THE NEWS, ———— The National Wrought Iron Pipo Assocla- tion has made an advances of ten per cent, in all liges of pipe, Officers of the association state toat the advance is made to cover the increased cost of labor and material, ——At a meeting of the Montana Chamber: of Com- merce it was dec ded to have Senators Tom Cur er and Lee Mantle and Congressman Hartman represent Montana in the Memphis silver conference, June 12 —— Elwood Moyer engineer ; Elias Dotis, conductor, und Wil liam Klease, fireman, part of the crew of freight train No. 86 of the Philadelphia and Reading Raiiroad, were instantly killed by a wreck near Locust Dale, Pa. ——The sash and blind factory of the Middleport Manu- facturing Company, at Middieport, N. YX., has been desiroyed by fire, Loss §053,000, insu ance £25,00., Smith, an ploye, was badly burned, and may die, eral firemen were hurt. ——John R. Elsmin- ger was hanged at, K Waynesboro, Pa, for murder, Miss Mary Philibrook, New Jer. ted to the bar. She is lawyer in Ernes: eme- Rev- sey, has been admit the first womau The bill ereating a new o« vania, New Jersey, —— unty in to be named after Senator Quay, Pennsyl. WAS finally passed in the state House of Rapre- sentatives, ~The schoolship Baratoza 3 started rom Pl cruise ——Ii iiladelphia on ber summer glhtniong struck two barns and other buildings corne:-stone of the new Masonic Temp'e was laid at Staunton, Va. An att made to wreck a train on the ralircad Norfolk to Oece Cooper died in White dog's bite, — DBor.lars Grabam, nssr Oxford, Pa,~— The empt an View, Va. John H, ' Plains, } shot R. SB Neb, iataliy a storekeeper at Bowen, An entire family of believers in spiritualism, custody insanity, ——Forest damage in Penn-yivania, a wells at being destroyed, — house at Plowril was struck by lightnin rand two mea killed. ~The York Chemical Work« a: York, Pa. were burned. Loss £30,030; {insurance Jot in Jer- seven persons were taken in Cleveland, Ohio, charged fires are Kane Eshelman’s publie £7,000, — sey City. - were burned near Xnne, Pa. , loge property of the Midland Oil Company, fire baving been started by sparks [roo — [he seven-year-old 1 in Czeh : killed } Lis wile forest niles of sther with locomotive, ed niece of a man named Selby, Bristol, Ind, uncle, ——F.0 Gamage in Kirk Center, Pa. Henry T. Edwards, a President Cleveland, died ~—— Archbishop Kecrick bas made publio the the suc~ ruls, was brutally assaulle ne a gra Eastern Coloralo Edward Peaco at yis have d killed Lonestoza lite.'ong friend of in Evaaston, IL jetter from Rome which makes him cessor of Archbishop Kaila, of St. L ymmencement exercises wore held at academic and honorary bestowed, ——The Virginia terans closed {ts session at Charlot , Va. ——Taoe 1 ly ol Miss Aunie Haz nd io the Ra ! near Bristol, Pa, —— [he federal § will — Dickinso degrees Grand Camp of Vet a College, being x ’ vas fo vestigation nase an in + ha disaster. ——1he wages of mployes of the Warren {achine Shops, at Pailip4l » increased ten per cent flict between the Mayor and a posse again t the employes lod: » the reading « r Uy Loe sheriff under the or mpany, de arrests were made in of the worst gangs of Several important Chicago, and one thieves in Chicag Pueblo City Railroad is to be sold to sa! a mortgage of £500,000 on an order made by Judge Hallett fa ths federal was brokea up —— The ie § ily J court. eral Eleetrie Company. Chancellor Meo- Gli, of Trenton, N. J.. appointed Supreme Court Justice A fred Reed vice chanecsilor, to succeed the late Vice Chanesiior Green, — Modern Woodmen was begun in Madison, Wis ——An incendiary fire destroyel buildings on Dakota avenue, in Huron, 8 D. The most serious loss was G. Laubes $12,00) collection of models of patents, greatest west of Wa hiogton, —— The investi. gation of the oid officers of the Whi key Trust before William Booth, mas'er in ebas- cery of the United States Court in Chicago subject matter to be investigated Is referred back to Judge BShowaiter, ~The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pennsy!l- vania Bajiroad was held in Pity. WORK AND WORKERS ——— cr— The Joliet m ils of the lilinols Steel Com- pany started up, Every department Is in tall blast, giving employment to 1500 men, Officials