BaMiBaaBaaMaW'SaPHBaiej9aaKBBaaaaaaHaai c?iP3wf SHS "&" t.-u. ? t " " r - - A ' .' - - - i - .-! LANCASTER DAILY ENTELIIGENCEK TUESDAY JULY 24.1fcfc&. fci e. 1 s 4 4t or li i-i. JLancastet fntelligeiust. TUESDAY EVBNINO. JULY 24. 1883. UiBts rer the Auditors. There is a geed sized scandal out in Pittsburgh ever the prosecution of the clerk of the court for his failure te ac count for the receipts of fines and costs imposed upon defendants in liquor and ether cases. It is alleged that in the June term of '81 Judge Stewe fined ever one thousand saloon keepers $75 each ; that would make $75,000. Then the clerk assessed or should have assessed them $15 for costs; that would make $15,000 mere. At the September tetm they were fined again for violating the law .during the two months in which they could get no license, that time $50 each, making $50,000 mere, and with the costs running up te $60,000, a grand total of $150,000, whereas the clerk only returns some $13,000. It is net believed that any considerable portion of the deficiency was actually collected and officially embezzled, but that there has been gross contempt of court in the failure te enforce its orders and favor itism te political or ether friends in giving them exemption from their pen alties. As the records show the fines and costs te have become due, the disclosure that they have net been paid puts the authorities and their delinquent friends in a split stick. If the latter testify that they paid up, the officials must ac count for the money ; if they were net compelled te pay, the officials must an swer for contempt and neglect of duty. The investigations in progress at Pittsburgh are suggestive te our county auditors of what they should de. There has long been a mystery as te what re sults from the costs and fines frequently imposed by the court and paid by the defendants in the criminal cases. It has net always happened in this county that they found their way into the county treasury. We trust that such neglect or something worse no longer prevails. But it will be an easy matter for the auditors te ascertain. Let them call for the record of all such fines and costs and then inquire hew many of them were paid, and if all the money which ought te have been received from that source has feuud its way into the county treas ury ; if net, why net. And, by the way, there is some public cariesity as te what has become of the suits of the county against the officials surcharged by the auditors last year. The illegal and unjustifiable payments, by a majority of the old beard of com missioners, of large sums of money for Improper purposes led te an auditors' re port adverse te some of such items and suits of record were instituted by the appeals made against the surcharges. What has been done since te press these cases te trial V Let the auditors inquire. Are the present commissioners and solicitor solicitous about vindicating the claims of the county te get back the money improperly taken from its treasury? "What is everybody's busi ness is nobody's business. Will the auditors make it their business te see that their own investigations de net end in smoke ? ma m The utter foolishness of postponing the disposal of fortunes until after death receives fresh illustration in the scandal arising ever the parting of the raiment of the late General Skebeleff. During his lifetime he gave largely in charity and it was known that under the terms of his will, the bulk of his estate, est i mated at 1,250,000 sterling, was devoted te charitable objects. This will mys. terieusly disappeared and the estate was distributed according te the intestate laws of Russia, his relatives taking no notice whatever of the letter which Skebelfff wrote from Geek Tepe te a friend at St. Petersburg, in 1881, disposing of the priprty in the event of his death during the siege. Among the objects of his bounty were two Turkish boys whom he had picked up en a Bulgarian battlefield, and sent te school at Moscow te be reared at his expense. The proprietor of the school finding that no money was forthcoming for the late general's charges, turned them into the streets, where they were picked up in a half-starved condition, and their pitiable situation made known te the public. Naturally a great deal of righteous indignation is felt ever the conduct of the covetous relations, who received a well-deserved snubbing a few days age at the anniversary services ever the dead general. There are no s'ate officers te be nom. inated or elected in Virginia this year, but the Democrats will held acenven. tien, as the straighteut Republicans have already had a gathering, te or ganize for the campaign ; and it is said that they will, very sensibly, confine themselves te state issues. This is geed policy. Their present concern is with their own state and te reclaim it from a handful of adventurers who, with the aid of the negre vote, have seized upon it te run it and plunder it. The last elections made it evident thatMahene cannot long maintain his held even upon the fickle colored vote. It has begun te show signs of disintegration and revolt, and te keep it compact,negre exhorters from the North and black women, are te be imported te work among their race for the repudiatersj party. These desperate schemes net only reveal a wavering cause but are in themselves calculated te make its quietus. The Western Union telegraph com pany se largely controls the sources of press information in the country that the news of the strike and its prospects must be taken with some salt ; but the general report does net show that the company is able te de its business with out the men who have left it. Their admirable morale and exemplary con duct in their present situation have kept for them the popular sympathy which their original grievances com manded, and the action of the New Yerk business men in recognizing the reasonableness of their position will