uive Pemsoeat. iy DA J i Rejects ( Prohibition, ti 1 : 8 ah ’ 4 Utl- TO LOCAL OPTION. The Majority Over Three lifths Necessary » to Carry the Amendment Through—History of Fro. hibition in the State, Provipesce, June 21,—In common phrase, Rhode Island went wet vester- day, but that expression falls short of the true meaning of the vote. It means that people are tired of a constitutional enactment which is not supported by public opinion, which is not enforced or enforceable, and which has practically meant free rum for three years, a great loss in revenues and widespread injury (O DUSINesSs, restrictions of the liquor traffic by legis- enactment, a return to local op and license, a lessening of the number ars tion higed of drinking places, The Canvass, The general assembly which took its | weeks ago at Newport was | grat th elected « ir he 1ssue of resubmission, and much of the battle was fought at the Avril election. The time for the actual work of the repeal campaign was brief and was utilized almost entirely in dis ination of printed matter itionists were the only ones who gs. but none of these caused husinsm. Matters different f: aurried the amendment a8 Years Ago, and the result of which astonished even | its promoters, Women at the Polls Women were at the polls, but it is safe ta reasons of sentiment or gallantry operation of the ballot reform bill been postponed until after th on account of the difficulty in into immediate use, but it | able that bribery was attempted. The Vote, The total vote in yesterday was 28 449 for repeal of the : amendment, and 9,853 against repeal. The amendment is therefore repealed by 5469 more than the required three fifths of the total vote, The amendment w by a vote of 15,113 to 9,230, The vote in this city was 11,919 for re- peal, 2,40 against eal. The official amendment of ti vote will be made some time between tly 15, when the official count must be completed, and July 20. he large increase of the vote over that of 1858 is due to the adoption in the interim of the seven amendment pro- viding for manhood su Trage. 3 SN 15 3 v bit Ont ry Ehode Island’. Liguer Trafic, Provipexce, June 25, —Governor Ladd says that an extra session of the general assembly will be cul od to revise the statutes regulating the liquor traffic, He will count cast at last Thursday's election soon as possible and proclaim the result at He will also appoint a new chief of state police A8 200n a8 a sath tion of the candidates in votes once The President's Plans, WasHIsGTON, June 25 returned from Ca The trio was w May Ist incident to make Fr K ! night presi lent exoenct to Cape May next rszon and the turn with him t Monday followi Arrangements will ately for the d household to Deer Pa mer will be spent Ihe the departure 1s hot k be the latter part of probability, The president Fourth of July at Ct rv heme H iv and Mrs, Har hildren will White House on immedi- the made ure of date ol it will in exnct but week nown, next “Woodstock.” enry C. Bowen the Covernor Foraker's Convention, fers O.. June 25 whic nh romises t eid in ve strong « Kennedy Jl and Las wntiment ots In to woubtedly Ling ws Divorced in Missouri, Jerversox City, Mo,, June 20. -—-Gov- ernor Francis yesterday dealt the saloons Missouri the most severe blow they have ever received when he signed the Newberry bill. The bill prohibits music, cards, dice, billiard tables, bowling al leys and boxing gloves in saloons, and will go into effect July 1. St. Louis and Kansas City saloons will be most seri ously affected, and about 3,000 of them will have to change their style of opera tion. leer and Music Swept Over Sehaylkill Dam. PHILADELPHIA. June 24, --One of the saddest accidents that has happened in this city for some time oconrred yesterday al ternoon on the Schuylkill river. Four yong , two you men and twe ng oy oy while po, rowing were wished over Fairmount dam and diovned, The bodies of the two girls were recovered, but those of the youn men the police were unable to find, “Social Clad’ Driaking a Fallure, YO 5,000 More Than the ! It means, also, stringent | in this city, without doubt, | loons and the extermination of low | were very | m the whoop and rush which | very few votes were cast for | The | had | election | putting it | | not prob- : s election | | police station. { as a matter of course, and did not appear adopts d in 1888 | Chied | wtory examing- | wan be cond lauded. i i The president {| technical re. entire where the sum- | all | | sad drowning accident that occurred the : other Muldoon and a! expecta to spend the | | of their dismissal | be Al A oh He Lies Unione pd Decl d peoted wl Ay Maen, LANCASTER, ing & report Pa, Jung 2 that Gen. Cameron wns poe Liisd ovens | | Flames Threaten the Ruins of dead was circulated, but a midoizht dis | patch from Donegal Springs says that he is still alive, but that his death is ex. pected at any moment, With the exception of spoonfuls of milk Gen. Cameron took no nourishment since Thursday, and strength was almost gone, his | He was un- | able to move his tongue or swallow, | He appeared