The great Illinois Steel Company has
decided to go into the building of steel
vessels for the lake commerce.
The first seven clause of the Grace
British bondholders' contract with Peru
have been approved by the Chamber of
Deputies of that country and the accept
ance of the entire contract is now thought
to be assured.
Two men were killed and several fatally
or seriously injured by an accident on the
Lehigh Valley road near Shamokin. Fa.,
recently. Two runaway cars collding
with a passenger train was the cause.
Fifteen persons were more or less in
jured by an accident on the Cairo & Vin
cennes road near Mount Carmel. III., re
cently. The train was demolished. A car
jumping the track caused the accident.
The Chicago Herald recently published
a report that the Chicago & Alton rail
road was in the market for sale and that
it would probably pass into the bands of
the Missouri Pacific or the Northwestern.
The stable of the Lowell (Mass ) Horse
Railroad Company was burned the other
night with 120 horses. Thirty cars ana
other contents were destroyed, The Hotel
Belmont was damaged. The loss was
$100,000.
McDougall's clgar.shaped boat baa
been launched at Dulutb, Mian. It will
carry 100,000 bushels of grain.
Fire in Columbus, O., the other morn
ing did $75,000 damage to the Breyfogla
building and the stock of occupant.
Three firemen were injured.
The rumor that Jay Gould was prepar
ing to buy the Chicago & Alton was de
clared to be a Wall street fake.
The New York Times recently pub
lished the outline of a scheme to consoli
date on an immense scale several trunk
railroad lines with a capital of $700,000.
000. The objective point woald be Boston,
which the promoters iateaded to make
the great metropolis of the contiaeat
wita steamship liae eta
A white convict named Wells, working
on the railroad near Paris, Ky., was shot
by a guard the other day while trying to
escape.
The Irish team won the Elcho challenge
shield at Wimbledon with a score of l,fc9;
the English, 1.684; Scotch. 1.626.
The coal heavers of Superior, Wis.,
struck recently for fifty cents an hour, on
which they were beaten in the spring.
The Wabash railway car shops at But
ler, lad., were destroyed by fire recently
with several cars. Loss, $100,000.
John Fitzpatrick, referee; Bud Renaud
and Pat Duffy, managers of the excursion
to the prize fight; E. B. Rich, owner of
the fighting ground and Kilrain's host;
J. W. Smith, Rich's clerk, who enter
tained Sullivan before the fight; D. A.
Gilbert, the bead carpenter; W. B. Gilbert,
sawyer at the Rich mills, were arraigned
at Purvis, Mint- on the 18th for participa
tion in the late prize fight.
A secret ballot was taken among the
miner 3 of the Brazil (Ind.) region recently
to determine whether they should resume
work at the operators' terms. The prop
osition was defeated.
Two hundred houses were destroyed by
fire at Constantinople the other day.
Da.McDow, the slayer of Captain Daw
son, at Charleston, 8. C, has been ex
pelled from the South Carolina Medical
Society.
The Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin
will demand $123,000 annuities and back
dues which the Government owes them.
Three men were killed by the bursting
of a boiler at Stone's planing mill, Chi
cago. The building was blown to atoms.
Postmaster Grat, of Givin, Ala, was
shot and killed recently by Burrows, the
train robber, for sending to the dead let
ter office a mask which Burrows claimed.
At Denver. CoL, on the 18th warrants
were issued for the arrest of Secretary of
State Rice, Sheriff Webber and his part
ner in the furniture firm of Graham &
Webber, and Lawrence & Co., who sup
plied the Assembly.and the State Printers,
Collier & Co. all charged with conspiracy
to defraud the State.
Arsenic was placed in the food of tho
four children of Joseph Hulter, a planter
living near Star City. Ark., recently and
three of them died. The criminal and his
motive were unknown.
CHURCniLL's mill at Alpena. Mich., was
burned recently. The loss was $120,000;
insurance, $30,000.
Business failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended July 18 numbered 208,
compared with 205 the previous week and
228 the corresponding week last year.
It was reported at New York on the 19th
thatClaus Spreckles was in with the sugar
trust. It was believed that the market
was cornered and that a grand coup was
meditated.
A man supposed to be Jack the Ripper
was arrested in the Whitechapel district
on the morning of tho 20th. He had just
killed a woman and bad the knife on his
person with which he had committed the
deed.
The Little Kanawha valley in West
Virginia was swept by a cloudburst on the
night of the ISth. At Norristown several
lives were lost.
