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GUBBBNT COMMENT.Ex-Capta- in Aldkich of the Chicago

police' has been indicted for exactinga bribe from a saloonkeeper.

The Cunard Steamship Companyand the Oceanic Steam NavigationCompany have secured the contractsto carry the outward mails from GreatBritain.

The Postmaster-Genera- l has sentcirculars to about 100 post-offic- es toget statistics of Sunday work with aview to reducing such work if pos-sible.

i .All the arrangements havo been

completed by Governor Warren, ofWyoming, for the election July 8 ofdelegates to the constitutional conven-tion to be held September 2. This willbe the first step toward seeking ad-mission.

Assistant Secretary TicnENor hasreceived a petition from delegates tothe wool growers' convention, askingthe President to call an extra sessionof Congress to consider tariff legisla-tion with special reference to woolenproducts.

A fierce gale raged on the lakes onthe night of the 30th the wind reach-ing a velocity of forty miles an hour atChicago, forty-tw- o at Milwaukee andthirty-eig- ht at Green Bay. Muchdamage was done to shipping, but nolives were lost.

Counsel for Kemmler, the con-demned murderer, of Buffalo, N. Y.,will appeal on habeas corpus proceed-ings for a review of the verdict, onthe ground that death by eiectricity isa cruel and unusual punishment, andtherefore unconstitutional.

Judge Sullivan, of San Francisco,in an order in the Sharon case, re-fusing to recognize Judge Sawyer'sInjunction, holds that the United StatesCircuit Court is not superior to theState court and that it has no powerto annul the decree of a State court.

It has been officially announced onthe New York Stock Exchange that nomore quotations will be distributed bytock indicators or tickers. Quota-

tions will be gathered on the floor, butmembers will have to furnish them tocustomers by memorandum, as informer times.

The Official Messenger says that atA dinner given in Peterhof recentlyin honor of the Princess of Montene-gro, who has been betrothed to theGrand Duke Peter, the Czar offered atoast to the ruler of Montenegro,whom he declared to be the sole sin-cere and faithful friend of Russia.

Admiral Gerjiardt, who has re-turned to Washington from Hayti, re-ports to the Navy Department thathe docs not think there is any truth inthe rumor of a treaty between Franceand Legitime, though he thinks itprobable that Legitime's representa-tive in Paris has proposed such atreaty.

A telegram from Mount Auburn,Iowa, gives brief particulars of aWhitecap outrage near there in whicha number of persons were fatally in-jured. The victim was a farmer andhis barn was burned down. Beingdriven out by the flames he defendedhimself with a pitchfork, woundingseveral Whitecaps.

Lord Salisbury, replying to a depu-tation in favor ofabi-metall- ic standardof currency, said ho did not think aparliamentary decree would settle thequestion but the opinion of the people,founded on business-interests- , must de-cide it. He hoped that tho comingcongress at Paris would be really anInternational one. The final decisionwould depend on how far tho nationswould te.

Instructions have been issued by theCanadian Department of Railways and

anals for the opening of all the St.Lawrence canals from midnight Satur-days until six p. m. Sundays. Thisorder is the outcome of tho strongrepresentations of Canadian forwardersthat by closing all the canals all dayon Sunday they were discriminatedagainst and that traffic was divertedto the Erie canal which otherwisewould take tho St. Lawrence route.

Alexander McKay, general freightagent of the Michigan Central rail-road. Local Freight Agent Nicholsand Contracting Freight Agent W. P.Griswold, of the same line, and E. L.Somers, agent of the Blue Line, whowere a few days ago indicted by theFederal grand jury for violation of theInter-Stat-e law, have given bonds atChicago forf1,000 each. A. W. Street,formerly assistant freight agent of theMichigan Central, who was also in-dicted, did not appear.

A the annual meeting of the Liv-erpool (England) Gas Fittings Com-pany it Was stated --that the companywas about to try the experiment ofusing an automatic gas meter. It wasan apparatus of recent invention andhad been successfully tried in Biivjningham. The consumer, by putting apenny in a slit iahe apparatus, couldobtain a supp-o- f twenty-fiv- e, cubicfeet of gas, and it was expected thatfor small tenement, holders this ar-rangement would prove -- both conven-ient and economical .. ',.--.

