ELECTION DAI. A POPULAR VOTE ON CONSTITU- TIONAL AMENDMENTS. MAJORITIES OF 93,750 AGAINST PRO- HIBITION AND 02,620 FOR THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT. Retuins from all the counties in Penn- sylvania give an estimated majority igainst the Prohibition Amendment of 167,750. Much less complete returns sn the Suffrage Amendment indicate general opposition to it except in the large cities. The majorities for it in the cities are so large, however, that there seems to be no doubt that it has been adopted. The figures, as received, give an estimated majority for the amendment of 5275, but the returns jo not include Allegheny county, which is expected to vote largely for it. In the city of Philadelphia 145,500 votes were polled on the Prohibition Amendment. which was defeated by a majority of 93,750, the vote being for ‘he Amendment, 25875; against, 1190,- 325. The total vote of the Suffrage Amendment was 132,423, the majority for the Amendment being 92,525. The number of votes cast for the Amendment was 112,474; against 19,- MO. A table of returns received by the Associated Press from all except 12 connties ir Pennsylvania shows a majority of 188 494 agalnst the Prohi- bitton Amendment, and 146 996 against the Suffrage Amendment. —— A ———— A TOWN SWEPT AWAY. HEAVY RAINS IN KANSAS CAUSE A BREAK IN AN ICE DAM. UNIONTOWN DESTROYED AND TWO WOMEN AND FOUR CHILDREN DROWNED, KANsas City, Mo., June 17.— Meagre details of a flood and cyclone in Kansas have been received. Union- town is reported swept away. st. Louis. June 17, 3.20 A. M.— Accounts of the disaster at Union- town, Kansas, say that it was caused by the bursting of a dam; that the towns of Uniontown and Belletown were flooded and that several lives were Jost. Particulars are not obtain- able, there being no night telegraph office near the scene of the disaster. ~1. Louis, June 17.—Additional ad- vices about the disaster In Kansas from wind and rain storms are that Union- town, about 15 miles west of Fort Scott, on the Wichita and Western allway, was swept away,and that two women and four children Were srowned. Uniontown, which is a piace tf about six hundred inhabitants, is in the midst of a thickly settied country, and 1t is feared that the loss of life is sven heavier than reported. As the wires are down for 15 miles on either side, nothing definite can be learned, The storm struck the western part of Bourbon county late at night, coming from the west, where it bad played great havoc. At Augusta it assumed the form of a cloud burst, and, though averything possible has been done to obtain details by the railroads, all is uncertain at present, In Fort Scott it commenced raining about 7 o'clock Sunday morning. Old residents say it was the hardest rain in 30 years, Water commenced risiog in Buck Run at 8 A. M. Lamb & Mead’s ice dain on Sixth street burst about 10 A. M.. causing the water in Buck run to rise at the rate of about eight feet per hour, carrying away several houses and the bridge across Sixth street. The part of Fort Scott known as Belle- town is entirely under water. This was caused by the overflow from Marmaton river. People were taken yut with boats, Several bridges were washed out and trains were stopped on both sides of Fort Scott. The Kansas, Nebraska ard Dakota track 1s under water for about pine miles out, The Memphis road is badly damagsd for about 1000 feet, 10 miles north of Fort beott. All the people in the bottom in East Fort weott moved out, At last accounts the water had stopped rising, and if no more rain falls the flood will rapidly subside. Every effort is being made to obtain information from Unlontown, ELporAapo, Kan, June 17.—The upper valley of the Walnut is flooded from excessive rains, the streams being higher than they have been for years. Saturday night the river came up So suddenly that a family by the name of Graham started from their home to the highlands. The mother and babe were drowned, the father and one child es- caping. Grain fields are flooded, and much damage must result. A portion of the Missouri Pacific track is washed away, and thers have been no trains in over the Sante Fe since yes- terday. It 1s surmised that a number of people have been drowned in the lower valley, The water is receding this morning. A later rumor reports the drowning of ©. Beaman, in Cassidy. Broom Corn and Weeping Willows. The origin