— THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, * WrinLiansprort, Penn, has jindarpons the of hb flooded with thirty-four of water, of having the Su ir taken out with 200,000,000 feet of log and 40,000,000 fort of sawed lumber; mi woarried away and others wrecked; business and industrial establishments wrecked, and about twenty lives lost, A rus in aid of Pennsylvania flood suffer ers is being raised in Berlin, Tar Pennsylvania Railroad crippled by the flood at Johnstown. will run into the millfons, Govenrnon Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has issued a strong appeal to the people of the United States or Deal! of the the food suf- ferers, On the first day that subscriptions were opened in New York city nearly $100,. 000 were contributed. Philadelphia raised about $150,000 in two days. Tur number of liveslost by the giving way of a bridge at Williamsport, Penn,, was in- creased by later reports to sixty, mostly boys, First AO the number thirty. Be was badly Its sides this terrible casualty, many other peo | ware | Be in Williamsport and vicinity rowned in the inundation, The lumber loss at Williamsport and Lock Haven is put at over $4,000,000, A FREIGHT train was wrecked on the North Pennsylvania railway and two tramps were killed. Engineer Hiram Meek was badly in- Jured, Tue English brewing syndicate has Jor | chased the second largest brewery establish- ment in this country—the Ballantine Brew- ery, of Newark, N. J. The price paid by the syndicate for the plant is $4, 500,000, Fiery 10oUsAND children marched in the annual parade of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Buun- day-schools. No choice having been made by the people, the Now Hampshire Legislature Concord and po blican, Governor. Jonx axp Hexrny Gruiey, brothers were killed by a fall of sop coal at Colliery, near Wilkesbarre, Penn. y i | GovERNOR GOODELL was inaugurated at | Concord, N, people. H., in the presence of 20,000 South and West, Tunge boys were drowned while attempt. ing to cross the Olentangy River at Colum- bus, Ohio, Tux English sy.dicate, which for some time st has been buying up American breweries, Joe obtained control of Denver's two leading unt paid is $3. 000 0) , the lar rs in 1 properties. The am HuLL BrotH and pro 1 deal for $134 Da, Oswa 8. C., was shot and stepson. Owen assaulted his wife, upon being remonstrated with by his step son, turned upon him with an uplifted knife The lad retreated a fow stops and then drow a pistol and shot his drunken stepfather through the heart. MARYLAND, next to fered most heavily from Zhe floods st retail grocery it, have f{alled instantly Pennsylvania, suf- Many lives were lost, and the pecuniary damage | amounts to millions of dollars. Every bridge in Frederick County was washed away, Miss Axx McMaster, of Havre Grace, Md., a beautiful girl of twenty years, killed herself with her brother's revolver on account of a quarrel with Daniel W. Kenley, to whom she was engaged to be married. LawRExce Monay, a bachelor, aged forty. six years, and his mother, aged eighty, resid. ing on an unfrequented road in Argentine township, Green County, Mich, were found mysteriously murdered in their home. Both were shot in the back of the head, and had been dead several days. Joserr W. ArsorDd, a wealthy farmer, who resided two miles from Springfield, 11. was shot and killed by his wife as the result of a domestic quarrel Fire destroyed five blocks of residences in Jacksonville, Fla,, causing an estimated total Joss of $100,000 Tag annual grand council of the five civilized Indian nations and allied tribes met at Purcell, Indian Territory The tribes represented were the Otoes, Missouris, Poncas, Kiowas, Wichitas Joudinot, a elected Chief A GARG of mou tack upon the dep Cherokees, Shawnee and Cherokee, was ntain bandits made an at tat Silver station, Mon- tana, and murdered Agent Jobst and aph Operator Burrell. They secured £200, 0. The Sheriff pursued and killed twa rob. bers, but the others escaped with the booty Fine at Biloxi, Mise, destroyed tw six business houses and dwellings, cau Joss of over $100.000 Fine at Seattle, Washington Territory. originating in Frye's Opera House on Front street, consumed practically the entire busi ness portion of the « The loss was esti- wer at £5, 000,000 FIvE men were drowned during a hurri- cane at Greenville, Ohio, J. H. Bexsayix, editor of the Deland (Fla) News, shot and killed Captain J. W. Douglass, a prominent politician, at New Smirna, Fla. It was the outcome of a long standing feud, Tole Washington. Tae President made these appointments First Auditor, Treasury, George B. Fisher of Delaware; Second Auditor, Treasury, Joab N. Patterson, of New Hampshire: United States Attorney, Lewis E. | moni] Jr., of Alabama, for the Northern and Middle Dis tricts of Alabama. Jonux Axrox Worry Grrr, the new Minis ter of Bwedon and Norway to the United States, presented his credentials to the Presi. dent. eo Uresident replied to the Minister's speech. . Tir reduction of the public debt during May amounted to #8 700577.27. The total in the Treasury is $520, 1.0, 588 72 Tie President has appointed Charles I. K , of New York, to be Consul General of the United States at Montreal, Canada, and Alexander Reed, of Wisconsin, to be Consul at Dublin, Ireland. communication with Governor Beaver, of fetnayivanin tmesrning the sufferers by | LA mastin U1 W nahingion | tandance on holidays indicates a continual in- citizens to raise funds for t over by the President, and the sum of $10,000 contributed, POSTMASTER GENERAL, WaNaMAKER has sont circulars to 100 of the largest postoffices in the coun with a view to the hye ond Bice A Aer 8 i. Cartan Meapn, the commandant at the Ww. Navy Yard has made a recom Jn i . Shit Congo asked for a su appropria to erect a wall around the water front of the yard to prevent overflow by future freshets, met at | ted David H. Goodell, a | Honey Brook i de | other articles with a | ment | His head | many stitches by the surgeon | Day 110,104 bank building at Preston has been struck by lightning, Numerous fatalities are repo Tax London Stock Exchange subscribed $5000 in aid of the Johnstown flood sufferers, A mupring of Americans was called in Paris by Minister Reid, to express sympathy with the Pennsylvania sufferers, Tug mutilated body of a woman, tied in two is, recalling the methods of “Jack the Kip r,” was found floating in the Thames, at Son ly A HURRICANE and waterspout at Reichen- bach, Germany, havo caused great loss of life and property. Tur Duke of Portland's colt, Donovan, won the Derby, England's greatest annual racing event, Ar the United States Legation in Paris a meeting of Americans subscribed 88000 for the Pennsylvania flood sufferers, the Paris Municipal Council contributed $1000 for the same charity. Disastrous floods destroyed life, crops and property in Bavaria. Fire in the village of Libionoch, in Prus. sian Silesia, destroyed 105 houses, Tue cotton mills at Offenburg, Baden, were destroyed by fire and eight lives were lost. The loss by fire is $100,000, Ture Marchioness de ( hassel balonging to one of the oldest of the noble Mmilies of Bel- glum, was found murdered in her bed at her residence, Chateaux Moulbaix, at Mons, hav- ing been shot through the heart. She was murdered for refusing a reduction of rent. A UND has been opened in Vienna for the Pennsylvania floxd sufferers. ———— THE NATIONAL GAME. Bostox continues to win, Inwin is playing short for Philadelphia again PrrrssunG has tried eight pitchers this season, Barrons is sadly in need of a good field general, Corvmsus is Baldwin. disappointed in Pitcher O'Bruex, of Cleveland, is fast becoming » | | star pitcher. Cincinxar: has offered Louisville $3500 for Pitcher Stratton ‘ i | THiS is Anson's nineteenth successive sum. | mer as a ball player KELLY issupposad to get ab out $4500 salary from the Boston Club BrovrHers leads the League in batting, at well as his own club (the Bostons PLAYING ball without back. The slips wrench Tur Cleveland team as now made up wil play out the season, bar accidents pikes causes severely to instil the science of y the Washingtons MORRILL is trying sacrifice hitting int PETE HOTALING has been appointed mana ger of the Chattanoogas with full power BMOKED goggles are fielders at Kansas City sweep, Darnyurie, the fielder, is now covering first base for the Den ver (Col) team. worn by the right In MeGuirk and Ward New Orleans has the | that have ever | Miss. greatest pair of coachers played in the South THE reports of the various committees show | that the Players’ Brotherhood is in standing every way. good son and Radbourn t A wird Western exchange facetiously re marks that “the Baltimores couldn't hit the Atlantic Ocean with a paddle.” 18 season his fortunes with Spence’s New Haven Club Tue four-ball rule bids fair to put a good many pitcherson the shelf this season. But what matter so long as the public is satisfied? Carrary Comiskey, of Browns, says that the Bostons the St will win the League championship through the superior. | ity of its pitchers, strikeouts are almost a thing of the past, and the pitcher must depend on his team accept ing reasonable chances for outs BasgnalL is going up in the world American sculptor has a statue unde title in the Paris salon man in the act Fon pr ing a adie Curry fined ( the limit, $1 game Ir is mysteriously Wiman, the Staten Is ready to back the Brotherhood financially in case of a split between the players and the League AT the Polo Grounds, Decoration Day would have brought out 20,000 poople at least to witness the New York-Indianapolis games: at Staten Island a beggarly 5000 witnessed the two games Cranresrox, 8. C,, bas a terrible nine for the telograph operators who send the games to our cities Jurt think of Aydelotte Houselolder, Fitzsimmons and Brandenburg representing 4 of throwing a ball ming to differ in « ball st Washington, aptain Ewing y, and expelled pind him hinted that Erastus i all in the same team LEAGUR pitchers are all anxious to se who will be the fortunate one to «trike Den Brouthers, of Boston, out for the first time this season. The feat had not been accom plished up to recent date, Ustring Garrsey air and bound to his in which he puts hi wears a jacked filled with waist by a rubber band, cap, the extra balls and hghtning-like move : He wastes no time in cramming the articles into his pocket Parniex Grnresrie, the once-famons loft flelder of the New York Club, was severely and possibly fatally injured in a drunken brawl at Carbondale, Penn. Decoration Day was fearfully out, necessitating CLEVELAND made the best showing of any | of the Western clubs on the Eastern trip, having won 9 games and lost 4; Indianapolis { won 3 and lost 10, Chicago won 6 and lost 10, | Pittsburg won 4 and lost 10, Presrorent Hanrnison has been in constant | BB Indianapolis wis the only Western club to win a game from Boston. BAsEnALL is not a mere craze, as the at crease from year to year. On Decoration wraons attended the games of four of the largest organiestions, and the majority of them were interf with by the threatening or rainy weather, Maxaorr Hanr has given the Boston gers to understand t winning the pennant means at least $1000 each to the men In LEAGUE RECORD, Cleveland FREER NET R Ss aiatihin oo «corres 38 ¥ C IT 15 IbUrg. ...coiieinnns 18 ndianapolis. ,......... 10 I AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Won, ARE EERE EE AE EA "n AE ER EE EEE 0 CREE REE ALAR 08 ALAR EERE Ad 2 LL EE .] ERE E RARER BERRIEN Chshanaiaree when the sun has full ex-Chicago-Pittsburg | | wee K3 at the latter's cottage st IT looks as if Boston would have to put its | re main reliance in the pitching line upon Clark. | 4 : 4 { Dispateh will take the Presidential party from | Washingt Louis | { aml was » BATTING is fast going ahead of pitching, as | and millionaire, stands | property ¢ i monies | Brazil with Vi LATER NEWS, BY the capsizing of a boat in the Provi- dence (R. I.) harbor John Moran, aged eight- een; James MeNT, nineteen, and William Hart, sixtoen, were drowned, ELeveN business houses and offices in Syracuse, Kan., were burned. Joann Feasrer and Charles Colston, both colored, were hanged on the same scaffold at Yorkville, 8. C., for the murder of W, C. Abernathy, a merchant, Two men murdered the wife and son of Rev. Jacob Harness, a Baptist minister in Scott County, Tenn. They secured £74 in money and then burned the house, Tir President has appointed Mahlon Chance, of New York, Inspector