greatly strengthen it. It seems alto gether likely that the telegraph company wifl have teieldse far as te'iubmit Jts idifferiiice::wiUi''itik3pleyM afce f Hei-'aVhitra'laWn Xsef OrmXA mad ftan. Eckewf. '? H gA th& J- - "' m - The Democrats at Harriefcurg should net waste a day in giving their opponents every chance te accept or refuse an honest, just and true apportionment. In tendering them the Stewart bill and like measures the Democracy have shown every disposition te be generous ; and the rejection of it by the Republi cans imposes upon them all the respon sibility for the failure of the session. " Calice Charley " Fester says that the appointment of Stanley Mat thews te the supreme bench was an inherited obligation from the Hayes administration. What then was the beverage used te induce the Gould contribution of $100,000 te the Republi can campaign fund ? It seems that at the first session of the last Congress the Heuse passed a bill for the retirement of trade dollars from circu lation by redeeming them with Bland dol lars. The same day en which this bill was passed by the Heuse it was laid before the Senate and by that body referred te the committee en finance, but it made no further progress. General Sheridan' 8 friends in Chicago, following tne urant ana Sherman prece dent, have presented him with a hand some residence in Washington. They are said te be business men and very naturally they will expect a handsome return some day for the outlay. General Sheridan should bethink himself of the gift biriiig Greeks. One drop of Antonie's bleed in takiug the pound of flesh meant death and con fiscation of estate te Shylock. And yet a New Yerk man, who was saved by the infusion of some bleed from the body of a colored porter, refused te pay the stipu lated rate of ten cents a drop, after he was saved. The conclusion thus forces itself either that bleed is cheaper or men are meaner than in the palmy days of Venice. PEKUArs the smallest exhibition of fear of the civil service examination was made in the treasury department at Washing ton a few days age, when a lady clerk's leave of absence, expiring July 19, was dated back te July 14, in order te permit the appointment of a successor before the new rules went inth operation en July 10. If the civil service rules conduce te crush the aspirations of just Buch applicants for office, they will be a big been te this suf fering country. Notwithstanding the severe frosts of May and the large quantity of fruit whieh fell from the trees in June, the peach- growing districts of Delaware and Mary land premise net te disappoint the levers of that Iucieus fruit. Reports from all the mere important centres of the industry show that the crop, while being less abundant, will be far superior te that of last year in quality. The railroads are making extensive preparations for peach sbipuients.it being estimated that 5,000,000 babkets will be shipped ever the Delaware railroad and its numerous connections The season this year is somewhat back ward and peaches will net be very plenti ful before the 1st of August. The principal reason given for the falling off in the crop is that the farmers are begin ning te prefer the cultivation of some mere reliable product, the existence e' whieh will net be threatened at each slight change of wind and weather. While the senatorial elections have weakened the Republican position as for tided by the experience and tried ability of its representatives in the upper Heuse of Congress, the Democratic states have returned nearly all the senators who gave vigor te the Democratic influence in the upper Heuse, and have reinforced them with new men of known ability. The three new senators en the Democratic side are men of recognized ferce, and possess the advantage of having served in the lower Heuse. The New Yerk Tribune ob' serving this strengthening of the Deme cratic side of the Senate and the deteriera tien of the Republican, deduces a sectional meial, and asks : "Is the North repeat tag tne mistake it made in tne years before the war ? The ability of the men sent by the Seuth te the national council aud the fidelity with whieh it keeps them in effice is one of the most striking features in our political history. All signs indicate that the Seuth is entering upon an era of great prosperity. Her people have learned a valuable lessen in the stern school of adversity, and they will naturally reap the fruit of their self denial. If te great material prosperity is added superior political skill the Seuth will inevitably become again the controll ing section in the government." FKATUBES OF THE STATE PKESS, The Wilkesbarre Recerd wants the next Republican national convention te meet in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald ex pects te see an unbessed Democratic state convention. The Philadelphia News sarcastically calls en the statesmen in hiding te come out and accept office. The Wilkesbarre Union Leader thinks W. Hayes Grier would be a geed candidate for auditor general. The Philadelphia Sunday Truth prints a poem entitled " The Old Hat en the Wall," written for it by Walter Kieffer. The Sunday Mercury thinks it would de the governor no harm te consult mere freely with the representatives of the people. Our Continent has certainly made a hit in getting Geerge W. Childs te write a story for it. It is printed in the current number and is entitled "Cle." The Hazleton Plain Speaker wants te pillory Democrats of any name or faction who may seek the advancement of self or place by a corrupt bargain with the Stal warts. The Pittsburgh Leader, Rep., says it is very plain te the people, that the Demo crats at Harrisburg are mere disposed te make a fair apportionment than the Re publicans, i The Reading New has discovered that Massachusetts families are prouder of being able te traee their aneestry back te E Ike fal witetav than te tkese, who Gauged them - ? Taa Pittafaarch- Timet