of the Kaights of Labor have pur. chased a site In Washington I, C,, and made 8 contract for an office bullding for the heads quarters of the Order, A tslegram from Calumet, Michigan, says that the 3500 employes of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company will have their wages testored 10 per osnt , the amount of the re. Beveral of the mices in West Virginia, on ibe line of the Norfolk and Western Raliroad, resumed operations and no disturbance was reported, ‘In some lostances the men seamed anxious to return but In others the strikers’ places were filled,” The Iater-State Miners’ Convention ade journe i at Columbus, Oblo, without having taken action regarding tbe strike. The Objo delpgates held conference with the operators with a view to ending the strike in that Stats, but pothing was accomplished, Af Pnoa, 111, the Penwell and Springside eoiliers, employing hundreds of miners, shut down owing to baving no orders for coal The o:her two big mines arestill in opora- tion. Many miners have been amployed but little here sinoe the big strike last summer, Theres was a general resumption of work in the mines of the Pitsburg disteiot, the strike hav ng beon declared lost by the United Mine Workers’ offieials. The strikers are trying to got their former places back agnin, and most of them have succeeded, The Consolidated Wire and Nall Company, operating mills at Lockport and Joliet, IIL, Et. Louis, Allentown and Pittsburg, has notified its employes that thelr wages will be advanced 10 per cent including those whose pay has already been raised, Six thousand workers will be beaeflted, THROUGH THE DAM. A Heavy Flood of (he Johns: town Order, NO LIVES REPORTED LOST. Property and the Crops Probably Com-~ pletely Dastroyved Medicine Valley, Great Damage. Done to in A despatch from Curtis, Neb,, Curtls snys: Lake burst from | s tanks and the of water released carried destruo 3 the Medioine Valley, The lake ed an area of 100 acres, and was constructed as an irrigation reservoir, and fncideatiy to power to the Curtis Roller Mills, An mous dam was bulit across the north of Canon, where it interceps the Medicine River voliul ion throug COVvar enor the territory of the nor miles, th, some thirty the artificial basin. The enormous flood of water that has passed was confined to into the Jake during the past five days was too heavy for the dam Curtis oitizens The first intimation tho locality was was when the bank 1. that had hreatene« yy with disaster, of the lake burst with a roar that ecoul miles, and a wall of water ten feet high rushed down the valley, arrying Houses, freight ¢ of ars debris was caught t like feathers, which nd dashed ation The flue roller mills, tide of the great ravine 10¢k of the torrent, and Da nage ated at s:most ruined, alone is estin A few hundred yards below the cine River passes under the rallroad be Burlington When the this narrow defile, Its | bot oie t BIeSs wis im for an tnstant, then the heavy en- gave way, and the wall rushed thr } wide and were precip baing earried down stream of the track was laft - at oh are of Lhe wa'er spread out over an por of decreased, The passed i | destruction iifted, as the ¢ many mile Or INADY miles were flo Oy several lent tertalined that t yed, hh, where the fears ate en the cron srmnanently destr letails from the fen! passed, i vy exlonsive gulfed Bal€T Was a Ema rs inv Ad ved Liaaeaq {np ore Awernt Bs w sweep 4 iB ed wort! I. of Hye . § AN ~ jies to th uh, where the Medi. Tweoty nt eine Valley is confi to a smal space, itis believed the damage will be heaviest F ry ties the fle. ge, Neb,, some property, miles below, where t publican, at Cambridg was d ne to ra‘iroad great importance, McCook, Nob. While searching for wash. outs between Edison and Oxford, ® river emp damage but of no the en th zine a washout and of the four were killed, Frank Harris, private secrelary to Super intendent Campbell, about two miles east of Ed son, of the Burlington, mir. This life that and Is Lake dam, SE EE———— CABLE SPARKS. President Morass, of Brazil, Is {ll and it is reported that he intends to resign. The Spanish gunboat Tajo has been wreck- ed off Ban Belastian. Only one man was drowned, . The election