conscious and lay with his | | eyes open and seemed to observe what was going on about him, No word has been received from ator Cameron, who is in Scotland, and another cablegram was sent him, MRS. HAYES DYING, She Is Steadily Sinking snd Her Death Is Hourly Expected, Fremont, O., June 25, Mrs, Hayes is sinking steadily, She is free from pain but her breathing is growing irregular and she perspires very freely. Her en- tire family are at her bedside and her shysicians are in constant attendance, er death is expected hourly. BURKE IS THE MAN. The Winnipeg Suspect Positively Inden- tified as the Mysterious Williams by Martensen, the Expressman, Wisxipea, Man, June The link connecting Martin Burke with the Cronin a0 ra | murder was completely established w hen Martensen, the expressman who hauled the furniture to Carlson's cottage, ar | rived here and identified Burke among fF fifty. ] ¥ ci ‘ns The Pro- | fifty-two prisoners and citizen | stood in a semi-circle in the jall yard. {| The identification was complete and be who yond all doubt. Martensen walked be fore the men and picked out his man af the first glance, Chief Hubbard, of Chicago, has been notified to this effect. Burke stood the ordeal well. He never flinched and and maintained the stolid demeanor that has characterized his actions since his arrest, Burke's Intellect Is Dull jurke was arraigned before Judge Bain under the extradition act. The case was enlarged until Wednesday next at the request of « ounsel for prosecution who desired to have time to bring wit nesses from Chicago. The evidence ad duced before the Chicago grand jury will be submitted here Burke was spruced up considerably and looked better than he did in the He took the proceedings to evince any interest therein McRae says Burke's intellect Is dull, and Han FIRE AT JOHNSTOWN the Stricken City. in After Hot Hours~The The Flames Started and Extinguished " Lasting Over Two Panie Stricken the Town. Yopulace Prepare to Jouxsrows, Pa., June 25.—It was | TWENTY-FIVE HOUBES BURNED, | several ton~ | ——— hs a Boys Bonfive | Fight Desert | only due to the direction of the wind | that the remains of Johnstown were | { not entirely wiped out by fire yester- | day afternoon. The blaze began with the First ward school house, which stood | on the bank of Stony creek. That build- | ing stood on the upper side of the dismal ! clear waste which the torrent of water swept across the town. Close by the school building, all jumbled up together, | were about thirty buildings, some of | them in a good state of preservation and | inhabited, street, the only one not vet cleared of Next to these houses was a | debris, and on the opposite side was a | wide stretch of ground tightly packed | with frame buildings in all manner of | decrepit attitudes. that he is not capable of showing any | feeling. Spotted at First Sight. When Mastersen passed down the Still further above were some of the best preserved build- ings in the city. The Populace FPanle Stricken, Had the wind carried the flame in the opposite direction, fire would have de- stroyed what the flood had left; as it was the fire caused a veritable panic in the immediate neighborhood, as it en veloped one house after another in rapid SUCCESSION. One of the abandoned houses had bean a hardware store and the explosion of a keg of powder in it sent the burning roof flying in frag ments, thus increasing the danger. Men were put 0 work smothering the bonfires that SesShod across the open space, with earth and in this manner cut off the fire line of communication the threatened buildings, whose occu pants were already moving the remnants of their furniture. This banking the bonfires with earth ana the veering of the wind so that the buming embers were carried into Stony creek ended the danger in this direction. A General Stampede. On the other side the fire met no op position until it had reached the ruin packed street. The militia and a of Iaborers worked hard at clearing the street and then tore down a number of houses on the opposite side By this time the streams of water from the fire engines had their effect and the fire was under control after burning for twe gang hours, and twenty-five or thirty houses were in ashes, The whole popnlation of the valley | turned out to watch the conflagration, | and so general became the belief that { everything remaining would go up ir line Burke stood twentieth, his hands in | his pockets and his eyes averted. Mas tersen glanced quickly in his marked his number on a slip of paper the other men. investigation he returned to where the | officers and counsel were standing and held a whispered conversation. Counsel | Howell was heard to remark: “We are | | more destitute people, largely females, satisfied: we will not want anybody els to identify the prisoner, but be positive of the number.” Chief McRae says they now have clea sailing, and he now believes therc wil be no further difficulty in presenting sufficiently strong evidence tw secure Burke's extradition. | to Asbury Park, where Col { tory to fleeing to the hill