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Olaansd by Tategrsph and IfaQ.

rasoKjUi akd rouncAi.Tme President baa made the following

appointments: George B. Fitker, of Del-aware, to be foartb auditor of the treas-ury; J. N. Patterson, of New Hampshire,to be second aaditor of the treasunr.

Tie first coaacil with the Sioux Indianaof Dakota waa held at the Rosebud agencyoa the 3d. Ex-Gover- Foster spoke oabehalf of the commission. The coaacilwas expected to last a long time.

Justice Gbay. of the United StatesSupreme Court and Miss Jeannette Mat-thews, daughter of the late Justice Mat-thews, were married at Washington oathe 4th. A large number of distinguishedguests witnessed the oeremony.

The first election by ballot at Guthrie,I. T., occurred on the 4th. D. B. Dyerwas elected mayor over A. V. Alexanderby about 400 majority. The number ofvotes registered was 2,346.

Johw A. Rcxvs has been appointed spe-cial inspector of customs at the port ofChicago.

J. D. Gamble, of Knoxville, has beenelected grand master of the Iowa Masons.

Hon. Hamilton Gray. Supreme Justiceof British Columbia, is dead.

The President has appointed EmmaClayton, daughter of Colonel Clayton, as-sassinated in Arkansas last winter, post-mistress at Pine Bluff, Ark,

The President is reported as saying thatwhile be was opposed to an extra sessionbe thought the sentiment of the partyleaders was so strongly in its favor thathe might find it advisable to yield to thatopinion and call a session in October.

D. H. Goodall, Republican, has beenelected Governor of New Hampshire bythe joint assembly, no candidate havingreceived a majority in the popular elec-tion.

The resignation of John H. Oberly,Commissioner of Indian Affairs, will takeCUOLfc IIU1J J. I

The gold medal prize in the Italian class Iof the Chicago Musical College has been Iawaraeu 10 .airs, n ina v an aauai, wiaowof the Anarchist August Spies.

The President has made the followingappointments: Charles Price, of SouthCarolina, to be United States Attorneyfor the Western district of North Carolina;H. C Niles, of Mississippi, to be UnitedStates Attorney for the Northern districtof Mississippi; John Vignaux, of Louis-iana, to be United States Marshal for theWestern district of Louisiana.

The Commercial-Advertis- er says a dealis being arranged between the CountyDemocrats and the Republicans with aview of increasing the strength of theRepublicans in the Legislature andousting Tammany from control of NewYork.

The official text of the terms agreedupon by the Samoan conference havebeen anttonnced at Berlin. The island isto have an independent government,Malietao is to be recognised as King, sub-ject to an election by the the people, andthe United States is ceded the right to es-tablish a port at Pago Pago.

The International Indian Council atPnrcelL L T., adjourned on the 6th after afour days session. Considerable indiffer-ence was manifested, the convention beingentirely ignored by the Seminoles, Choc-ta- ws

and Chickasaws.

lOSGEEXAKEOTJB.Governor Ross, of New Mexico, has

returned from a very encouraging visit tcold Mexico in the interest of quarantintagainst pleuro-pneumon- ia cattle fromEurope.

The general freight agents of theNorthwestern division of the WesternFreight Association have succeeded inrestoring peace. The rupture was causedby a cut of the "Soo" line.

The movement to unite the variousbranches of railway employes progressedso far at Chicago as to combine the fire-men, brakemen and switchmen into onoconfederation.

All the coal mines about Braidwood,III., have been closed indefinitely and thestriking miners are out of work for good.

Doherty & Wadsworth's silk mills atPaterson, N. J., were destroyed by fire theother night. Loss, $75,000.

The Rock Island annual report shows adeficit of $974,234.2-2- .

Missionary letters say that the Mabdistshave made Western Abyssinia a desert.Thousands of Christians have been throwninto slavery and thousands of others havebeen butchered.

The New York Sun says that A. SwanBrown, a merchant well known in the drygoods trade, has gone to London to at-tempt to arrange a syndicate for the pur-chase of the leading retail dry goodsstores of New York and other leading-America-

cities. The plan is similar tothat on which the breweries are beingconsolidated.

The damage about Harrisburg, Va bythe floods was estimated to be over $500- ,-000.

A messenger from Phillipsburg, CenterCounty, Pa., brought news to Philadel-phia on the 5th that the flood had inflictedterrible destitution, 330 lives being lost.