of a member of Parliament from West Edinburgh bas resulted ia return of & unionist by an increased ma. Jority, the ican College, has loft Rome in order to meet Cardinal Gibbons, who is on hisway to Rome from Paris, The Royal Geographical awarded the patron's medal to the Hon for his researches in Persia persons were saved and it ls said more have been picked up at sea, M. Pasteur, the noted French chemist and originator of the hydrophobia cure, has re. fused a German decoration awarded him In honor of his labors in the cause of humanity and science, A tremendous fall of rook from the Behwarz mountain into the Lauterbeunnen Valley, Switzerland, has swept away whole forests on the slope of the mountain and has caused immense destruction of property, The government of Iadia is sald to bave advised the permanent oocupancy of Chitra by British troops and the bullding of & road there to connect with other British military routes from the south, The annual review of the garrison of Des. lin took place om the Tempelhof parade ground, The Emperor, Empress, the young princes and other members of the imperial family, in addition 10 a number of royalties, were present, Lmading unionists in Eogland have indi. cated that they will oppose any effort to alk ter the currency standard on a bimetallie basls, Bir Wm. Harosurt has declared that the government will adhere to the gold standard, Ata meeting of leading bankers and merchants in London It was determined to form a gold defease assoolation, INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY. Wo Let Up in the Cotton the South. Mill Building in Bpecial reports to the Manufacturers’ Rooord show a very decided increase in in- dustrial activity throughout the South, While there is no let up ia the cotton mill building spirit, there Is q 1ite a marked ro- vival in Iron past weok, and steel matters during the Furnaces that fr many months have gone into Florence nud ShefMeld, Ala, arrao have been comple ed for starting up the big lurnaces and steel plant at Middleborough, nn din an interview publishe i in the Manu- facturers’ Mr. Heary F. DelDurdei- Alu, gives particulars re- large steel pl which will t at that point and the de. been illo blast at gements have Record, eben, of Dessemer, garding a ant be Yolopment of a cecal properiy to a capacity al a day,and in connection ke oveus to be utll z«d for the gas from which is running a argo vlectrie P yWar At steel ingham by pant is aso the Eirming- which lo be built at Birm ham Rolling Mil ( tracted ompany, has o ior it, - for the boilers In eotion mill matters 1his has ben one ¢ revival 1oad, Ac itobuld a bia, B. (,; a mpany lias been 30.000 szindie mill at Colun a-sociation at 1 wing ana Blacksburg, 8. h coal bi I 1080 as Dorn merged int nd wil nergea int ana wi Among » & cotton mld company Immediately bulld « 815 ther mi mii, Is repo h § igor that oo b a list he enterprises reported in thi are by Southern i i and are 10 Le bulit with Bouthern capital Dope HEAVY SUGAR IMPORTS. Those of the Past Month Regarded as Break ing the Record Worthington C. Ford, Chief of the Dureau of Statistica, gives cut the imports ofl sugasm for the month of May, 1503. The total quan- tity impor. ed at the five ports of New York, Poston, Baltimore, Philadeiphia ani San Francisco were 530,657,509. pounds, valuasd at $10 2890. 434 These figures represent a very heavy import. While the tar fl act of were greatly stimu ated by the uncertainties of the duties to be levied on sugars the high. touched In March, 1864, the imports Were 601,339 125 pounds and in July of the same yoar 766,046 88) pounds, The returns of May, 1805, are heavier in quantily than the ports of May of any previous year and should be accousted as vreaking the record, . In Juse, 1894, an importation of 551.878. (0) pounds was valued at $19,175,758. The greater impor:s of May, 1895, was valued at only $17,280 434, or nearly $3,000,000 loss, Im SPREAD DEATH AND RUIN. Explosion. As the result of the explosion of a boadb. load of nitro-glycerine at Parkersburg, W Va, the Parkersborg Mills and Kelly's Foundry arefeompletely dismantled. On the south side of the river eight houses were wrecked, Every church suffers in eracked walls and broken stained glass windows, An estimate of $100,000 loss in glass alone is be hersd to be conservative, The man in charge of the nitro-giycerine who was blown to atoms, was James Cooley, of Shamokin, Of those injured oa the south side, Annie Ford, Mise Hutebinson and a Ht- tio child will probably die. Ida Ford and Emma Hendricks also were badly hurt George Muon, Wiliam Curry and IL. N. Treadway were seriowsly injured In the mills, On the other sida of the river scores were Injured, but none dangerously, John Burns, of Limestone, was thrown from his wagon and both his legs broken, John Kelly, a lumberman, was rafting ties near tho ex plosion and was blown hall way across the river, He came up under a mit but was saved, The erew of the boat, as well as Cap, tain Cocley, are all beliaved (0 be dead. A Itis reported in Berlin that Germany, Franee and Russia will float the now Chinese loan and that the Rothsekilds will be en. trusted with the transaction, FOREST FIRES. MILES OF ROARING FLAMES. Every Spring and Creek Dried Up-— Residents of the District Fleeing for Thelr Lives, The wood y nre on fire, and been destroyed, cut off, York, Lake Erle a number of rigs bavs ‘allon s been Fires any, N. Y. and Plltsburg the Emery Of Oil rigs ail through ned, standing timber, ford srine are stored, H seltlem«nt 10 Ormsby, in the Line ns rar as duflnio, Roe round at | ent the Alleg On the hiegler property of Company Is threatened, as well as mil The most 1,000 the seciion have Leen bur ins of feet felt at Routher where fear is Run, pounds of nitro-giye Coon Hun, a sma HL south of ' ad fl the has been wig 1 People had to flee excitement prevalled denly taal many womer panio-stricker and had to be carried slearings, Passenger er the Pitts $18 A rOAr- Tan 160] KS Bays az p that 2 ve been wall FLORENCE AGAIN SHAKEN Earthquakes Shock Night Occurred hary inra rushed ia terror sined for not roame panic-stricken and to the streets, where they rema hours, great armed. Although it is telieved that aay seric iy al us damage was done having followed the inhabitan s of Florencs, not covered from the panle which big earthquake of Saturday, May 15th, were wih diffic helr homes, The greatest axe nt prevailed in the streets shortly after the earthquake shocks, whole families remainiag hundied together, guarding their most valuable possessions which they carried with them in thelr fligh's from thelr homes, Many peopie fell on their knees in the middie of the streets and prayed while others seemed too terrified to do any. thing but rush about and add to the feeling of panie } which prevailed, re- the inst 3 iy persuaded to return tc item A FEDERAL INQUIRY. Government. A despatch from San Franciseo says: The 0 make a thorough investigation of the ~olima disaster which cost so many lives, proceedings. The Federal inquiry will be instituted by The inquiry is intend- sd 10 be thorough in every respect. One of ihe fir:t questions to be discussed in the in- vestigation is the manaer in whioh the ship was loaded. Charges of the most serious character have brea made, the most serious sliegation basing that the ship was negli. gently loaded, THE REPUBLIC COLLAPSED. Burn the Buildings. PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS — of the Btata After a heate 1 debate the Quay County bill Beliefonte's coatennial ¢slebration with a firemen’ began s parade and drill, stern Iron manufacturers in We vania ars not disprsal Pennsyl. demand £4.05) to grant the of the Amigamaied Association for a pudd log rate, The American Protestant Association cided at Pit next year, de tsburg to moet at Phliadeiphia Frederick 1. Wolf, a distiller near Greens. He into the macl burg, was i antly «ille L, byabidta frawa winery, where he was crushed, David V received at the i llams, of Nauticoke, hands two un- his injuries wio sandbageol iim, In it Mr. Knuwn men mort Williams gaid a led and robbed ante sr stale? while be was out drinking two mo him from a saloon and sandbaggel him, He died from A pren ur att Erle, the e8, sinr] injuri len oceeurred yz Le water works extension operation at I Captain Jason Lathrop was engagsd in drilling and blasting a channel for the He bad put lie eartridg go and his a ntake down 