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The Somerset Herald.
WEDNESDAY,
July 22, 1K
KepuWican County Ticket
CONGRESS.
Ruhtrrt to dcclidon of District Confcrenea.
VT. II. KOONTZ.
STATE SENATE.
SuMeH to decision or District Conference.
E. P. YUTZY.
ASSEMBI.T.
Wm. enpsley.
JOSEril P. MILLER.
MTBICT ATTORNEY.
JAMES L. FUG II.
COMMISSIONER.
OLIVER W. BOYER.
POOR nOCSE DIRECTOR.
SAMUEL TRENT.
AUDITOR.
DANIEL S.MILLER.
I-OR COUNTY 6LRVEYOR,
JONATHAN II. FRITZ.
a WASHivriTOV pneeial eavs: The
onlv loss sustained by the govern
tnrnt. hv the Chicago fire is that oc
casioned by tho burning of the tem
nrvrarv nostoffiee. This loss
is est i-
mated by
000.
i
Mr. Mullet at about ?iV
Tnnrc tr-WrnDic cables are now
- n i
in workin? order across the Atlantic,
and a fourth and fifth are soon to be
loM Tin. eornnctitiou in this busi-
ncss will before long, make commu
nicalion with the old world nearly as
cheap as it is throughout this country.
Ut the breaking away of another
rnenrrnir in llamnsbire countv, a
v . . . f
largo tract of country in Massachir
setts has again been flooded, and prop
crfy of the value of Lundrcds of thou,
sands of dollars las been destroyed,
Fortunatelv. however, no lives were
thio time destroyed.
It tohould be remembered that the
ten days assessment business is abol
ished by the new Constitution, and
all voters must be registered sixty
days before the election. As the
election is to take place on the 3d day
of November, it will be well for ev
ery voter to see that he is registered
by the first day of September.
A new and startling crime has made
its appearance in Philadelphia a lit
tle boy a son of Mr. Christian K.
Ross, one of Thiladclphias most es
teemed merchants has been stolen
for the purpose of extorting money
from the father for his recovery. The"
Mavorandthe entire police force of
the city have been Etraining every
nerve for the last three weeks to re
cover the child and capture the kid
napper, but so far without success.
A full and interesting account of
tho rrreat fire in Chicago will be
found in another part of this paper.
It is not nearly so great a calamity
as was the fire three years since, but
its extent and consequences are ap
palling. The area burned over docs
nnt much exceed fifty acres, and a
majority tf the buildings destroyed
were not -of great value, but fully
eight thousand people, principally of
the lowest and worst class, arc left
without shelter.
At Dubuque latwcck during a
norm a ball of fire the size of a man's
Lead descended from the sky into the
centre of the street, directly on the
head of Taul Ilennis, and there ex
ploded with a terrific report The
hair was burned from L'i3 scalp, the
blood oozed from his cars, a gash an
.rub and a half long was found un
der his chin where the electric current
had apparently made its exit; the
shock had broken Lis neck, and his
body was literally sk inned. All down
his back and chest and limbs to the
soles of Lis feet, the cuticle was peel
ed from the flesh and rolled and curl
ed upon itself, leaving the corpse a
shocking spectacle which those who
Eaw could never forget.
The Democratic conferees of the
Twenty-first Congressional district
Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene
counties met at the St. Charles,
Pittsburg, on Tuesday last, and nomi
nated Hon. Jacob Turncy, of Greens
burg, for Congress, on the twenty
sixth ballot His competitors were
non. C. Boyle, of Fayette, and Hon.
A. Tatton, of Greene. If everything
is harmonious in the ranks Mr. Tur
ner will be elected, as the district is
strongly Democratic. Mr. T. is a
gentleman of considerable abilfty,
and has Lad experience a3 a legisla
tor. Laving been a member of the
House of Representatives and State
Senate.
A report was started in Washing
ton and circulated throughout the
country that Vice President Wilson
is about to rcsijrn on account of Lis
impaired Lealth. The Boston Adver
tiser squelches the canard as follows:
"Mr. Wilson is now at home; he Las
not been in Washington for several
weeks. His health is steadily im
proving, and he has the best reasons
to Lope for a complete recovery. If
the object of the canard was to draw
out 6ome expression in favor of Lis
resigning, it will fail. The Vice Pres
ident bas the entire confidence of the
country, and its best wishes for Lis
recovery and return to active public
service. Practically, his office re
quire? very little of bim, and affords
do excuse for resigning under any
circumstances. Tlis counsel and in
fluence are wanted in the administra
tion as it is; and the contingencies of
life are such that Lis withdrawal from
it could not be regarded without very
Pcrious apprehensions.
The insurance upnu the jiroperty
destroyed by the fire in Chi.-o
amounts to $2,72",2'J0, and is diotrib
uted among nearly two hundred com
panies. The foreign companies are
the heaviest losers.
The provisions of the new postal
law appear to be illy understood
throughout the country, and much
annoyance is caused publishers.
Sections 5, 6 and 7 are the import
ant ones to the publishers and sub
scribers of weekly papers and are as
follows:
Sec. 5. That on and after the 1st
day of January, 1875, all newspapers
and periodical publications from a
known office of publication or news
agency, and addrcssed to regular sub
scribers or news agents, postage shall
be charged at the following rates:
On newspapers and periodical publi
cations, issued weekly and oftener, 2
cents a pound and fraction thereof;
les3 frequently 3 cents a pound and
fraction thereof.
Sec. 6. That on and after the 1st
day of January, 1875, upon the re
ceipt of such newspapers or periodi
cal publications at the office of mail
ing, they shall be weighed in bulk,
and postage paid thereon by a spe
cial adhesive stamp, to be devised
and furnished by the Postmaster Gen
eral, which shall be affixed to such
matter, or to the sack containing the
same, or upon a memorandum of such
mailing, or otherwise, as the Post
master General may, from time to
time, provide by regulation.
- Sec. 7. That newspapers, one copy
to each actual subscriber residing
within the. county where the same are
printed, in whole or in part, and pub
lished, shall go free through the mails;
but the same shall not be delivered
at letter carrier offices or distributed
by carries unless postage is paid there
on as by law provided.
