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f} 4v:- &* i&.& BV t?. lfc R* ra$rezs. T. H. BBAUUSU, Editor. WHITE EARTH. MINK Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NE\S COMPILATION. DOMESTIC. HENHY HAIOHWABD, who had been doing a rushing business swindling old soldiers throughout Michigan, was sentenced on the 8d at Detroit to three years in the Iowa reformatory. HB loss of the schooner Houston in a gale eight miles off Milwaukee was report ed on the 3d, and the captain, his wife, two children and thirteen men were lost. THE officials of the Philadelphia & Bead ing Bailroad Company estimated their loss on the 3d at 1250,000 in bridges and wash outs along the Upper Susquehanna in the recent freshet THE report on the 3d of the Board of Bail road Assessors of Kansas showed the total mileage of roads in the State to be 9,829.90 and the total assessed value of all railroad property to be $57,448,12a 38. NEILL S. BSOWN, Jr., reading clerk of the lower house of Congress, was killed on the 3d at Nr.shvilte, Tenn., by being run oyer by a train. JOSEPH ARNOLD, a wealthy farmer living near Springfield, 111., was shot and instant ly killed by his wife on the 3d during a quarrel. THE inquest into the death of Dr. Cronin was commenced by Coroner Hertz in Chi cago on the 3d. One of the witnesses was the murdered man's brother, who settled all doubts as to the identity of the remains. Two SPANS of the Long Bridge at Wash ington were carried away on the 3d by the rise in the Potomac, DISPATCHES of the 3d from points along the Upper Potomac, Shenandoah and Monocacy rivers showed that a number of lives had been lost and millions or dollars worth of property destroyed at Harper's Ferry, Point of Bocks, Williamsport, Md Martinsburg, W. Va., and other points throughout that section by the recent high water. to the 4th nothing had developed to lower the terrible estimate put upon the number of fatalities resulting from the re cent flood at Johnstown, Pa. Through the agency of a bureau of registration, embrac ing twenty-eight different offices, a syste matic effort was being made to reach the most accurate figures possible regard ing the fatalities in Johnstown, Cam bria, Morrellville, Kernville, Cone maugh and other places devastated by the flood. Mr. McConnaghy, who had charge of the work of registration, was of the opinion that the number of people who perished was considerably over ten thou sand, while Adjutant-General Hastings maintained tbat the death list would not exceed eight thousand. Nearly two thou sand men were employed in different parts ot the valley clearing away ruins and ex tricating the dead, and thus far thirty-two hundred bodies had been found. Money and clothing for the destitute was flowing in from all portions of the country. THE corn in the bottoms about Jefferson ville, Ind., was on the 4th being washed out by the overflowing river. PAT COLLINS, who murdered Jesse Tur ner in January, 1888, broke jail at Lincoln, Kan., on the 4th, but he was pursued and captured by citizens who took him to the railroad bridge and hanged him. THE mayor of Williamsport, Pa., reported to Governor Beaver on the 4th that thou sands of people in that city were homeless and in want, the flood having carried away their dwellings and property. THE new United States Court for the Indian Territory began its first term on the 4th at Muskogee, in the Creek nation, with Judge James M. Shackleford on the bench Nearly all the jurors were Indians. Tbere were two hundred and forty cases on the docket. A. T. BOGEBS, aTopeka (Kan.) merchant, and his wife were fatally shot by Lee Oli phant, a burglar, who entered their house early on the morning of the 4th. He was captured and lynched. MRS. PETEB KELLET, of Eosendale, N. Y., gave birth on the 4th to three boys. IT was announced on the 4th that two prominent insurance companies would lose $520,000 by the deaths from the flood in the Conemaugh (Pa.) valley. ONE train which left Pittsburgh on the 4th for Johnstown, Pa., probably had no parallel in the history of the world. It car lied forty-one volunteer undertakers and two thousand coffins. THE building of the Michigan Furniture Company near Oakland, CaL, was burned on the 4th. Loss, $100,000. A CYCLONE swept through Lamar County, Tex., on the 4th, doing great damage to crops, leveling fences, unroofing houses and barns and injuring a number of people. The cyclone struck the southern section of the county and moved in an easterly direc tion, sweeping every thing before it. WHILE services were being held on the 4th in the Free Methodist Church nearPom eroy, O., an attempt was made to blow up the building with powder, but tt missed fire. At least one