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In.' V \5lhe -S)ev-a(b. W. W. 1J WNIK, F.ditornnd Proprietor .«Tf flTV RI A TTOT The News of the Week, BY TELE'.", A PH AMD MAIL. DOMESTIC. CniNATowy. a salmi of .-acramento, CaU, was lestroyed by lire on the 24tlL AT Trenton, La., two negroes, Joe Cook and Sol lorsev, engaged in a scuttle on the 24th, and becoming angry they both drew pistols and lired und both were killed Owisu to an overflow of Shuganinga week hundreds of houses in Topeka, Ivan., were on the J4th under water as far as the first story, while the suburbs known as Walnut drove, Parkdale and Oakland, thickly populated by the laboring classes, were ail under water. THE glass factory and works of Ball Broa at Buffalo, N. V., were burned on the iWth and several adjacent cottages were badly damaged. IXJSH $100,000. Br the collapse of a vein in the Central mine nt Hyde Turk, Pa on the 24th houses and gardens were damaged and the resi dents badly frightened. The ground was traversed by !is.sures from a few inches to a foot in width. WAYNK WHITMYTCK was arrested on the 24th near Ephrata, Pa, while trying to wreck a freight train on the Heading & Columbia railroad. THK troubles of the Times Newspaper Company in Chicago culminated on the 25tli in the retirement of Mr. James J. West. He not only resigned from the edit orship of the paper but surrendered also his entire interest the property. THJ owners of the schooner Kate Wins low were lined 50 by the customs offi cer at Cleveland. (., on the '_'4th for em ploying two Canadian mates. AT the West Side Driving Park in Chicago the 'Jith the celebrated horse Long Chance stumbled and fell at a hurdle, breaking his neck. A c.un.E message of the 25th from the European I'nion of Astronomers an nounced the discovery of a bright comet in the southern heavens by Prof. Davidson, of Queensland. THE net earnings of the Union Pacific xailroad for six months ended June 5(), 1SS0, were $4.770,0:51, a decrease of $1V)7,S5 for the same period a year ago. A PARTY of explorers on the 25th un «arthed a number of human skeletons buried iu Chalk Bluff, ten miles east of Yankton, D. T., on the Nebraska side. Fifty skulls and two hundred headless .skeletons were found which local physicians pronounced to be the remains of white people, children and adults. Indications were that they had been buried forty or fifty years. AT Anoka, Minn., the most terrific thun der and rain-storm for years occurred on 'the iTth. Three wooden buildings were washed into the river. Much damage was reported from the country by the wind, which appeared in the form of a cyclone. Two MEN were arrested on the 'J."th for assisting in the lynching of James Averill and Emma Watson, cattle thieves, at Sweetwater, Wy. T., and were bound over for trial in the sum of $5,000 each. C. (i. TAI.COTT, -assistant engineer of the United States Bavy, committed suicide on board the Atlanta on the 25th by shooting himself with a pistol WAKTIN OI.SON, of Eau Clair*, Wis., who left his wife twr.lve years ago, was found 'by.her on the '25th at Duluth, Minn., where 'Jbe had been living with another woman. THE dry-goods firm of Lewis Brothers fc Co.. of Philadelphia, failed on the 25th for $4,000,000. It was thought the assignment would only be temporary. J. .FITZPATBICK broke the world's record ta Boston on the 25th in a running high Jump by three-quarters of an inch. He jumped feet 4 inches. As? English syndicate had on the 25th purchased five of the six breweries in Paterscu, N. J., for an aggregate of i'.'JJHO, 000. the owners t® retain a one-third in terest in the concerns. A TORN ADO two hundred feet wide passed half a mile west ol' Prague, Minn., on the 25th. One house was dashed to pieces, five railroad cars, wheat laden, were thrown twenty feet from the track, and crops in the path of the storm were utterly demol ished. No lives were lost NEWS received at Parkersburg, W. Va., on the 25th from the recent flood in the Kan awha valley gave a sad story of wreck and ruin. Every store from the head to the mouth of the forks was gone or ruined. Houses, fences and crops were washed away and several lives were lost. Couriers from Tygart reported a long list of houses and property, bridges and culverts gone. The loss in Lee, Tygart, Slate and Steele counties would reach $500,000. Thtens were 187 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 2ith, against 18Stho previous seven days. A I! A EH EL of whisky exploded on the 25th at the home of Peter Rollins (colored near Kummit, Miss., causing the death of his daughter and mortally wounding his son. THE Saloon-Keepers' Association of Cin cinnati met on the 25th and a limited num ber of them agreed to defy the Jaw by keep ing open on Sunday, the association agree ing to 6tand by them financially in the courts VOI.NEY FUIXERTON, a young farmer liv ing near Carth ge, Mo., died of hydropho bia on the 2(iih. A year ago he was bitten by a rabid dog, but felt no evil effects until a day or two before his death. Miss KATEDKEXEL,of Philadelphia, on the UfJth gave a sum sufficient to establish a church and school f&r negroes of the Catho lic faith. WESLEY ELKINS, aged eleven years, con fessed on the 26th that he was the mur derer of his father and stepmother in Elk township. la., whose bodies were receutly found frightfully mangled. He said a quar rel with his father caused him to commit the crime. A TEnuiBLE storm of wind, rain and hail stones larger than hiekorynuts passed over Crawfordsvillo, Ind., on the 2(ich, doing great damage. A TEIUIIFIC cyclone passed through Leba non, Ind., on the 20th. Witt's block. Lane's drug Ftore, Moddy «t Graves' block ami the Pioneer printing office were all unroofed and deluged with water. Trees, fences, crops, etc., were prostrated, with much loss. THE UI»•hinond Paper Company of Provi dence t, failed on the 2*»th for AT, Paris, Ky on the 20th James Kell.y icafured). who made an assault on the wife of Peter