DISASTER AT SIOUX CITY. A Wave From the River Rushes Through the Town. Many Drowned and 8000 Peopls Made Homeless, At least eleven people drowned, thousands left homelass and hundreds of thousands of dollars’ damage to property were the results of a sudden and unexpected rise in the Floyd River at Sioux City, Iowa. A great wave came down the river which flows through the centre of the city, It was already swollen bank full, Warning had been given but a short time bfore the wave came to the inhabitants of the low lands, The first intimation most of them had, however, was a volume of water spreading over the banks to a depth of three fest and throwing a mist of foam from it In a few minutes the water had risen above the first floor, and inside of an hour and a half bad risen four feet. It then continued to rise steadily, but not so rapidly Probably ten thousand inhabitants of the city live in the low ground which was over flowed, So rapid was the riss of the tide that great numbers were unable to I and the work of rescue engaged the of the people. At twelve o'clock eleven persons wars re- ported drowned, The only names obtained were Nellie West, a child, and Mrs. 1, Horner and her two children, The fire alarm was sounded more workers, All the boats from the houses on the Sioux River were brought it and were used to save life and property The Missouri River is very high, and the flood in the Floyd River struck it the water dammed up and rushed over the adja cent grounds. The stock yards an packing houses were situated at the conflu ence of the two rivers and they were quickly inundated. About two thousand head o live stock were drowned The whole railroad yards and track district was under water, bas been immense damage to bouses and railroad propert 14 houses of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha were damaged to the 1180 out to eall whet low switchin 1 ther ha River rose two faet feet of the Chicago, Milwaukes ¢ track was washed out at east of that city, the tr entirely off, The er riv under water The watar in the Des Moines R tumwa reached the great floods of 1851 there shut down, A Civ aCk tire cour bhighmst poir Ihe electri and this left darkness that night. Trains were layed The Little Sioux Valley and it was feared that the loss be heavy. Trains hours late or abandooed, and Central and Minneapolis and heavily by slides and washing bridges and embankments Conservative estimates placed the under water in the sect immediately s rounding St. Louis, Mo. on rer at 400 square miles of being yy wo Lo twenty {sot that littl prospect of e main suffering wa n and on Missouri P As an instance of the st ring in mer locality there were nearly gathered on the bluffs f County, lilinoils, and shelter. Missouri Point, the land lyin angle between the Misso i a triangle of land twenty i vy twalv and every livi on al the both fert aren Al fv 1s was » at the base of the approach t at Omaha, Neb, pr Mach EAN eS way loud passed over Cone, wer the f razed a 1904 and barns, and unr tre. A young man named Gay carried twenty yards an! was seri number of b ole a number of « was picked up, seriously injured A cloudburst near the head of the liver in Kansas swept away the lx William Sherman, drowning one cl four horses. Loss of life was als the Watson wmeighborhood twelve miles northwest of Manhattan, — NEWSY GLEANINGS, FAanu work Froops have damaged Cuba's eron. from is much advanesd, Frosts in Illinois have ruined the peack cTrot . GERMANT decides to prohibit pauper im migration Duvrurn, Minn back” steamships 3 tan ‘whale THE crop of spring micides was lager this yoar than ever bafore New Yorx Crry bas grown $42,000,000 richer during the past year Frourr is slightly injure! by frosts in cen. tal sections of New Kagiand FRUIT prospects ars good in Missourl, and apples promise a good yield in O4 THERE were last year 43.050 deaths in New York City against 40,108 daring 199) Huspazos of eattle perished in the re cent cold ratios in Northeru Nebraska, Ix lows the season is somes fiitsen days late; in Oregon, vegetation four weeks late. Tur caterpillar plague has reappearad along the southern border of North Caro- lina Ing class of 1502 in the Divinity School Yale University gratuated thirty-seven men I HE new rifle for the United States Army will be of thirty caliber and uses smokeless pow fer Furxon emigrants to the Usitel States number 1000 per week on the Grand Trook