ebmaends the 1e ' telegraphers of Baltimore who have taken pledge that Baltimore who have taken pledge that they will net drink any intoxicating liquor until the strike is ended. A Berks county correspondent of the Patriot suggests that Colonel Rebert P. Deebert, of Philadelphia, would make as geed a candidate for auditor general as the Democrats could find in the whole state. m aa a FKBSONAIi. , Langtby says that bangs must go. . Emperor William has been improved in health by the waters of Ems. William T. Carlten, electrician, died at Brockton, Mass., last night. Phipp's wife's property is te be fore closed en a mortgage for $4,000 given te raise money te help her husband out of his scrape. Gov. Pattison has received a large number of letters from persons in different portions of the state indorsing his course en the apportionment question. Prince Hohenlohe Lunoenbure, it appears, is about te favor us with his company. " Hohenlohe " is easy enough and the New Yerk Timet thinks Lugen bnrg must mean "Jack and the game." Sara Bernhardt has definitely separ ated from Damala, and legal talent is new at work, at her instigation, te carry the point that the marriage was net according te law, and that therefore Damala has no claim upon her. President Arthur arrived at Cape May yesterday morning en the United States steamer Despatch. He was met by a committee and taken te the Stockton hotel, where he held a reception in the afternoon. He resumed his trip te New Yerk last night. Lerne and Louise are doing some re markable fishing in the Caseapedia river Several " splendid " salmon of their catch have been sent te the queen. Chester A. Arthur, son or rresiaent Arthur, ana a party of friends are spending a few days with the governor general. Mr. Andrew Carnegie gave a brilliant dinner in Londen te Matthew Arneld, in view of 'his approaching departure for America te lecture en sweetness and light. All the eminent Americans in Londen, including Senater Cameren, were present. Christine Nilsson will next season receive, during her American engagement, $2,000 for each performance aud sing ten times during each month. Mme. Sem Sem brieh is te get $1,500 for each peformanee, and Mme. Scalchi $5,000 for each ten performances. Rev. O. L. Ashen felter, formerly of St. Pauls Reformed church this city, is new in eharge of the third Universalist society of Baltimore and en Sunday last preached a sermon en " Hell," denying that the scripture teaches that any such place exists. The text " He that believeth net shall be damned," which is relied upon by many orthodox teachers, Mr. Ashen fetter said was net a part of the Bible, but an interpolation. The word damna tion has no reference te future life, but in the original Greek is similar in meaning te condemnation and judgment. The speak er quoted passages from the Bible in sup pert of this view. The Universalist caurcb, he said, has started critical examination into this subject which has led many of the mere liberal men in the orthodox church te disclaim the harsb,cruel doctrine of eternal torment, Henry Slade, of New Hampshire, was in Congress 40 years age. lie bad ex pressed some abolition views thore and a Georgia bully thought it would be a geed thing at home te insult him publicly. He he walked up te Slade and deliberately spit a mouthful of tobacco juice in his face. Henry A. Wise had been struck by the beautiful, womanly face of Slade. He went up te the bully and said : " Yeu cowardly deg, spit en me new ! Ill cut you into degmeat." " What?" exclaimed the unwashed fellow. Slade, who had quietly wiped tbe spittle oil, looked up surprised ; he knew Wise's face though Wise had never spoken te him. ' Mr. Wise," he said, " don't get into difficulty witn this man en my account." " tie a man !" rad Wise : "I'll get into no diffi culty with hira. He knows his man this time, tee." Slade became governor of Vermont in 1844. Duchess of Ossuna, who is mentioned as the cause of the breach between the king and queen of Spain, is the Princess eaim-aaim who figured ler a time se prominently in Nashville while General Rousseau was in command there. She was about twenty five then, and most beautiful, very tall, graceful, and a daring rider en horseback. She was as reckless of reputation as of life in these days. Salm Salm was a peer spirited sort of husband but a very geed Beldier. The princess followed Maximilian te Mexico, and was with him as nurse, confidante and cker amie during the siege of Querotare, when the bogus emperor was captured, and remained at his bedside during his captivity and illness till he was shot. She and her husband, accempained his remains te Austria, and it was immediately after tbis that tne prince died and the gay wid ew married the late Duke of Ossuna. UBIME AMD CALAMITY. Keperts or Recent Tragic Occurrences. Jehn Manien, aged 40 years, and Adam Hill, aged 54, were killed last night within 15 minutes of each ether at the Green street crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad in Jersey City. Gee. Kane, Henry Shaffer and Worthington MoCulleoh, young men from Frestburgh, Md., were drowned by the capsizing of a beat in the Potomac river, at Cumberland yesterday afternoon. The powder works of Geerge Miller, at Sumueytewn, Montgomery county, blew up yesterday afternoon. One man was killed. In trying te save a woman who was walking en the railred track at Weed- side, L. I., en Sunday night, Deputy Sheriff Quinn was killed by a locomotive. A tire in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. yesterday morning, destroyed Henry R. Stoddard's large stables and the Gibsen house. Twenty-six horses perished in the stable. The total less is about $50, 000. The New Yerk & New England railway bridge, across the south branch of the Pawtncket river, near Coventry, Rhede Island, was burned yesterday. A ruffian bearded a freight train near Red river, Texas, en Sunday night, and his fare