hundred persons would have been kilted had the powder been Ignited. IT was reported on the 5th that Mr. A. Swan Brown, of New York, a merchant well known in the dry-goods trade, had gone to London to attempt to arrange a syndicate for the purchase of the leading ory-goods stores of Ne York and other leading American cities. THE council between representatives of the Sioux Indians and the Government Com missioners relative to the proposed sale of a certain portion of the Sioux reservation for settlement was opened at Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, on the 4th. DOHEBTY & WADSWOBTH'S silk mill at Paterson, N. J., was destroyed by fire oh the 4th. Loss, $100,000. ADVICES of the 5th from Johnstown, Pa., say that conservative men were of the opin ion that the number of people destroyed in the flood would reach from 12,000 to 15,000. This view was based on many fragments of evidence obtained from over 100 citizens, as intelligent men and women as could be found. The registration of survivors still continued. The total registration to date was 13,000 out of a total estimated popula tion of the torrent-swept district of from 35,000 to 40,000. Two hundred and forty-six more bodies had been found, of which the majority were identified. This swelled the list to 3,113 bodies. It was estimated that the number of orphans in the Conemaugh valley would be about 500. HE Bank of Omaha, Neb., incorporated about a year ago, closed Its doors on the 5th. Liabilities between $60,000 and 70,- 000 assets nominal. 't-*" ALL the evidence in the Dr. Cronin in quest in Chicago on the 5th was directed toward establishing the fact that the de ceased was firmly impressed with the, idea that his -life was endangered through the machinations of Alexander Sullivan, the well-known ex-president of the Irish Land League. THE Nebraska State school census showed on the oth a school population of 316,805, which gives a total population to the State of about 1,000,000. 7?* X^di AT Jacksonville, Fla., early on the morn ing of the 5th fire destroyed about sixty wooden buildings, for the most part occu pied by colored people. The loss was esti mated at $300,000, AT Silver City, CoL, Colonel F. C. Jobst, the Michigan Central agent, and an opera tor named Burrell were killed on the 5th by robbers, who secured about $200. HE S James Hotel at Stevens' Point, Wis., was destroyed by fire on the 5th, and a young man and two girls perished in the flames. POSTMASTER-GENEBAL WANAMAKEB sent out a circular to postmasters on the 5th call ing on them to inform him as to the extent of the business transacted at their offices on Sunday. The information was desired with a view to decreasing, if possible, the amount of Sabbath work performed by post-office employes. THE annual parade of the Sunday-school Union of Brooklyn, N. Y., took place on the 5th, sixty thousand children being in line. HE United States Brewers Association met in twenty-ninth annual session on the 5th at Niagara Falls, N. Y. A resolution that 110,000 be appropriated for the benefit of the sufferers of the Johnstown disaster was heartily carried. AT Biloxi, Miss., an incendiary fire on the 5th destroyed twenty-five buildings, caus ing a loss of $100,000. THE annual convention of the American Bankers' Association will be held at Kansas City, Mo., September 25-97. LON BABBETT, a notorious horse thief and general crook, was arrested on the 6th at Terre Haute, Ind., for passing counterfeit money. JOHN AND HENBT GILLT, miners, were killed on the 6th by the fall of a coal roof in a mine near WilkeBbarre, Pa, FIVE THOUSAND men were engaged on the 6th in the work of cleaning away debris and searching for bodies at Johnstown, Pa. The indications were that the estimate of 12,000 to 15,000 would not exceed the actual num ber of lives lost when all was known. The militia was in possession ot the town and its approaches, and sight-seers and curiosi ty seekers were debarred from entering. Good order prevailed and the homeless and destitute were being cared for as amply as possible. THE Secretary of War decided on the 6th to purchase for the new site for Fort Omaha a tract of 540 acres of land about eight miles from Omaha. EEV. THOMAS F. DAVIES, for twenty-one years pastor of St. Peter's Church in Phila delphia, was on the 6th elected Episcopal Bishop of Michigan. J. H. BENJAMIN, editor of the Deland, (Fla. News, shot and instantly killed Captain J. W. Douglas at Ne Smyrna on the 6th. The shooting was the result of an old feud. EDD IE FISHES, aged thirteen years, whose mother and five sisters and brothers per ished in the flood, committed suicide at Johnstown on the 6th by jumping from the top of a building. WHILE insane on