rere w TE CUBAN CYCLONE. E A BIGHT HUNDRED LIVES LOST==GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPBRTY IN THE TEMPEST'S PATI. HAVANA, Sept. 12 (Via Key West, Sept. 13).—Every paper in the city continues to receive detailed accounts the Island, showing that the first re. ports of the damage done by the recent hurricane were not exaggerated. In some localities along the coast en- tire fishing villages were swept away. At Isabella de Sagua dead bodies cou- tinue to be found along the baach, while many were washed into the sea and others are in the mangroves. At Santo exceed 50 and the injured 75. the inmates Two large unknown | blown down and drowned under it. vessels were wrecked, At Calbarien the loss of life large. Of the 40 natives known to have perished the bLolies of {ive have | been recovered, In Vuelta Absjo the semilleros of tobacco were completely destroyed, | and warehouses wherein leaf was) stored were demolished and the tc- | bacco completely ruined. The number of dwellings, huts and outhouses blown down in the district is esvimated at 3500, and the loss at $1,600,000, The entire fruit and veg- etable crop 13 completely lost, which must entail much distress, The total number of deaths through- out the island is stated at S00. ———————————— ~ - “ *{Y 1 ' hn r Tgp NEWS OF THE WEEK —J, Calby Drew walked into the | police station, in Lynn, Massachusetts, on the 10th, and gave himself up, stat- ing that he was a forger to the amount of $20,000, He has had charge financial matters for W. F. Monroe, grocer, and secured notes in blank sigped by Monroe, and then forged the names of endorsers and obtained the money at high rates of interest, Drew says that within 30 days $18,000 worth of paper will come Drew his employer 18 innccent, but that the names Le has forged for endorsers are sO numerous that he cannot remember all, M ar ol 1 i { due. BAYS Lag aiso been onroe New York what on red a hur- everythis mov- 3 RB. Meadows, was washsd over- -—The little dory, Dark Secret, which started on its voyage from DBoston to Queenstown some weeks ago, was aban- doned at sea by Captain Anderson, who arrived at New York he 11th on the Norwegian bark Nora. —The secret service officers report that a large number of counterfeit ver dollars and quarters are in circula- tion In New York city. 1 on tt il —It has been definitely learned that | embezzlements of Joseph Dreed, ant cashier of the Hartford Bank, in Hartford, Connecti- it, who recently ted suicide, | aggregate LOS, Of instead o OU; as at rst reported, lost the money in stock specul estate of Daniel 000, $6500 is due the and $16,000 was hands for investment man, whose name is withheld. -— The west-bound express train was stopped at Parker's Mill, Arizona, by hree men on the evening of the 10th. They did not get anything. commit ¥ J, i 1 » 1 Arie v wy} Goodwin Dr. A reward has been offered for thelr capture. ~The assault on bill broker Ben- nett, In Jersey City, New Jersey, still a mystery. has not told who dealt the murderous blow, He intimates that he was asleep when the blow was struck. While resisting arrest at Muskogee, In- dian Territory, on the 11th, Daniel | Barnett, a noted desperado, was shot and killed by Marshal Tyson posse, A telegram from Flemings- burg, Kentucky, says William Phelps, a prominent citizen, Was on 18 } convict. - Lawrence Hervert, of London, Eugland, 35 years old, was found dead New York, on the evening of the 11th, with a buliet wound 1n his head, He is supposed to have shot himself on the evening of the Oth, gerously injured on the morning of the 11th by the premature explosion of a blagt in the Wicks tunnel on the Mon- tana Central Rallway, near Helena, The disaster was caused by the con- cussion of a giant cup, fired as a warn- ing, Mrs, Givens and Miss Ina Tucker, injured by the raliroad wreck near morning of the 11th, deaths in all, are expected to recover, tour in Monroe Canon, in Utah, fell from a precipice 60 feet high and was killed. Louis Schloss, ex-salesman in a clothing house in Pottsville, Pennpa., in jall there un a charge of forgerry, was found uncontecious in his cell on the 10th, apparently suffering from the effects of a parcotic poison. Despite the efforts of several physicians, he re. mained mm a comatose state until the 12th, when he died. The poison was discovered to have been morphine, Ie was 35 years of age and respectably connected, ~The flcod at Augusta, Georgia, continues to subside, and as the waters recede the extent of the damage is