being demanded, shot a brakeman dead. He then shot another man in the region of the heart, and his victim falling off the train he again shot at him and then escaped into the brush. AstermatAsburyPark. New Jersev. yesterday afternoon, unroofed four hotels, badly damaged two ethers, upset vehicles and lamp pests, and altogether caused a less at that place and Ocean Greve esti mated at $20,000. A colored waiter at one of the hotels was drowned. In a fight near Presque Isle. Maine. Monday morning. Jehn Swanback shot Jehn Hansen in the threat and Hansen shot Swanback: in the arms. Hansen died in a few minutes. It is reported that Usibepu ban defeated Cetewaye and burned Ulnndi. Cetewaye is said te be wounded. Chinese embargo. The Chinese have prohibited the expert of bullocks for the use of the French troops in Tenqnin. Twe cargoes of cat tie an detained at Hainan. The French admiral has made a strong complaint, and the British consul has. also protested, some of the ehipasats being by aa English fins. FALL OF A FUBNACE. ATIKRlW.trtt.f itt AT S1KACUSE. aisht Man Killed la aa Iaatant Uraabed te iteattt Uader.a Star of Brick, Mortar and Asnea. At the Onondaga iron company's blast furnace, about a half mile west of Syra cuse, N. Y., inGeddes, Jeseph Dawsen, with a gang of men. has been engaged for several days in removing the inner or fire bricks or tbe arch, leaving only tbe outer course Etanding. The foreman considered tbis course entirely safe. Witneut tne slightest warning Monday afternoon the arch caved in, burying the workmen beneath it in the mass of bricks, mortar, soot and ashes. An alarm was at once given and the men at the mill set at work with a will te remove tbe victims, in less than an hour eight bodies were taken from the rains. The scene at the mill beggars description. Several hundred people were at the place. Sens, daughters and wives wept frantic ally as the dead bodies were removed. People gathered in knots in the vil lage of Geddeser hurried te the scene of the casualty. Business was almost en tirely suspended in the village and the place looked as if stricken by a panic. It was fully five minutes after the calamity before the dust cleared away, se that tbe debris could be viewed. The force of the falling bricks was se great that they were forced out of the openings in the furnace and crowded several feet into the space about it. Patrick Cannen, an empleye of the works, was the first te hear the crash. He steed only a few feet distant. He was nearly blinded by the dust. Mr. Cannen rushecbareund te the front of the building and gave the alarm. "My Ged, it was awful," said Mr. Cannen. "I had just left the vicinity of the furnace followed by William White, who was a helper and carrying bricks te the masons. He barely escaped being killed with the ethers. Jee Dawsen was the head mason. Jack Barry and Tem Lyden, who were killed, had been employed in the works for some time and had charge of the furnace when it was in operation. The works were shut down for repairs en June 3 and had net been started." A List of tbe Killed. The following is a list of victims, all of whom were killed eutright: Barry, Jehn, was married, but had no children. He is the only one of the victims who was heard te make any outcry. Carrell, Michael, was married and the father of two children. Dawsen, Jeseph, the head mason, who had formerly been employed at the rolling mills. He leaves a wile and ten chil dren. Fogarty, Jehn, who was a single niau and the support of an aged and widowed mother. Hefty, Frank, a Germau, who was mar ried and had a family. Lyden, Antheny, has been married three years and was the father of one child. Regan, David, married aud leaves an invalid wife and family. Wendell, Jehn, had been at work but a short time and but little 53 known about him. He bad a family. Tbe rlace Kuetvn te be Dangerous. The gang of eight men were lining the inside of the furnace, which is sixteen feet in diameter aud sixty feet high. A small scaffold was across the furnace at the height of eight feet from the greuud. It was said by Mr. Gere, tbe manager of the company, that it was known that the lining of the upper part was in a danger ous condition and that he warned the men befere they went in. The fellow-workmen of the dead men said that it was net known that the lining was in a dangerous state. Without signal or warning the lining of the upper part gave way and sixty tens of brick fell upon the men. The sound of the falling mass was muilled by the iron walls and there was no crash. A great cloud of dust blew out from the doers of the furnace, filling the factory. Men knew that their fellows were iubide of that iron tomb, but their eyeswere blinded by the clouds of dust and it was several minutes before they could grope their way inside of the furuace. With hoes aud shovels men began te dig out the mass et bricks, pitching them en te the fleer. After digging nearly half an hour and throwing out a mass of bricks about four feet deep they feuud the bodies. They were crushed and broken. Their faces were covered with dust, which had settled into the cuts and wounds made by falling bricks, and their hair aud beards were ceveud with the yellow powder. While the men were busy throwing out the debris they were frequently imper tuned by their friends te leave the place at once, as they were working in immi nent danger every minute. They paid no heed but weiked en with a will. The fall of one brick from such a height would kill a man outright. The bricks are lire proof and are about 15 inches long and G inches square at the end. They weigh from 30 te 40 pounds each. At this time it is impossible te give any intelligent idea et the injuries the men sustained or whether death was the result of suffocation. They are all cut and bruised and their bodies present a ghastly spectacle. The news of the tragedy spread from the blast furnace te the homes of the men who were