of broom corn, as a enlti- vated plant in this country, is attributed to Dr. Franklin. It is a native of India. Franklin saw an imported whisk of corn in the possession of a lady in Philadel phia, and while examining it as a curi- osity, he found a seed which he planted, and from this small beginning arose this valuable product of industry in the United States. Broom corn is largely enltivated in Pennsylvania, New York, Connectient and other States. And as you gage admiringly at the weeping willow, remember that we are in the same manner indebted for it to the poet Pope, who, it is said, finding a green stick in a basket of figs, sent to him as a present from Tutkey, stuck it into the garden at Twickenham, and thence propagated the beauti.al weep: ing willow. A MAIL TRAIN WRECKED. MENT-—THREE MEN KILLED AND SEVEN INJURED. PrrrspURG, June 19th. —The second section of Mail train No, 7, West bound on the Pan Handle Railroad, was wrecked this afternoon while passing New Cumberland Junction, two miles east of Steubenville, Two persons were killed outright and eight were injured, four of them seriously. The DANES Are: KILLED, J. H. Payne, postal clerk. E. R. Reinhart, postal clerk. SERIOUSLY INJURED. Conductor Burris. Brakeman McFarland. Postal Clerk W. 8. Bolton. Postal Clerk J. E. Matthews. T.D Armstrong, E. E, Benner, C, J. Minor and Frank Shook were also hurt, but how badly 1s not known, Payne lived at Indianapolis, Reinhart at Effingham, Ills.; Bolton at Newark, Ohio; McFarland at Mansfield, Pa., and Burris at Columbus, Ohio. Me- farland has since died, and Bolton and Barris are in a serious condition, The accident was caused by the third car from the engine leaving the track. It was followed by two others, all golpg over an embankment, The train consisted of the engine, express car and four postal cars, and was running 45 miles an hour, Besides the regular train crew there were 15 postal clerks on the train. In consequence of the wires being down, learned. A telephone message just re- 80 badly injured that they cannot re- cover. Surgeons were sent promptly from Steubenville, and the injured re- moved to that city, where they were given the best of attention. The acci- dent happened about half-past 2 o'clock this afternoon. - NEWS OF THE WEEL —An explosion of gas occurred on the morning of the 17th in the Not- tingham Mine at Plymouth, Penna. , operated by the Lehigh and Wilkes- barre Coal Company, Michael An- drew, aged 26 years, Simon Novolk. aged 23 years, John Kutschki, aged 27 years, and Joseph Taylor, years, were fatally burned. full of gas without first testing the air. A ecaffold fell at one of the power houses of the Yerkes cable car system in Chicago on the evening of the 17th, killing jurlng four other workmen, A mis hap exactly similar took place at the Yerkes power house on Madison street Milwaukee Avenue House after the ac- cident and indulged threats of violence, but gradually dispersed, —Mrs, Elizabeth Tyler, aged years, poured cecal ofl on her fire while preparing breskfast at her home in Baltimore on the morning of the 17th. tn iia » i —- burned that they died In a short time, —A heavy rainstorm prevailed in did Tampa some damage, state that the track Ileporis of the washouts. A wind, rain and hall storm passed over the southwestern ginia, on the evening of the 16th, ruin. ing crops and trees, Several houses and barns were wrecked by the wind and live stock was Injured by the hall. A despatch from Eldorado, Kansas, ays that the upper valley of the Wal- nat is flooued and that Mrs, Grabam and her babe was drowned, A portion of the Missourl Pacific track is washed away. It is feared a number of peo ple have been drowned In the lower valley. —Policeman Hart began abusing the Mayor of South Oklahoma, ladian Territory, on the 15th, and was locked up by Marshall MeKee and Policeman Howard When McKee and Howard returned to the Mayor's office Police- man Mattox, a friend of Hart, shot at them. McKee was slightly wounded and Howard severely. Howard shot and fatally wounded Mattox. A de- spatch from New Orleans says that on the evening of the 18th, at the colored church on the Osceola plantation, Lela Mitchell was stabbed to death by Sallie Underwood. Both are colored girls under 16 years of age. —Mis. Charles Cleaves and Erdine Cole, aged 10 years, were drowned at Springfield, Maine, on the 15th, while bathing. Mrs