Charles F. Coleman, treasurer of
Warren County, O., has been arrested,
charged with einbezzlemen'.
The National Educational Association
adjourned at Nashville, Tenn., on the 19th
to meet next year in St. Paul.
Two Indians, White Horse and Black
Eagle, were killed by lightning recently
in their tepee at Standing Rock Agency,
Dak.
Pearce & Rtan, wholesale liquor deal
ers, of Nashville. Tenn., have assigned.
Liabilities $103,09; assets, $133,149.
Chairman Walker, of the Inter-State
Commerce 'Railway Association, has is
sued a new decision restoring rates on
bullion and ore from Pueblo and Denver
to Missouri river points to the former basis
of $5 and $4 respectively.
McQuade. on trial for boodleism in the
Broadway, New York, combine, has been
acquitted.
Judge Longenecker says that much
valuable evidence against the men in
dicted for the Cronin murder had been
secured since the last grand jury. The
new grand jury will not touch the case.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHER.
KXL.a oacubs, colored, of Washington
was drowned at Beach Havon, N. J., re
cently while bathing.
Mrs. Hogan, wife of the missing aero
naut, believes her husband was drowned.
The Washington Sunday Herald again
reiterates tbe story that Blaine will retire
from the Cabinet and says its Informa
tion comes from the best authority, and
fixes tbe date of bis resignation as Octo
ber 1, so as to give tho President time to
select a successor before the extra session
of Congress.
Clearing house returns for tbe week
ended July 20 showed an average increase
of 12.3 compared with the corresponding
week of last year. In New York the in
crease was 13.5.
The excursion steamer St Nicholas
struck the Tybee railway bridge on the
Savannah river on the night of the 20th
Two men were killed and a woman was
drowned. Many were injured, several
fatally.
A. L. Mohler. assistant general man
ager of the Manitoba railway, predicts
that the country tributary to the Mani
toba lines will furnish for shipment at
least 32,000,000 bushefs of wheat
Secretary Ppoctor has been ap
proached by several persons requesting
him to take soaio action in the matter of
Captain Arme?' accepting a gold medal
sent by bis Pennsylvania admirers for
pulling the nose of General Beaver. Tho
Secretary has concluded not to interfere
in the matter, over which he has no con
trol. The register and receiver of the land
office have decided tbe first claim contest
in Oklahoma, finding that as all three
contestants had violated the law relating
to homesteaders, neither was entitled to
the land. One was Deputy Marshal
White, who was on the ground at noon in
an official capacity, the second was a
Santa Fe employe and the third was in
the Chickasaw Nation at noon.
The freedom of the city of Edinburgh
was conferred upon Mr. Parnell on tbe
20th.
A general strike Is threatened in the
British lace trade.
Count Julius Andrasst. formerly Im
perial Prime Minister of Austria, is dead.
Business was inactive on the London
Exchange daring the week ended July SO.
American and Canadian railroad securi
ties were firm. Tbe German bourses were
steady and prices were firm at Paris. The
Havana sugar market was quiet
The board of directors of the North
Carolina insane asylum acquitted Dr.
Grisson of the charges of immorality aad
misappropriation of supplies.
The reported arrest of Jack the Ripper
far London turned out to be falsa
Michael McGratr, and his wife, aa
aged coaple, perished ia their burning
dwelling: near Frackville, Pa, the other
night The house was remote from aaj
other aad help could not arrive ia time
for the rescae of the inmates. !
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.
M. G. Maupen, a squaw man and des
perado, was recently arrested at Spring
view and jailed for many crimes commit
ted in that vicinity. Tlio news of his ar
rest soon spread, and at night a mob as
sembled, broke into the jail and shot
Maupin to death. His body was com
pletely riddled with bullets.
A storm on the 13th was unusually se
vere and destructive in various parts of
the State. At Loup City tbe rainfall was
very heavy and the wind did considerable
damage. In the vicinity of Palmer con
siderable damage was done by hail and
win d. At Greely Cen ter the rain was very
heavy. Crops were damaged in tbe vi
cinity of Clarks and the residence of R.
R. Douglass struck by lightning. Two
itiches of water fell at Platte Center and
crops were damaged. At Oceola it was
the worst storm of the season. AtOgal
lata the wind was very heavy and a young
man and ssveral horses were killed by
lightning. At Ainsworth a number of
buildings were struck by lightning. At
Nebraska City it was "almost a cyclone"
and much injury was done to buildings,and
at Chapman lightning struck the house
of Oscar May. killing his little daughter,
who was in bed at the time.