Winners at the St. Louis races on the5th were St Leger, Hindoocrafr, TerraCotta. Homain, Stoney and Montgomery.

Sixty buildings, mostly the houses ofcolored people, burned at Jacksonville,Fla., the other morning. Loss, $230,000;insurance light.

BunniLLjtho operator at Silver City,eighteen miles from Helena, Mont, waskilled, and F. C Frost, the Montana Cen-tral agent, probably fatally wounded byrobbers the other night A posse overtookthe robbers next day. They refused tosurrender and fired upon the posse. Thefire was returned and both robbers werekilled.

There was a severe storm in the Gulfof St Lawrence on the night of the 4tb.Several schooners and one steamer atleast were ashore.

Considerable money has been raisedin England for the relief of the Johnstownsufferers.

Donovan won the English Derby. Miguelran second, and Eldorado third.

Section Foreman Smith was killed andtwo of bis hands fatally injured nearAlbuquerque, N. M., recently by beingstruck by a work train.

The Municipal Council of Dnblia hasadopted resolutions of sympathy for theJohnstown flood sufferers.

The Idaho gold mine at Grass Valley,CaL, has been seat down to smother firswhich broke oat recently. Three menlost their lives, j

The Solicitor of the Treasury has de-cided that under the Aiiea Contract Laborlaw foreign professors cast-n-ot be permitted to take positions in Americaa institu-tions. The case came up oa the questionwhether the Roman Catholic Universityat Washington could secure professorsabroad.- The Municipal Coaacil of Paris. France.has dor.ad$,100 francs to the Johastowasufferers. L

AT tho meeting of the National BrewersAssociation at Niagara Falls a resolatioato contribute $10,000 to tho Johastowa Bat-terers was passed unanimously.

Navigation in Chesapeake bay waa re-ported badly obstructed by the immensequantity of logs and lumber and otherdrift material through which vessels canpass only after great delay and with ex-treme care. At night navigation is notpracticable. Several steamers belongingto bay and river lines were compelled toabandon their trips.

Air earthquake was felt in Tennessee aathe evening of the 5th.

Eighteen miners at Essen, Germany,who were recently on a strike have beeasentenced to imprisonment for termsranging from one to six months for riot-ing.

Herb Sikoel. the editor of the Vater-lan-d,a clerical paper of Munich, has beea

sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment forlibelling the late Dowager Queen of Ba-varia.

Sixtt spinners, 200 assistants and othershave resumed work in the Clark "O. N. T."mills at Kearney, N. J., and the twomonths' strike is at an end.

At the Iowa State convention of theIowa Irish National League, Hon. J. A.Farren, in a speech, said that when theCronin murder had been sifted to the bot-tom it would be found that it was done byan Irishman paid by English gold.

The National white lead trust has suc-ceeded in purchasing the plant of theCollier and the Southern White Lead com-panies for $4,500,000. This is a great vic-tory for the Standard Oil people, as theynow control absolutely the output ofwhite lead in America.

A T the meeting ot the American HomeMissionary Society at Saratoga, N. Y., itwas decided to admit the Southern whitechurches to fellowship. The S6,000 ap-propriation was restored.

A notorious negro horse --thief namedWalker was corralled recently thirty mileswest of Paul's Valley in the ChickasawNation. In attempting his capture Deputy Marshal Williams was killed. Walkerwas immediately shot dead by the othermarshals.

A most disheartening feature at Johns-town was the registration of the survivorsof the disastrous flood. On the 6:h onlysome 18,000 persons had registered out ofa total population of the valley number-ing 43.000. The very worst estimates ofthe loss of life seemed to be confirmed.

Quite a number of relics of the Johns-town disaster have been found near Ports-mouth, O.

The Kurds still continue uncheckedtheir horrible barbarities in Armenia.Almost daily reports come of the roastingand outraging of victims.

The switchmen, brakemen and firemenhave formed a federation under the nameof United Order of Railway Employes.

An Indian runner has arrived at FortPierre, Dak., direct from Rosebud agencywith word that the Indians at the agencyhad commenced to sign the treaty, andthat the commission would get them alL

The St James Hotel at Stevens Point;Wis., was burned the other night, involv-ing the loss of three of the employes twogirls and the clerk.

The cotton mills in Offenburg, Baden,were destroyed by fire the other day. in-volving a loss of 300.000 marks. Severalworkmen were killed.

Disastrous floods are reported fromdifferent parts of Bavaria with considera-ble destruction of property. The crops areruined in many sections.

The dock laborers at many ports inGrtat Britain have joined the strike ofthe steamship firemen and seamen.

In the graduating class of the AnnapolisNaval Academy Robert Hocker, of Min-nesota, was first; Creighton Churchill, otMisouri, nineteenth; Herbert L Draper,of Kansas, twenty-sevent- h; Samuel P.Elmunds, of Missouri, thirtieth, andJames G. Ballinger, of Kansas, thirty-sixt- h.

A disastrous conflagration wiped outthe business portion of Seattle, Wash. T.,on the 6th, causing a loss of J3.000.000.The chief causes of the extensive damagewere the breaking down of the fire de-partment and a stiff breeta which prevailed at tho time.

ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.CleahI.no house returns lor the week

jaded June 8 showed an average increaseat 28.1 compared with the corresponding Iweek of last year. In New York the in-crease was 40.5.

It is reported in St Petersburg thatduring the Shah's visit there a secrettieaty was made between Russia andPersia for the temporary annexation ofNorthern Persia to Russia in certaincases. J

The statue of Bruno was unvailed inRome on the 9th with imposing cere-monies. Ddputy Bovio eulogized thememory of the martyr. t

Leonard Swett. the well-kno- Chi-'-a- golawyer, died suddenly on the after-

noon of the 8tb. jThe eight-ho- ur committee ot the Trade

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and Labor Assembly of Chicago has de-cided to make the short workday demon-stration on the Fourth of July.

Colonel John D. Miles has declinedbis appointment as one of the CherokeeCommissioners.

It is estimated that 400 natives werekilled in the recent fight at Saadani, nearZanzibar. The bulk of the property de-stroyed belonged to British East Indiana

John D. Hyer, of Pennsylvania!!, hasbeen promoted to be a principal examinerin the Pension Office. Vice John A. Golds--boro resigned.

Chief Engineer Arthur denies the accuracy of the report that he bad declarednet be would never approve another

strike. It is said if the engineers' demand for short runs and hours is notacceded to a strike general in New En-gland will result

John Crane, a workman in the slaugh-ter bouse at 610 West Fortieth street NewYork, fell down an elevator shaft recentlyand was killed. His wife Minnie, on hear-ing of his death, jumped from a windowof her room in the third story of the tene-ment at 419 Tenth avenue, and was fatal-ly injured.

Jacko Walker, a local boatman, withFrank Davies, a friend, were out on theriver some distance above the Niagarafalls, when they lost control of the boatand it was swept over the falls. Thebodies of the men were not recovered.

IT is stated on good authority that Gay-lor- dBeach, general manager ot the Bee

Line, has resigned and V. T. Malott receiver of the Chicago & Atlantic, has appointed; him general manager of that line.

A storm swept through Arkansas City.Ark, oa the night of the 8:h. KateWalton, aged fifteen, aad her sister agednine, were killed and their mother aadanother one of the family seriously In- - ,jared.

Margaret Carroll, aired twenty-tw- o.Maria Thomas, azed thirtv-'oa- e aadMaggie Thomas, aged two years, werefrowned ia the Mononcabela river, Pitte- -oargb. Pa A 1A B K Tie cd.L'i..,..- - :tt - -,-.".. .h.lraicated. were crossing' the river ia atiS, which was.upisfc . -

NEBRASKA STATE NEWS.IT has developed that Jim Raiaey, who

ia serving a ssateace ia the county jail atNebraska City for wholesale stealing, isinnocent, aad that he is serving tor aguilty brother, rather than let his parentsknow he bad been arrested. He had justarrived ia the city oa a visit the night be-fore his arrest, aad had never been therebefore.

About five o'clock the other morningHecht's packing house at Kearney waadestroyed by fire. It had been completedless than six months. The building aadmachinery cost about 525,000; insured for$15,000. There waa also $20,000 insuranceoa the contents, which more tnaa coveredthe amount consumed.

A committee of vigilantes from KnoxCounty arrested six men twelve mileseast of O'Neill the othsr morning and tookthem to Knox County on a charge ofhorse-stealin- g. The parties arrested arewell known in O'Neill.

J. D. Smith, a farmer living three milesnorth of Springfield, went into his barnwith a lighted coal oil lantern the othernight, which exploded, setting the barnon fire, and while he was attempting toget bis horses out he was overcome withsmoke and heat fell end perishedwithin a foot of the door, right before theeyes of bis wife and children, who wereunable to render him any aid. The barn,four horses, harness and a small amountof grain were totally destroyed.

The elevator owned by Gay lord & Jonesat Blair burned recently. There werethree thousand bushels of small grain inthe elevator and some chopped feed. Totalloss, $8,000; insurance, $4,000.

Presley Bishop, a well-to-d- o farmerliving near Yutan, was recent I v taken be-fore the board of insanity at Wahoo, de-clared insane and taken to the asvlum.His mania was for buying horses. Heried to buy every team be saw, and bar-

gained for nearly a hundred hordes theday he was arrested. A few days previous he went to Omaha and bought a car-load of horses and paid $200 on them tobind the bargain. This is the third timehe has been sent to the asylum.

The semi-annu- al apportionment of theschool fund has been made by Superin-tendent Lane. There ai e in the State 316.-6- 05

school children and the total amountof the fund apportioned is $317,619.26. or afraction over one dollar to each child.

Christ H. Halstrum. a prominent youngSwede and influential citizen of York,committed suicide the other morning witha revolver. He was considerably in debtand had appropriated money belonging toinsurance and loan companies. In a let-ter written to his brother-in-la-w he saidhe preferred death to the penitentiary.He leaves a young wife and two smallchildren.

The Bank of Omaha closed its doors andannounced that it was insolvent on theafternoon of the 6th. The immediatecause of the failure was the presentationof a check for $800 by Sloan & Johnson, awholesale grocery firm, who had extensivedeposits there. The concern had beenknown to be on the eve of bankruptcy forsome time.

Dr. M. W. Stone, of Wahoo, has beenappointed superintendent of the insaneasylum at Hastings.

A peculiar accident happened to theten-year-- son of Thomas Jones, liviugat Spring Kancb, the other day. He and

j a playmate were p'aying mumble-pe- g,j when the knife hit him in the eye, pullingit out

Ed Gardiner, about twenty --one yearsof age, brakeman on the R & M. M. rail-road, was instantly killed the other morn-ing at Smvrna, a small station six milesnorth of NeUoa. He had uncoupled theengine from the train while the train wasbacking, and, it is supposed.-nttempte- d tojump on the tender and fjil under thebrake beam.

Frank Abbott, who was arrested forstealing cows at St. Paul a few weeksago, was sentenced by Judge Harrison totwo years in the penitentiary. The pris-oner is but nineteen and was married onlya few months ago. When the sentencewas pronounced the grief of the youngwife was uncontrolable. She passed fromthe court room and through the streetscrying aloud. As this was not the youngman's first offense little svmnathv wasfelt for him.

Articles of incorporation were recent-ly filed of the Beatrice Paper Company, topurchase machinery, erect buildingsoperate plants and munufac.ure allclasses of paper and paper goods. Cap-ita!. $30,000.

A man named McSbane, living nearPonca, was attacked and badly hurt by asavage stallion the other morning. Hewas leading the horse when he wasknocked down and nearly tramped todeath. His son went to the rescue andthe maddened animal seized bis hand be-tween its teeth and mangled it terribly.He dragged the boy several yards and lit--erally tore one finger from the band.

Five Blair girls, aged from ten to fifteenyears, recently made up their minds tofollow a circus off. They were to startone night on the Lincoln passenger.Only two, Stella Hill and Aga Turner,got off, as the other girls for some reasonuiu nut tubco mo aepoc ine two run-aways were caught at Fremont and takenback next morning.

The farm bouse of E. Shcemaker, twomiles east of Loup City, recently took firefrom a defective flue and was burned tothe ground. The fire was under suchheadway when discovered that nothingwhatever was saved.

Rooan's elevator, at Arcadia, wasburned tho other morning, together withthe content?. Loss about $6,000; insur-ance $2,530. It was clearly the work ofan incendiary.

Arthur Edwards, of Hastings, haspassed the examination, and has been ap-pointed, to the West Point cadetship fromthe Second Congressional district

It is said that hay is so plentiful in Gar-field County that a Burwell man hasfenced in his large garden with bales ofpressed hay, placed side by side.

The new mayor and councilmen ofFriend have closed the saloons and drugstores on Sunday.