the 6th Mrs. Quig'ey, the wife of a well-to-do farmer living near Peotone, D.L, gave her two children a dose of "Bough on Bats" and took some her self. KABL HAHNMANN, a farmer living near Girard, Kan., strangled his wife to death on the 6th and then went to the barn and hanged himself. No cause was known for the deed. THE business portion of Seattle, the largest city in Washington Territory, was burned on the afternoon of the 6th Every bank, hotel, place of amusement, all the leading busi ness houses, all the newspaper offices, the railroad depots, miles of steamboat wharves, the coal bunkers, the freight warehouses and the telegraph offices were burned. FOEEST fires were raging on the 6th to the north of Duluth, Minn., all through the Vermilion iron range, and great loss was expected. CHARLES OBCHABD, sixteen years old, and Bessie Banes, a girl of fourteen years, liv ing in Lima, O., eloped on the 6th. Owing to their youth their parents had objected to their being too much together. SUBGEON-GENEBAL HAMILTON, at Washing ton, was notified on the 6th that there was serious danger of sickness at Johnstown, Pa, unless active sanitary measures were taken. He had given the necessary orders, and had had shipped a large quantity of disinfectants. A temporary depopulation was urged. ADVICBB of the 6th say that in Steuben County, N. Y., and adjacent to it between twenty and twenty-five lives were lost and about $5,000,000 worth of property destroyed in the recent flood, and in Eastern Penn sylvania nearly 700 lives were known to have been lost, and property to the amount of $10,000,000 was swept away. THREE men, C. L. Woods, George B. Lewis and H. N. Gavin, were killed on the 7th at Hutchinson, Kan., by a boiler explosion. THE Herlich piano works at Paterson, N. J., were burned on the 7th* ELEVEN business houses and offices in Syracuse, Kan,, were destroyed by fire on the 7th. WHEN the will of Mary J. Kennedy was probated on the 7th at Indianapolis, Ind., it was found that the only heirs to her es tate were two Bons who are both serving life sentences in prison for murder. A DISTINCT shock of earthquake was felt in New Bedford, Mass., on the morning of the 7th. A FIBE on the 7th at Livingston, Ala, e stroyed half of the town. THE weaiher at Johnstown, Pa., on the 7th was warm, and fears existed that out breaks of disease would follow the flood. Five cases of diphtheria were reported, and dysentery had made its appearance in some places. The work of recovering the bodies was going on steadily. HE western part of Sedgwick County and the eastern part of Kingman County, in Kansas, were swept over by a cyclone on the 7th and all the buildings in a space twenty miles long by fire miles wide were wrecked and the crops destroyed. A farmer named Sogers and all the members of his family were killed. AVDICES of the 7th say that the recent fire in Seattle, W. T caused a loss of $15,- 000,000, with not more than one-third cov ered by insurance. The entire business portion of the city and part of the resi dence neighborhood was destroyed, and hundreds of people were homeless. A num ber of lives were reported lost. The burned district comprised sixty-four acres. THE SE were some sensational episodes in the Dr. Cronin inquest in Chicago on the 7th. Three important witnesses were miss ing, and could not be found by the cor* oner's agents. Daniel Brown, a police man, admitted that he was the man who cited Dr. Cronin to trial for treason. Brown was placed under restraint by the coroner, who intimated that he was the man who drove Dr. Cronin to his death on the night of May 4. Luke Dillon denounced Alex ander Sullivan as the instigator of the crime. THE SE were 225 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 7th, against 215 the previous seven days. HE total appropriations of the Illinois Legislature for the next two years amount to #7,390,381.78. SCABLET fever of a malignant type broke out on the 7th at the Michigan Military Academy at Orchard Lake. The students were leaving and the place vrould be closed at once. -V" A JOHN FEASTEB and Charles B. Calston were hanged on the 7th at Charlotte, S. C., for the murder of W. C. Abernethy, a mer ohant, in January last. A PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. PBESIDENT HAEEISON on the 3d appointed Charles L. Knapp, of New York, to be Con sul-General of the United States at Mon treal, and Alexander Reed, of Wisconsin, to be Consul at Dublin. HE marriage of Justice Gray of the United States Supreme Court to Miss Jen nie Matthews, daughter of the late Justice Stanley Matthews, took place on the after noon of the 4th at the residence of the bride in Washington. JOSEPH LABOBD, the oldest man in the Northwest, died at S Paul on the 4th, aged one hundred and six yeara He was bom in Point Levis, Que. IN joint session on the 5th a ballot was taken in the Ne Hampshire Legislature for Governor, there having been no choice by the people, and David H. Goodell (Rep.) was declared elected. NEBBASEA Prohibitionists met at Lincoln on the 5th and organized a State league, and also arranged to establish local leagues in every county in the State. SECBETABY. NOBLE on the 5th accepted tha resignation of John H. Oberly,. Commis sioner of Indian Affairs, to take effect July 1. THE Prohibitionists of Iowa met in State convention at Cedar Bapids on the 6th and made the following nominations: For Gov ernor -Malcolm Smith, of Cedar Eapids Lieutenant-Governor J. O. Murphy, of Jasper County Supreme JudgeW. X. Maginnis, of Jackson County Superintend-, ent of Public InstructionMrs. C. A. Dun ham, of Burlington Bailroad Commis- sionerJ. W. Noble, of Binggold County, a COLONEL JOHN C. EELTON was on the 7th appointed Adjutant-General of the Army to succeed General Drum, retired. FOREIGN. J. & H. TATLOB, railway supply mer chants of Montreal, Can., failed on the 4th for $100,000. A HUBBICANB and water-spout on the 4th at Beichenbach, Germany, caused great loss of life and property. HE Derbythe greatest of all English turf eventswas run at Epsom Downs on the 5th, and was won by the Duke of Port land's famous colt Donovan. LETTEBS received in London on the 5th from missionaries reported that theMahdist fanatics had slaughtered thousands of na tive Christians in Western Abyssinia and sold thousands of others into slavery. CRISTOBAL FEBNANDEZ, a kidnaper, was executed on the 5th at Jovellanos, Cuba. HON. J. HAMILTON GBAT, Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, died at his home in Victoria on the 5th. WHILE nineteen men were crossing the river at Grenville, Que., on the 6th the boat capsized and five of them were drowned. THE town of Mons, Belgium, was ex cited on the 6th over the murder of the Marchioness de Chasteler, an aged lady of noble family, who was found slain in her bed. WHITELAW EETD, the United States Min ister to France, announced on the 6th that the fund being raised at the legation in Paris for the relief of the sufferers by the flood at Johnstown, Pa., amounted to $10,000. A PIBE on the 6th in the village of Li bionsch, in Prussian Silesia, destroyed one hundred and ifinety-five houses, including the village church and vicarage THE cotton mills in Offenburg, Baden, were destroyed by fire on the 6th, involving a loss of 300,000 marks. Several women were killed. A SEABCH of the houses of two leading Boulangists by the Paris police was said on the 7th to have resulted in the discovery of papers which implicated Boulanger in an international plot. THE Czar on the 7th bestowed a dowry of one million rubles on Princess Militza, of Montenegro, who has been betrothed to Grand Duke Peter, of Russia IT was announced on the 7th that suicides had become alarmingly frequent in Vienna, no less than forty- three cases of self-mur der having been reported in one month. EEPOBTS of the 7th from Crete showed that complete anarchy reigned on the isl and. Murders and outrages of all kinds were of daily occurrence, and went unpun ished. LATEST NEWS. /.DvicEB of Che 7th say that the recent fire in Seattle, W. T., caused a lots of $1?,. 000,000, with not more than one-tairti cov ered by insurance. The entire business portion of the city and part of the resi dence neighborhood was destroyed, and hundreds of people were homeless. A num ber of lives were reported lost. The burned district comprised sixty-four acres. THE SE were 225 business failures in th United States during the seven days ended on the 7th, against 215 the previous seven days. THE weather at Johnstown, Pa., ontho 7th was warm, and fears existed that out breaks of disease would follow the flood. Five cases of diphtheria were reported, and dysentery had made its appearance in some plnces. The work of recovering the bodies was going on steadily. -j A riBE on the 7th at Livingston, Ala, de stroyed half of the town. HE western part of Sedgwick County and tte eastern part of Kingman County, in Kansae, were swept over by a cyclone on the 7th and all the buildings in a space twenty'miles long by five miles wide were wrecked and the crops destroyed. A farmer named Rogers and all the members of his family were killed. A DISTTP'-T Rhode of earthquake was felt in New Bedford, Mass., on the morning of the 7th. ,f_ JOHN FEASTEB and Charles R. Calston were hanged on the 7th at Charlotte, S. for the murder of W. C. Abernethy, a mdr chant, in January last THE total appropriations of the Illinois Leg slalure for the next two years amount to S7,39'\:5S1.78. THREE men, C. L. Woods, George B. Lewis and H. N. Gavin, were killed on the 7th at Hutchinson, Kan., by a boiler explosion. THE Herlich piano works at Paterson, N. J., were burned on the 7th WHEN the will of Mary J. Kennedy wa3 probated on the 7th at Indianapolis, Ind., it was found that the only heirs to her es tats woro two sons who are both serving life srvtences in prison for murder. ELEVEN business houses and offices in Syracuse, Kan., wero destroyed by tiro on the 7th. A SEABCH of the houses of two leading Boulangists by the Paris police was said on the 7th to have resulted in the discovery of papers which implicated Boulanger in an international plot. COLONEL JOHN C. KELTON was on tho 7th appointed &.djufeant-General of the Army to succeed General Drum, retired. THE SE were some sensational episodes in the Dr. Cronin inquest in Chicago on the 7th. Three important witnesses wero miss ing, and could not be found by the cor oner's agents. Daniel Brown, "a police man, admitted that he was the man who cited Dr. Cronin to trial for treason. Brown was placed under restraint by the coroner, who intimated that he was the man who drove Dr. Cronin to his death on the night of May 4. Luke Dillon denounced Alex ander Sullivan as the instigator of the crime. HIS BITTER FOE. Dr Cronin So Considered Alexander Sollivan-He Dwelt In Dally Anticipa tion of a violent Death, and Told Friends That If His Prophecy Should Be Realized, Thought the Kesponsl blllty for His Fate Would Rest with the Chicago Lawyer. CHICAGO, June 6.All the evidence In the Cronin inquest Wednesday was directed toward establishing the fact that the de ceased was firmly impressed with the idea that his life was endangered through the machinations of Alexander Sullivan. Patrick McGarry testified that in Septem ber, 1888, Dr. Cronin told witness, after the trial in Buffalo, that his life was in danger. "'Mac,'said he,'I believe that man Alex ander Sullivan will be the in Btigator of my death. There are pa pers and affidavits relating to this business, and in them Alexander Sullivan's name is mentioned, in Mr. Conklin's safe, and if any thin? happens to me I will rely on you to give them to the author ities.' One day three weeks before his death, Dr. Cronin, talking of that time, said: 'It may have been a fateful night to me. I took my life in my hand, but I am determined to expose Alexander Sullivan and his thievery and treachery to the Irish people.' Ar. McGarry said that after the disappear ance of Dr. Cronin many of the latter's friends believed that he was alive and had possibly lost his reason. Witness and bthers who knew the inside of the liiish factional troubles felt sure that Cronin had been murdered, and when the Toronto story of Cronin's appearance was printed witness was sent to Toronto to in vestigate it He went also to Wilmington and East St Louis, HL, and S Louis, Mo. As witness expected, he found that Cronin had never been seen in Toronto, or any other place. "Why did you think Dr. Cronin had been murdered?" "I knew it from the feelings Dr. Cronin had borne during the last three years. 1 knew how he was trying to expose the thievery and treachery of this man Sulli van, who was also trying to drive him from the position he assumed of being an honest leader of a noble people. I knew it for the reason that in Dr. Cronin's paper there appeared every week articles and squibs which were to this man Sullivan like Bticking a knife between his ribs and turn ing it around." The witness had never heard any direct threats made against Dr. Cronin, but had heard words from which Cronin's friends could draw their conclusions. There was a meeting of camp 20 at Turner Hall, and at it John F. Beggs said: "There must be union and unity among Irishmen if there has to be war." This was on the occasion of Mr. McGarry's saying that the man who gave Le Caron his credentials was worse than Le Caron himself. "Who gave the credentials to Le Caron?" When McGarry replied: "Lawrence Buckley," there was a sensation in the room. "John F. Beggs supposed that I meant Alexander Sullivan. I told hjrn I hadn't mentioned Alexander Sullivan's name. He said 1 had better not, because Alexander Sullivan had lots of friends, one of whom he was." Michael Barry, a carpenter who lives at 248 Dlinois street, took the stand. Mr. Barry is a member of camp 234, United Brother hood. Dr. Cronin belonged to camp 234, and two years ago he spoke to wit ness of the efforts of certain persons to destroy his character or his life. "They are trying to destroy my character, and if they can't do that they will kill me. They may kill me, but they can't destroy my character, which