Latest accounts show that the at
tempt to assassinate Bismarck Las
stirred up a mighty enthusiasm amon
the Germans. He appeared in the pul-
lic gardens on the same evening and
was enthusiastically received by the
people. In response to demands he
made a brief speech, in which he said
that it was not Lis person that was
attacked, but the cause which he rep
resented.
As all the world knows, there is a
bitter controversy now going on in
Germany between those who hold
that the citizen must under all cir
cumstances be subject to the civil au
thority, and those who place the au
thority of the Church above all ha
man government. Bismarck is the
head and front of what might be call
ed the secular party, and he has on
Lis side the entire Protestant element
of Germany, as well as all the liberal
thinkers and skeptics who oppose ec
clesiastical pretensions on philosoph
ical principles. The Ultramontane
bishops and priests lead the Church
party. It must'be admitted that they
had gained a great deal of sympathy
in the non-Catholic world because
they seemed to be pcrscc uted. Prot
estants who do not understand the
peculiar structure of the German
Government and the reasons of State
which have influenced Prince Bis
marck, look upon Lis treatment of the
Jesuits as unnecessarily harsh.
Tha attempted assassin is a young
Catholic zealot, and no doubt the act
was his alone, but unfortunately for
the church to which he belongs, it
will be held responsible by the ex
cited public, and the fact that its
wrongs were attempted to be aveng
ed by one who grew up under its
teachings will weigh heavily against
its cause. A priest has already been
arrested on suspicion of having insti
gated the crime, and in the wild state
of public feeling he is likely to be
dealt with barsblv.
OI R NEW YORK LETTER.
New York, July 20, 1874.
The Fourth of July passed off with
more than tlio usual number or acci
dents from those relics of barbarism,
fire-works. The boys of this great
crowded city commenced exploding
fire-crackers, and setting off all sorts
of fire-works, the day before the
Fourth, and they continued it, des
pite the Police, with the most fiendish
persistency, till late ia the night of
the great day. Consequently the
papers are full of casualities. The
summary of the "accidents" and dis
asters oi last fcaturday shows some
forty-five fires in New York and
Brooklyn; more than two score of
children injured and maimed in vari
ous degrees of hurt from eyes de
stroyed to fingers blown away; a riot,
balf a dozen affrays, a child burned to
death, and three persons killed. Be
yond these were the thousand minor
disasters unreported to the police,
but which leave their marks in suffer
ing mutilation of greater or less ex
tent One rocket went through a
window in DeKalp avenue, Brooklyn,
and killed a child outright It seems
to me as though this childish habit
of playing with fire on the glorious
Fourth ought to be prohibited by
law. It is altogether too dangerous
an amusement. The roofs are al
ways dry at this Beason of the yeai,
and everything combustible is in the
best possible condition to burn. In
such a season, to fill the air with ex
ploding gun-powder enveloped with
paper, would seem to be a folly very
nearly akin to madness. But so
strong is habit, that I suppose the
dangerous game will go onto the end
of time.'
HYDROPHOBIA
continues to be a prominent topic of
discussion. There are thousands up
on tnousanas or curs or all decrees.
roaming the city, and any number of
people nave been bitten by them.
There have been several well defined
cases of hydrophobia, and several
bitten men have died from 6heer
fear, as was evident from the fact that
the dogs that bit them were all shown
not to have been mad at all. In one
case, that of Mr. lfcCormick, the
symptoms were those of rabies, the
patient refusing to eat or drink, and
going into convulsions, in one of
which he died. The dog who bit
him was kept in a secure place and
never showed the first symptoms of
madnesi It had probably been
worried till it bit everything that
presented itself. MeCormick belie
ed it to be mad, and it so worked up
on bis imagination that Le died.
Of course, ther are thousands of
cores for the disease promulgated.
One young woman of Hoboken, who
Laving been bitten by a mad dog,
was taken with the rcry worst symp
toms of the rabies. A physician was
called in, who found Ler in con
vulsions. He at once inserted the
lancet, takiug from her no less
than 75 ounces ot blood. Tbia was
the only treatment, and it is asserted
that in five days thereafter the pa
tient was convalescent. The various
"mad-stones" in the country have
been sent f r; but none of thera effect
ed cur. .s, aay more than the regulars
have, with this one exception.
Whoever a person has been bitten
by a mad dog that person has died.
ICE.
The ice question is next in impor
tance to hydrophobia. The whole
business is in the hands of two or
three companies, and they are as
merciless as monopolists always are.
Taking advantage of the mild winter,
they run up the price of ico from
$1,00 to $1,50 per hundred, and the
people, as a rale, were compelled to
submit to the extortion. But an
association in Brooklyn decided not
to. They 6ent an agent to Maine,
and he secured ice enough for the
summer, which will be delivered at
the Wallabout Dock at 40 cents per
hundred, and at the door of the buy
er, from wagon, at 60 cents and
honest weight, which the monopolies
never thought of doing. As these as
sociations are forming all over the
city, and as Maine is full of ice it is
probable that the companies will Lave
ice to sell this winter. So mote it
be.
THE beecher-tilton scandal.
The Beecher Tilton matter remains
as it was. Beecher is as cunnin? as
a fox. He knows that his church
will sustain him under any circum
stances, or, rather, that his flock will
not believe the statement made by
Tilton, and ho goes on gaily paying
no attention whatever to it. He has
never opened his lips, and does not
intend to. And Tilton is weak in
not usine: the amunition he Las. He
asserts that the unpublished portion
of the famous confession, is enough
to satisfy the world of Beecher's guilt;
but Le docs not publish it AVhy, no
one can understand, for if he does not
make his case, he stands before the
world a slanderer. He cannot wait
for Mr. Beecher to act he has gone
so far that to stop now is ruin.
Teople who are in position to know
say that Tilton can convict the great
preacher of the grossest immoralities,
if he chooses to do it. They say that
he has in his posession documentary
evidence that Beecher did attempt to
debauch not only Mrs. Tilton but
other women in Brooklyn. If this be
so, why does not Tilton give it to the
world: He bas made charges in a
vague sort of a way, specifying noth
ing and making nothing direct lie
docs not state what it i3 that Mr.