Ox a farm near Aurora the other day
William Barrett was shot and killed by
Henry Thornhill. a tough character.
Thornhill was evidently a favorite of Mrs.
Barrett and when the husband returned
home and found bis wife and Thornhill
making too free with his house he was
naturally indignant A quarrel and the
murder was the result It was with diffi
culty that tbe people could be kept from
lynching the murderer.
It is stated that the Attorney-General
has ordered tbe prosecution of John
Calhoun, late deputy collector at Omaha,
upon the charge of criminal embezzlement
The special agent's report showed that for
months prior to the turning over ot the
collector's office to Mr. Peters, the deputy
coll eel or had been systematically pocket
ing money forwarded for stamps, making
no returns for the same. The amount of
tho defalcation so far as footed up amounts
to between $0,000 and $7,000. Collector
Calhoun raadegood to the Government ihi
amount of his son's defalcation, but it was
said this would not save him from prose
cution. A valuable watch was accidentally
dropped into an old water closet vault at
Lincoln the other day and workmen were
employed to dig a pit adjacent in order to
drain it off and secure the watch. The
work had progressed nearly to completion
when the pick broke into an old unkuown
sewer. A volume of sewer gas rushed out
into tho face of tho workman who was
nearest, and ho was overcome almost at
once. A companion sprang to bis assist
ance and was quickly overcome by the
fatal gus. Others followed until seven in
all were affected, and four of them died
from tho effects of tbe gas. The victims
were Frank Maloney, A. Kinsley, John
Cleary and James Crawford. The two
latter left families.
The recent discovery of -several cases of
small-pox in Dodge County created much
excitement
"Kid" Hawkins, the gambler who killed
Frank Fnusler at Hastings but was acquit
ted on a technicality, has been warned by
letter to leave tbe city.
The roller mills at Fullerton were com
pletely wrecked bv tbe recent storm, the
loss being about $15,000.
During a late heavy rain and thunder
storm at Cbapman the six-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar May was
struck by lightning while in bed and
killed. A little brother, three years old,
lay in the same bed and was unharmed.
While the storm was in progress Mrs. May
went into the chamber where tbe children
were, and supposing tbem asleep did not
discover tbe little girl's death until morn
ing. The barn of Jared Harriet a farmer re
siding near Harvard, was recently struck
by lightning and destroyed, together with
seven bead of horsos. Loss, $1,700. Dur
ing the same storm the farm buildings of
Robert Patterson, near Crete, were struck
and bis house, barn, crib and 1,500 bushels
of corn destroyed.
Imperial suffered from its first fire the
other morning, the store of Thomas Mer
cer being destroyed, entailing a loss of
$0,500. The records of the county judge
and sheriff were in tbe building and were
lost
William Carson, colored, recently con
victed of muriler in tbe first degree for
killing Chauncey Wert, white, at a dance
in Beatrice on May 1, was taken into
court the other day and sentenced to be
banged on November 1. His attorneys
filed a motion for a stay of execution, and
will appeal to tho Supreme Court
The dead body of an unknown man was
found in the bushes near tbe railroad
track a mile east or Grafton about two
o'clock the other afternoon. There was a
bullet hole in the side of his head, and the
indications were be bad committed sui
cide. There were no papers on tbe body
by which he could bo identified.
Mrs. John E. Gordon, of Grant town
ship, Cuming County, has tried her band
at silk culture with a large degree of suc
cess. She has 10,000 cocoons ready for
shipment as the result of her season's
work.
According to tbe Atkinson Graphic a
wild animal of some kind, that has been
described as about the size of a large
wolf, with head and tail like a cat has
lately ben worrying tbe folks down in
Green Valley township, Holt County.
Not long ago a boy was attacked and se
verely bitten by tbe animal, while several
person, who were unarmed, have been
chased and had narrow escapes from its
terrible claws and teeth. The monster
has been shot at several times, but with
no apparent effect
The supervisors of Seward County have
offered a reward of $500 each for the ar
rest and conviction of tbe murderers of
the Leavitt children.
It is said that a Hastings man lost some
money on the defeat of Jake Kilrain and
has become crazy in apnsequence.
The trustees of thoFlattsmouth Presby
terian Church have adopted plans for a
new structure to cost $15,000.