disclosed. The damage to the canal is estimated at $200,000, the banks being broken iu many The Mayor estimates the entire loss to the city and citizens at $1,000,000, ~The Journal, of Lewiston, Maine, has returns from 450 towns, which give Burleigh 77,277; Putnam, 58 605; Cushing, 1 Simmons, 940, be lican plurality, 18,682, majority, 14 843, The same towns TWO years ago gave the following vote: Bodwell, 67,242; Edwards, 52,027; Clark, 9823, Repub. i § i : ! i lican plurality, 14,615, majority, 10,882, ~There is no abatement of the floods in Mexico. Rallroad travel between Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico re- mains suspended. The town of Medil- lin is completely under water and aban- doned by its inhabitants. tion. At the Paso Solis de ranch, 20,000 animals were drowned. railway travel were destroyed on the 11th, and those Oforizaba and Jalacingo Many lives have been throughout the State of Vera Cruz,but The were: brig, 81 French four and Vera Cruz, one schooners Water, Beloit and Palmyra, Wisconsin, All tender vegetation was Paris, Michigan, reports failure, Iresi- has wheat almost a total Diaz, of Mexico, appealed to from the recent floods. Ie will appeal and to the people. Advices zaba show that 44 persons lost their lives by the floods. Two New Hampshire, on the thermometer stood zero, It was the ton, i i three Mexican barks stranded, and the brig Ugion, which stranded last year, afloat. dry dock was wrecked and the Mexican man-of-war Xicoteuacatl stranded, bnt got off later. — While workmen were t an old hospital buliding diers’ Home, in 12th, a wall toppled over, killing Wil ham Sewell and another man and se- cerely injuring several others, Mrs, Thomas Myers and daughter, aged 21, caring down at —A man named John : found dead in Druid Hill Park, Balti- the man had and fell asleep. to causing death ensue from asphyxia and apoplexy. — William clerk Penn- Schneider, mailing bor at Eastport, Maine, by a schooner, and both drowned. Two cable cars collided in St. Loui 11th, and Mrs, C fatally and William Chinton, principal of a school in Perry county, Arkansas, recently whipped a iS Was lith a On the Clinton bad the rules, brother and knives, Both were fatally the uctor of id ~The con road north orders i at Ala . misundersrood li fons and rusl bound freight tran 3 heavy grade. A great wreck result, besides the dangerous of a man ni | i b LO 800 Carmel, Penna., struc i into 04 iid th aries Carter, nthe 12th tl 4 J new cases of deaths at Jaci 3 Lo date numl Report thar ~The G s, from Hong , arrived at ban evening ol steamer Kong and Yokaham Fraucisco on the 4 13th, the the “Ail ine Jslar's, was in of eruptio July. It is thought that over 100 § ns were destroyed by lava and aalu irther particulars ofetl yw that terrible distress bas been cu 1 and 1 I lost, Two hand-cars n on the Wisconsi: trai el near Marshfield, Wisc th, and five men & v ' ia § » Hoods in O Hwils the afternoon of the 13th. gine wrecked, two oil burned and over 100 yards of the were torn up. Trains were } for hours, A mail and freight ded vear Waynesboro, Vie. morning of the 13th, delaved nine hours, near Lhe aon was dei several train coil ginia, Trains were £3 £1 * on Lhe - A severe hall storm, accompanied Western tha Eastern Olio and vania on the evening of th Barnesville, Ohio, ing tobacco house on the farm of Grier, fatally | son, Pennsyl- 12th. At struck a Ezekiel njuring Charles Grier, a 11 x lightn and reudered insensible. At Johnstown, Merrits was struck by lightning and killed, and a young woman was severely injured. At Washington, Pa., hail stones measuring from 5 to 8 inches fell. Window panes by the broken and fruit stripped, The damage were in is estimated at £1.000000. No esti mate can be made of the damage to farm and crops from Augusta to Sa vannab, while the country along the river is submerged. been damaged, and have shut down. Eleven persons were drowned, ing on Dog Branch, Tennessee, sent his for a bucket of water a few days ago, and because she did not Many valuable letters have ug the past year. Most addressed to Hevenue Nehneider gave He will been stolen 4 of them were Collector MacGonigle, $1500 ball and was released. have a further hearing, Fort Wayne, Iadiana, of the 14th, Charles Kle watchman in a woolen mill, attempted to shoot his wife, and, falling, beat her on the head with the butt end he was dead, ¥ tis ~1n of icide Ly shoot himself thn was the prominent Hana, was shi Jealousy Cause, il pants $ Oil COLULIact $ murdering his He was oo November ntenced ment for being at DOs, on Was se ialiimore and 11 was derailed Ly a swil ded with af I Almost immed cil rhs § pe reight tr intel) EN fred ii | empty en BEILES sig train, injured. A plier of a ge over the Santee river at Way on was severely ratiroad brid Varnes, South Carolina, the 14th, precipitating several loaded sats and a number of men the river, Five of the men are missing, *butl as some of the others escaped alter floating live miles down siream on timbers, it is hoped all will be res. cued.’ The crew of a freight tran on the Pittsburg and Lake Ene Raliroad saw a caboose aliead of them when near and ail except the conductor. Henry Dickson, a fireman, fell under the wheels and was killed, The con- ductor stopped the train in time to pre. vent a collision, A freight train ran gave fey HL Conductor Baker was killed, stolen on the 13th, from the paying National Bank, in Buffalo, New York, It Is At Prince- Indiana, on the 13th, Sylvester Grubo fired three shots at Miss Gertie Downing, wounding her mortally, Jealousy was the cause, ~Judge Edwards, lately candidate for Justice of the Court of Appeals in Kansas City, Missouri, committed sui. cide on the morning of the 13th by blowing out his brains, He leaves a wife and three grown children, «A despatch from Bay City, Michi. gan, says the forest fires in that vicin- ity are not being subdued, News from various points shows that the fires are beyoud control, Aranac county is par. ticularly a heavy sufferer. In many places houses have been destroyed, and at others people are now fighting for their lives or flying to save them. In the Tawas section the fires are still sweeping on. ~The new cases of yellow fever al Jacksonville, on the 13th, numbered 44, and the deaths 4, The day was wet and disagreeable. Physicians and trained nurses are arriving dally, but more are needed. ~The body of a man run over and killed ut Brooklyn, New York, on the 12th, was on the 18th identified’ as that of John Ogden, a retired hotel keeper, of Nortistown, Penna, : ig package Ly means of a spiked cane. No one saw the theft committed. deaths were the 14th, in Jacksonville, to date, 830; deaths, 110, reported on ———— 00th CONGRE i ———————— SENATE. In the U, 8. Senate on the 10th, the patrick $108 to 876 a month) were non-cone curred in, and a couference was ord ered. The couference report on the Fortifications bill was agreed to. Mr. Morgan introduced a bill appropriat- ing $276,619 to be paid to the Chinese Minister at Washington as full indem- nity for losses and Injuries sustained by Chinese subjeets “in remote and un- settled regions of the United States. After a speech by Mr, Morgan, the bill was referred. Lhe conference report on the Army Appropriation bill was agreed to, The House Retaliation bill was referred to the Committee on For- eign Relations, The Chinese Exclu- sion bill was taken up, and Mr, Sher man spoke in support of Mr, Blair's motlon to reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed. Messrs, George, Evarts and Wilson coincided with Mr, Sherman. Mr. Jones, of Nevada, ob: tained the floor, and then, upon his motion, the Senate adjourned withont action on the bill, In the U, 8, Senate, on the 11th, a conference was ordered on the House amendment to the Senate bill for a pen. per month, Mr. to declare trusts unlawful, and it | placed on the calendar, Food and Drink of the Vodka, Vegetables, and Tea. ive Bread { payment of aboul 600 claims reported | by the accounting officers of Treasury, and aggregating about $180, - 000, was passed, Mr, Blatr | reconsider, Pending dlscussion clusion bill was taken up, and advo | cated by Messrs, Stewart, of Nebraska, and Teller, the President the correspondence be- tween the State Department and the American Minister to China regarding the recent Chinese Lrealy. in the United States Senate on | of Brennan, Texas, a prominent ile- publican and a witness before the Come. been recently shot down in that city, i and instructing that commitiee to | quire whether the killing of | was due, in any sense, to his testifying before the committee, After a political | debate the resolution went over with out action, A message received i from the President in the resolution calling for spondence | ence to the fisheries and the diserimina- adiau canals, IL A sundry Was to corre response of Coes tion of tolls on the Ca was read in full and { conference was ordered on the F Ci bill, The IHouse amendment, a verbal one, to the Postal Crimes bill was