Beecher has been guilty of he only
asserts that be has done bim a wrong.
Now what the public want is the
particulars. They want to know
what this wrong was. They want to
know, in short, whether Henry Ward
Beecher is or is not, a proper
man to occuoy a pulpit in Brooklyn,
and as Mr. Tilton has said he is not,
they demand that he make good his
statement. And until he does this
he is in a bad position. For the
public believe that there is some
thing in the matter that holds him
back and prevents him from saying
all that he could. It is not a pretty
quarrel as it stands.
hayemeter
The Mayor, has fallen from his
high position. Elected as a Reform
er, he has filled all the offices in his
gift with men of whom Tweed would
have been proud. And when two of
these men were convicted of mal
administration Charlick and Gard
ner and removed Ilavemeyer with
a blind stupidity not easy to account
for, immediately re-appoints them.
It is curious how thoroughly corrup
tion permeates everything in New
York. When Ilavemeyer took the
reins, the city breathed with more
freedom. Here was an old merchant,
a man who was supposed to bo hon
est, if such a thing was possible, an
honest administration was loosed for.
Bqt the thieves got him as they got
his predecessors, and reform is post
poned till after another election. An
epedemic something like .the yellow
fever that devastated Memphis, is all
that can possibly purify New York.
So long as rotes can be bought by
the thousand, and the great city has
millions of revenue to be stolen noth
ing short of an epedemic will do any
good.
It is probable that the Mayor will
be removed. Governor Dix has been
urged so strongly to do it, and so
clear a case can be made against him,
that it seems that nothing can save
him.
the weather.
It is hotter than has been known
here for years.
Tietro.
CHICAGO ON FIRE.
ANOTHER CONFLAGRATION
A LARGE DISTRICT IN ASHES
CniCAGO, July 14-8 P.M. Anoth
er conflagration is raging in the heart
of the city. The fire started about
4:30 r. M. in some small frame
houses near Fourth avenue and Polk
streets. It was first blown south
ward by a stiff breeze, but the wind
soon shifted, and by sunset it blew
gale from the south, sending the fire
towards the central part of the city
At half-past C o'clock this afternoon
the flames had made almost a clean
sweep up to the corner of Third ave
nue and Polk street, burning up the
homes of thousands of people. At
the above corner the fire Department
commenced the process of blowing np
nouses with gunpowder, but those ex
perimented with were most all wooden
buildings, and the process only had
the effect of making a quicker blaze
The wind is blowing very fresh from
aoout souin-soumwest A tie tire is
now on the verge ot the fire-line of
our big fire at Harrison street The
west side of Wabash avenue is now
in full blaze, which takes in many
stately building in its course, which
onerea a naven ol reiuge in tee win-
leroiisu. ice nre is lust imme
diately in the rear of the first Baptist-
Church, and should that structure go
down the fire will have a clean
sweep to the northward and east
ward, the exposition building will
in all likelihood be the final prey of
the fire, and as that is immediately
on the lake shore, there will be noth
ing for the fire to feed upon, provided
we have the good fortune not to have
a change of wind. A dense pall of
black smoke is passing over the ex
pected course of tea fire, dropping
it advance messengers of tinkers on
the roofs of buildings. ylthough
private citizens are doing their ut
most to prevent the fire from getting
a told opoa tLcir houses, ret the ef
fort id as futile as for a child to make
the attempt The roar of tho advancing
furnace Las the sound of our old ca
lamity, and nothing short of its final
plnnge into Lake Michigan will
quench if
Our street ? within a mile of the
conflagration are crowded with teams
of every description, loaded to their
utmost capacity with hou&Iiuld goods.
Although store-keepers who are so
fortunate as to secure teams are ea
deavoring to save their most valua
able stock, wherever vacant space
north of the fire can be found it is at
once filled with goods of all descrip
tions and varieties, mcu, women
and children are doing all they can
to save their little all and bring it
to some place of safety. The fire
from this on will burn up as much in
five minutes as it has previously
done in fiftecu, considering the value
in dollars and cents. Tho heat is
very great, and no doubt in addition
10 pecuniary losses we will have to
mourn the loss of lives, as it i3 next
to impossible for a fire of this magni
tude and fury to burn through as
closely a settled district without hu
man sacrifice. -
10 o'clock P. M. As wa3 expected
in the previous despatch, the fire
swecpt into and over the elegant
First Baptist Church, on Wabash ave
nue, and what was this evening be
fore sundown one of the most elegart
and most costly church edifices in our
pifr is now a smoulderin? heap of
ruins. As it was very evident from
about C:30 P. M. that our Postoffice
building was doomed, General 31 c
Arthur, the Postmaster, made ar
rangements at once to remove the
mails to a place of safety, and
all needed teams were at once pressed
into service by him, and by 8 o'clock
tho last loaded wagon left tho buil
ding. At ten minutes past 8 o'clock
tho building took fire, and by half
past 8 o'clock it wa3 a mass of flames
The wind oy 8 o'clock had almost
died away, which assisted the fire de
partment greatly in becoming mas
ters of tho situation. At the corner
where tho Postoffice was situated, at
Wabash avenue and Harrison street
tho very point where the previous
great fire was stopped, our firemen
seemed to be inspired with superhu
man efforts to prevent the fire from
spreading into the rebuilt district,
and hero it was thafall their ener
gies were concentrated to bar its
further progress.
The building on the southeast cor
ner wa3 a large brick dwelling house,
and by makiner a bulwork of this
against the ever oucominjr sheets of
flames, the prospect of holding this
building and saving it thereby pre
venting the progress of the fire
through to Michigan avenue, was
quite promising at 8:30 o'clock, where
at the northeast corner of these
streets, occupied by our postoffice
was then a mass of flames.
As a very heavy and high brick
building adjoined the postoffice on
the north, there is no doubt that the
spread of the fire north of Wabash
avenue from this point has been
checked.
Pailicnlars of tlis Great Eire.
CmcACio, July 15. Our citizens
arc reviewing the situation this morn
ing, and congratulating themselves
that they have escaped the destruc
tion of the most important business
portion of the city, which appeared at
onetime imminent, ibis time tne
fire originated in a low frame build
ing, used for storing rags, and ad
joining an oil factory that stood be
tween iourth Avenue and Clark
Street, on Taylor Street. The great
fire of 1871 originated in a stable.
In both cases the fire commenced in
the center of a oeigbborbood occupi
ed by wooden buildings. There was
also a stiff southwest breeze, so that
by the time ihc flames had consumed
the small dwellings, stables, carpen
ter shops and buildings filled with oil,
paper and rags, and reached State
Street, where there were substantial
business houses, they were like the
heat of a furnace, and all-consuming
in their power. Thus the conditions
for a great conllagration were not
wanting. Fortunately after burning
up nearly twenty bloek3, and destroy
ing tue rirst unptist enured, two
other church buildings, the Postoffice,
Michigan Avenue and St. James'
Hotels, the Inter- Oceanic and other
elegant blocks erected after the fire of
1871, and a number of fine residences,
the flames were staved riffht at the
very doors of the heaviest business
blocks and three or four of the best
hotels.
The Tribune says, cditorialiy:
Every cool-headed observer of the
fire must have felt that we have paid
a light penalty for allowing our mag
nificent business centre to be sur
rounded with wooden rookeries, and
we have come off cheap. The great
gilded martyr around which the fag
gots have been so profusely piled,
has not yet been burned to death.
Perhaps this calamity will show us
how to save it, perhaps not There
arc some 6ixty acres of burned terri
tory between tho faggots and the
victim. This gap may be the means
of saving what is left; if so. thank
God. The predestinated fate of
every wooden building in the large
cities is to be burned sometime. We
have now offered up sixty acres of
combustibles as a sacrifice to the ireni
us oiTrce institutions, meaning thereby
the frtedom of every man to keep a-
tinder box and an oil factory where it
suits him best Would that- we could
say this is the last of such mad folly.
It is not Chicago still has thou
sands upon thousands of wooden
suaniics 10 ieea miure ures, ana go
aown they will, ail m good time
Ihe limes and Inter-Ocean also
speak in strong terms cf the fully of
allowing the erection of wooden
buildings within the city limits.
The following are the exact limits
of the fire as viewed this morning
lhe nre burned a small portion ot
ciai K btreet, near iwelltn, where it
originated: thence took Thiid and
Fourth Avenues between Peck Court
and Twelfth Street, and burned them
as far as Harrison Street State
Street was burned from Harmon
Court to Van Buren; Wabash Ave
nue, from No. 452, near the corner of
Peck Court, to No. 1C7, near Van
Buren. Michigan Avenue has been
burned from Harrison Street to Van
Buren Street, a short distance. The
business buildings burnt out on the
east side of State Street number 29
on the west side, ninety-six ; on the
east side Wabash Avenue twenty -six
i 3 .1.. .
on me wesi siue, inirty-iour; on
Michigan Avenue, twelve; on the
east side of Clark Street, fourteen :
on the north side ot Van Buren Street,
six; on the south side.
six; on the
norio me oi roiif otreet, eight; on
the south side, four; on the north
side of Harrison Street, twelve; on
the south side, sixteen ; on the south
side of Twelfth Street, thirteen ; on
the north side twenty-two.
The following general description
of the progress of the fire, and the
enorts of the fire department to get
it under cocjrol, is furnished by the
Timet: Nearly eact cjT the shanty
where the fir,e originated waa tie
large brick oil factory of Fitch Bros.,
the interior of which, with the large
tanks of oil, was all ablaze before the
arrival of the second engine. The
heat emitted by tho burningof its in
flammable contents was intense, and
when the walls first full, but a few Middlefield stream enters west, a
minutes before the first stream began ' woolen mill, formerly used as a shod
to play upon it, the whole neighbor- J dy mill, and at Chester, there Is the
hood for a radius of thirty rodd Hampden Emery mills. From Mid
around seemed to burst forth in ooei dielieid tswht-li the flood passtd down
simultaneous blaze, just norm oiitowuru ciesU:r, where u did very
the rag shop was a story and a half
barn filled with bay, which flamed up
in an instant, and the flying wisps of
burning Lay lit on the roofs nearly a
block away. With such rapidity did
the fire spread after it was first dis
covered that two horses in this barn
were burned to death before they
could be rescued. The eight or ten
engines in the first district were
speedily on the ground, and the, most
of them took their stations on Clark
Street, where Marshal Benner at
tempted to check the spread of the
flames. Engine No. 21 and, one
other were stationed on Fourth Ave
nue, and a vigorous fight with the
advancing foe was commenced. At
this point, in ten minutes alter the
first alarm, the pine shanties, stretch
ing eastward toward Fourth Avenue,
were all aflame for nearly half a
square.
In less than half an hour the en
gines that were, posted on Fourth
Avenue, directly in the path of the
fire, were compelled to beat a retreat
All succeeded in beating a retreat ex
cept Engine Company No. 21, the
colored company of the forco, who de
layed a minute too long, and the
flames bursting upon them before they
had attached their horses to the en
gine, they were compelled to abandon
it, and the handsome steamer was
warped and twisted into a mass of
half melted iron and steel in the fiery
furnace that girdled it. The fire had
swept diagonally across the block to
the corner of Taylor Street and
Fourth Avenue, and was rapidly eat
ing its way through the remainder
of the block fronting Clark and Tay
lor Streets. The Marshal stationed
a number of engines on Clark Street,
and every effort was made to stay
the northern progress of the flames
along that thoroughfare, but the shan
ties, from which poured a swarm of
fallen women laden down with ward
robes and furniture, were ripe for
destruction, an no sooner had the
torrents of water extinguished the
fire on one building than the roofs of
tinder-boxes still further to the north
would burst into flames. But the
most of the Marshal's attention was
directed to the front of the fire, and
every energy was exerted to stay its
eastern march. At the corner of
Taylor Street and Fourth Avenue a
large amount of hoso was concentra
ted, and every effort was made to
keep the fire on the west sido of the
avenue, but tho driving wind was
laden with the burning brands, which
lit on the roofs beyond and kindled
them in an instant. The Olivet Bap
tist Church was the brst building to
go on the east side of the avenue.