Nineteen cars of the finest cattle ever
fed in Saline County were shipped from
Dorchester tbe other day. They averaged
about 1,500 pounds per head.
The report wa recently current that
Jeff Wagner, a wealthy young cattleman,
had been lynched by vigilantes ia North
western Nebraska.
Atr eight-year-old son of Frank Lacia,of
Covington, while playing near tbe rail
road track at that place tbe other day,
was struck by an engine aad fatally in
jured. F. P. Alexander, of Tecamsen, has a
saddle which has beea ia his family 103
years aad is still ia active ase, the only
thing new about it being a girth.
H. W. Shelton, aa old soldier residing
three miles from PlatUmoatb, died re
cently while sitting ia his chair,-or heart
failure. He leaves a wife aad large fam
ily of children, j
RIVER DISASTER.
An Excursion Steamer Strikes I
Bridge on the Savannah. Rivor.
Several Persons Killed and Inju
Worse Iteport From the Ksnanhs
Valley llnroting of Another
Dam Etc.
Charleston, S. C, July 22 Informa
tion has reached here of the partial de
struction of the excursion steamer St.
Nicholas Saturday night on tbe Savannah
river, killing several persons and serious
ly injuring many others. The St Nicho
las was carrying five hundred colored
passenger., and when passing the Tybee
railway bridge the beat was driven by the
curreut against the bridge with
great force. The forward deck
was crushed and torn to splin
ters. Two men were killed instantly
and thirty other persons were seriously
wounded. A panic ensued anion ir 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 wilt die. The coroner's
jury holds tbe railroad company responsi
ble for tbe disaster as tbe draw had not
been raised and there was no signal dis
played as required by law.
THE KANAWHA VALI.ET.
Parkersruro, W. Va., July 22. News
has been received from all parts of Wood
and Wirt Counties and the afil-ction
proves to be far worse than was at first
dreamed of. Tbe county commissioners
estimate that tbe loss ia this county alone
will reach $500,000.
A telephone message from Elizabeth
says that the village of Norristown is
entirely destroyed. Eight dwelling houses,
two stores, the Bapti-t Church, the to
bacco packing house and other buildings
are gone.
Seven lives were lost on Tucker creek.
They are: Orville Vest wife and two
children; John Daily, Roy Kiger, bis
wife, and one unknown person.
Urville nest, whose fnmny were
drowned, made a heroic effort to savo
them. He floated with them four miles
down Tucker croek trying to get them to
shore, but they were carried away from
him.
James Roberts, whose mother was
drowned, tried to save her by carrying
her from a llonting houe to shore, but bo
fell and she was swept away. Ho had al
readv saved two small children.
Navieation will be suspended for a good
while, becnu-o of the break in lock No. 1
on Little Kanawha, and up the river peo
ple will have no communication with the
outside world.
The following is a complete list of the
drowned so far as known, though it is
thought that tbe death list will be much
larger when the districts now cut off from
tbe outside world are heard from: Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Black, Mrs. Thomas
Hughes and four children, EdBcz, Mrs.
Isaac Rob-rts, Mrs. Orville West and two
children, John Bailey, Roy Kiger, Mrs.
Roy KigT, Mrs. Isaac Tucker and a niaa
whose name can not be ascertained.
A DAK HURSTS.
Lancaster, O., July 22. One of the
most disastrous storms ever known in
Hocking valley culminated yesterday in
the breaking of Sharp's dam at Sugar
Grove, on the Hocking canal, which held
in store a large body of water that sap
plied the lower levels of the cannL The
heavy rains had tilled the reservoir to the
banks, when suddenly tbe dam gave
way and with a mighty roar tho sea of
water went out through tbe valley,
taking with it every movable object For
twenty miles the soil was plowed up and
trees, fences, crops and hundreds of head
of live stock were swept away. No lives
were lost because the people hat taken
warning and because the bouses are
situated on the bluffs that overlook the
valley. But the canal for miles is a
wreck, and thousands of feet of railroad
track are washed away. Roads and
bridges are annihilated, aad the whole
valley for miles looks like a dry wafer
course. Competent judges place the loss
in the hundreds of thousands.
two victims or foul air.