killed. Women and chil dren, wailing and crying, hastened te the furnace. The limp, shattered bodies were carried out by men whose face? were stern and set and laid en the bare ground. Sobs filled the air as, like se many sacks, tbe bodies were lifted into open wagons and driven down through the village. At the little cottages women steed with aprons te their eyes and even the children stepped playing. The excitement among the empleyes and many outside laboring men was intense. Tbe Managers Threatened. Open threats of violence were heard. Excited men were heard te volunteer te sheet both Manager Gore aud the general foreman, who were both prebent. The im pression prevailed among the excited peo ple that they were criminally negligent in allowing the men te go into the furnace te work in the condition in which it was. The police were called en te quell any disturbance. Mr. Gere and tbe general superintendent are in safe quarters. Were they en the streets the excited mob would very probably de them bodily harm. It is reported that Mr. Gere has left town. Corener Knapp was seen en the scene and as the bodies were brought out had them carefully placed in wagons and sent te the morgue. Ihe most searching investiga tien will no doubt be made, especially as the empleyes eharge gross negligence en the part of these in authority, and, en the ether hand, the managers claim that the men bad been sufficiently warned of the danger. The less te the works will be very slight. At 0 p. m., it is reported that two mero men are missing. AnnlrerMrleg. Albert O. Wilcox, chairman of the New Yerk abolition reunion, announces " a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the city anti -slavery society, and the attending riot, for October 2d next, in the Tabernacle church." All surviving Abolitionists and the relatives of these deceased are invited te attend. The fourth annual reunion of the United States Christian commission began at As bury park en Sunday. Yesterday the following officers were elected for the en suing year : President, Geerge H. Stuart, of Philadelphia ; vice president, Philip G. Gillett, of Jacksonville ; secretary, Rev. J. O. Fester ; treasurer, General- Clinten B. Fisk. ' KAPH StKiKJ. The Western Ualea Ce-a-wn-r la no Metier Coadtttea Taaa Before. The shifting fortunes of tbe telegraph operators' fight are as complex and unde termined as they were three days age. Beth side are keeping a stiff upper lip. The gains and losses appear te be equal, a'nd the companies, although with five days te work in, are iu no better condition te transact their business than they were six heuis after the strike. Master Work man Laverty, of Philadelphia, says that the fund at the disposal of the brotherhood is larger new than when the strike was ordered, although considerable money has been used. Late contributions have added mere te tbe treasury than it has been necessary te take from it. It is estimated that the strike has already cost the Western Union company in less of business alone half a million of dollars te say nothing of tbe injury inflict ed upon the wires and circuits because of lack of the usual care taken of them. The 8te.sk of the company yesterday fell half a point, whether en acoeunt of the story which had been circulated about a new line or the general collapse of the market is uncertain. The story gees that the brotherhood is considering a preposition contemplating nothing less than the prompt organization of a rival te the Western Union. Offers of unlimited capi tal have been made, se it is said, and a movement is en feet for the equipment of a new telegraph system between tbe prin cipal cities of the United States and Canada, utilizing existing rival lines. As yet this statement has net been substan tiatcd. The attitude of the various railroad companies toward the two parties te the fight has been one of strict neutrality. It has been an open secret for several days that as seen as the situation was fully comprehended the railroad people were en the anxious bench, fearing that a strike might be ordered among the operators doing duty en their lines, and especially of these who were doing Western Union business in addition te their railroad work. In order te avoid sueh a disastrous result an understanding was had by which it was agreed that all the offices of such a charac ter should be closed for Western Union business, and this scheme has been carried out. The Western Union people were quite willing te de this, for it cut oft a geed deal of business from the main offices which have already mere than they can attend te. It was natural, therefore, that a rumor stating that some et tbe railroad operators were te be called upon te work for tbe Western Union iu Philadelphia should create a geed deal of ex citement among the strikers. In quiries at the Pennsylvania and Reading railroad general offices resulted in a complete denial of the statement. A high official at the Pennsylvania office said : " Such a thing is out of the ques tion, and I guess the Western Union people understand that." The Reading railroad officials said the same thing. Twe of the operators employed at the stock exchange by the Philadelphia local telegraph company offered yesterday te go te work for the Western Union, where upon tbe brotherhood, which had been informed of the move, sent a committee te President Bentley, of the local com pany, and threatened te order a strike en his lines if he allowed the men te go. Mr. Bentley treated tbe committee with abruptness, and ordered it out ei the office ; but the men were net sent te the Western Union effice. Tbe Situation Klsewhere. The executive committee of the beard cf trade and transportation, in New Yerk, adopted iesolutiens that the business, being public iu its nature, cannot fee treated as a difference of opinion between private em ployers and their empleyes would be treated ; that tbe public inteiest is para mount