Railroad, LEPORTS show that bees throughout the country have, with few exceptions, wintered unumally weil Lange numbers of Chinatien are going from Canada to Havana, Cuba, where they bope to find homes MECRETARY Erxing has directed that the new military at Helena, Montana, be named Fort Harrison, LAST year 147 people were killed outright and 600 wounded in the streets of London. Some of the latter died, Tue Btate of Hermosillo, Mexies, has made it a iouy to employ Yaqui lodians nt has ordered a war of extermination azaingt them, Tux marriages reported in New York City inst your wore 15,704; there were 14,- “2 in 1890. Five cvlorsd men merried white wom m, SEORETARY FOSTER has given his ment o! the plan to leus 10,000, oe World's by $y 5 | + $ | Cleveland THE NATIONAL GAME. LovisviLLe leads in team flelding. King eclipses Rusie as New York's star pitcher, KrLLY is playing superb ball behind the bat for Boston, BROOKLYN'S pitchers are the surprise of the baseball year, BrookrLYN leads the League batting and base running. Turkr consecutive games error is Cleveland's record. in team without an NO team in the Leagus has been playing better ball than the Baltimores for the past two weeks. Brournens, of the Brook!yns, is simply killing the ball this year, He is the hardest hitter in the League. Rusie has actually become New York's losing pitcher, More than speed is needed by pitchers this season CLEVELAND and Washington are to the front with the cleanest gamo of the season— not an error by either team THE policy of bringing in the infielders when a man is on third base and another on first in the long run doesn't pay. Ts is proving handers I'hey any pitchers Jolt than for successful A great season Are more that go in the box Lowe, Duffy and MeCarthy, of the tons, are the greatest outfielders in country They form a trio that canno Leaten y THERE were s played Ihe never so many ny season in the game has surely got UNE thin with suc League that the Won ob) Clube. Lt. ! Boston {| Brooklyn...10 Chioago. ...16 11 14 11 Louisville, . 14 12 53 Onis, C incinoati. 15 13 - FOUR WOMEN SLAIN. An Unknown Assassin's Bloody Work at Dennison, Texas Low 7 2 6 | killing Mau sad to the ortally w to retire to This ball Kramer street, where he Stewart, room at Mme fired from the beneath the girl's right arm Hundreds of armed men for the assassin, aiding the Sherif and eounty officers Bloodhounds were brought into service, but without success HUNDREDS DROWNED Frighttfal Accident He ported on the Caspian Sea, to hava A report has srry dat inode who Was Williams's sidewalk, the about shot was entering Steamship A frightful accident is said urrel on the Caspian Sea, been received at Astrakhan that the steamer Alexander Wolkow, between Caspian ports, has foundered with 5) passengers on board, This, follow ing a recent accident, attended by almost equal loss of life a few weeks ago, has caused much excitement in Caspian ports, and there Is a general opinion that the Rus sian authorities do not attend with due vigilance to the Inspection of steamships in thos» waters Most of the steamers on the Caspian are poorly built, and not ealeniats] for enduring the sudden and severe stor ns which occasion. ally sweep over that inland sea It Is be level that this Intest disaster will lsad toa general overhauling of the steam and sailing eraft on the OC i —— LYNOHE Hanged to a Telegraph Pole in th) Centre of Little Rook, Henry James, mulatto, twenty-two years old, employed about the house of Charles Johnston, at Little Hol, Ark., asseulted the five-year-old daughter of the latter during the temporary absence of thy family, He was arrested and placed in the county all, At 9 o'clock at night a crowd of 1X0 men surrounded the jal, The mob broke open the gates, secursd the prisoner, and startsd with him to the residence of Mr, Johnston, whers he was identified, ‘ The mob then marched to Fifth and Main streets, in the very heart of tha city, ope posite the Masonic Temple, James as first denied his guilt, but finally admitted it. A wae thrown acrom the arm of a large pole, and James was soon was no sooner drawn in , He than the mob fire on him Doty was Fiddle] with baetn carrying passengers | earnest a fow days ago, and the conflict ex. | been ordered for the § | an end the lockout | men were idle in consequence {| The number of locked-out en went searching | THE GRANITE LOCKOUT. | ——— Greatest Labor War in