is dearer to me than my life." "Who d:d Dr. Cronin say was threatening him?" "Alexander Sullivan was the man who Dr. Cronin said would be responsible for his death if it occurred. Dr. Cronin told me that on one occasion he was called to a strange house to see a man who was hurt. He saw a man lying on the bed, and he did hot like the looks of the five or six men he saw there, and he said: lMy God! Did you bring me here to murder me?' and he went down the stairs in two steps." At the afternoon session Maurice Mor ris, in answer to a question as to whether he had ever heard any threats made against Dr. Cronin, said: "Yes, I heard John F. Finerty say last June: Those doctors must be got rid of meaning Doctors Cronin and McCahey." Mr. Morris knew Dr. Cronin very well and the doctor had several times told him that he "expected to be assassinated for the cause he was trying to better and im prove." He expected trouble through Alexander SuUivan. While Cronin never told witness that Sullivan had threatened him, he evidently thought the attorney would seek to have him "removed" because he had proof that would convict Sullivan of embezzling a large amount of money belonging to the Irish cause. The doctor told Mr. Morris that "Major" Sampson had told him that he had been hired to kill the doctor. He also said that he believed McGeehan, the Phila delphian, had come to Chicago at the in stigation of Sullivan to kill him. Joseph O'Byrne swore that the Friday night before the disappearance the doctor said to him thafc. "he was tired of the wrangling that it was wearing him out, and he thought he would give it up and let the rascals accomplish what they wanted to." I told him he'was gone too far on the the road. He replied: 'You know, Joseph, that these two rascals have the power to do great injury.' The two rascals alluded to were Michael Boland, police recorder of Kansas City, and Alexander Sullivan, of Chicago. The doctor was very much de pressed and seemed as though some trouble was hanging over him. O'Byrne went on to say that he had heard McGeehan say that Cronin and McGahey ought to be killed because they were scoundrels. He had heard that there was a trial in Camp 20, but knew nothing def inite on the point. He did not, however, believe that Cronin was a traitor. Closely pressed, O'Byrne admitted that rumors that Cronin had been tried and convicted came to him through friends of the latter. The last witness was Byron C. Smith, re ceiver of the Traders' Bank. He showed by checks on file and ledger entries that in the summer of 1882 Alexander Sullivan had altogether $100,000 in the bank, of which $10,000 was a personal account and the bal ance credited to "Alexander Sullivan, agent" September 6, 1882, all this money had been drawn out on checks made payable to J. T. Lester & Co., bro kers. Awful Result of a Fire In a Hotel at Stev ens' Point, Wis. STEVENS' POINT, Wis., June 6 The S James' Hotel, located near the Wisconsin Central depot, caught fire shortly after 8 o'clock Wednesday evening and is a total .loss, together with the entire contents, those within having scarcely time to escape with their lives. At this writing the night clerk, Charles Oatball, and two of +he girls, Maggie Reilly and a Norwegian girl known as Nettie, are missing, and there is but little doubt tbat all three lost their lives in the flames. The two first named were up on the second floor when Che fire broke out, and came down, but went back to secure their wearing ap parel. A THOUdAHP FUJHERALS. Sad Sights Witnessed by the Survivors at Johnstown Burying the DeadPneu monia Gaining GroundPreparing to RebuildContributions Flowing In. JOHNSTOWN, Pa, June 6.The gray mists hai scarcely arisen from the hills Wednes day morning until 1,000 funerals were coursing their green sidea There were no hearses, few mourners, and as lit tle solemnity as formality. The ma ]ority of the coffins were of rough pina The hearses were strong farmers' teams, and instead of six pall-bearers to one coffin there were' generally six coffins to one team. Silently the processions moved, and silently they unloaded their burdens in the lap of Mother Earth. No Inister was there to pronounce a last blessing as the clods rattled down. All day long the corpses were being buried. The unidentified bodies were grouped on a high hill west of the doomed StoUTH^FOREk. M1NERAI. Poi ,WOODVALEi NEMAUGH eo% CAMBRIA HIGH' m$* MAP OF THE FLOODED DISTEICT. city, where one epitaph must do for all, and that the word "unknown." Tht-re are hundreds of these graves already, and each day will increase the proportion. JOHNSTOWN, Pa, June 6.Two hundred and forty-six more bodies were found Wednesday, of which the majority have been identified. This swells the list to 3,113 bodiea Over 5,000 men are employed in Johns town proper clearing the streets, about 1,000 of these being the regular street hands hired by Contractors Booth and Flynn, of Pittsburgh, the others being volunteers. Mr. Flynn declares it will take 10,000 men thirty days to clear the ground so that the streets will be passable and the work of rebuilding commenced. PITTSBUEGH, Pa., June 6.Chief Bigelow has ordered a corps of engineers to report this morning to go to Johnstown. About a dozen men will go, taking with them all the necessary instruments for surveying and laying out the streets and property, with a view to reorganizing the destroyed city. A house-to-house canvass was ordered by the sanitary authorities, and its revela tions, as far as it went, were startling in the extreme. It was found that four and even six families were being crowded into a single house, and as high as fifty slept in one room, that the doors and windows were left closed to shut out the stench and the dampness, and that as a result pneu monia was gaining an alarming foothold. Mr. P. M. Carrington of the United States Marine Hospital estimates that the^ are at least a hundred well-defined cases of the disease in Johnstown to-day. He ascribes its growing prevalence to crowded rooms, damp cellars and exposure.- V? The coroner's jury Wednesday proceeded to the South fork and investigated the cause of breakage of the reservoir dam. Wit nesses testified that slight breaks had ap peared in the dam several times in past years, but had each time been clumsily repaired with straw, sticks and rubbish The general impression is that the jury will declare that the Pitts burgh Fishing Club that owned the reser voir was guilty of gross negligence. In that event many suits for damages against this milUonaire club will doubtless follow. JOHNSTOWN, Pa, June ftOut of a total population of 1,030 at Woodvale 667 are known to have been saved, making the loss of life about 50 per cent of the submerged portion of the village. It is estimated that the number of orphans in the Conemaugh valley will be about 500. They are being removed to central points where they can be found in case they are inquired for. St. Marks' P. E. Church lBt 27 out of a membership of 150. Bector A. P. Diller, wife and two children were drowned. Their new church building has disap peared. The drift of opinion among intelligent men, physicians, engineers, railroad men, is that from 1,000 to 1,500 of the bodies will never be found. Captain Peter Fitzpatrick, of Cambria City, learned yesterday that his two little boys, supposed to be dead, were safe eighty miles down the river, where they were car ried on the roof of a house and rescued. Work has been begun on the wreckage of the Cambria mills in MillviUe. Only about 600 of the 1,000 employes have been ac counted for. CONTB1BUTTONB FLOWING IN. PHILADELPHIA, June 6.The rivalry exist ing between the various collectors in this city for the Johnstown sufferers has been the means of swelling the amount of the cash subscriptions to about $550,000, while the donations of food and other necessaries are so numerous that some difficulty is ex perienced in handling them. Thirty-one carloads in all have been shipped, and it is thought that fully as much is awaitingship ment. HABEISBUEO, Pa, June 6. Governor Beaver has received by check and draft $125,966. N EW YOEK, June 6.Dispatches from various points outside Washington and Philadelphia report flood subscriptions during the day and night about $120,- 000. The receipts of cash at the mayor's office in this city Wednesday aggregate $130,000. Besides this over $100,000 was subscribed to other funds of exchanges and newspapers. The Equitable Life has sent $10,000 to the fl victims. JUST ABOUT SO. rHB man with the largest library general ly finds the least time to read. WOM EN are sometimes known by the style of literature they read,in public. MEN love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty. HE fashions of the day have a tendency to attract attention to the ugliest women. GENTEEL people are never under tho necessity of snubbing or "cutting" any body. HOUSEKEEPING should be discontinued by families sued for wages by their servants. IT is never well to preach about ancestors unless you are sure of yo"i own pedigree. LITERARY.