Cleaves leaves a husband and four children in the West, —During the Investigations of the Special Grand Jury in Chicago on the 18th, William F. Bell, of the Western Unilon Telegraph Company, refused to produce messages passing between Alexander Sullivan, Danlel Coughlin, P. O'Sullivan, J. J. Moroney and G. W. Melville. Mr. Bell stated that the statutes of Illinois imposed a fine of $5000 upon a telegraph company for disclosing the contents of any personal or business message pussing over its lines. The matter was taken into court and Judge Shepard made an order directing the witness, under pain of contempt and commitment to jal, to produce the messages desired by the Grand Jury. The officers of the com pany stated that they would be prompt ly produced, So far as known, no indictment was found against Burke, the man under arrest in Winnipeg, Manitoba. —Newtown creek, in the eastern part of Elmira, New York, rose to within three inches of the big flood mark of June 1st on tha evening of the 17th. The high water carried away an iron bridge at John street. The houses of residents in the lower part of the od by water, Trains Delaware, Lackawanna Northern Central, Tioga, and Elmira, Cortland avd Northern Rosds were delayed by washonta and and Western, land slides, A severe slorm visited the vielnity of Urawfordsville, Indiana, on the evening of the 16th, It extended of country ten miles long and one mile wide. Fences and bridges were washed away and barns rorn down. Crops were destroyed. A violent wind storm swept over I’eru, Indiana, on the afternoon of the 18th, doing damage estimated at several thousand dollars. The Standard Oil Company’s brick warehouse was de- stroyed, —A flood In the Walnut river caused great damage in Augusta and Eldo- rado, Kansas, on the evening of the 16th, and 17th. [Fifteen hundred feet of Missouri-Pacific Railroad track and 12 dwellings were washed away. East of Eldorado six Missouri-Paclflc wridges were carried away, At Augus- ta, 500 feet of Santa Fe track and a bridge of the San Francisco were de- stroyed, Four farmers were drowned near Eldorado on the 17th. One of the severest rain storms ever experienced in Cuba occurred there on the 16th. In Havana several of the streets became roaring torrents, walls were under mined and houses collapsed, A rain and hall storm passed through Marlon county, Kansas, on the 17th. The wheat and oats were badly damaged and in some places ruined. The har- vest was about to commence, —A ratlroad train carrying a large pear Birmingham, Alabama, Was thrown down an embankment on the morning of the 18th, killing Walter Bearley and Henry McAuley, and in- Mrs. John Maples and her two boys, aged 5 and 3 years, were drowned in a diana, on the evening of the 16th. Mr. Maples attempted to ford the creek, which had been swollen by heavy rains, The wagon was overturned, Mr. Maples and one child were saved. A rowboat collided with a sailboat on the East River, New York, on the evening of the 17th, and two boys, Benjamin Foster and Robert Simley, were drowned. Isaac Waat and Wm. Kaup were killed on the 18th by a cave-in at the Cleveland iron mine, at Ishpeming, Michigan, George Reyer, Secretary of the Western Shooting Association while out hunting fell from a fence and accidentally discharged the contents of his gun into his chest, He died in- stantly. In Cow's creek, two miles from Gloucester Court House, Virginia, on wagon was found, and near by was the drowned body of VY. (. Shawn, the carrier between Gloucester and Of the four mall bags to have been in the wagon one was missing. Shawn was in the habit horses at Cow's creek, the water being deeper than usual. — Antonio Ricca killed his wife dar- ing a quarrel, in New York, on the morning of the 15th, Jealousy was cause, Elizabeth and Caroline were found murdered in their home, in Gresham. Seward county, Nebraska, on the evening of the 17th. Their —A despatch from Marlon, Indiana says that within the last day or two a green bug or parasite has ap- peared in several counties and threat- ens to demolish the wheat, oats and rye crop. The bugs plant themselves life out of it. It has rained at Bloom- ington, Illinois, every day for two wet 80 long that in the low places the corn has become yeliow. Should the rain cease the corn may be saved, bul should it continue a few days longer the loss will be heavy. A despalch from