Horart, lnd July i2. About seven
o'clock yesterday morning on the farm of
Henry Hermann, about three miles west
of here, a farm band descended into a
well to take out some meat which had
fallen in, but was overcome by foul arr
and fell in tbe water. Michael Hefner,
a neighbor who was present, descended
on a rope to help him out and he was over
come and fell to the bottom of tbe well,
which was forty-two feet deep. Tbe
bodies were not taken out until two o'clock
in the afternoon.
a steamship's warm voyage.
New York, July 21. The steamship
Hawkhurst, Captain Robinson, arrive
here yesterday from a Brazilian port. On
her outward trip from New York she had
a terrible experience. Her cargo, consist
ing of 200 barrels of oil and a quantity of
tow, caught fire and her crew tried to de
sert The captain, however, compelled
them to remain on the vessel and success
fully made the run of 2,330 miles with the
fire smoldering in ber hold. The Emperor
of Brazil presented the captain with a
number of tokens of his esteem because cf
bis bravery.
HORRIBLE DEATH OF A TRAVELER.
Hartford. Conn., July 2i At South
ington last night Charles Degnan tried to
board a freight train while in raotio:i. but
his feet caught in the step of the caboose
and he fell backward, his foot wedging so
as to hold him. and he was dragged in this
way a quarter of a mile before he was dis
covered. His head was mashed to a jelly,
one arm torn to shreds and brains and
blood spattered along the track for a con
siderable distance.
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Earthquake ia Trauma.
Memphis. Tenn.. July 2L AtC:32 o'clock
Friday evening a slight shock of earth
quake rattled crockery and glassware on
shelves. Two severe shocks were felt at
Covington, Tenn.. thirty-five miles north
of Memphis, each shock lasting several
seconds. The wildest confusion prevailed.
Houses were abandoned and the streets
filled with frightened people. A third but
lighter shock was felt there about 7:15.
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Boalanger's Latest Boulaaxer.
London, July 2L General Boulsnier
has Usned a manifesto in which he de
clares that the law against multiple can
didates in France is a blow against uni
versal suffrage. The measure, however,
he says, will not prevent tbe nation mak
ing known its sovereign wilL He contin
ues: "As a protest against this odious
violation of law the national committee
has decided that I shall present myself as'
candidate for the Councils-General ia
eighty cantons. The verdict of the 'peo
ple of those cantons will be the prelude te
the grander rriampa that is near at hand.
Before pag the 'gang that now dishonors
the country will be pitilessly put away
aad iateraal peace restored."
THE TRUST ANACONDA.
Less Swectues ami .lliiro Money t Ite
Squeezed Out r Sutrar A Combine to
Advatioe the lrice of .Halt.
New York. July 20. A belief that the
vast quantities of refined sugar that liavo
been piled up in the big storage w.ire
houes along the Brooklyn wuter front
daring the past two years has been cor
raled with the view of a sipioeze bv the
managers of the sugar trust has found
many supporters in financial circle.
Though for some time past the piling up
of the commodity was generally known,
it was supposed to be owing to a scarcity
of room in the refining buildings. Tiie
Haveraeyer & Elder. Huvemeyer &
Mathieson and AVecber companies the
apparent controlling spirits of the trusty
wert the most extuiiMve storers. '
On the Stock Exchange the opinion pre
vailed that tbe trust had been engineering
a corner in sugar and that ere long the
price of the refined articlo would bo sent
ap like a rocket The wholesale grocery
houses and other consumers of tbe article
in this city evidently anticipated this
movement on tbe part of the trust, and
for months past every available inch of
storeroom in tho big grocery homes on
the West side has been utilized for storing
sugar, and many ot the public ware
houses heretofore at this season of the
year filled with the winter supply of
canned goods have been engaged by the
wholesalers for sugar storage.
- On the other hand Wall street sugar
brokers those who will talk on the sub
ject hold that the trust has stored the
sugar because there is no market for it.
The prices have struck bottom and refin
ers can realize no profit on their manu
facture. It has been suggested that possibly the
sugar has been accumulated to undermine
Claus Sprockets when he got his Philadel
phia beet proiuct refinery in operation;
that it was the intention to swamp the
market with tbe genuine article at a low
price as soon as Spreckels should turn
out his first cargo. In answer to this
theory a member ot one of the most
prominent sugar concerns in Wall street,
but with no affiliations with the trustr
said: "Whatever the object ot storini;
this sugar is it is liuost certain that
Spreckels has a hand in it. His alleged
enmity to tho sugar trust is all moon
shine. No one on the inside supposes tor
an instant that ho is going to fight a
corporation with .'0,000.000. He is with
tho trust hand and glove. Ho's too smart
a business man to fi;;lit ngainst it."