te all ethers, and the public should net remaiu silent in a case where a great corporation has by repeated consolidations acquired a virtual mono poly which enabled it te dictate terms te a large class of educated laborers, and urge that this strike should be at once ended by both parties submitting their differences te a beard of arbitration which might be composed of three operators, three directors of the telegraph cempauies and the president of the national beard of trade, the thioage beard of. trade, and the New Yerk beard of trade and transporta tion, a majority of which should rule en all qnostiens, or any ether beard of arbi traters which would fairly represent the three parties in interest. WJSSTfiBN MTOKM3. Information Wltlibeld by tne Telegraph interruption. There is report of a great storm in the valley of the Mississippi. It is said te have cut off all communication with St. Leui.-, and the Western Union is returning messages filed for the city. It is also rumored that the Mississippi is rapidly rising, and that great destruction te pre perty is anticipated. Further particulars of the cyclone in Minnesota relate great disaster. At Elgin in one minute there was scarcely anything left of what was previously a prosperous village of 2e0 inhabitants. Every business building in town is demolished or un roofed. One estimable lady was killed and several persons injured. Great destruction ensued betweed Mr. Kassen's place and Dedge Centre. Kas son's house was destroyed and four mem bers of his family badly injured. At Meriden a church and a blaeksmith shop were levelled te the ground, and all along the railroad could be seen the wrecks of buildings that had been blown down, houses, stables, sheds and ether outbuild ings. It is impossible te calculate the width of the storm, but it was seemingly about five miles wide, and through the eastern part, along the course of the Zumbro river at Mereditb, a flour mill was unroofed and some barns injured. A blacksmith's shop was blown down. Mrs. Evans' house was blown down, with children in it, but none of them were injured. One, however, was found in a wheat field some distance from the house. At Owatonna all the building in the state fair grounds, which were being fitted up for tbe approaching exhibition, were blown down. A number of persons were in the main building at the time, and some were seriously injured. Mr. W. H. Cran dall, postmaster, was cut across the chest and lungs very badly by falling timbers, and there are fears that he will net recover. The Methodist church, the largest in the city, was moved from its foundation and badly damaged. Reports coming in from the country state that many of tbe largest and best farmhouses in, the country have been unroofed or blown down. News received from Dakota shows that the cyclone also visited that territory with fatal effect. Mrs. Geissenger, the mother of five little children, was killed near Red field, D. T., and a Mrs. Bowles met a like fate near Huren, D. T. Altogether nine persons are known te be killed and at least fifty injured, several, it is feared, fatally. The less of property in Dedge county alone will amount te hun dreds of thousands. Obituary. Ginery Twiehell, a well known 'railroad man, formerly president of the Bosten and Worcester railroad, and a member of the Forty first and Forty-second Congresses, died yesterday in Brookline, Massachu setts, aged 72. The Japanese legation at Washington has received a telegram an neuncing the death at Kioto, last Saturday, at Iwakura, the second prime minister of Japan,' and one of the originator of the sew policy of that empire. TBI IJ BASEBALL. THE 1BOH8IDKS BADLY BEATBIf. Taken Inte Damp by tbe Uarntburgs te tae Tene of SQ te 4 Hew tee Defeat Was Accomplished. Every club has its off day, and the Ironsides surely had theirs yesterday, when they allowed the Harrisburg profes sional team te down them by the score of 26 te 4. It seen became apparent after the game had been started that the home nine were greatly overmatched. They were suffering from the makeup of the club. By the first arrangement, Schiller was te have played first base. He failed te arrive and Kelly took his place. The men en the ether bases had then te be changed, and Miles, who had net intended te play, denned bis uniform and took second, with Sweitzer en third. In the first inning tbe home club had hard luck, allowing the visitors a run en a passed ball at second base, and after that the latter crawled up until they had made the mon strous score above. They batted very heavily, and it seemed impossible for the home club te field them in time. The costliest kind of errors were made at the most critical points of the game, and the majority of the ruus were made in that way. The first run for the home team was scored by Pelfer in the second inning after a geed hit. Iu the fourth Miles scored en an overthrew te first and a lest ball, and in the sixth inning get in another en a geed hit and the visitors' errors. Kelly succeeded in securing the only ether rui made, iu tbe fifth inning. Burns pitehed for the Harrisburg team. He is a wild sort of a player and very few men struck out. McUleskey backed him iu excellent style. The ether members of the nine played a hue game under tbe captaincy of Big Jehn shetzline, who plays second base and almost every ether position in tbe elub The nine are line base ruuuers aud much of their success depends upon that work. The fielding was geed, but several costly and ugly errors were made. Of the home nine Peffer played well in centre Meld, taking no less than four flies, one of which was very het. King get all within his reach. Zecher took a very het ball from the bat of McCleskey. and the one handed step by Miles of Kelly's ball in the last inuing was a feature of the game. Kelly played first base well and although Sweitzer had a number of errors en third he was suffering from a very sere hand. Heflbrd bad almost as m.iny men strike out as the professional pitcher and Sixsmith backed him well. Although the defeat is a bad one the people should take into consideration that the Harrisburg team has been playing the finest kind of ball this season. They new stand at the head of the inter state association aud play ball every day. Their captain has played in the iiuest clubs in this country for years. The score be low shows hew the thing was uone : IRONSIDES. AT BAT. R. IB. V. O. A. Zecher.sg 4 0 0 2 3 Kill,', It 4 0 0 10 Holterd. ij 4 0 0 0 7 Miles. 