1.4 waler pipe. ons dynan harles thier twonty-live po The men had their backs otber nud while Har eegtiric wi ires to the rity aj- cartridge, ous of Harrity : Harri y was hurie tacked ) ies with he ngratuiate | ving repressed nd allowing isd next day. Centra! Tr Pit a} bars Conductor Dook, of the action road, Brg, Was als Bire the wile Two of k's fact wit! zg by the fl; threatens to Hermans Eifman acd family, Doylestown, hrown 1 away b were t rom thelr carriage by Mrs. E Iman ternally and remaned unconsed time, The lit girl injuries and Mr, &3'a his bend above the forehead, caped without injury. A test of an eight inch gun was beid at the proving grounds ol the Iron Company. The gun twenty-five for the United States Army. A projectie 150 pounds in weight was used The charge of powder weighed eigh y-three pounds, The requirements are tha: shots be fired, The result of the tes: was thoroughly satisfactory. Forest fires in McKean and Elk counties, have done much damage. Ihe Joss it is feared, will run up ioto millions of dollars, Five to seven men are missing. a run Tee, was injured in. us some tie also pustained severe sah has a serious cul on The boy es- Bethiehem a: Harrisburg reversed the judgment of and ruled that Mrs, Kerr could sue for dam. At Plowv.lle, Webs'er Ziegler and George James were both killed by lightning. President Reed preached the bacoalaureae, addressed the oless, Bishop Andrews dodicated the floes new church edifies erected by Lansdowne Me ho- An attempt to take prisoners from a Potts. town policemen resulted in two mea belong leaders of the disorder, Exploding gasoline in a Pittsburg store ig- ing and the storekeeper’s wile had a parrow escape from death, A movement on foot la Pittsburg eontem- The body of Nathan Holt, of Johnstown, was found along the Pennsylvania tracks | near Gallitzin, bis head severed from bis land and the foreigners resident there are in safety, Tne Chinese forces in the northern part of the Island became disorganized at the ap- proach of the Japanese troops, and the sol. ders of the President of the Republic joined the mob In rioting, looting and burning the government bulldings st Talpeh Fua nd Hobs, The Japanese logation has received no of. flolal advices on the collapse of the Formosa Republia. The collapse has expected from the first. The officials have treated the Formosa uprising as grotesque, The Japanese foreign office has indicated its con tempt for this affair by never referring to it to a cable despatoh to the Legation here. killed, On acoount of his Inability to obtain employment the suleide theory is advanced. Ex-Pregident Harrison has a double In one of his psfBonal frdends, Gen, A. H. Beech, of Wheeling, W. Va. His figure and features, sven to his eyes and the color of his bal, make him almost the counterpart of Mr, Harrison, The government of Holland has desided to send four warships to Morocoo with in. structions to demand reparation for the loot log of the Dutch brigantine Anna and the murder of her captain on the Riff coast of Moroeeo in Apri last, MR. OLNEY NAMED. Selected By the President to Be Secretary of State NEW ATTORNEY-GENERAL. is a Cincinnati Judge and a Con- splcuous Lawyer—-NoRearrange- nent of the Cabinet, The nos the follow- President has annot . Olney of Massachu Fo y General adson Harmon, L Olio, incinnati, Mr. Harmon has been n Pleas fora ic Ing time judge , and is a man of ous of the most “ ’ "or < hat il ali press. posed of the Presiden! xt wesk MARKETS. BALTIMORE GRAIN, ETC 2 White UA TS Southern & Penn. RY E—~No yan HAY —~Choice Timothy . Good to Prime. ..ccevve. 1200 STRAW —Rye in car ids.. 1400 Wheat Blocks 65 Oat Blocks. covvveses CAXKNED cane Yi GOODS. No. 2. P EA S—Standar ds. . CORN—Dry Pack....c.oen Molst.ccoooseess HIDES, CITY STEERS...........} 10} City Cows,... resnne ¢ Southern No. 2.. POTATOES & VEGETABLES, i? 8 shaven 0 @e ONIONS. cseressassanss 100 i PROVISIONS. PRODUCTS-shide.$ Clear ribsides.......cceu. Hams. ..ocooeniisnncnns 1iy Mess Pork, per bar..... 4 LARD—Crude...c.ceenee Best refined. ...cvovv vee BUTTER @t Under i00...u0- co sssene Creamery Rolls...ceeee 16 CHEESE, CHEESE-—N.X. Fancy..% SY @#% N. 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