face, | smoke that in all directions people were loading their effects on WREONS prepara The money Joss will be about $85 000 to a pile of rubbish. Sea Alr for Sick Women, The fire was | mo { caused by three small boys setting fire | and passed on, examining the faces of | , i After completing the | Last evening Clara Barton, of the Red Cross society, asked Gen. Hastings for transportation for twenty-five of ! Sheppard of The Mail and Express has The President Signs Burke's Extradition | Wasmsarox, June 25, —The president Tl | of his return from Cape May last even LB another visit | ing signed the warrant for the extradi tion of Martin Burke Owing to some requirements, however, the state's messenger, Mr. Baker, was not able to leave with it last night, but got | away this morning at 11 o'clock Drowned While Swimming with Sallivas Berrast, N. Y., June 20.-—John lL. Sullivan and Wrestler Muldoon are just now whder a cloud of gloom owing to a day. Sullivan, Buffalo lawyer re bathing in Laux wei med Martin (Genesee named the with young Laux wi Was ra ( ramjpms mill dam and drowned Soldiers in the Civil Service. 2 Ji 10 ¥ . ne 20, L3vH service wdified by President ex-Federal soldiers in the mit regard to the time The rule before modification limited the time ex Federal soldi could be rei one year from the date of their discharge max e for reinstatement Classi ervice with its h in whi natate Bodies Pleked Up at Cloncinnatl, CISCINSATL June 25 Two bodies, man and a boy, were picked up in the Ohio river here. They are supposed victims of the Johnstown disaster They were b wore ried immediately after the coroner held an inguest, Ex fiavernor Bawle Gets a Pension, Batrivorg, June 21.-ExGovernor Oden Bowie, who fought in the Mexican war, being second lieutenant of company E. Baltimore and Washington battalion, has beens granted a pension. The pen gion commences from Jan, 20, 1887, at $8 per month, Nell Burgess Badly Buarned, Hionraxos, N, J,, June 25. Neil Bur goss, the actor, was seriously burned al his residence here by an explosion of asoline. Although his injury is severe f will not prove fatal. The life of Mr, Burgess was saved by the heroic efforts of his wife, Voting Insane Patients. Inpiaxaroris, June 21.—8mith Will were fined $50 and $200 respectively. A 14-Yeur Old Murderer, Laxaron, Ont. June 21. John Rohrer, 12, was shot and installs killed by There hye) named Dav | month offered to maintain them for a month the J Elliot F. | Gen. Hastings promptly furnished the i tickets and the Red Cross people wall | | send them away this week. Prospects of the Nicaragua Canal Wasstixarox, June 24 the second detachment om ployes of the Nicaragua Canal company will leave New York The steamer Al Early of next | pluck me-store” system L vena last month carried the first detach: ment in charge of Lieut. N. R. Usher of the navy, The project of the Nicara guay « | has been a distinctly naval anal idea although the money has been sup i plied by leading capitalists of New York | Evans, Lisuts. Usher and | Judge Gunter, and other cities Admiral Civil Engineers Menccal and Commodores H., CO Peary, Maxwell Surgeon John F. Bransford repeated trips to Nicaragua and have gone over every foot of the proposed new waterway Ne named the Atlant month, wi charge of all of the above for Gravtown i ext fficers will } while ere they the diffs will rent work A Murderess Esoapes from Justice, Batrivone, June 24. culiar statute convict murder ing her instead walked wing oa pee Virginia ion of &. Virginia Taylor of in the second degree for poison h il and of servin Years jail a free woman, of the circuit court, hav ing decided that by the Virginia law killing by poison is murder in the first 1 By the same statute Mrs. Tay tral 18 heen set nade sentence of five out of n ® she degrees, { lor cannot be tried again, very much decomposed and | | laity will be held at Bay Ridge, A Coming Catholic Centennial, Barrimong, June 24 union of Catholic A centennial re societies and Catholi Md On Thursday, July 11, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the archdiocese of Baltimore, which event also marks the centennial auniversary of the establishment of the Catholic hierarcy of the United States. Fatal Fireworks, New Loxpox,. Conn, June 22.-<The eight oared four mile straight away race between the Yale and University of Pennsylvania crews was rowed last evening over the Thames river course, from Gales’ Ferry to Winthrop's Point and was won by Yale by one and one half lengths, Official time, Yale, 20 5; Pennsylvania, 20° 56", Yale's Victorious Crew, Bosrox, June 22.