Lebanon, Indiana, says the pros- pect for crops in that section is very discouraging, owing to the long con- tinued rains. A great deal of the corn is under water, apd the wheat will probably not yield” more than half a crop. —8, 8. Ryland, aged 73 years, sexton of the Eutaw Street Methodist Epis- copal Chureh, in Baltimore, was killed by a traln at Fulton Station, in that eity, on the evening of the 18th. BS. W. Avesser, aged 2 years, was run over and killed by a strest car on the evening of the 18th, in Baltimore. A wind storm passed through Lowell, a small town 20 miles south of Charlotte, North Carolina, on the afternoon of the 10th, The Methodist Episcopal Church was demolished, ~The river at Willlamsport, Penna. 1s falling, and the fear of a second flood is subsiding. From statements now coming In the loss from the flood in Williamsport is estimated at $10,000, 000, The lumbermen have completed arrangements for Lhe collection of the logs which are to be brought back by railroad. ~The Special Grand Jury mn Chicago on the 19th returned an mdictment agaist Martin Burke, alias Delaney, who 18 in custody in Winnepeg, Maal toba, on two counts, for the murder of Dr. Cronin and for conspiring together with P. O'Sullivan, Coughlin and Woodruff. Application was made to Governor Fifer for requisition papers for the extradition of Burke. These papers will be sent to the State Depart ment at Washington and the Secretary of State will make the formal request to the Canadian Government for the surrender and extradition of the ac- cused, —David A. Plits, a section foreman on the Louisville and Nashville Rall road, was robbed and murdered by unknown parties in Birmingham, Ala- bama. The crime was committed in an lot on First Avenue in & thickly populated neighborhood and within 100 feet of an electric light. There is no clue to the assassin. —An attempt was made on the even. ing of the 17th to derail the north bound passenger train on the Cincin- pat!, Wabash and Michigan Road, at a point about eight miles north of Wa- bash, Indiana. The engine ran over a pile of ties and iron which had been securely fastened to the track and was considerably, damaged but no one was injured. This is the second attempt that has been made at the same place to wreck this train. —W. A, Collier shot and killed his Alabama, on the 10th. Givhan had been drinking heavily for several days, and had frequently threatened to kill Collier and tis family, and was en- deavoring to enter the house when he shot. The Coroner's Jury found a verdict of justifiable homicide. —The Indians had another council at the Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota, on the 10th, and, after a talk by General Crook, a number of them went to the Agent’s office and signed the treaty. ~There is a great flood In the Iu Neosho county alone the damnage to crops is estimated at $500,000, pear Langton, Ontario, on the evening of the 10th. between them, man and two a few days ago. shot their victim body in a creek. and threw Frank ham, Ontario, on the evening of the marks’? about Dear. him to the heart, John Leawvill and his wife were arrested on the 19th, charged with the murder of their two children, near Gresham, Nebraska, on the evening of the 15th At London, Connecticut, on the morn- ing of the 20th, Alvin Park, years of age, cook of a fishing smack, shot and killed a 14-year-old named Littlefied, who had rejected his addresses, In November, 1888, Richard A. Allen, an aged farmer, who found tied to a tree, with his throat cut. The case Was re- garded as oue of suicide. A few ago, while under religious excitement, pear his house, of the dead man, confessed to colored servants that she murdered her husband, She said they about the rightful ownership of ber husband morphine in his tea. Allen fell asleep in the garden. She procured a table knife rope and tied the rope body, and, making several at his throat, halt severed hia from his neck. body to A Lree and ted There were three murders in county, West Virgina, on the ; ' there, killed by a tenant, whose daughter he bad wronged, Jobn Moore, another with a club, and **Doc’’ Law- ley, a fellow miner, with a plek. Al the murders were in a radius of miles, Two Choctaw Indians, had drawn several hundred of Choctaw pet proceeds funds and started for Fort Smith, Arkansas, were killed on the evening of the 15th, who in Indian Territory. Their were rifled and thelr horses stolen. Conrad Bauman shot and Killed wife, in Carbon, Indiana, on the and then committed suicide. was Lhe cause. 