In a little over an hour after the first
alarm, the fire had swept over the
pace between Clark Street and
Third Avenue, and had reached Polk
Street on the north. The southern
boundary of the burnt district ex
tends east in almost a straight line,
running nearly parallel with Twelfth
Street, and about thrco hundred feet
north of it.
Accordingly telegrams wero sped
over the wires to Milwaukee, Racine,
Joliet and other places. They read :
"A great fire is raging. Chicago is
threatened with destruction. Send
up your fire department" In the
course ot the nignt came a response
in the shape of stalwart men with ap
paratus, and they did valiant service
in fighting the flames to a smaller and
smaller limit. Having reached Wa
bash Avenue! with the wind blowing
from the southwest, Michigan Ave
nue seemed to be in danger of de
struction, in fact tho thought of sav
ing a portion of it, from Eldridge
Court to a point at least as fur r.orth ;
as Harrison Street, was abandoned,
and yet, contrary to all expectations,
every house in that limit stands in
tact. Every bouse on Yv abash Ave
nue parallel with this is destroyed.
But the narrow alley between the
two avenues stood as a barrier, as if
id been an intervening mountain.
Every house on Michigan avenue
was vacated. The streets were lined
with trucks backed up against the
residences, but about nine o'clock
most of the people moved back again.
Ihe ordeal was safely passed and
our handsome lake front was pre
served. A regular srale was blowing:,
tho beat wa3 intense, and the firemen
could not stand within a hundred feet
of it The pollicy seemed to be to
fight it into the lake by closing in on
its sides. This policy was adopted,
and at six o'clock all danger was
passed.
The Tiines makes the following es
timate of losses, which will bo found
to bo pretty nearly correct. . The
area burned over covers fifteen
squares. Taking blocks and half
blocks here and there and lumping
the whole, the burned area is about
bait a mile long and a little less m-
widlh, and embraces tumble down
shanty and palatial avevue residences
Clark Street, $30,000; Fourth Ave
nue, $175,000; Third Avenue, $250,-
000; State Street, $1,300,001); Wabash
Avenue, $1,700,000: Michigan Ave
nue, $150,000; Taylor Street, $50,000;
Polk Street, $40,000; Harrison Street,
$50,000; Congress Street, $75,000;
Van Buren Street, $50,000, Court, be
tween Wabash Avenue and State
Street, $150,000. Total, $4,025,000.
Another fire broke out this after
noon about 4:30 in the northwestern
part of the city in the vicinity of the
junction of Mi'waukee and Chicago
Avenues. Fifteen or twenty build
ings, comprising stores, saloons,
planing mills and carpenter shops,
uurneu in a short time, the flames be
ing fanned by a brisk northwest
breeze and fed by very inflammable
material. The fire department was
promptly on the ground, and by the
most vigorous enorts succeeded in
checking the progress of the fire be
fore it did further damage than al
ready stated. Considerable excite
ment prevailed for a time, and a repe
tition of the scenes of last night was
expected.
" - . i
Two More Reservoirs Give Way-Great
Destruction of Property.
SrRixariELD, July 13.' Details are
coming to hand of a second flood iu
Hampshire county, Mass., caused by
the giving away of tho reservoir of
a factory at the village of Middle
field. The Union gives the follow
ing particulars in its noon edition :
The reservoir was Bituated on Mid
dlefield brook, which empties into the
west branch of tho Westfield river at
Middleford switch. It covered nearly
one hundred acres, and was built
about thirty years ago. The reser
voir was used for the storage of wa
ter for the Church Brothers, who
were running two broadcloth mills,
William Blush's felloe, thill and Btave
factory, and for a mill owned by Oli
ver Blush and iormerly used as a
wooh3n mill, but lately as a grist mill.
These were all tha mills situated on
the Middlefield branch below the res
ervoir. Between Middiefiejd switch
and Chester, there ia upon the west
branch of Westfield river into which
serious damage. Ihe water swept
over fiirms, gardeus and woods, aud
several house were tiKjwd sumo dis
tance. The heavioot Ium.t at Ches
ter is Dr. Ilewans Lucius, who esti
mates his loss at ten thousand dol
lars by the partial sweeping away of
his emery mill. The wa'er went
through tho lower story, carrying off
about 3,000 worth of emery. The
water also did considerable damage
to the Hanum Edge Tool Company.
The water power of this company is
entirely destroyed. The Lucius Farm
of fifty acres, was badly damaged;
also a large farm of Newton Cowles.
Nearly all of the valley residents in
tho vicinity of Chester have suffered
more or less by damage to farms and
gardens. . Bradford Palmer's barn
and Samuel Otis' shoe shop were
moved some distance, and William
Fay & Son's furniture warehouse WB3
badly flooded. ' An ont-building wa3
undermined and turned partly around.
High water continued at Chester
for about an hour. The town of
Chester suffers heavily in loss of
bridges and damage to roads. Four
bridges were carried off, and to re
place the bridges will cost about ten
thousand dollars, besides several
thousand dollars to repair the roads.
The Boston & Albany Railroad is
very badly damaged for a distance of
nearly twenty miles. Every bridge
between Middlefield and Huntington
is wholly or partly destroyed. The
road bed is also washed out in many
places, and travel between this city
and Albany will be suspended for
several days. The wires are still
down beyond Chester, and no defi
nite information has been ieceived as
to the loss of life at Blush Hollow,
which, it is now thought, must have
been considerable.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Springfield, July 13. A special
dispatch to the Union, from Chester,
gives the following additional partic
ulars of the flood: About twelve
yer.rs ago a second reservoir was
built about three miles further up the
stream, by the Church Brothers.
This was smaller than the lower one,
and covered from fifty to sixty acres.
The upper reservoir broke away first,
and swept over the lower reservoir
with an immense volume of water,
making a break of about four rods in
the Highway dam of the lower res
ervoir. The upper reservoir was
'juilt of earth, and the whole dam
suddenly gave way. Harry Meach
am was at the reservoir at the time,
and made haste to warn the people
at Blush Hollow. His warning, and
the fact that but part of the lower
reservoir dam gave way, prevented
the loss of life and also very much
lessened tho damage done. The Bos
ton and Albany Railroad Company
suffers heavily at Middlefield switch,
the long two-arched 6tone bridge, un
der which the Middlcton brook and
turnpike run, wa3 swept away and
also a considerable length of tracks,
amounting in all to about two hun
dred feet. It will cost about one
hundred thousand dollars to repair
this break, and will require a consid
erable time. Between Middlefield
switch and Chester depot," there are
eight railroad bridges, five of which
are either unharmed or but slightly
damaged. Two of these are of stone,
costing each $75,000. Of the three
bridges which are so badly damaged
as to need to be entirely rebuilt, one
is a stone bridge, costing $40,000.
The two others are those next west
of Chester, one of which was to have
been replaced this fall by an iron
bridge. The los3 on these bridges is
about fifteen thousand dollars each.
The bridge next east of Chester
station, which is soon to be replaced
by an iron structure, is"damaged by
the loss of one of the abutments, but
it will be repaired by noon, so that
tho trains can run between Springfield
and Chester. The track is washed
out in many places west of Chester,
but little or no damage of any amount
is reported west of Middlefield switch,
Work will bo prosecuted on the
bridge as fast as possible, but the
Superintendent says it will be several
days beforo the road will be passable.
It will probably cost ?li0,000 to re
build the bridges and repair the road,
while the loss bv the interruption of
business will be very heavy, particu
larly as this is the week of tho col
lege races at Saratoga. The mills of
Church Bros, are standing, but U is
reported that their new mill ispanly
undermined. The wool-house and
barn belonging to them were carried
away, with their contents, among
which were several valuable car
riages. Oliver Blush's old woolen
mill and William Blush s barn were
also-carried away. The barn con
tained a new $400 carriage. Several
other barn and outbuildings were
carried away, and three or four
houses are reported destroyed or bad
ly damaged. The highway between
Blush Hollow and Aliddlelield was
entirely obliterated, and six bridges,
two of then private ones, and four
belonging to the-town, were carried
away. It is not known at this time
that anv lives were lost, but several
narrow escapes from drowning oc
curred. 1 hree or four persons are
reported missing, but it is hardly
probable that they are drowned.
THIRD DISPATCH.
SrRiN'GFiELD, July 13. At Mid
dlefield switch two unoccupied housss,
one of them new, owned by West, j
Bulklcy & Co., paper manufacturers,
were swept away, and also an old
red house used a3 a pay office when
the railroad was building. Several
barns and out buildings were ajso
carried off at the switch, and farms
and gardens were badly damaged.
The woolen . mill midway between
Middlefieid and Chester, owned by
John West Jr., of Pittslield was not
injured, but both ends of his wooden
dam and the head of his race
way were destroyed. A tenement
house, occupied by the family of Leon
Jauzaux, was swept away. He was
absent, and bis wife and mother-in-law
and four children were, with con
siderable difficulty, persuaded to
leavo the house just before it went
off. '
The Village of Chester owes its
escape from an almost entire destruc
iton, to tho fact of there being so
many stone-arch bridges above that
place, by which the flood was stayed
for a time, accumulating in little
ponds to be let down in instalments
on the village below. A second cause
was the ' wHth'of.the valley a mile
above the village, where the waters
spread out somewhat, as they did in
the Mill river floods on the Florence
meadows.-
A JIuntington there was but lit
tle damage done) -je flood having
mostly spent its force before it reach
ed there. Some of the farms were
flooded, and lhe water broke over
the bulkhead of the Highland Manu
facturing Companie's mills, swept
through the lower story and did
some damage to the finished goods
stored there.
At Westfield, the next town below
Huntington, the island and some low
lands were flooded, but great
harm was done.
The total amount of d image to in
dividuals and to the town of Cheater,
is estimated at twenty-five thousand '
dallars. The latest figure! indientej
that the total loss will n-.u-h three;
hundred and fifty tbousauJ d Il;ir.-. j
Attempt to AftAinate Bivmarek.
Kissexge.v, July 13. As Prince
Bismarck was driving in the country
towards the Saline Springs, at noon,
to-day, he was fired at by a young
man. Tho ball grazed "his wrist
The wound is insignificant. The
would-be assassin was promptly ar
rested, ne Las not been -identified.
At 1:30 p. M. Prince Bismarck drove
through Kisscngen and showed him
self to the people. The populace
were with great difficulty prevented
from lynching the man after his ar
rest Berlix, July 13. The idemnity
of the would-be assassin of Prince
Bismarek has been established. His
name is Knllman. He belongs to
Magdeburg, and is a cooper by trado.
He is a member of a Catholic jour
neymen's society of that city, and has
been observed of late freouentlv in
the company of a Catholic priest
New Advertisement.
Have now opened
A Large and Complete Assortment o
(ioodg for
Fall and Winter Wear.
Tbey have a complete assortment ol
Xjndics' Furs,
Drewt CmmhIn,
Felt Skirts
If oop Skirts,
Bustles,
Gloves,
Shoes.
Cum Sandals,
And Felt Over Shoes.
MEX AND BOYS'
Clothin
Boots and Shoes,
HATS AND CAPS,
GLOVES, ScC
Underclothing for Men and Y'omen
A large assortment ot
HARDWARE
QUEENSWARE,
Carpets, Oil Cloths, &e.
A large itock ot fine ami i-oarso
SALT
IXy the Karrel or Sack
Prices as Low as Possib'e.
C. & G. IIOLDERB AIDI,
Somerset, Pa.
Oct. 80.
ill, FOLLANSBEE & CO,
Merchant Tailors,
Autl ManufiU'turcM t
Gent's, Youth's and Boys,
MiaUe Clotttf and
FmisM:
121 Wood Street, corner Fifth Avenne,
PITTSBURGH.
aprl.