2b 4 2 1 5 1 Peffer, cr. 4 12 4 1 Sweitzer, 3b 4 0 111 Sixsmith, c 4 0 0 8 2 Kelly, lb 4 10 CO Uyew.rl J oeoo Total 33 1 4 27 15 IIARRISBUK09. Cllne, rl 8 4 2 2 0 Shetz.ine, 2b 7 2 1 2 C Burns, p 7 2 4 1 a Cusev. cl 7 14 0 0 McCleskey, c 7 0 0 5 :i Say,3n 7 4 4 I I Smith, lb. 7 4 3 11 0 Miller, ss 7 5 2 e 3 Kelly.lt 7 4 11 4 2 Total 01 25 21 IS 9 Innings 1234-5G78 ilarrisljunr l 3 e 4 4 4 .1 7 J 0-26 Ironsides e 101110 0 0-4 Umpire UiO. Myers. itaseball Meiea. The Anthracites and Actives played yes terday aud the Pettsvilla men could net bat Reading's California pitcher. The score was 7 te 4 iu favor of the latter. Other games were as fellows : at Tren Tren eon : Trenten, 7 ; Quickstep, 2 ; at New Yerk : Athletic. 1 ; Metropolitan, 5 ; at Buffalo : Bosten, 2 ; Buffalo, 3 ; at St. Themas, Ont.: Detroit, 5 ; Atlantic of St. Themas, 1. The Uartville's, who will be here en Thursday, defeated that excellent team, the August Flower, at Jumbo park yes terday, by a score et 2 te 1. The game of ball which was played at Hobrerstewn ou last Saturday, resulted in a victory for the Blue Stockings, of Mil lersville, by a score of 3G te 8. Reccius, the pitcher of tLe Louisville Eclipse, joins the Harrisburg. Cline, the popular right tielder of the Harrisburgs, went te St. Liuis last night, His mother is lying at tbe point of death, and the management hay granted him a short furlough. The game of baseball by eloctrie light advertised te take place in Chumbersburg last night, did net come off. A day or two age the poles were taken down by the Cumberland Valley railroad company and removed te the campmeeting greuud en the Ment Alte railroad, and the exhibition had te be postponed. Every player of the Merritt club has new been signed by managers of tbe ether clubs. Barnie, of the Baltimore club, gathered iu Emslie, Sweeney and Gardner, and Fennelly joined the Brooklyn team. Tbis makes six Merritt players uew with Brooklyn. All of the Merritt players have bettered themselves pocuuiarily.the aggre gate of the salaries new reaching $2,933 per month, against the $1,215 pay roll of the Merritt. Inter-State Managers. Representatives of the six remaining clubs of the interstate association met at the Girard house, Philadelphia, yesterday, and made up a new schedule of games te be played during August and September. Application for admission into the associa tion was received from the E isten club, Easten, Pa., but the elub was net admit ted. Mr. McCafferty, of Wilmington, Del., was appointed substitute umpire in place of Mr. Daly, of Brooklyn. The disbandment of the Merritt club leave Harrisburg leading for the inter-state championship ; Anthracite, of Pottsville, second ; Trenten and Brooklyn tied for third place, and the Quicksteps, of Wil mingten, and; Active, of Reading, bring ing up the rear. Harrisburg has a lead of three or four games ever its nearest adver sary, but the ether clubs are separated by only one or two games each ; se the race for first place will be exciting. Deferred Hearing!!. Jere Duugan, who was arrested en the 19th of May last for firing the barn in rear of the Fountain Inn, Seuth Queen street, this city, and after being commit ted te jail for a hearing was quaran tined en account of the smallpox prevail ing in that institution, will have a hearing before Alderman Spurrier en Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Zachariah Beeth, Christ. Franciscus and Sallie Blair, the two first named accused of being concerned in the burglary and robbery of Esbenshade's house en the Manheim pike, and the last named with being accessory after tbe fact in re ceiving the stolen goods, will have a hear ing before Alderman Spurrier en Monday next. The accused have also been quar antined in jail for several weeks. Sale et Stock. J. B. Leng, broker, sold te day at private sale 5 shares of Lancaster county national bank at $110; 10 shares of Columbia national bank: at $146, and 15 shares el Fulton national bank at 145. Sebmm Letrare Miss Brinten, of this city, is spending several weeks at ths White sseuntsins. bast ran news. rrem ear egnlar Uap correapeadaar. The largest birthday surprise party that has ever beea held in tbe neighborhood of the Gap for some years was given at the residence of Mr. Geerge G. Worst, in the village of the White Herra en Saturday lest. The affair was get up expressly for the purpose of celebrating the fifty seventh anniversary of Mr. Werst'a birth, and in the morning Isaac Diller. of Learn Learn en Place, very adroitly decoyed the unsuspicious gentleman away from home en business. During their absence friends and relatives numbering one hun dred and twenty five strong, from Lancaster eity, Chester county. New Hol Hel land and. ether points assembled at his residence, accompanied by the Parkesburg orchestra, which enlivened the occasion with excellent music. When tbe host re turned home about neon, his surprise can well be imagined, in liuding this large as semblage in waiting te exteud their con gratulations. The dinner whieh was pre pared en an extensive beale, was excellent and ample justice was done the tempting viands. The ice cream and ether refresh ments were furnished by Harry Ubil, confectioner of the Gap. Mr. Worst was the recipieut of many fine and useful gift, among them a handsome chair, presented by bis children. B. S. Weiler, eq., made the presentation