^i PERSONAL AND Publishers say that there has been a great growth of recent years in tha market for Christian literature- Robert Bonner's boys maintain thehiffb. ra te of profit on the New. York Ledger which their father first Insured to that paper. Like the elder Bonner th ey are all great horsemen. Sylvanus Cobb only wanted an hour to lay the plot of a story and place his characters. I would have bean harder for him to write a school composition than a serial to run for twenty week s. Mrs. Madeline Vinton Dahlgren, widow of the Admiral, has been a lit erary worker for thirty year s. She has made translations, and written poems, political essays, novels and books of etiquette that are entirely original. Mr. Gladstone, who reads widely In a half dozen languages, takes up his favorite, Homer, the last thing every night. says a page of it soothes his nerves. John Bright was equally industrious, but he was just as likely to read a French novel before dropping to sleep as he was to dip in to is favoriteMilton --An American newspaper syndi ca te recently offered William The early invalidism of Miss Mur free (Charles Egbert Craddock) com pelled her to lead a quiet indoor life. "I couldn't engage in the sports of the other children," she says, "an sometimes I was so disappointed and uneasy that my mother used to find it necessary to comfort me. One of her favorite methods was to say: 'Never mind, my dear, if you can't do as the others do, you an do one thing which they can't do you an spell Popocate petl, and they can't'" One day a very pious clerical friend, who had consumed an hour of is valuable time in small talk, said to James Harper, the publisher: "Brother Harper, I am curious to know how you four men distribute the duties of the establishment be tween you." "John," said Mr Har per, good-humoredly, "attends to the finances Wesley to the correspond ence Fletcher to the general bargain ing with authors and others, and, don't you tell anybody," he said.draw ing is chair still closer and lowering the tone of is voice, I entertain the bores." HUMOROUS. What this count ry needs is raaplfc sugar that will pass a thorough Civil Service examination.Detroit Trib une. Customer"I can't wear this suit and that's the end of it It's all shrunk up on one side!" Rosedale-i "Vat you expecgt mit deni diagonal goots."Puck. Young Lawyer to is Client"Do not trouble yourself about the case at all, my dear sir. I assure you that to gain a favorable verdict for you will he the object of my whole life." If our merchant marine has gone to decay we still have more ships than any nation on the face of the earth. Some are consul-ships, but more are postmaster-ships. Boston Post. Papa (earnestly)"Didn't I en join upon you not to see that young man again?" Daughter (quite as earnestly)"Yes, papa but he came with an order of court to vacate the injunction and I vacated it." Sunday morningMiss Travis "A h, Johnny! I have caught you with a fish-pole over your shoulder! I shall go right and tell your father. Where is" he?'* Johnny Dumpsey "Down at the foot of the garden dig gin' the bait" Burlington Free Press. Mrs. Jinx"I'm going to com mence house-cleaning to-day Mr Jinx "Well?" Mrs Jinx"Well, I wish you would swear your phono graph full and send it up to the house for me to turn on occasionally when my feelings get too much for me. Will you?" Miss Kissan"Oh, Calvert! This is so-o-o-o unexpected." Her Maid "Excuse me Miss Mar y, but yure mother sint me down t' tell yez that abo ut that matter she wor talking over wid yez this mornin' fer youse t'say Yes.' She said youse would- know phat she manes." "Domestic animals in Greenland must have a ha rd life of it," she sai d. 'i%J^|l "Why so?" he asked. "Because," she explained, giving him a stony stare, "the people of that country have door3 to their houses, and when a man gets mad at his wife's cookin g, or comes home and finds dinner ten min utes late, and no door to slam, he must necessarily kick the dog or cat clear across the room to relieve his fil ings. "-NoEris town Herald. Husband"I must raise $1,800 to morr ow or my note will go to protest, and if my creditors once get started after me I am a ruined man." Wife Don't fret, dear. You can surely aise that much on my diamonds, fou know you said they were worth 13,000 at the lowest valuation." And is the memory of the avful lie he lad told the day he gav* her that }27 seli of gems rose up before his fuilty conscience, the miserable man etoo himself into th outer dark less with an exceedingly bitter'cry. Terra Haute Express. iff* J0l re rl"S 1 E Glad- stone the sum of $25,000 for a series of twenty-five articles on subjects of cur rent interest. The following reply has been received from Mr. Gladstone: At my age the stock of brain power do es not wax hut wanes, and the pub lic calls upon my time leaves me only a fluctuating residue to dispo se of. All idea of a series of efforts is, therefore, I have finally decided, wholly beyond my power to em%ace." *-M ..s *&a "M .-V&*. -j?. ik /'A -sii *t$%@ *$ *t4t :kM *$- ft