Ltons claims the champion wolf hunterin the person ot L. D. Higley. who in threeweeks killed sixty-si- x of the "varmints."The bounty on their scalps will net thehunter $246.

A touno son of William Yonng, livingnear Cortland, was playing with a colt inthe barn, the other evening, when he be-came tangled ia a halter, and frighteningthe colt it began kicking and pounded thechild's. head to a pulp. The colt thea raninto the barnyard, dragging the lifelessbody with him, where It was discoveredby the father.

Tax village election at South 8ioaxCity, for the purpose of granting theElectric Motor Railway Company a fran-chise over all its streets, resulted aaaa-iaaoasl- y,

with the exception of two votes,ia favor of the proposition. .

On the night of May 31 a frost nippedvegetation ia Cass County, bat it wasthought with no serious loss.

A BETTER SHOWING.

BesIatratlonBedaoMthc) SupposedNumber off Johnstown Vkstuns.

Govenor Beaver Onlects to therands Being Csed Vp ta State Work

Thrifty People Loading Vp WithPrevUloaa.

Johnstown, Pa., Jane 10. The work ofregistering the survivors of the flood isgoing steadily on. Up to last eveningthere were about 21,000 registered aad thelist is still increasing. The number of thelost is placed now at 5.000 by those whoheld it would reach 10.000 a week ago. Aconservative estimate ia between 3. 600 and4. COO. Up to date there have been 1,500bodies recovered.

Sunday was thetenth day since the dis-aster in the Coneraaugh valley occurred,and the extent of the fatality can be ap-preciated when it instated that bodies arestill being found wherever men are atwork. One of the morgue directors beingasked: "How many bodies were recoveredyesterday?" replied: "O, not very many;I believe there were about fifty-eig- ht al-together."

The loss of life has been so great thatforty bodies found in one day, even if itwas the tenth, was considered a lightshowing.

The remains tbatfare now being removedare far advanced in decomposition andphysicians in charge are advocating theircremation as fast as found, as is is im-possible to handle them safely.

Of the fifty-eig- ht bodies recovered yes-terday many were identified but notclaimed. Forty of them were buried im-mediately and the undertakers say thatall bodies will be hereafter buried as soonas found. Among those recovered wereCharles Kimple, an undertaker of thiscity. He had a wallet in his pocket containing $3,6'J0. The body of another un-dertaker, John Henderson, of Henderson& Alexander, was also recovered. TheKswtw f Kiln. Kjhi.fr A..A 9 ha hket 'known traveling men in the country, wasfound in the ruins of the Hurlbut House.He was in tho employ of the ReadingStove Company.

RELIEF MATTERS.Johnstown, Pa-- June 10. Governor

Beaver, Colonel Schoon maker, WilliamMcCreery. S. S. Marvin, H. J. Gourley.W. R Ford, J. H. Scott. Thomas M. King;Mr. McCor., , Cantain, W. K. Jones., Adiu- -m itaut-Gener- al Hastings, .Reuben Miller andSheriff McCandless held a consultationyesterday over the situation. The Gov-ernor indulged in a long talk, reviewingthe situation and making many sngges- -tions. and William McCreery, chairman ofthe relief committee, made building, San cloth-statem- ent

and eaid he thraght it waa time the block, Arcadethe were relieved the building and the Vcsler block in Ccntsalwork clearing away the debris by the Sqaare. the telegraph offices wereState.

The Governor said all the necessarymoney could be raised. There were 300men who would become responsible for$5,000 each, and he would give his bend tothe State Treasurer for $1,000,000 withthose 200 men as bondsmen and the StateTreasurer would then pay out the $1,000.-0- 00

for the necessary work. When theLegislature met the money withdrawnfrom the treasury could be appropriated.He said that the money already sub-scribed should be used entirely for the re-lief the sufferers and money fromthe State Treasurer be used for restoringthe vicinity to its condition before theflood. All debts already contractedfor the removal debris should bepaid, but all money paid out for this purpose from the relief fund should be re-funded, so that every cent subscribed lorrelief of the stricken people should beused for that purpose alone. The Gov-ernor has $250,000 in bands now forthe relief fuud. A committee of sevsnwell known men ot the Slate will be ap-pointed to distribute the relief fund andthe present relief committee is to continuethe work of till the commission isappointed. After the commission ba3been appointed, the future operations ofthe Pittsburgh relief committee rests withit.