the His. tory of the Stone Industry. tures in All the Large Cities. The war between labor and capital in the granite industries, which for months had been confined to skirmishing, began in real tended through Union, Dispatches received from ell the points involved stated that the New Eogland Granite Manufacturers Association, d¢om- prising the owners and operators of fifty two quarries in Maine, Now Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con- necticut, carried out its threat to lock out all the paving-block cutters and quarrymen employed by its members because of the nearly every BState in the | strikes inaugurated by the pavers’ unions in New York and other cities. By this move the greatest labor war in the history of the stone industry was fully de- | elared, the strike, which had urposs of bringing to 20,000 men from the New England quarries, was begun at day- break, and before nightfall at least 50,000 In that city and Brooklyn about 6000 men have stopped” work Asa result of “sympathy” strikes we the United States, whe turned out by the New I'he direct as far West In New York City of the lockout in the quarries y ordered all over ror a piece of stone and Association of the strike uri River was in the was used, were felt as the Miss neighborhood of 15,000 men In New York y strikers numbered about 30,000, pavers, granite cull marble workers and rammera Central Labor Union indorsed the be pavers and their associate unions other labor L had with t tod Beside the m ing and doing ne Wor building strike include ! building trades, gineers, tru hodearriers r and its cinity alons the including As the action o every to d milding in pay ’ pent w that by vantage, 1 declared a strike unless the d Leir fellow. workmen, the paving-cutter were granted The contractors retaliated by locking out all their employes and the unions in tarn ordered a general strike The strike was directed pric rk City and fr where the Executive { Cutters’ Natio retary Orant, National Union, New I WARS I sessOn Paving had bis he Woesteriy Now York City wl Und wk Cu lockout at ne the they were mov it th Eagiand OOnSerY of locked 2 They ey, Monson, an N. H.: Waterville rtland, Me, and West. rk bas ceased in Concord N. H., the New England Grasite Com where the association allowed some Government In Barre, East Barre, Williamstown, tpelier, Northfield and Hardwick; Vi, wkout began in the yards of all concerns t the American Granite Company on THE LABOR WORLD, (A: has 3000 wo of good stenographers in below the demand SCLY women printars Tur supply Australia is far be established people out of employ GOVERNMENT farms are to in New Zealand for ment Italy receive thirly to forty not reguiariy employed ARTISANS in cents a day and are at that T'nug Workingmen' s General Banafit Union has 10.453 members and $10.70.7) In nt treasury, Gints who work as walters in the luncheon places in New York City get 8 a week and their meals, Tux Iloternational Cigar-Makers' Union has about 470 members on strike, and $335), | (00 in the general treasury EAasteny PexXSaYLVAXIA farmers are looking for emigrants to asdst them, home labor being impossible to obtain Governor Frowen, of New York, has signed the bill providing that mines mas have two entrances for the safety of work mo A COMBINATION of the leading houses in all branches of the Bohemian glass industry has been formed with thas object of regula ting output and prices Tur Central London Railway, England, is ts run three workmen's trains daily, the fare being only two cents for six miles, the cheap est railway fare in the word Tre Trades and Labor Council of Vancou ver, British Columbia, reports that over forty-five per cent of the workmen, both in Vancouver and Victoria, ares out of employ ment Usiren Staves Lanon COMMISSIONER Cannot, D, Waianr bas found a cotton mill in which the average earnings for six months was 850 a head of the labor em ployed, i 17 is not uncommon in Northumberiand, England, for a farmer to allow any of his laborers who wish for it the keep of a cow as part payment of wages, greatly to the bene tit of their familise Austix DYER masta shipbuilder in the shipyard of J. W. Bavage & son, Millbridge, Me., is an ucusual example of a man who bs eotly thorough in his profession. Hes } | perf . personally, to do ev part of the oy with whi wselectin and the timber to he vor] or 14 also parfocti , it after it is Jaunchel, BARON FAVA RETURNS, Italy and the United States Once More in Full Harmony, - No ad gin A Nw —_ 4 BARON FATA. Baron Baverio Fava, Minister Plenipo- tentiary from the Italian Government t ) the United States, has, after a year's absence " returned to resume his Ministerial duties at Vashington, The Minister reached Now York on the steamer [La Gasoozne. Baron Fava's departure from this try about a year ago was due to the strained relations between United Italy, whicl owed the lvnching of Italians by a mob in New O 15 1992. [SEARLE E OOuUn- the States and elev sn itsRns on Mare ha ably adj of t ' he n It wish tL nited Stats by his Ital- nn exter Ye m Fava was on laura M DEMOCATIC CONVENTIONS, Flected Georgia Oklahoma and California Delegates in the Carolinas na it nd California delegates to "y 144 veniion nd ths votes, against 15) on [he ocomvention wer ital! hoarse when the tariff reform in The platform pr reform, {ree sliver sovereignty and ring the ex President but vole Mate against wnbe A resolution ind adopted without much opposition resofution instracting the delegates to as a unit was oppose | strongly and finally withdrawn, This leaves each delegate to act for himself at Chicazo, but it sseins that at Jonst two-thirds of the delegates were nounced for Cleveland, and will support him at the National Convention The Oklahoma Democratic Territorial, at Kingfisher, elected the following delegates Major Sam, T. Levy, of Norman; Heary A Hasking, of El Reno; J weph Wishy, Guthrie, and Dr. J. BR. Shive, of Kingfisher, They were uninstructed, but two are pro nounced Cleveland men The California Democratic State Conven tion at Fresno adopted a platform Indorsing the candidacy of Grover Cleveland, an instruct ag the California delegation to vote as a unit on all questions. A plank declares for a sufllocient volume of gold, silver and legal tender paper at par with each other, CENSUS BULLETIN, The Population of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania pro of The Consus Offices lssusd a bulletin giving the population of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in 159), by sex and na- tivity. The total population of New York in given ash 007 858 of which 2076 503 were males and 402095) females, 4,426 808 native and LATLOSO foreign born New Jersey had a population of 1.444.078, of which 72.510 were males ant T3014 foe males, 1,115,085 native and 338075 foreign born Pennsylvania's population of 5 95%014 was made up of 3.600 331 males and 2 501 083 fee males, of which 4,412,204 were native and $45,720 foreign born, The number of males in the threes Siates has inereased in the Inst decade 1,163,144, or 22.84 per omit. It is shown b aocampbany- ing tables that the females in New York and New Jorsay in 1500 slightly predomi™Sted, while in Panmayly the males mere slightly in excess EF Cr ES Pigeons, PROMINENT PEOPLE. Tue Emperor of Austria is learning short band GaLnsToxe is emphatic in his opposition 10 womsn sulfrage CRavscry, M, Deriw was born at Pecks kil, N. Y., on April 23, 1804, Frenne Loti, the famous author, real name is Julien Viaud, is a Lisutenant in tho French Navy Faxxy Crosey, the author of “Pass Me Ne t, O Gentle travior,” is now living in New York City at the age of sixty-five. GENERAL Boorn, of the Salvation Army, Is about to make a tour of Helvetia, oer many, Denmark and Scandinavia, Proresson Bovsa, the well known leader of the Marine Band in Washington, has | been offered a salary of 210,000 to go to Chi. Cugo, T. Jerrensox CooLiDoR, Minister to France, will house wed, United States occupy in Paris the formerly occupied by loxaTivs Doxserry's book on the Bhakespears-Bac n cipher proved a loss to his publishers, who are suing him for money advanced, Coroner Joux Temyrre Graves, of Rome, Gu., accepted the invitation 0 make the aunual oration over the graves of the Union soldiers at Andersonville Haxs Camistiax Axpzrsoy has been honored in Chicago by having a schoolhouse named for him; and a bust of the story teller was unveiled therein last week Miss E. Jeax Nxrsox, who won the hon- ors of the interstate collegiate oratorical contest at Minneapoll is only nineteen years old. Bhe is a member of the junior class of the DePauw | niversity, in Indiana. Hanny EVERETT BANBITT, 2 3 whom Governor Russell recently appoin a deaf 1 and for the convenience « ung lawyer Massach of the 18ette utes sy ADL i ¢ app } who THE MARKETS, Lats Wholesale Prices of Country Produce Quoted in New York, BEANS AND PEAS Beans— 1 M: ; Pea, 1801, White kidney Hed kidney Fowls—Jersey, State, Per per 1b Western Western, Chickens, Loeal, & Roosters, Turkey Ducks PEr PRIT. cone Western, per pair Geese, Western, per pair Bouthern, per pair por pair. .... DRESRED Turkeys— Selected bens, Ib Mixed weights ‘ on Young toms, fair to prime Old toms anes "en Chickens Phila ., brotlers Fowls—8t and Penn. per Ib Western, per ib FOULTRY FRESH | Ducks—Jersey, per Ib State and Penn, Sprisg. 1. L per Ib | Geese—Western, per 1b Capons—Phila., extra Iarge, Phila., small to medium Western, fair to fancy. Squabs—Dark, per doz...... 250 POTATOES AND VRGETABRLES Potatoes—Jersey, buik, bbl State Hose and Hebron, per 180 Ib, .... ] State other kinds, 180 1b, 100 L. 1. in bulk, per bbl. oo Sweet potatoes, Jersey, bbl, 1M Cabbage, L. L per 100, ,, = Unions onnecticut, real bhi Orange County, red, bbl, Orange County, yellow Eastern, yellow, per bbl, Eastern, white, per bbl, Squash-—L. [, marrow, bbl. L. I, Hubbard, per bbi.. Turnips, Canada, per bbl, Celery Fla. J doz. roots, ~- String beans, , per orate, 150 Lettuce, Southern, per bbl, Tomatoes, Fila. per bushorate, 18 @ Asparagus, new doz. busches 1 00 @ 17) Groen Peas, Va, basket... 17 @ sw LIVE RTOOK, BOYER. sox covvssasininsvenss 338 Mileh Cows, com, to good, , 20 WN Calves, common to prime... 35 BROOP. + conssssnes suansssssss $80 Lam sass sasssenn ssnsssense JOR “ Hogr<lave, ovens susiviens $7 % BA Dressed. ..... ORAL, ETC, Flour~City Mili Extra, .... 4 Potente, coos sonesnnes Whaat. 2 Red @ 45 @d wm «© SM @ bw Tw 515 4) SARE BERR a ad agas O80 * Corny Unata-No, Mixed analy RRR REE EE ‘0 AE AREER LARA EL AAA LAL EES] SARA ARLE] t 23 384) fuzzis 3 = 3 |] whose ex-Minister | SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR MAY 20, Lesson Text “Nebuchadnezzar's Dream, Daniel 1, 86.49. Golden Text Heb, iy . 13 Commentary, 86, “This is the dream, and we will tell the interpretation thereof belore the king Daniel offered to show the king both the dream and the interpretation if he would give him time. Then Danlel and bis com panions gave themselves to prayer, and the secret was revealed unto Daalel in a night vision (verses 16:19): after which Daniel stands before the king, and giving 4! the credit to the God of heaven, he tells the dream and is now about to give the inter. pretation / Consider Josep in asimilar way glorifying God 15, 1f And as to dreams see Ger xxxi., 24; xxxvil., 5, 9; x1. 5; I Kin Dan. iv. vil., 1; Math, i, 2 § > (verses 7-35 men ’ 87. “The God of beaven hath given thes a kingdom, power end strength and glory.” Not by His own might had He obtained | but God bas One of greates ’ him is that them 1 the conduct is fort WO Ww untn Daniel Daniel pro rehiping him, sod king bonors Daniel's saying, truth it is that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of prorets, wee thou conkdst reveal this see eret.” Thus the king glorified God in Daniel Gal 1... 4 To reject all praise of self, and seek not honor from man, but earnestly de sire that God in all things may be glorified, this is the only true Christian life (11 Cor. v.. 15: John v., #4: 1 Pet, iv, 11 45, “Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler.” This is all in an earthly and apparent sense, Daniel was already great in the sight of God and had received great gifts from Him (chapter i, 17; Lake iy 1%. But Daniel no doubt recognized the hand of God in this earthly promotion and would glorify God there as well as in a more low.y position 42. “Daniel sat in the gate of the king.” He «id not forget his faithiul friends bat ob- tained positions of honor tor them aiso, but Daniel was overall, Very suggestive is this remarkable story of a Jew thus exalted by a Gentile world power, «Lesson Helper, Fhe kin TT r answered is some 1 imply that od against the king's w God, ng LrxprLeyY MURRAY, the gramma- rian, from whose book so many of our older American citizens learned the ins and outs of the English language *as she Is spoke” and written, was born in Lancaster, Pa., and the resi- dents of that city propose erecting a monument to his memory. The yourger generation should contribute {iberally through gratitude, for the fact that they do not have to cops with the mysteries of that same old Murray's grammar. Jt was choke “full of headaches and general uncasi nossa. '
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