of Foreign Labor, Coroxer J. C, Kerrox has been appointed Adjutant-General of the United States Ariny to succeed General Drum, retired. He born in Pennsylvania in 1825, and was gradu ated at the Military Academy at West Point July 1, 1851, A TEACHER named Keeling, while travel ing by train to Birmingham, England, with his sweetheart, named Lister, killed the wo man and threw her body out of the carriage, He then committed suicide. Was FORTY THREE persons committed suicide in Vienna in May, ARRANGEMENTS bave been made by the State of Pennsylvania to loan the city of Johnstown $1,000,000 to be used in rebuilding, A WESTBOUND engine and car went through the bridge west of Petersburg, Peun., and Eugineer Port and Fireman Hoffright were killed, cident, A misplaced switch caused the ac- A TonxApo wrecked many buildings at Danvers, Ii! A freight factory church was the barns and dwell destroyed, cars blown from track, a ruined and roofed many The western part of Sedg- rn part of King- suffered greatly, wick County and the easts in Kansas, 3 venty miles | man County, and a #5 wide the mado. A Was swept over by 14 farmer named Rog and his fam a lame | Mrs ath Sterling’ for in siler m with some i and be shot and i of them in Greenville, Presipexy Harrison has accepted an in. vitation from Secretary Elaine to spend two lar Harbor, The United States steamer Me., during July. fn to the coast of Maine, and re until Mr. Harrison is ready to go will lie t} | back. Carraix Brrpook has given the New York | | alothing store clab the shake and has linked | Seponerany Tracy fssued an order in re gard to the new plan of keeping the accounts | of the navy so as not to accumulate unnec- ocossary stocks of supnlies Tux President has « VTE ts fa Sesh of Captain Ge rge A sibemye A Pines the retired -“ army officer who assaulted! CG wernor Beg ver ntenced by court martialto be d missed from the within such Hmits TVIOR, as the Becretary of War may prescribe and to deprivation of right to miform and insignia of his rank in wa period of Ove years the Persian Shah's vist to 5 a secret treaty was made bet w iI Perdia for the Northern Per SNDOTAry annex ia throg recent hig the east ans at Saadani, The nged Ww bulk of British | dians, Tux status of Giordano Bruno, the martyr, was unveiled at Rome with fmposing oere- Thirty thousand persons, inclad ng students and deputations from various parts of aly, n through the ma 1 in proonssi | principal streets A LipEnal Ministry bas been formed in mite Preto as President, | AIDS TO THE CENSUS CHIEF, Superintendent Porter's Expert and Experienced Assistants, Superintendent of the Cenws Porter will be aided in the preparation of the Eleventh census by the following experts and special | its whom he has just chosen 8. N. North, of Boston, Secretary of the National Association of Wool Manufactur. ers, who will have charge of the wool and worsted industries and the pressof the United | Btates Henry T. Cook, of Trenton, an experienced | manufacturing potter, will bs in charge of the china and pottery industrios, John 8. Billings of the United States army will have charge of the mortality and vital statistion Henry Bowers, of Philadelphia, Sacretary of the Chemical Association of the United Bates, will look to the statistics of the chemi. cal and allied industries, Henry Gonnett, of the Geological Survey, will bave charge of the Geographical Depart. ment Frederick W, Kruse, of Olean, ¥. Y., a mminent lawyer and for five years a mem- wr of the | lative Assembly, will soe to the presentation of local finance. William C. Hunt, of the Barean of Stats tion of Massachusetts, will over the rtment of Soc . K. Upton, of New Hampshire, former] Amistant Secretary of the Treasury, wi have charge of State finance and iy, oil ness, cies, North, Billings, or Gonnett on iamce wrk Hr —————— THE LABOR WORLD, Sumer iron mills are quite busy, Tux cost of power is being reduced. iy, TRADE school 18 10 DeWAKAd at Olan. udoxton mill building in the South con. TueLATE Is Ao bs made In Chimp ona finers Tae gory smilie Mia | dle | ng by five miles | | the soles of | an | Juniata, compietoly | bridge, Shaffer's Crock, completely wrecked: | bridge, DEATH BY ELECTRICITY, The Method to be Used in Punishing Murderers in New York, Electrical Engineer Harold P, Brown, of New York, is superintending the electrical apparatus to be used in the execution of the convicted murderer, who will be the first man to die under the new law in New York providing that hereafter in the State the death penalty shall be administered by elec tricity instead of by hanging. THE DEATH CAP, A Westinghouse dynamo with an alternat- ing current will be used. The victim will be seated on x raised platform in a reclining chair to the back of which he will be fastened by Mirage nround his body. A rubber cap that will cover all of his head but the face will then be slipped on the condemned man, In the centre of this cap at the base of the brain, is a metal cone, perforated, to which the electric wire will be fastened. While at. tendants are fixing on this cap and attaching the wire, others will remove the prisoner's shoes and socks replacing them with sandals, THE FATAL MOMENT which arn condemned feet will metal foot-rest to which of attached. While these arrar ing made the electrician will, Ly ingenious contrivance ! chair, learn the maximum re fn prisoner and so be able to tell just b volts strong the current must man's IW many be to destroy { him Previous to being lod into the death chamber the prisoner will be allowed what- ever opportunity be desires {or religious con solation and farewell. When placed in the chair only the officers and physicians allowed by law will be present dynamo and apparatus will be concealed in an adjoining room. There will bz a looph The we Waroug? THE CHAIR wall so that the engineer can view sued 3 ana Dw AXD APPARATTS WE PO. $ the ti the deathdealing 1th ners gross of the able at proper moment oO turn current should there, thr other cause, be any mistake in » the last momen ck cloth over the condemns man's face stant later w the signal current to be turned on t is estis these arrangements will five minutes’ time-long prisoner Lo experience the agonies of a hun dred deaths hen the current is turned on death is expected to follow instantaneously, BRIDGES DESTROYED, Heavy Losses on All Lines Roanning Through the Flooded Districts, processing. ENON OF ignaling At will be laid and an in for the uted that occupy at jenast enough for ths will i} A list of the principal railroad bridges de stroyed or damaged by the recent floods has been prepared by the Among those On the Raroad named are the Pennsylvania road are the Granville bridge, on the Juniata four spans washed AWAY, and the ayer and Masayunk bridges, alto on the wrecked: Petersburg Gazelle {following Viaduct bridge, Conemaugh River, washed away; South Fork bridge, Conemaugh River, | two spans gone; Little Conemaugh bridge, No, 6, entirely destroyed The Philadelphia and Erie Road Jost the Mehigomhary bridge, on the Susquehanna, | and t | the Bedford branch Loochburg and Hyndman bridges, on Mount Dallas bridge was undermined and is impassable. Bolivar on the Conemaugh, and Linden bridge, on the Busquehanna, were swept away, while the Williamsport bridge Jost three Shand. of twenty bridges south of Ralston on the Northern Central five are washed away and all the rest are badly damaged with one exc North of Williams. rt four or rp Teg bridges across dooming Cree ve boon swept away. Al the railroad bridges above Blairs vile were carried away, Martinsburg high bridge ee ey River RODS, an remainder is insecure, W iilinim is A the | placed with foreign companies | companies ! COM Pan ies | thirty-eight miles from Taco | $400 a £10,000, 00%), SWEPT BY FIRE, T—— The Entire Business Portion of Seats tle, Washington Tesziiory, in Ashes, The business portion of Seattle, the largest city in Washington Territory, is in ashes, Every bank, hotel, place of amusement, all the leading business houses, all the newspa- per offices, railroad depots, mills, steamboat wharves, con) bunkers, freight warehouses and telegraph offices sro Burned down, The fire began at the corner of Front and Madison streets in the candy factory of Mr, Penteus, at 2:30 », u., by some turpentine catching fire, and before midnight had con. sumed