13 years, commitied suicide by swal- 19th, The motive for beforehand. He was Foxp or Pts ing of eating pie, ther o3 fash ciety who als pie ald pie when he thinks name is Plummer, . one swell who will nesds it, is known he Hi He is in business on Worth street. is a his dress and clubman. a “first nighter”’ when the his own yacht around bay. would rathe: his when be gets out of bed in the than to neglect to for dinner. He isa pink of perfection in everything that appertains to form. but he will eat pie. He with several other swell gentle men dined at Delmonico’s one evening. When Mr. Plummer had finished his roast, to the astonishment of everybody at the table he called for pie. The waiter shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands, and elevated his brows in mingled astonishment and dismay, while all the assembled gentlemen, after the manner of the famed filialoo bird, wavolved themselves within themselves’ to withdraw from the contaminating presence of a man who would eat pie. Again Mr. Plummer demanded pie and inquired of the waiter if there was any pie in the house. The waiter found words to tell him there was no pie. Then Mr. Plummer said: “Call me a messenger boy.” The boy came. Mr, Plummer gave him fifty cents and said. “(0 to the nearest second class restau. rant and buy me a whole huckleberry pie. I'll see whether I can have pie or whether 1 can’t have pie.”’ The boy vanished, but returned again bringing with him a huckleberry pie in a tn dish. And there right out before everybody, in the presence of all the gentlemen, in the glare of the electric lights, Mr. Plummer did eat hail of that huckleberry pie, apd sald it was gol, And still the god of Eagland did not smite himodead. And what gives me a great deal of satisfaction to relate and which goes to rove that there still remains in New fork a spark of old American spirit, is that when Mr. Plummer had eaten half of that huckleberry pie one of the other swell gentlemen, drew up his chair to the table and said: “I say, Plummer, that pie looks awfully good, don’t you know. If you don't mind Ull eat the rest of it myself)’ ——————— Life is a journey, and death a return home. ! i i § well Known at the thea- manner, a tres, and wind is steers He face morning the 3 forego washing Vidress'' good } OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. Street Manners. Now I don’t mean by this head-picee any hackneyed ri marks ou the street arab, (God bless his poor little soul) but quite another order of beings. No less than you my dear young lndy, and I beseech the matter supreme importance, to take a morsel of advice instead of a big bit of offense Is everything old-fashioned only worth of ridicule in your young eyes? Our grandmothers were Very Upon many points, but who sl shinll Rin them Our mothers vO, since in of BAY On some, wome of them have left us ducation, nor the advan either birth, « alth make a long way in the street tages of wi i, unfortunately standing, wrivl 2 grird ROC n't what ve for, and yon know it ANY PRAS to hear you cuss th rt, learns ian ie gure to In It won't hurt an) opinion of that net; it wor bonnet ever off yon gave r-by last conc it edify him, remarks ar tract guile attention in public without 1? 4 : DE Lhe hrong old-fashion speare w ahd even bard Oh my Vvhen Womer sidered 1 into account, it may traly (FIIRON of Ba me od r : not bail « any practical atte { women § said that among | scale the x in Was detalls which yout the 1.34.3 establishme Bouse go, throw a draught upon the bed, or els room if the door 18 © wned a erack or Yet it would have been just on the opposite side of the jamb, so that on opening only a corner would be bare. In how few of these rooms, moreover, is there any place for a bed where it will not find the chimney in the way on one hand, or the cracks of on the other, a draught or with threatening of a stiff neck, or of a rheumatic side if the bed 1s put in the corner out of the way, or a glare of light facing the eyes of the sleeper if it is put in another situation, or a closet door not to be opened if it is putin a third spot, so that we not infrequently see in such sleeping-rooms some win- dow battened and stuffed and perman- ently closed and darkened. And to instance but one more out of the countless really good reasons for complaint, what closet in the house of the masculine brain's devising is there to rise up and call him blessed? If he had his way there would perhaps never be any closet in the house at all, but portable, or rather all but unportable, wardrobes would lumber every room, mar paint and paper and plaster in the acts of getting in and out, and rear their dark bulks on every side, while closets, those paradises of the house- keeper, would vanish before the clear square of the four walls But let a woman devise these rooms, and the first thing done will be to find a place for the bed where exposure neither to rying eyes nor dranghts nor glare of ight will te possible, and every cor ner will te turned to account with drawers and doors, and every room will have its deep and spacious closets, painted and not lime-washed, prevent- ing crowding and confusion and defy- ing dnst and sun.— Basar. as AID A SL SHIA Forbearance is attended with profit, felled. HORSE NOTES. ——— Billy Doble is hale and — 1) neie hearty. J. M. Thornton paid $2000 for Kee-Vee-Na. Jimmy Green has nearly horses in his stable, “Dod”? mile in 2, twenty Irwin drove Neille lose a 25 recently. —Dan Honig refused $6000 for Car- toon recently. “Insolence and Clay Stockton will Galen, the Chicago Stable’s crack broke down on Tuesday — Terra Cotta 1s himselt again, and —Dan McCarty, of San Francisco, is thirty hor- 568, Vallejo, regrets Woodnnl, C. Holly, of sold bis stallion Fides. the winner of the Ladies’ B., record has been added Sarah by Alinonarch, stable, The bay mare ge —Jiubinger Bros. Shallcross, bn ~The b, g. trotted a mile in 2.23 at New YX Dawn, 2.194, has been A summer mixed.race meet Phoenixville, Pa, . to 5, with $1850 in speed pre — August Belmount’s Prince R lame at Jerome Park up ~The statement that the Von Bismarck had stricken with paralysis proves U been incorrect, —James O, Gray purchased the Glendon, by wat of lda, i ry ot 2 ron parvies sister Vo 2.104, in Boston. A tracks, —W. H. Hill, Worcester, Mass, Las the nominationsof C. L. Vi- the 2028 Springfield Guaranteed stakes and of F. M. Dodge in the 2.22 Massasoit Guaranteed racing stakes, The probable starters for the American Derby are Spokane, Proctor Knott. Don Jose, Sorrento, Fresno and Once Again. Murphy will ride A Cnott, it is said, while Mec- lin will guide Sorrento. 3 ¥ ¥ bought zard in a. [saa The gray gelding Sensation, 2. iy Peacock, will be brought East this with the Haggin racing string, Sen will go against the Eastern cracks in the Grand Clrcuil, sation The black mare Westchester Girl, who had one of ber legs broken n a race last year, has been purchased Frank Tavior, of Bridgeport, Persim- —James Elliott, of Philadelphia, bas sold to William Bell the black pacing Farmer Miles, 2.22. by Dr, —A. D. Merrill, Danvers, Mass, has Fortune, 9867, dam of Leon Jones, —The Chicago purse of $5,000 for 3 19 trotters, added to the programme of the Northwestern Breeders’ Asso- ciation for their meeting next August, closes July 1, and time made previous to that date will be no bar. —Secretary E. C. Robinson, of Hampden Park, writes that Mr. Ww. H. Hill, Worcester, Mass, has bousht the nominations of C! I. Vizard in the 2.28 Springfield guarantee stakes, and of F. M. Dodge in the 2.22 Massasoit guaranteed pacing stakes. ~All of the trotters have now de- parted from Washington Park, Chie cago, and the stables are rapidly tilling up with thoroughbreds, Already 240 runners are at the park, and there are additional arrivals daily. Judson H. Clark hits C. J, Ham- lin a sharp rap over the knuckles by offering to give $500 to any charitable institution Mr. Hamlin may name if he gives Chimes a record of 2.19{ in 1889, and further agrees to give $1000 to any charitable institution if Bell Boy does not beat any record Chimes may make when he is again placed in train- ing. —A great deal of dissatisfaction was caused at the trotting meeting held at Pottstown owing to the meompelency of the judges. They the horses to be scored sixteen and sevens teen times, One of the horses was so exhausted that it fell down durilga beat. It is also stated that the oor rect time was withheld on several sions and “fixed” time h dam Fanny Greeley Boy, 2.20%), uy Peter oceans out, The look into «The reported breaking down Er ob
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