's Corsat Siirt SnBuerter.
For Health, Comiort ami Style,
is acknowledged the Uest Arti
cle of the kinil ever mails. Nn
merons Testimonials in its fa
Tor are hcinir receive! frwm all
r5iSir,iI i""3 o i"e k. nueti aiaies.
13. . iM LADT AOESTS WASTED.
FOT A IIARHOV,
Sole Manufacturers,
New Haven, Conn.
ARNOLD U AN NINO.
New York Asrcnts.
WEAVING.
1 am prepared to weave
Single and Double Coverlets,
BALMORALS. SKIRTS. TAKLKPT.OTHS
TOWELS. BLANKETS. Ac. Persons harinic
any kind of wearing to be done are invited tn mil
and examine niy work. Woolen and flax yarn
taken In exchange for work or irnods.
julyli New Lexington, Fa.
jESSEHrsTra, J. A. Ems, J. H. McKkoivx,
President. Sec. Trsaa. Vice Pres.
"yESTMORELAND MUTUAL
LITE STOCK INSURANCE CO.,
OF GREENS BURG, PA.
L1T8 Stxi Insured Against ftalii ana TMt.
OFFICE Weat Pittsburgh street,
GHEENSUUKa, PA.
Agents wanted in all adjoining counties,
julylo
LLEOHEY CITY STAIR BUILDING &
WOOD TURNING SHOP.
Newels, Balusters. Hand Rail, with joints cut
and bolted ready to hang, fumi-hed on short h
tico. WM. PEOPLES, Oor. Webster street and
Uraham alley. julyli
Wmm
Maflame Fov
julyia
HOPPM SEMINARY
FOR YOCtftf IPIFS, "
noUldaysburg,l?a.
Rev. JOSEPH WAUGIl'
jnlyli
AV w Ad errt i.e menti
iioriaiinolMiflEj,
JUST PUBLISHED,
Essays on Chronic Diseases,!
Dr. J. W. SYKES,
FOU J YEARS EXCLUSIVE PRACTITIOX
EH IN CHRONIC MSEASES, AND
FOR IS YEARS LOCATED AT
191 Penn Street,
Pitisburqh - - Pa.
Price, (by mail.) 10 rriit. Add rcss
l'R. J. W. SYKES.
Pittsburgh, Pa
ESSAYS Cl CHRONIC DISEASES
A Largo l'ampltlct ef rases.
TABLE ( F CONTESTS.
Oil tho Nature of Cata.nh.
Nasal Catarrh.
Chronic Sore Threat if.;tr !ip;is.)
Bronchial Affections.
Treatment cf Catarrhs.
Curability of Catarrh.
Tubercular Consumption.
Nature of Consumption.
Curability of Consumption.
Treatment of Consumption.
Asthma, or Phthisic.
Curability of Asthma.
TJeart Diseases.
Dyspeptic Disordei'3.
Diseases of the Liver.
Diseases of the Eowcls.
Urinary Disorders.
Female Complaints.
Scrofula and Skin Diseases.
Invalids desirina: truthful inf. rmali. n ewern
inx t lie atMtve, and otln-r C-lirv-ui Attcflii'ttS,
should send tor thus twk, and
Waste No More Time
on Patent MHi'h.'', r Inh.i!:ttin. (r 'Water
lK.t':r.V or uu any punia 1 --r iaiMii'-ii-nt tn.MtiianL.
II :I EMBEE,
that while Ton are "trv'n-.:" ? no "Cro'.Jt n Dis
covery" or 'Lung Cure,'' or treatment based on
iu halations.
YOU ARE M8 YOUR TIME OF CCEABI
in,
rr
Mode of Treatment
is the fruit of over twenty ye.in of exclusive at
tention to Cliroiiio akcuiious, and an experience
embracing ninny thousands of cases, and lias been
blessed lu the recovery ot numirens who were
deemed past hope. It consists in selecting for
each case the remedial means best adapted to its
euro. His patients have the benttit of every new
discovery and theory of value. His remedial re
sources include medical inhalations lxth of va
por and of atomized tluids, together with tonic,
cleansing anil retfulatinir medicines of unsurpass
ed eiticacy, and hygienic and mechanical rtine-
lies of irreat value.
R ESVL T S
tif
Dr. Sykes' Moda of Treatment.
( ase cf S. If. Mlirr,IV.,
or Lrcionin, Ohio, Sifk Fifteen Year,
Dixense of Luii n:ul Heart. I're
qnent Hemorrhage, Ac.
Lkkton'a, Olii", December 2, K .
Dr. J. W. Sykks Dear t-ir: I reel it my duly
to make a lust acknowlo-lirMicnt to y-u of the Umi-
eht 1 received of your treatment lnm April lu
September, ltw'J. vv nan I resorted to you i nau
but little hoi of a recovery, as I had hemorrhage
ol the lui)"S almost daily during twenty-two
mouths previous, together with an arI e;ioii ol the
heart, so that I could not lie on my lelt side dur
ing a period of fifteen years. The cough, pain,
and constant oppression of tbe breast made iilo a
harden. Alter takiusr your treatment lor three
months, I telt a decided improvement: the hemor
rhage of tiie lungs had ceased altogether; the op
pression of the breast, couh, &c, were tnueii bet
ter, with a decided improvement of my general
health: so that 1 commenced the second course of
three months' treatment with mure h'i. After
coniinumg the treatment (ai:oether live inonths)
I felt myself entirely well, could lie on cither side
and breathe freely. Yet I could hardly believe
the cure a permanent one. But now. 10 mouths
have passed, and no reeurreuee of hemorrhinres,
or cou'h, and I have retained my former weight
9 that 1 now feel thanklul to (rod and to you tor
your invaluable treatment in my case, and shall
not eease to recommend others similarly ailiicted
to your treatment.
Yours respectruHv.
.s. h. sul;:il
Home I'slimalion of Dr. Sykcx
Amonirothers received bv us. w tae p.easnre
in transurring to our coluuis the loilowiiii testi
monials from the editors of the ftttsburxu LAti
daa iliroraeand Lnitei Prtibjterian:
riTTsaumiH, May 11, 1-6T.