the whole business section of the city northward to Stetson and Post's Mill along Front and Second streets to the water front, involving a loss estimated from 10,000,000 to £15.000.000 The city resident portion on the high ground A stiff breezs was blowing from the north. west when the fire bogan and it soon got the best of the fire de partment. The water sup iy gave out be gan and then the fas: aad a clean sweep, Clant powder was used to blow up buildings in the hope of staying the flames, but with 10 eff oot The fire was not stopped by human «forts but was driven south by the wind and bar Tye] until nothing was left within reach to feed upon, The greater portion of the insurances is California lose about $300,000 and Oregon £20,000 Not a sin house of importance is left standing business uget Sound, mn, and has a population of about 20,000 i charm ingly situated on high terraces which above the shore of Elliot Bay. The city has grown with great rapidity, its business Llocks were large and handsome, an private houses are nstroctsd with every modern comfort and 1 Ven eno It has many schools and churches, several daily newspapers, a number of notels and i i bank buildings, and many mills and factories, The streots bh Beattle is the largest city on 1 ise ‘4 od by gas and electricity wid the water services was constructed Vere gnt ol “xtennve i The nam ber o ¥ 1s Laoweny incessant vancing suburbs are vers number Oo chief bu ml and pro pert PROMINENT PEOPLE. Tux King Waxamaxs wok Tue Ruossian fear of death in constant QuExs fifty-two 3 Ie Uszrrep Braves Mixisrer Ecay has sailed for Chili Tue Hotchkiss gus $12,000.00) maker loft a fortune of Warr the age o White Prince Bie fought twenty ght Joux § r the « Rosa Boxuxos brush at nearly MixisTEnR train Ir Wairaax { seventy RIGHT % first i Sons epeaking was i RFE gorously wields “Aly laxo01x was given a og m Laverpos! to London BR ALLISOX iss married { ving young lady of Washington WinrrerLaw wins 10 he Rem, our Minister to Frans opted the joner Oberly, ones the : the Mm But then Tae Pope recentiv { ng as mesting of the ( bealth is said to be seri Asurie Rivis-Craxcen the author of the “Quick or the Dead.” and Louise Michel Nihilist, have struck up a friendship in Paris BRORETA ny Wixnpow f= said to work harder than any other man in Washington, He is at his desk day and night and indulges in no known recreation 1 his chair dur wy, and his dy affected nisiste the GLADETONE at the age of vighty is said to be good for a tramp of twenty miles Ani why not’ At the same age Aaron Burr could outwalk any youngster in New York Tar monument in honor of Inventor John Ericsson, for which the sum of $12.00 was appropriated by the New York State Logis « Inture, is to be sot up in Central Park, New York Maramart, Freon, the Chicago millionaire drygoods merchant, employs A man at a reg- ular salary to see that his charities are worthily bestowed. He spends £25000 a | Year in charity Hans Hasserxy Kuovir Kuax, Persian Minister, says that the reason the Shah of Pervia does not extend his present trip to this country is that there is no one here of equal rank to receive him Hox, WiLniax C. Exmacory, ex-Secretary of War, and Mr, Sigourney Butler, ex. Controller of the Currency, have formed a partnership for the practice of law and will open an office in Boston AMasa Srracur, elder brother of ox Governor William Sprague, who has noe | copted an eloction to the office of Sheriff of | Kent County, R. | VOUT WAS an office worth §390 or once the owner of Mug Creveraxp's mother, Mra. Perrine, has returned to Buffalo, She and her hus band went as far West as Nebraska on their Bessamiy BmiveLny from the South Bend ( jis i | is literally wiped out, except the | within two hours after the fire | | G00 000,000 gallons © | into the vali y | property was damaged to the extent of nearly | $1,000,000, FLOODS OF THE PAST, Catastrophes Recalled by the Terrible Tragedy at Johnstown, The Johnstown disaster is the greatest that has oocarred in many years. In the Mill River disaster, May 16, 1874, when the village of Hay denville, Mass, was almost swept off the face of the earth, 140 persons were drowned, As at