speech, taking occasion te congratulate Mr. Worst upon bis success thus far in life ; he received the token with an expressieu of thauks. The young er of the guests enjoyed the afternoon with dancing te the delightful strains of the orchestra. As the shades of evening be gan te fail, the participants departed for their respective homes in geed cheer. Marrow Escape. William U. Helm, an empleye of B. & F. Walters, grain and lumber merchants, of Christiana, met with an accident in their warehouse at that place en Thursday morning, in which he made a miraculous escape from meeting a horrible death. While attempting te remeve a bag that bad become wound around the Bhaft that drives the grain eleva or, he unfortunately bad his left hand caught, and was whirled a number of times around the shaft, which was making ebeut one hundred revolu tions per minute, and was then thrown violently te the fleer. Had he net acted with presonee of mind and thrown his body lengthwise en the Bhaft, nothing would have saved him from having his brains dashed out instantly. Medical aid was summoned and upon examination, the injuries of the unfeitunate man were found te be of a serious nature, but net fatal. He sustained internal injuries and had his left arm badly fractured. Amputation was considered necessary at first, but uew the prospects are that he will net lese that member. ether Items. J. Heward MuLnughliu, the operator who was badly stunned at Kinzcr's tele graph effice se me time age by lightning, had a small pice: of copper wire, ever half an inch in length, exttacted from his fore head last week by a physician. This mis sle had struck him en that uccasieu and had imbedded itself where found. Owing te increasing businesss W. P. Linville, liveryman at the Gap, has erect ed a large livery sale aud exchange stable and has increased his number of " turn outs " te meet the demand. Jeremiah Futer is ereeting a large frame dwelling house in tbe same villrge) while the Penn sylvania railroad company is busily engaged razing all buildings that are in close proximity te their excavatiene here. Jeseph Wharten and iamily, accom panied by a number of friends, are spend ing the summer at his summer resort, near the Nickle Mines. Clement Hear and wife, of Kansas, ,ne visiting friends here, and Blanche Masen and family, of Lan caster, are the guests of Mr. Jehn Masen, of the White Herse. Workmen are new busily engaged raz ing tbe old Harmony school beuse and making preparations for the erection of a double school house en the same site. The Christiana athletic association claims te be in a flourishing couditien. The boys should take that hand lire engine of theirs and strengthen their muscles with it. That's about its worth. A G. A. R. pest has at last been estab lished at Atglen. The wheat crop iu this neighborhood was an exceedingly geed one. tranbure 1 Mim. Our V Band " is learning fast te make a noise. Strasburg physicians are very urgent in their endeavors te have the townspeople vaccinated. "Cheap Jehn," the traveling peddler, was arrested en Saturday evening for car rying en an unliscensed traffic. The slaughter house nuisance has been considerably remedied. Dr. J. H. Musser, of Philadelphia, is spending a few days in town. F. E. Bachman, traveling agent for J. H. Brackbill, cigar manufacturer, has just returned from a very successful trip through Ohie, Indiana and Michigan. He was especially successful in Teledo. HKKiUUUKUOOU NEW. Kvnnta Hear and Acress tbe County Lines. There are 2,600 men employed by the Pennsylvania steel company. The Masonic organizations of Harris burg are having their rooms furnished in very rich style. The publie bath heusea in the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers at Philadelphia, af forded relief te 13,682 persons last week. The valutien of real estate in Berks county for state purposes is $58,882,189, of which amount tbe city of Reading is put down at $21,344,758. The Dauphin county agricultural socie ty is te be reorganized ou an extensive scale and Steelton has been selected as the place at which it w te hereafter held its county fairs. Werk was continued at the Bethlehem steel mills yesterday without iHitui bance, but with a slight redutien of the force. Twelve of the non union men were per suaded by the locked out unionists net te go te work in the morning. A contract has been taken by the Har'au & Hollingsworth company, of Washing ton, for the construction of a steam pleasure yacht ler William B. Aster, of New Yerk. The vessel will be of steel, and it is estimated will cist about $350, 000. According te the act of assembly of 1873 the trout fishing season ends July 31 comprising the months of April, May, June and July. While the act has been amended in some respects by the acts of assembly of 1879 and 1881, there has been no change made in the time fixed by it for the catching of trout. UBITCAKT. Heath of Tbemaa Joaeaton Themas Johnsten, father of Mrs. Alex ander Harris and of Miss Frances John John seon, school teacher, died at tbe residence of his son-in law, Alexander Harris, esq., Ne. 16 Conestoga street, tbis morning at 3 o'clock, aged 82 years. He was born in Yerk county, en the 26th of August, 1801, was a dentist by profession, and for many years practised in Yerk and Lancaster counties, but abandoned bis profes sion several years age by reason of advancing age. Fer eight years past he made bis home with Mr. Harris. His death was tbe result of a general breaking down jef his physical condition consequent en old age. He was an intelligent, up right, honorable man, and useful citizen : a'Demecrat in politics but never aspired te office ; a Lutheran by faith, but of lib eral religious views. He was for many years a member of the Masonic order, being a member of a Yerk ceaaty ledge. His funeral will take place ea Thursday at 2 p. ss. IntenMat at Woodward Hill.
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