In an interview la6t night GovernorBeaver said that he had been over the en-tire flooded district and found the supplydepots all well filled, but they would soonhave to ba replenished. "The largeamounts," he continued, "and from somany quarters outside of the State aadwhich have been imposed upon me as asacred trust, will be expended wholly and Iabsolutely for the benefit of individualsufferers. No part of it will be expendedin work which is legitimately the domainof the State under its police powers. This

wish to emphasize so all contribu 'tors to the fund may feel assured thattheir money will be judiciously and eco-nomically expended for the benefit of suf-fering humanity and not on the workwhich should and will be undertakenthe State or municipal authorities."

VANDALS BUST JOHNSTOWN.Johnstown. Pa.. Jutie la Several

cases of vandalism and robbery are re-ported. Last night a number of cars con-taining supplies were broken into and thecontents carried off. What the thievescould not steal they trampled and ruined.The Masonic relief car was also enteredand robbed. Twelve men were arrested,but were released upon returning thegoods. The military guards in CambriaCity were kept husy last night arrestingthieves. They were placed in the guardhouse and this morning drummed out oitown. When they reached outskirtsof the town thev were warned if thev were

!, th.v ,mM t. ...m.itr. . . .again ..-- . ww - -vjMW mmj Jdealt with.

THE NINEVEn DEAIXGreensburo, Pa., June 10 The jury

impaneled by the of Westmore-land County to inquire into the cause oftho death the 218 persons whose bodieswere picked np at Nineveh, has rendered

verdict that each of them ''came to hiby violence dae to flood caused

by tbe breaking of the dam of the Sou'bFork reservoir, and as well the aforesamcoroner as the jurors aforesaid do certain,ly under their oaths find the deceaseddied of violence caused by the action othe flood or there is such strong suspicionof such violence or other acts ato make aa inquest necessary."

a soldier's suicide.Johnstown. Pa., June 10. Yesterday

afternoon Private William Toung, ofcompany C. Fourteenth regiment, aatioaalguards, committed saiclde ia his tent byshooting himself ia the bead. He was afarm laborer aad lived near Maasfleld,Pa. He had beea sick several days,but nothing la his indicated thathe contemplated taking his life. He wastweaty-aia- e years of age, aad left a wifeaad two childrea.

WERE TRET JOHNSTOWN VICTIMS?

Louisville, Ky., June 10. Two floaterswere caught ia the river at Warsaw, Ky.,Saturday. They are supposed be fromJohastowa. Bodies of animals aad a eartwere also seen passing;

THE BURNING OF SEATTLE,The) Loss Said to Foot Up to 30.OM.eaO

. Description or the Fire.Seattle, T.. June S The loss by

the terrible conflagration wiil sum up $3,000,000, of which $10,000,800 is in buildings,and $20,000,009 ia stock. It is as yet im-possible to work ia the smolderingrcins,aad engines from Portland and Tacoraa.have been working all day, pouring;streams of water oa the burning mass.The ruin wrought is beyond all descrip-tion. The city is practically in ruias ami-ther- e

is every reason to believe thatseveral persons were killed by fulling;walls. The wharves are still burningaad vessels that put oat to sea to escapedestruction are still unable to make a.landing in the heart of the city. Miles,upon miles of wharfage has been de-stroyed. Every bank, hotel and place of"amusement; all the leading businesshouses, all the newspaper offices, the rail-road depots and miles of steamboatwharves, coal bunkers and freight ware-bous- es

and the telegraph offices wereburned. About three o'clock someturpentine caught fire in the basementof a two-sto- ry frame bui'dinp; on

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streets. The building was soou ablaze.The volunteer fire department found ir.impossible to make any headway againstthe flames. This building was at the-corne- r

of a row of frame buildings ovarious heizhts. Adjoining it was a.wholesale liquor store, and as soon as thefire reached the barrels ot liquor they ex-ploded with terrilic reports and scatteredflaming timbers far and wide. The Dennyblock was soon licked up. This clearedout the entire square. The efforts to floodthe Coleman building on Front sireet to-th-e

south were utterly without effect. Theflames leaped across Marion str.-o-t and inless than thirty minutes another squarewas burned.