Johnstown, the mediate cause of the eatastrophe was the breaking of adam. A guard had been watching the dam, and about 8 o'clock in the morning it was discovered that an enormous leak had develoved out of a snall one, The guard started to give warning, but the reservoir broke away and the water from a pond 114 acres in area came down like a | wall, carrying away nearly the whole vil lage. Bev eral other towns on the Connecti. cut River were inundated. Over 300 fami. lies were rendered homeless and $1,000,000 | worth of property in dams dwellings, fac. tories, «le, was lost, Hoads and bridges were damaged Lo the extent of $200,000, At Lynde Brook, near Worcester, on March 80, 1876, thirty feet of the reservoir wall which had been leaking, gave way, and over water were emptied Only one life was lost, but On March 27, 1977, the Staffordville resor- voir, on the east branch of the Willisantio River, gave way, and a torrent of walter rushed down the valley at the rate of five | miles an hour, destroying mill dams and rail road bridges in its course, The people were warned by a man on borschback, and all ex- | copt two of the residents of the valley es. | eaped The loss of property on this occasion exoeoded $1,000, 000, By the bursting of the Huron mill dam, near Houghton, Mich., on January 2, 1884, six lives were lost; those of Charles E. Ray- mond, bank teller; bis son and servant, and Howard Raymond of the Allouez mine, wife and som. The money loss was not great A similar disaster near Loe, Mass, April 20, 1886, destroyed nine lives, and the dame. age to mill property, private dwellings and roads and bridees exoee? 4 $100.00 One reservoir calamity, that st Sheffield, Faogland, has been made famous by Charles Heade in “Put Yourself in His Place” On March 11, 1804, the enbankment of the Brad. field reservoir gave way, and flooded Shef- fleld nnd the country for twelve or fourteen miles around Jost, and property valved at over was do. stroyed About 2590 Hyves £1,600, 000 MOUTH CLOSING UP, tion of a Wealthy Wisconsin, sland y ¥'8 It is proposed to i and prevent its further artificial means, and the patient affliction is a forwarning of his ap- hing dissolution and will not allow kis physician to operate upon hi Chandler « worth $500,000, and be has only one heir, Win an ass uth open closing SAYs § [aro MOL son, B NEWSY GLEANINGS, Lernosy isincreasing in Russia Fraxce has three new Cardinals A SATINET trust has been formed Fra xci bas thirty-six armor-clads Bexc al tigers are becoming scarce vered in Oklahoma, TRERE are ten Indias Wg export 85,000,000 bushels ¢ taken Paris by st f Sitka, Alaska Inox has been discx training schools of wheat BWIXDLERS hay Tux popula } Ww 150 Tur tobaoco erop pro 0 be abundant, _ THE treasury surplus § 000 Orn In ber Kaxsas has had Tony yw about £54 000, . wlian agen Tux bay crop f Calif mes Banxtx's show will go winter COUNTERFRIT £ in lowa Caense is lowe all country Ir costs a dollar ¢ at Paris over the £0 up in the Eiffel Tower Forest fires have been doing great damage this yoar THERE are 80,000,000 sheep in the Argen tine Republi Turne are twenty-eight saloons in Guth- rie, Oklahoma Tare are 2 forest in Texas Tie crop prospects out something unprecodented 000 000, acres of virgin pine in Dakota are Tuxnrg are 156 applicants for a single con- sulship in South America Neanty 400,000 Italians will land this year in the Argentine Republic Tue Government Printing Office at Wash- ington is said to be unsafe SMALLPOX is raging among the Okanagon Indians on the Pacific const Taxes are 27 British soldiers of the beight of six feet and upward Linny PRISON building has disappeared en. | tirely from sight at Richmond, Va, Oxe of Buffalo Bill's Indians has been | gored to death in Paris by an infuriated ball, Tur Mormons of Utah and Idaho are emi. : grating in large numbers to British North merica. Tux longest railroad line in the world ex- tends from Chicago to Tacoma, Washington Territory, Ox a Parnell November, Brapcxrns, the Sugar King, has tion of the London Times the suit has been posponed until | secured the contract for carrying gin mails, {
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