THE SALT TKl'ST.
Alrant. N. Y.. Julv 21. The North
American Salt Company tiled articles ol
incorporation in tho Secrotary of State'.
ofiice yesterday. Franklin AVoodruU".
Horace K. Thurbor. W. A. Hazard and
Charles F. Burger, are the incorporator-.,
with a capital of jJII.OOO.COO, divided intc
275,000 shares of -'a esc'i. They state that
they are to manufacture and jell salt and
its products The principal part
of their business will be in War
saw, N. Y., but they will
also carry on th'ir business in the
following places. Meigs anil Tuscarawas
Counties, Ohio; Mason County, W. Va. ;
Reno and Rice Counties. Tex; St Clair,
Huron, Saginaw, Bay and Iosco Counties,
Mich.
The following thirteen trustees, who
shall man ace the concerns of the company
for the first year, are named: Wellington
Burt, Franklin AVoodruff. H. K. Thurber,
William A. Hazard. John Canfield, Wil
liam S. Conkliiu Albert Boardman, Jay
Morton. Richard L. Wilson, Henry W.
Cannon. Charles F. Burner. Right Hon.
Lord Thurlow and Joseph Verdin.
A FURIOUS FLOOD.
Destruction In the Little Kanawha Valley f
Live Lost at Nurristown. IV. Va.
Parkersburg. W. Vo., July 20. The
greatest disaster which has ever befallen
the little Kanawha valley came Thursday
night in tho shupe of a terrible cloudburst
which completely flooded the country, de
stroying many lives, carrying otf thou
sands of dollars in property and ruining
crops for miles.
The deluge fell here about dusk and con
tinued to fall in torrents, doing much
damage in the city. The worst of the
storm struck the lower side of tho Kan
awha, filling the small tributaries from
bank to bank and ending in th-j worst
flood in the recollection of the oldest in
habitants. Ia three hoars tbe Kanawha
rose six feet and ran out with such veloc
ity that it carried every thing before it
At this point thousands of logs and a
number of boats went out or were sunk,
and Mrs. Isaac Tucker, Martin Lawless
and an unknown man were drowned.
Above the destruction was still greater.
Hig Tygart valley is ruined. A big mill
near its mouth went out and took Tygart
bridge with it Fences and crops and
much live stock were lost.
At Est-rville. fifteen miles above, half a
dozen residences were carried off bodily
and left in corn fields.
In Clay the fine church and three dwell
ings were wrecked. Several steamers on
the rivor were wrecked.
Tbe worst story of all comes from Nor
ristown, a small village near th head of
Tacker creek, where the cloudburst con
centrated, coming down about midnight
and totally destroying it with many of its
people. The first report fixed the loss at
eleven, but later news seems to fix tbe
loss at a greater number. Houses are said
to bave been picked up and hurled against
each other in such short space of time that
no chance ot escape was given tbe people.
Among thoso dead at Norristown are:
Jake Kiger, his brothers. Joseph and
Thomas, a man named Bailey, UrrviIIe
Wet nnd child.
At Pill Brush all the bridges and cul
verts are washed away and it is impos
sible to reach or communicate with that
point or any other upon the upper wat-rs.
It is impossible now to enumerate the loss
even here, as the river is still rising. A
family boat containing three or four ier
sons went out during tbe night and it is
believed all are lost
War oa President Corbin.
Reading, Pa July 20. The Trade and
Labor Council has declared war on Presi
dent Corbin, of the Reading Company, on
account of his recent order excluding
members of labor organizations from em
ployment The council appeal to all la
bor organizations to fisbt the company.
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RaclflC to Chicago.
Kansas Citt, Ma, July 20. The r.ew
rate schedules of the Western Freight As
sociation and Chicago & Alton railway,
reducing the rate oa cattle from this
point to Chicago to 22 cents a hundred
pounds, weatiate effect at twelve o'cok
Tharsday night At just 12:01 o'clock
the employes at the stock
yards began leading the first cattle
that were to be shipped under the" new
rates. There were seveaty carloais in a II,
divided among the Chicago, MHwaube- &
St Paal, 8aata Fe, Haaaibal & St.
Joseph, Chicago Alton aad Wabash
railroads. The trains started were all
racing bard to saake the Saturday mora
tag awrket at Chicago.
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