concurred in and the Sepatd ad. journed, referred, Inthe U. 8, | Platt offered a the Committee on 1 whether a foreign syn trols the production of c¢ CO ther he United reasing the price of Renate on the 1 . ition instructing to inquire or trust spper in largely in- ANCH icate t slates, £ articles made { whet islat ed to } . f y therefrom, and } Can be devi Prep } SAT & Rid Le ransed. ¥ x - : bill to parimen a enlarge the duties of t of Agriculiu d the House arbitration to seitl tween raliroad o« pas wel. fe Was t Tea, an and ti » »epate ad- HOUSE x Baan 4 f in the House on the 10th confer. ence reports on the Fortifications and Army Appropriation bills were adopted. Jills were mmtroduced and referred under the call of States among them one by Mr. Oates, of Alabama, to amend the Naturalization laws; one by Mr. Crain, of Texas, to admit cotton bagging free, and others by Messrs, Henderson, of North Carolina, and Culbertson, of Texas, for the suppres- sion of Trusts, ‘I'he Sundry Civil bill was considered, pending which the { House adjourned, In the House on the 11th the Sundry Civil bill was considered, Pending final action on the Senate amendment ! relative to the reclamation of the arid regions, a vote showed the absence of a guorutn, and the House adjourned, In the House on the 12th, the Sundry Civil bill was considered and a further {| conference ordered on disagreeing amendments, The Senate bill to amend the Inter-State Commeron law was considered and the Senate Postal Crimes bill was passed. On a motion the ing some time in a vain attempt to In the House on the 13th a Joint | October 1st the existing Sundry Civil | appropriations, The Senate bill amendatory of tbe Inter-State Com- merce law was considered and passed, ported from the Commerce Committee was then passed giving Slates the right to regulate freight rates and fares on railroads carrying goods and pessen- gers from one point to another within limits, The contest on the Oklahoma bill was resumed, and on a motion to go into committee of the whole, less than a quorum voted, Mr, Sowden, of Penna., offered a resolution revoking all leave of absence except for sickness, Pending discussion the House adjourned. In the House on the 14th, the Senate joint resolution appropriating $200,000 to suppress infection in our Inter. Stale commerce was passed, The con- ference report on the Sundry Civil bill was submitted, but no action was taken. An evening session was held for private pension business. messin ao ME UII MINI SAIN One of the English regiments is ex. perimenting with a machine called a centre-cycle, which has four small wheels a foot In diameter and one ons in invention makes elim for a cycler as rolling The Russians are a nation rare; sal, and universally good, The best tea 1 to quantity —sometimes ten cups PDrass urns, in which tea water 18 boiled by means of a charcoal fire, are found over all the empire; they | are called samovars, and I found it im. i portant to include in my Russian vo: cabulary the word *‘samovar.’’ Their method of making and drinking tea has been noticed thelr country, They claim that water at the boiling | point is destructive to the qualities of tea, so they their tea walter just below that point. They use thin glass tumb- lers, with ordinary saucers; sometimes the women use cups, but men | never, the tea 18 poured into saucers, which are held on the upturned ends of the thumb and fingers of the right hand; milk and cream are rarely a block of cut igar is held in { hand, from which they nibble as they slowly sip i colored tea, These people mans the “Onion of the quantity of onions they they might, with more propriety, called a nal of cucumber eaters, Cucumbers are raised in great quanti. ties, of excellent qualily, and may be found, pickled, anywhere belween Behring Strait and the Baltie. Cu- umber water isa favorite hot weather beverage, or, If you will permit a Cel- titism, they make their lemonade fr umbers. This light good draw the used; left pieces, y the 81 Lilt are called by the Ger- Russians, because eal; be 311 Hi in beverage, how. ng reserved hev seldom use a knife fishes, and encouraged me witl suring “‘Horosho; boro The [ist unbeheaded — IES in i discovering familiar countenance pickerel, and determined offend the 1} ] 4 after tl of not wspilanty ol hos. t the fashion of little Jack Horner, 1 extracted the plckerel ate him up, and true to the hypocritical eti. quette of my country, 1, too “Horosho; bhorosho; when the was positively abominable, § “ wi * “hy said: +3 ‘ thing -- A Miserly Man's Luck. Proverbially con ment that it never rains but it pours and that water runs to the sea express different phases of the same truth, and this particularly irrat truth fate spends her time in ating. For instance, taketwo things | that have happened to one rich, solitary old man in N, Y.. within two weeks His name i8 well known, though his enormous fortune is not generally esti- mated at its true proportions; be does not live like a rich man-—is a bit of a slate. demon. sly i ple know, is the possessor of numerous millions, He works hard, as his work is the only thing he takes an int in, aud his only recreation, taken at the doctor's orders, is horse-back riding in | the park. To strangers he lives to put up a poor mouth, for one thing, for the sim- | pie pleasure of seeing them fooled, and he recently told a business acquaint ance that he was too poor to have a good horse: the bosinese acquaintance | was a rich Kentuckian, not rich as com- { pared to the other, but rich for Ken- tucky. Touched by the old man’s bad mount, a thing that seemed more tragic to him than it would to any bat a Ken. tuckian, he presented him with a superb saddle horse, a son of Golddust, per fectly trained and worth a small for. tune. A week later an old Californ- fan, whom the old sinper had not thought of in twenty years, but whom he had known in his youth, and wuo bad grown misanthropical with old age and hated everything around him, dies and leaves said O, 8, another enormous fortune. What is to be sad for a world where such things be? ——— ———— A remarkable instance of the increase of temperature in the earth toward the centre has been presented at I'esth, where the deepest artesian well in the world is that now bung Yared Ny the rpose of supplying the pu baths pu other establishments with hot wae ter. A depth of 8140 feet has already been Shh and it furnishes Tet gallons a temperature F. The municipality have recently voted a latge subvention in order that one boring may be continued Lo a great. depth not only to obtain a rest of water at a temperature THE CHINESE ANMY. Organization, Equipm General Condition : who believe that future the Chi thorn in the views ¢ article Internat meiten 8 of the latest of Pet hi-li 4 it # £3010 OFFICERS ill regulations, Fren are being parade the officers io tervening when the Slick seeins is divided int chiels Lola 41 Laie AND Ri New di chi, Cal The COMPAL IAS, of major; battalion whose never unfre- FDTHANG « Necessary. ar alll ret gen y {i e 1 less, a major que ii one of them. The officers the deficiency of their pay by mg their men, Ti idie forced to till his own lal | for the profit of his o The officers are repres uneducated, and dep eq tion on the caprice for whom they are reads the most menial offices. T | g0 an examination prior ment; which, however, chiefly consists in fencing (with one sword | wrestling, ete. They t | ure on the divan, dicing, chattering or i playing the guitar, Most « | { £4 wu v LS i * Iw ad 4 a dah so Wy content 10 assuiue « vais } iane aeiraud- tit pul nied it for promo- of some magnate, % Tr et ¥ VO Periornm Hier- i . ’ { i appoin st WH Of WO, spend their jeis- of them are addicted to smoking opium, although the practice is forbidden. Drunken i ness is also common. The non-com- | missioned officers are trained in a shoal { at Kirin; but they are not better paid { than the privates, their sole privilege | being to adorn their hats with a brass { button; but the entire pack of menials { belonging to a general's establishment assume the distinction as a matter of course, wherefore it cannol be held in high estimation. The ammunition consumed by the troops in Manchuria is brought Ly sea from Tien tain, but it is proposed to erect powder mills in the province itself at Kirin and Tsitsi. har. . Articles in the Chinese press which appear from time to time afford ample proof that the dangers of Russian ag- ed. The Chinese have augmented their ironclad fleets, are setling their military institutions on an efficient footing and, what is quite as signif cant, have connected Pekin with Algun on the river Amoor Ly a line of tle graph. Dr. Donald C. Wood lias collected many facts relating to the use of sall- cylic acid for rheumatism. Of 798 pa dents treated with salicylates 523 were relieved of thelr pans within seven days, wisreas of G12 patients treated by other wethods only 140 lieved within he same time®™ | Yor
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers