STORM STRICKEN SOUTH AWFUL WORK OF WIND AND WATER ON THE GULF. { - 3 Pully Two | he Dead Estimated at Fully Two | and thirty-five seconds. Thousand--Great Suffering Among the Survivors—Immedlate Relief | Needed ~The Stricken District to | be Abandoned as a Habitation, : A late dispatch from New Orleans, La, | says: The news from every section stricken by the storm makes it safe to estimate the | oss of life at fully 2000, while property wort! millions of dollars was destroyed, Beside that, thousands of people have been deprive of the means of making a livelihood, Th situation is appalling, but New Orleans i doing all it can to relieve the thousands hb want. Dr. Story, Coroner of Plaquemim Parish, has made the following report : “A good many carloads of provisions ant olothing have been sent, but not neal enough. Men, women and children an without food and clothing, It is a frequen sight to see little sufferers crylag and beg ging piteously for something to eat. Singh graves for the dead were impossible, Grew trenches were dug and bodies were piled it one on top of the other. The earth wa thrown over them, and if their names wer ascertained they were cut in rude crosses above the graves, [ do not think I exag gerate the facts when I state that at leas 2500 souls were ushered into eternity by the eecent storm in Louisiana, This, of course, fncludes those at Bayou Cook, Chenlert Caminada, Grand Isle, ete. [ never saw bodies decompose so rapidiy as those of the storm sufferers which were viewed by This was due to the fact that the fish and wabs in the bayous eat the remains. tn lieve firmly that the marshes and othe are filled with human forms “It is impossible to get at a8 no one is adventurous enon the swamps, There can fact that this is conducive to an fever, Or even It one latter disease spread through nothing can ? The rail tolls an awl me these 1 gh to » be no doubt of the aplid mie ol hols of the ra. Lan TRCCOOn dreds of oy with m GLEANINGS. Tere are 23,000 blind people in England nd Wales Great Batraiy makes Ov 30,000 Ar bley- oR YY wax has been nominated for Corot y Leavenworth, K New built in Ams yumbered nearly 10,000 Aw shurches rica xg of #100 is the penalty for seadin jee fire alarm in London, Tezne is 8 premium offerad on the Colum bian postage stamps in Europe this year son Wasnisaron's hop erop more ae its streets than #36 0600 (x5) ex wheat yield an increase wr estimates I. 3 sheds, Saptemt Parniog Cornixs, who his wife, was arrested “an Francisco chureb Mas riders whe Ontaie CLIN. ne who got a lot in Perry, has sold her claim for $500 Chero stiri Wen Caixa is about to establish a postal system beginning with the seaports It is hoped that within ten years it will be exten fed throughout the empire, A preparer from Clyde, Scotland, says that John Jamison, owner of the yacht Iverna, will build a yacht and challenges fer the America’s Cup next year Tux project of } iding a National Expo in the City of Mexico this winter, the exhibits sent by Mexico to Chi- has been abandoned BEareninexts with the importation fruit from Cape Colony have proved so snc- cessful that Londoners expect soon to get not only apples but peaches ‘and mangoes from Alries. —I———— FROM A CANNON'S MOUTH. Prompt Punishment of Sepoy Muti neers {in Cabul. sition using CARO, The Caleutts correspondent of the London Times senda Lahore advices of a serious dis- turbanes in Cabul before the arrival of the British Mission under Sir H. M. Durand, Malik Jan Khan, Assistant Comman for. in-Chie! of the army, abused a Bepoy be- longing to the Herat! Regiment, whersipon the Sepoy’s company fired a volley, killing Malik, The mutineers flad at once, but were sntight, and on the same day eleven of them wore blown from the esnnon’s mouth, All the troops were then sworn on tha Koran to strict obedience to thelr commanders, Faramuz Khan has besn arrested, and the Governor of Herat has been ordered to make further arrests, BURGLARS IN A BANK. Gae of Them Wounded and Another Captured, Three burglars blew open the vault door t the Carleton County Bank, Carleton, M nn. at 12 o'elock at night. They were a Wonp has been received from Bamusl J, Lisutenant | both instantly killed, | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. astern and Middle States. Tur second race in the contest of 1803 for the America's Cup between the British cutter Valkyrie and the American sloop yacht Vigilant was sailed by previous stipulation, over a triangular course off Sandy Hook, N. J. The Vigilant again won by ten minutes Eionrexy hundred weavers in Rhode Isl and woolen mills went out on strike aginst a reduction in wages, A YATAL grade crossing accident ocourrad four miles west of Brunswick, N. J., by which James T. Ferguson, aged fifty-two, of Brunswick, and Miss Annle Jacobus, aged twenty-six, living near Franklin Park, were Tre failure of J, 8. McCaleb, who con- Anstad hanks in Uniontown and Conuaelis- ville, Pennsylvania, is found to be much more serious than at fist supposed. His piace of business was surrounded by mobs of angry Hungarian and Italian credi- tors, who threatened to kill MoCaleb on sight. The clerks in the banks have armed themselves to protect the property of thelr employer, Five students were dismissed and five sus. vended for hazing at Princeton (N. J.) Col fog. ux Flint Glass Workers’ Union, all the men employed by tho United States Glass Company, better known as the Flint Glass Trust, in its sixteen factories, went on strike at Pittsburg, Penn The company employs 9500 men. The Flint Glass Workers’ Union is considerad the strongest labor organiza. tion in America, It has 7000 members and kas in its strike fund $175,000 ux Amerioan yacht Vigilant and the British contestant Valkyrie met in a race of fiteen miles to windward and return oft Sandy Hook, XN. J., but the wind failed and they could not fr within the six hour time limit, Erour the semi-centennial of t B'nal B'rith in the Gr New York City pint attendsd the he Independent Order of aod Palace, usand persons Central South and West, I'ux South Baltin (Md.) « Company assigned, wre ar Tux tornado in proved to wore destroyed, two fatally injured County, Arkansas, be a di o Pullmans s : Henry Warner train one aware of : ad InsAal . Jin po, I vington { 5 anged Iv was decided to as long as it was profitable, Forty boarders in a Lineol struck beoanss the landlor versity students for girl Tuxse an Brunswi wore sightsen fever De part War § we in ue ous iafan bill, repealing all tion laws, was passed in Represoptatives by a siriet wd " House of vote, 300 to 01 bod pesded to man gaaL thousand additions Unele Sam s b+ nen wil w warships Ir ing Was gton that Mills, t is to marpy Mise Mario 8. Afong, a Chinese millionalrs and sister der Whiting's flances faaghter of sf Comman- Forelgn. [ax rebesi Brazilian barded the forts at Rio Janeiro waraliips again! and a sanitary officia wolera riot In Pauli, Germany MAN wr Hoat plying bet ween the Orkney Islands, wa squall and the two bostmen, =» M ber theres children, ware drown A ad Finan Rs a Caotena is decreasing in Russia, although the mortality is still heavy Tre insurgents in Rio Grande do prised and defeated the troops ff the gitian Government at Quaratun Tw Bra y hundred wounded Tue neronaut, Charbonnet, Rome with his bride and two x wedding tour in a Franoe, The the Italian Alps, set out balloon glacier in gut. Charbonnet was killed his wife and {riends wer: injured soversly Sry thousand Dritish miners returned to the mine owners are work st the old wages | practically beaten. TEXAS HIGHWAYMEN. After Looting the Stage Mall They Remind the Driver of Lot's Wife, the Iatest stage robbery \ Save just been received, Those miles sast of ; Robert Los, in Coke County, Texas, the | Ballinger and Robert Leo stage was heid up by twe masked highwaymen at a point in the road where there are ravines and thiok underbrush, who ordered the driver to throw up his hands, pointing a sixahooter at him. They rifled the mail sacks, securing about 84100, which was being sent from the bank at Robert Lee to other banks through- out the State, After securing their booty they ordered the driver to turn his face to the rising sun and drive fast and “‘romomber the sommsad given by the angel of God to Particulars of ip Pullding prolong the World's Fair prosant ve party i Fla new Consul-General at Honolulu, ' were A suburb yusay and upset in a and Sal sar The battle was fought sf the Govern. ment troops were killed and many mors were from friends to go over balloon struck a The car was smashed and all the travelers wore thrown instantly and KOREA AND GUATEMALA ‘THEIR STRIKING EXHIBITS AT THE WORLD'S FATR. This is the First Time Far-off Koren Has Taken Part in an Internn~ tional Exposition-Articles of n= terest on Exhibit — Guatemala and Its Productions, This is the first time, according to the Chicago Record, that Korea, commonly known as the “hermit Nation,” has partici pated in an international exposition, Though sho has been open te the world for more than len yoois, Led Felons wlth athan Guatemala has erected a building at the Fair and filled it with exhibits which ex- lain the resources of the country and tell of its prosperity, ‘There are still vast and al- mont unexplored regions of the republie, which in itself covers an area of only 50,600 squars miles, When Cortez was pillaging Mexico he heard of a country to the south where there was more gold, and he sent { troops to Guatemala, who robbed the native powers have not been intimate, except with China, Japan and Rossin, Dy these threo Nations she fs surrounded and jealously watched, lest she may become either too In dependent or too much under the influence of one of thess three powers, Korea thus oc- cuples a very delicate and dangerous po sition and must act cautiously with other Na- tions. Bho is less known than either Japan or Cina. Her exhibit, therefore, in the World's Columbian Exposition, is very im- portant and instructive, The Korean booth is in the southwestern art of the Manufactures Building, and, be- ng small, is crowded with exhibits. It is in charge of Royal Commissioner Jeung Kiung Wow, who, with his associates, Hyves at 275 Forty-second street, The Korean flag, which hangs from the booth. is blue and yellow, and as a symbol has a very interesting mean ing. As explained in the preface of Pr. # N. Allen's book on Korea, the flag represents the male and femnle elements of nature, Blue stands jor the heaven, or male ment, and yellow stands for the earth, or male ales As seen across the easter pon, the heavens seem to lap over and ou brace the earth, while the earth to inndward rises in lofty mountsins an the heavens in its embrace, making harmo pious whole, Such is the explanation of the eurious design on the Korean flag. The four characters around the central figure repre sent the four pots of the compass Just at the left of the entrance to the boot h are some miscellaneous art £ ’ ios of board with ele fo 1 folds consider dishes, a Indians, These aboriginal inhabitants had roached a state of eclvilization higher than that of the great majority of American In- | | dinns, In one corner of the Guatemals Ballding | is mn grotto where is exhibited specimens of the fauna of the country, Hero is a kind of bird called the gavilan, which sings the half hours, and is as correct as a sun dial, It Is nlmost as good as a Government observa tory. Itstops itsvigils, however, at sun- down, and begins again in the morning, which is the salvation of the bibulous Guate- malan, who keeps one of these birds in the On the enst wall of the open court there Is painted a map which shows the location of the principal towns and the railways siready bullt, in course of constructicn and pro- jected, The principal work the Government is doing at present is the building of a rall- way which when completed, will connect San Jose, the principal town on the Pacific const, with Puerto Peron on the Gulf of Honduras, Already the clty of Guatemala, the capital of the republic, has been reached from San Jose, and 176 miles of been constracted from the Puerto Barrios end, The Government has already expend. ed £3,000,000, The total cost of the work it is eotimstod, will reach $10,000,000, The the Guatemalans claim that for flavor their coffee is the best in the world. To ad vertise it to the American people they have built a pavilion by thelr buliding, where they serve Guatemala coffee to the music of the marimba. In the center of the ballding is an open cotrt, where about a tountain 1s displayed the exhibit of the flora ef the coun- Pictures are bung about the balcony ich show the principal places in the city Guatemala and the other large towns Along Pacific const of the republic ois a line of voleanie peaks, the loftiest hich is that of Tajumules, which is over $00 feet above the level of the sen. The nd of Guatemala is dotted with iakes, some hich are very large. The population of ountry in 1592 was 1,510,326. More than vihirds of these people are Indians, the her part being Ladinos, descendents of the te race and a mixt of Buropeans and the ire TAT B hve bronge table and dinner set for boots and shoes of wood, straw and leather a fire pot and tools, s board on which is Javed a game evidently resembling « hoss, pes and lanterns, a kite and reel, vases (white and blue) and on the Soor a brass cannon, very old, used in the American at- tack on Korean forts in the 70x. One of the naval officers, by the way, who participated in that attack, is now & resident of Chicago He is Léoutenant F. 8. Basseft, interpreter of the {srelgn department of the World's Fair, and Secretary of the Chiengo Folk-Lore 80 ciety On the walls of the booth hang banners like Japanese Kakemono, One painted on straw attracts attention. Thers are siso here and there screens, of which one was hand embroidered bry the ladies of the palace, The boxes and cabinets for clothing look ke trunks and seem durable, Skins of sabie, leopard, fox, tiger and other animals are soattered about, In an upright glass oases are exhibited various fabrics, articles of foot gear, an embroidered ailk cushion and arm rest, A man's suit, a lady's dress and a indy’ court dress, while on dummies in the center of the room are shown the ancient warrior’ costumes, the ladies’ dress for dance and the court dress of both a military and etvil offi clal, The young Korean in charge of the exhibit has evidently become tired of answering hun- | dreds of times every day the same questions by different visitors, OCanseduantly (0 the comer of a map showing K of them are here reproduced : ww Koren' and ‘Corea’ are both correct, but | the former is preferred.” “Korea is not a part of China, but is inde pendent.” “The Koreans do not spsak the Chiness language, and their rose bles peither the Chinese nor the Japanese,” “Korea made treaties in 1882." “All the articles are owned by the govern. ment.” “Korea has telegraphs, but no railroads.” “Koreans live in comfortable tile-roofed houses, heated by flues under the floor." “Korean clvilization is ancient and high area, 100,000 square miles ; population, 16, | 000,000—climate like that of Chicago, coun- | mineral wealth undevel- | try mountainous, oped ; cultural products, chiefly rice, beans, wheat and corn, GUATEMALA AND ITS RXRIDIT, les Guatem the t WORLD'S PAIR VIEW FROM THE EAST BALL ona Person, Indians, ores and the | neighboring coantries he has attached a} paper headed Questions Answered.” Many | olootrie lights, steamships, NY OF THE RALL OF BECRANIC The Indians for the most part are devoted to agriculture, while the Ladinos are engaged in commercial pursuits, Guat- emala is one of themost fertile of the Central or South American republics. Without cul tivation pineapples, oranges, bananas, lom- | ons, anona, mapote and almost all kinds of tropical fruits are produced. In the north. eustern and southwestern parts of the coun. | try are vast forests. Gold, copper, iron and silver mines are worked with great gains, All of the South American republics have wurted immigration in emulation of the United States, but most of them without very bright results, Guatemala i= ruied by a politioal code which was adopted in 1879 and in pant re- vised in 1885. The President is elected di rectly by the people, six years, and by the allowed to succeed himself, constitution he is not The lagisiative branch of the Government is constituted by | an assembly, the members of which are slocted by the people. The President ap- points his cabgnet of six secretaries, in charge | of foreign affairs, interior | works, war, treasury and | The judiciary is com- | of departments and justice, public publie instruction. posad of a chief justice and a supreme court, and the system is very similar to that of te United States FOSKIIA AT THE FAIR. There are all forms of fossils ranged in rows of cabinets and onses in the south hk lery of the Eathropological Building. he evolution of the first form of life to its per. fection —man is Jald out and traced in order, according to the Jore of paleontologists, ini Cabinets of crusia- | coans, trilobites, erinolds do not alone mo- | nopolime the space of the exhibit mn paloon- | There are all sorts of things of all | the Ward collection, | tology. the geclogioal ages, from the frst to the | latest before our ows, from the | to the quaternary, Theres are reprod luctions of the forms of giant reptiles, mastodonsand | models of the huge beasts of times. To the mind of the paleontoi prehistoric pression of great antiquity. | things of the age when the earth was a shapo- | Joss, modten mass, of the age when it first | began to cool #0 that existence was made possibile upon it, Properly the Ward collection has ita bagin- jin the north end of the row of cabinets which adorn the east wall of the south gal- first division of fossils is the which signifies the first of the geologioal ages, In this nooord- ing to the erudition of pateontologiNs, the molten mass first assumed shape and had cooled #0 that it had a eorust, gradual coating and the forming of the orust animal life developed, Whether in the Lau thers Instill the road has, His term of office is | Laarentian | tthe | term antediliivian does not convey the im- | He deals with | EE aa onl nges. The specimens are the earth and shout voleanoes, | Right bers in this cabinet of the Cambrian | | age begins the forward march in the evolu | tion of man, through mollusks of all degrees and finally through the mammals of the tertiary and quaternary sages After the Cambrian age came the Ordovician, The trilobites became more nuperous and ine creased in varieties and the erinoids begin to show forth, erans of the earth and took up his abode, The fourth division of time in geology wis the Silurian age, and at this timethe appear ances of new forms of life were mary elously frequent, The nautilus Is in evidence in numerous fossils, CGireat quantities and varieties of coral are seep, Still all the on earth was confined to invertebrate ani. mals and thers were no signs of vertebrates, The star fish came in the Devonian age. A WISER Bi Vad Moke ts Si Ante uc found at the falls of the Ohio ville, The permian, trinssic and jurassic ages are classed together and ealled the “reptilian ages.” Inthe latter part of the permian age the reptiles began to come, From small ani mals they grew into huge- jawed beasts, Rome waiked on their hind feet and after awhile developed wings. The ichthyosaurus, a huge creature of the ses, is found impressed on There were in those duys hundreds varieties of the nautilus, while to-day there are but few, The fish mostly had eartiiagin- ous skeletons, like the shark of to-day. Vertebrate animals began to put in their ap- pearance, and in the crelacecus, the tenth then the first bird sored into the air, if the theory of paleontolo,i’is is sound. The bird was only a further development of the reptile with wings. Tt had a caudal append- age and teeth and was covered with feat hers, One snimal of the tenth age was the lguan- ndon, A femur bone of one of these animals is in s possonsion of Professor Ward, The bone our and one-half feet long, which would make the height of the animal about twelve The tertiary an { quaternary ages wore mammals of them grew jarwer than the elephant and some were of prodigious bulk well as height The things of the waters were huge beyon i oom. with any iv i wn Th 0 , ordinary cows of h found i Sih RAMI Lines aE near Louis tonsils, Age, the ages of NOT a ng cremiures o ar « mon whic bean iC in the put to stock hnwve the quale ¥ 26 WwW 3 the prize SOO 1 ¢ an ‘ : ind bulls of the " ine eal tha largest Biberian The tusks are curved A srine repli nearsy skolet ol the huge a coterie of original spe was fou ’ 8, nour Whithy fen Ward exhibit are various speci Ia the inclosu the skeleton and several Jog ( mens of mow, A gigantic, wingloss bird, § and in recent de New Zealand, The mons wore at lately exterminated skelsdons with pORItS IT feathers i adhering sartinry age was saat of this anim exhitdt, It was a bt st the ? species, by means of ich they . in ands or Jol preasnt 3 mw an DeArY a animals, all in = ore Are liar parts nw AY AT THE FAIR Rhode Island's day has wlebrated in fitting manner the W Fair, The thode Island National Guard was represent. od by the staff offoers of the Newport Artii- lery and 115 men, Governor I} Russell Brown's personal staff, and many military officers on the general stall At the Rhode Island Building Governor Brown and Pro tossor Williams Aeliverad addresses er ——— THE LABOR WORLD. Farvons have 200 unions DE ISLAND heen at vid Nn as Jarax mills run Caxana has 8000 il Caxapiax farmers nood w Fart Riven, Mass Kaxsas runs a State employment bureau the K. of L Moxrawa bill posters have formed & Biate | union, Sraikixo miners in Belgium are returaing work THERE A rEers Las 8000 wasvers Oxy onesixth has work to CALIPARNIA and board TwrLyy por are women Some Fall River had their wages { A rngx labor bureas and free | been introduced by business men at Fresno, Cal, grape pickers get 81 a day ant. of the industrial cliassos Mass.) weavers bave “ut {wenty per cont, Tazax are eighty-five women in Great Rritain engaged inthe occupation of chimney sweeping Tae German Iron and Stee! ers’ Union embraces 314 firms who 241,000 men, Cooks of all Nations are to have a faar and foam in Paris next year, with prises for “au. thors of new dishes,” Tar Buffalo (N. ¥.) Tron Trades’ Connell nrotesto] against the employment of Cana- dians on a oom job, Ix Philadelphia 82,000 hands formerly em- employ mills are out of work Tux number of mon Mare lsisnd (Cal) Navy Yard is largest foros there in yoars, Sour tovans have been opensd at iron. wood, Mich, 10 fead 500 Polish and Finish laborers out of employment, At Fresno, Oal,, Chinese vineyard nd or hard workers are abducted at night by the wagon loud and dumped into the local Ching town. © Tag most akillnd workman in New York is an operative whose business it Js to make the Jenses of astronomical Instruments, This man has hut coe aye, Tae snd of the long colliery’ strike in Eng. land is announced, men have the intermedistion of the ma fn the mining d and now employed at the 750, the California's raisin center work will be available, seventy-five cents a day without bourd. Chiness are | the formations of any of the twelve geologh | oftenest | found in mountain capons, broken places in | Then the oyster made his bow to the vet. | jife | | was taker j= { m.. | the soup have | Manufactar | ployed In ihe oarpet, woolen and kaibing | “FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, The Senate. tors Dav. —Deloro the silver Purchase Re- peal bill wastaken up Me, Wolcott offered n resolution directing the Committes on ¥i- nance to report u bill for tie aoinage of gold and silver in accordance with the policy set forth in the declaration section of the Yoor- hoes bill, Mr. Bosch addressed the Benste ngainst the repeal of the Sherman set He was followed bv Mr. Allen Bist Day. ~The deste on developed into a ur bill in which ok rail HL fhe sii fysly disceskion many Nenstors (ook part began a long speech on the subject hu Day Messrs. M spoke on the Repeal bill, hours and then un end, yielded the floor 53 Day. ~The up the third + ia Banator { 3 { repeal, and Cockrell Mr. Oc with Phieses for five any gan - a tT. v = : a i and then said thet floor temporarily conciusion « Cockrell ook the floor He was follos At 6 © it journment | ohval ph t yield to Mr Benith, Mr At the again t His speech Sore, the 3 =f m fr. Dut Was past the hour when tt disna ( Mr, Ve PSE worl Heo asked tha rs then pillows ination to i sy fret uf was Mr. Allen, Hespoke OX floor all argument un tous hours, Kan- of os which to- { the filin quorum, sOmSLOn. y situation took = signs of weard- of the Benstors » Nendo i vos wit began ana kas i y view tet erm hold a continuon wii 1 of the night sos nuainst the bil eT s § Pemarkabie ’ hibition ol Ose day's ding th session ustering was con shit nigat The House, was t. He Oates, Hunter n, at 5.45 until 8 for the reten 200% and ng v thers Mrmative and 153 we nays 100 EL er | ana 1 oa8, dment was Mr tute for the Y ons 1 withdrew his A The Tucker bil navs, 101 : a strict pa tod with The House then panse i 00 the plists ¥ Demon Chiness Me remit t The bill to amend the + was debated by Messrs —] hn bili to « oraiser Vesuvias ved in as ant ins tion was taken wert § noon thn viding oth waite 0b reed to Hunter nskod ue nsideration of a » a process of Cong & rv 0) and the nittee oi 1} Lh resointion pr As Detat a i oNsion A RELIEF TRAIN. Six Carloads of Supgpiies Forwarded to Fever Stricken Brunswick. A relief train of six freight car: of provi- sionsand supplies forthe fevarastrickon town of Brunswiok, Ga., left Jersey City, N the other morning. The train carried a large amount of flour, sugar and other staples, as well a8 tea, col for, dolioncios and medicines, all of which are sorely needed by the unfortunate habe tants of the quarantined town whoss prao= tical isolation from the outside world has re- sulted in their grievous discomfort and in many cases in actual suffering and privation. msn —————— TWENTY-FOUR LIVES LOST. Devastation Cansed by Bursting Waterspouts in Mexico. Pursting waterssposts in the Territory of Tepue, Mexico, cansed great loss of lily on several haeolendas, Twenty-four persons are knows 19 have Desh drowansd, One man who was caught by the flood In his oabis swam until the water reached the roof. He then burst a hole throgeh the top of Lis dwelling and escapad, The town of Santa loes, in the State of Oaxana, was inundated and the Town Hall ond many other builfings wers Swep: away, Phere were similar disasters in Other owes, on i — Rounxx, a resident of Teall County, if not
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