Pullithcr BrliyiQsi Telescope:
Dkab nsoTiiisa: I take pleasure in s'atir.g. for !
Touriulormation, mat ir. J . w . rVKOs. :'. trus
city, is a reliable and skillful medical practitioner
and justly distinguished in his speeialty ihe
treatment of tho lungs. He will not dishonor anj
words of commendation you may make in ids in
terest In the Keltijioui Telescope.
iio.-peetfullv.
S. 11. NKSUir,
Editor rittshar'h Cfirisliat Advocate.
OJlceo lhe VsiTnn Pkeriiytkria.i, )
Xo. ' Tmnn Strekt,
FiTTSBi u'oii, .May 3), l.oT. )
tdilort Rcliyiout Teletcope Oestlewks:
Dr. J. W. Sykes having; applied toni for a letter
of recommendation, we take pleasure in staling
that he has the reputation here ol being at ihe
head of the medical school in tiie treatment of the
luniis and other kindred diseases. And further,
we are stratified at beiir able to siy that he is a
Christian irentleman, and in every way worthy of
any commendation that you may icive him iu your
influential au 1 widely circulated paper.
With much respect, we are
Vourotiedient servants.
D. li. KKKK fcCO.,
Editort end Troprie'ort Lniled I'rctl'jterian.
ORDINANCE.
At a meeting of the Council of Dcrlin Njr.ush,
the following ordinance was by resolution revived:
onntsAJCE x. 8.
He It ordained hy the RurcreM and Town Coun
cil of the borough of Kerlin that an annual tax
of one dnllartle imposed on the owner of each and
every doe Kept witnin said nurousrit, which shall
bo collected oy warrant from the owner iu the '
usual way with other taxes, for tho use of said i
boro3h, pro ided, however, that if the owner of
any do sliaO on or Dehne the iac rty of J xiijury,
in any subsei.nent yea pay to the- treasurer loo
doa: lax, shall be entitled to a deduction f '4 lJ
firotnpt payment, and ench tax shall beomitted
n tho making out of tho annual list to the col
lector. JAC. J. ZORX.
julyS liurxes.
Ad,;rl;
US ' -
1 1 , :.
AWARDED
Tlis "Medal cf Pr:
AT VIEX.YA, is
T!ieHii?l:est Opler of Medal" i)r..
Eipo!!l..n.
Va Si icir.g Machine Rceeivi i
A FEW GOOD BrASo.1t
I--A New Invention ihor.u .
cured by Letters fatent.
2. -Makes a perfect Ix k S i: h .
9i(lcsf, on allkio.uoi iro,vij. ' '
3. kuns light, smooth, n. ise!. .
best c..iii,.ii)i!;io of tiialiti s.
. d.il ,-.( vjiicti' of Wr
S:i'c.' i' i : Mtierir manner. '
0. I " .(! e!dijr manage,! hrt:,
Lemr'i. oi vi:.'h niay te alterci
and u M t o threaded wi ll,
thread i l.r. r.h hol-s.
. i'. -'l simnle. fmrrrilon !......
the st: i-'.i w i V ut the us" ofci'wu..
lary c.i::- r b-ver arms. H is the Air. -.
eed. insures u:ii!rin h-nirth
any siiev.i. Uns our nrw T'ir..-..: t
allows easy movement of needle bjr ai
ururv io:::reai.
&. t'oilSTrilelion m!lt PlPllnl nrwl .
is Rl:ltm!;l tunil bv th. ..... L-. ; t o. ! '
eiu-ed mechanics, at the celebrated Ketr
New Firn
SHOE STOEI
SfJYDER & UK
Having purchased the i
Store lately owned bj
II. V. lleerits
Yv'e take pleasure In calllnir the miir.-;
public to the fact that we have now ue ; .
keep constantly on h.-.nd as complete t
nieut of
Boots, Shoes
and Gaite
BOTH OF
Eastern and
Koma Manufa:
as can !c found anywhere. V.'e also w;
hand coiisiantly a full supply of
POLE LEATHER,
MOROCCO,
CALF SKIX.
AND LINING SKINS
Of all kinds, with a full line "f
Shoe Findings.
The HOME 5fATrtlTI Bf t,rs
M EX T will be in charge of "
!iN". 13. Snyder, Es
Whose reputation Tor making
Cood Work and Good Fits '
Is second to none in tho State. The pnHi'
spect fully invited to call and examine our
as we are determined to keep goods as ir..l ,.
best and sell at prices as low as the lowest.
SNYDER & UHJ
dec-24
ADAMS'
Pound Butter Case
iff
Supplied by C. i. fr. Holdrrhanro. KnaM'. i
ton fi Co.. A. J. tJascbeer K Co., Somerset V.
yi. lloldcrbanin f reosmtv.
O. A. JULLEE, DIPPY a '.
i'hiiadclpi.i
Cook & Beerits'
FAMILY GBOGEE
Flour and Feed
STORE.
We wm:M most T-ntthv ir,f. t.i i
friends and the publ ic sreneralfv, in the town i
vicinity of Somerset, that wo fiave opened
1 1 jSiStoro on
MAIX CROSS STREET.
An I in addition to Q full line of the twjt
CoiifecUonerleK, .otloii
Tcbaceo, Cigar, tt.
We will endeavor, at all times, to fupply our "."
turners with tiie
BEST QUALITY Of-
FAMILY FLOUB?
CORX-MEAL,
OATS7 SHELLED COKy,
OA TS d- CORN CHOP,
IWAX, MIDDLINGS
And everything pcrtainltiini to the Feed Vtf
nicnt, at the
LOWEST POSSIBLE PBICR
FOR
CASH ONLT
Also, a well selected stock of
Glassware: S'.onewaro. Woodcnware, Brush '
al kinds, and
STATIONERY
; - . . '
! Which wo will sell as cheap as the cheape
! Please call, examine our poo.13 of all Wad M
; he satisfied from your own judgment. . '
Don't foriret where we stay
On M A m-CKliSS Street, Somerset. P.
Oct. X ISTi
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