--A disastrous fire accompanied by loss of life occurred last evening in the fireworks establishment of Heyer Bros, corner of Sumner and Hawley streets, Three dead bodies have been taken from the ruins and three sons are known to be fatally injured, It is feared that there may be more victims the debris, A tne in. i Tavior and R. D. | and | bave made | inws the | PITTEBURG IRON CONVENTION. The Amalgamated Association Adjourn After un Noventeen Days’ Session, Prevspvnag, June 22---The fourteenth annual convention of Amalgamated As sociation of Irom and Steel Workers reached a final adjournment after a ses: sion of seventeen days. William Weihe was unanimously re-elected president, William Martin re-elected secretary, and Madden reappointed assistant secretary, There ia but little doubt but that the wage scale ns adopted by the convention and submitted to the manufacturers will be accepted by the latter without alteration The difference between the employed and managers of the Carnegie Home stead mills remains unsettled and will probably so remain until July 1, the end of the present scale year, There is now no prospect of an amicable adjustment of the differences between the nanagers and their employes, and a strike is al most certain to occur at that time, Jones & Laughlin signed the scale the Amalgamated association for the American Iron works, This is the first firm to accept, but other signatures ar expected, of Tried to Wreck an Passenger Train, CARBONDALE, Pa., June 24. Frank George, Henry Scharsky and Alexander Howler have been arrested on the charge | of attempting to wreck a passenger train on the Delaware and Hudson rail road. As the train rounded the curve near Carbondale it had a violent shaking up. The train was stopped and the con JOS. HORNE & C0’S PENN AVE. STORES. JUNE BARGAINS |! ductor found a piece of iron bolted tol the rail and caught a glimps of three | men making for the bushes, The named were afterwards arrested charge of being the culprits, train been thrown from was intended, it would have falled dows an enbankment fifty feet in height was filled with passengers loss of life would have resulted. Had the Penusylvania's New Stock. PHILADELPHIA, June 25, last week in which the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad company have the night to subscribe to the new capital stock, and as the stock still re mains above par, in of Josses by the Johnstown little doubt that all the stockh avail themselves of the privilege half of the full amount must be placed now, the other half before Sept. 1 The receipts bear interest at the rate of 4 pe cent. until 1, when new stock wil be issued, but it will not participate ir the dividend to be declared in November This wp le the there ff ders wil Une flooa a Nov, Sunday at Johnstown. Jonuxsrowy, Pa., June 24. Work wm entirely suspended in the ruins at Johns town. Open air services were held by the pastors of the homeless churches The ¥ on dress parade and attracted tention in spectators. Four bodies were recovered, The remains of twe women and a little girl were found in Stony creek, and the remains of a China man were found in Kernville. much at Burned to Death, Frasxuis, Pa, June 24. —Mrs. Mo Dowell, age 68, widow of the late Col Alexander McDowell, while descendin the stairs at the residence of her son fell to the bottom with a lighted lamp, which exploded enveloping her in flames, She succeeded in reaching the yard, but be fore assistance arrived, was death. The “Pluck -Me-Store” System. Prrrseurg, June 21 A convention of river miners has been called for June 24 at Monongahela City to consider the Wage (question and the abolition of the A strong of wi will be made to get a large repre sentation from the fourth pool. Pittaburg’'s New Masonic Temple, Pirrrsavrg, June 25 The of the costly new Masonic plac © noon, the ind g the digni closed doors taries present were Cl MeCalla an Right Worshipful Past Grand Master J Simpson Africa, of Philadelphia dedication ook at Ceremony be Ay 41 4] 3} | ord Another Gettysburg Monument, Gerryspone, Pa, June hundred and forty-five veterans One hundred and twentieth New infantry, from Ronde N. XY here to dedicate their nx the Emmitsburg road the poet with them On of the York 2H, wit Oficial Majority Prohibition H A rasm official majority Pannsyivauia in counties in the state abolishing the poll tax the ma inst the proposed change is 235.850 Against June 24. The against Prohibition I REE we voted in favor of ns 1 rage ‘ Ra, precise (mls an ily a Lehigh University Commencement, Berituney, Pa The lz high university beld its twenty third an nual commencement, MDIXLy young mer gradunted with degrees and eight post graduates had degrees conferred up them. June 21 Presidential Postmasters, Wasiingrox, June 19. <The president has appointed the following postimasters Pennsylvania~James H. Sagest, Ridg way: A. Randenbush, Lehighton: O, D, Falkenburg, Susquehanna; John A. Mentzer, Ephrata. Northern Central Tratie Resumed. Wiriaxsrorr, Pa, June 19.The Northen Central railway resumed traffic at noon yesterday, Niagara ex: ngers were transferred of laton to a train which was run from | Elmira, Lhe Philadelphia Cricketers. New Youk, June 19.-The Philadel in team which is to contest cricketi with the tlemen of England. Scotland and Ire sailed for Liver pool on the City of Chicago today. Trains on the Beook Creek. Wrerramsrort, Pa, June 20.-~Trains Beech Creek rail is the men |” on the | the track, as | I] i and great Hail Order Department, JS. 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