While this rquare was burning thoOpera House block, on the east side ofFront street between Madison and Marionstreet; caught fire in the upper stories.This was a three-tor- y brick structure.owned by George F. Frye and valued at$120,000. It burned with several otherbuildings, clearing up another square.The Kenyon block, to tho north of wherethe fire originated, also burned.

From I ha opera house the flames swal-lowed up the square to the south, consist-ing of a number of two-stor- y frame build-ings occupied by business concerns. Thefire department tried to rave the most val-uable part of Front street to tho smith be-tween Columbia street and Yes-l- er,

which contained a niagniticentrow of brick building two andthree stories high, including theBank of Commerce and th Firs'National, Washington and Saving banks.

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Central Square. It was generally sup- -posed the entire water front would go, butit was hoped if such was inevitable, thatthese buildings could be saved.

The Occidental Hotel was an easy prayto the flames. Many persons were injuredby the falling walls of the Toklas-Siug&r-m- on

dry goods block. There is greatdestitution here, and food and clothiug i?arriving from neighboring towns.

ANOTHER KANSAS TRAGEDY.Fartlcalars of the Wife Mnrtlor and Sulci tie

oa the flornaaaana Farm Kesult of aFamily Qaarrel.Pittsburgh. Kan.. June S. Tho Horna-man- n

farm, six miles northeast of tbi- -city, where the horrible wife murder and

i suicide occurred early Wednesday raorn- -ting, consists of 240 acres under a highstate of cultivation, the grain fields clearof weeds, the fences in good repair, thelarge orchards in a healthy condition, andall the other surroundings thoe of afrugal farmer. The bouse, which sits backfrom a main traveled road some nine orten rods, faces the west. It is a six room,story-and-a-bal- f, nearly new building,neatly painted, but without blinds, andwith no lawn or garden.

Some fifty curious neighbors gatheredoa the first alarm and were wanderingabout in a sort of dazed condition, relat-ing in an undertone their rainy experi-ences with the man who for seventeenyears had industriously labored in theirmidst and was then banging a zbostlycorpse in.the barn a few yard away.

The front room, with the exception of acheap bed, a small heating stove and achild's crib, was destitute of furniture.

On the bed lay the body of the mur-dered wife and mother, dressed only innight clothes. Tbe right arm lay on theoutside of tbe bedclothing, the headturned slightly to the left showing thewhite throat encircled by a lived streak,which appeared at first glance to be themark of a knife, bat was where the half-in- ch

rope drawn by the demon's strengthhad cut into tbe flesh. Back of and in-volving the lower half of the left ear wasa bruise about three inches long made bya blow of some semi-har- d instrument.The back also showed bruises which mighthave been tbe result of kicks.

Beside the bed in the little crib wassleeping the one-year-o- ld baby girl, andin tbe adjoining room slept tho seven andthree-year-o- ld boys, and above thekitchen slept the eleven-year-o- ld Emmaand her two sisters, aged nine cftid five.

The coroner's jury rendered a verdict ofmurder and suicide for causes unknown.

The generally accepted theory U thacafter retiring the couple became involvedin a quarrel over some trivial matter andmaun me ueai oi passion mestruck bis wife the blow on the headharder tbaa he Intended, and fearing ex-posure and punishment decided to com-plete tbe crime and then bang himself.

Carl Horaamann was born in Germanyforty-tw- o years ago, emigrated to thiscountry seventeen yars ago. was mirr.edto his late wife Amelia Gner twelve yearago when in her sixteenth yenr.

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The Doctors Indicted.New York, June 8 la the matter of

the death of Washington Irving Bishop,the mind reader, it is understood that the-gran- d

jury has found indictments againstDrs. Irwin, Ferguson aad Hance, tbe phy-sicians who performed the autopsy, butthe district attorney declines to state thatthis is or is not a fact

A Coaaal Investigating;.Johnstown, Pa Jaae 8. Max Scham-ber- g,

the Hungarian Consul at Pitts-burgh, arrived here yesterday for thepurpose of making an official inves-tigation of the charges that theHaas bad plundered the bodies of per-sons who met their death in the flood. Mr.Scbamberg said that the only charge;which he substantiated was that a man,supposed to be a Han, had been caught iatbe act ot cutting off the fingeref a corpse to secure a gold ring andthat h bad been hang to a tree for a shorttime, 'Lut not long enough to produce-strangulation- .

The consul will pursue hisinvestigation farther and report to tbeAustrian legation at Washiagtoa.

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