Crow, was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged. THK Fish Commission at Washington was on the :t'.th advised of the discovery of a cod bank on the Pacific, eight miles off Nestueca, Ore. AT West Troy, N. Y., on the 26tli James McCall surrendered himself to the police, stating that ho had kicked his wife to death. Examination showed that he told the truth. He was demented. Two HVNDEEJ) people in the Twenty third district of Wi son County, Tenn., banded together on the 26th for the pur pose of driving Mormon elders and con verts from that county. THE fertilizing works of E. Baugh A Son at Indianapolis wero destroyed by fire on the 20th. Loss estimated at $100,000. CITIZEN GEORGE FRANCH TRAIN* com pleted in New York on the 20th what he designated his "one hundred days' fast" According to his story he has subsisted upon half a pound of choclate and milk daily during this time, and never felt bet ter in his life. He is dropped the title "Citizen" and assumed that of Six railways, the Toledo »V Western, the Detroit A- State Lino, the Wabash, the Wa bash A Eastern of Indiana, the Wabash A Eastern of Illinois, and the Wabash West ern were consolidated on the 20th under the name of the Wabash Railway Company. THE offices of the Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe liarilroad Company at Topeka, Kan., were burned on the 20th. BELOW will be found the percentage of the base-br.ll clubi In the National League for the week ended on the 27th: Boston, .052 New York. .0)5 Philadelphia, .57:5 Cleveland,. 505 Chicago, ,4'.K Pittsburgh, .418 Indianapolis, ,81k) Washington, .o2:i American Association: St. Louis, .074 Brooklyn, .G5H Baltimore, .571 Athletic, .554 Cincinnati, .550 Kansas City, .402 Columbus, .370 Louisville. .22". Western Association: Omaha, .711 St. Paul, .047 Minneapolis, .527 Sioux City, .403 Den ver, .442 Des Moines, .417 Milwaukee, St. Joseph, .:r,o. CHARLES A. CRYSLKR, of Independence, Mo., a well-known lawyer and agent for several estates, was on the 27rh said to be short in his accounts to the extent of foO, 000. THE exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 27th aggregated $'.»24,oi:5,572, against $1,1(4,8S1,.Y*I the pre vious week As compared with the cor responding wees of 1S&» the increase amounted to 12.4. HENRY GEOISO the antagonist of the present social system aud advocate of the single-tax scheme, arrived in New York on the 2sth from Europe. THE excursion steamer Tolchester struck a little boat iu the harbor at Baltimore on the 2vith and threw the occupants into the water, drowning John llietz, Mary Wiener and Mary Kalb. MASKED men entered the residence of Mrs. Aseneth Street near Marion. Ind., on the 27th and beat Mrs. Street and her daughter Clara in a horrible manner. They were charged with gossiping too much. JAMES CONATY, a Richmond (Va) bar keeper who had left his wife, went to her home on the 2Sth and cut her throat and then killed himself in the same manner. FOUR train employes were killed on the 27th the wreck of a passenger train on the Chesapeake A Ohio railroad at Brighton, Tenn. The passengers escaped JOSEPH A. STARCH, ticket agent atF-aston, Pa., for the New Jersey Central Railroad Company, was on the 27th discovered short in his accounts, and soon afterward shot himself dead WILLIAM HOWELI., a school-teacher on trial for the murder of his cousin, Mrs Hall, and her four children, at Brookfield, Mo., was found guilty on the 27th. PROF. J. W. HOWELL, a well known edu cator of Rutledge College at Knoxville, Tenn., died on the 27th of hydrophobia. He was bitten thirteen years ago by a black and tan terrier. THK count of the cash and secureties in the United States Treasury at Washington incident to the transfer of the office from Mr. Hyatt to Mr. Huston, the incumbent, was completed on the 27th. There was #700,'.H)0,000. A shortage of $S was foun in the new silver vault, where 85,000.000 silver dollars were stored, and a deficit of S15 in the old silver vault containing $45 000,000. AT Columbus, O., Christ Weinman mur dered his wife on the 27th and then fatally shot himself. Domestic trouble was the cause of the tragedy. MRS. SUSAN JONES was set upon by dogs on the 27tn near Marion, Ind., and was nearly torn to pieces. The injured woman was seventy years old and woiihl probably not recover. THE heaviest wind and rain-storm in Chi cago lor years occurred on the evening of the 27th. The basements of many business blocks were flooded, and small rivers rushed along the sides of the streeta Many trees were blown down and other damage done. On the West side an unfin ished three story brick building was blown down upon a one-story frame cottage ad joining, burying it out of sight and crush ing its occupants. The families of a labor er named Charles Boch. and of a black smith named Cornelius Ferdinauches, were living in the cottage, and eight of them were killed and four seriously wounded The damage to property in the"city was es timated at $1,000,000. THE body of Dr. A. Jones, an aged and respected citizen of Cincinnati and Surgeon General of the State, was on the 27th found iu a man hole near his residence. He had been missing two days. James Bligh, a dis charged colored coachman, was arrested and confessed that he committed the crime! DURING a storm on the 27th near Prairie du Chien, Wis., trees, fences and outbuild ings wero blown down and crops were leveled A TERRIBLE rain and flood occurred on the 27th in the upper waters of the Little Kanawha valley, in West Virginia. Cal houn County as devastated und crops fences and houses were washed awav! Several lives were also reported lost In 1 leasant and Litchy counties great damage was done. I he total loss was estimated at #050,000. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. THK twentieth anniversary of the forma tion of the Prohibition partv in Ohio was celebrated on the 24th at Zanesville KEV. FATHER CURLEY, director of George town observatory, died in Washington on the 24th, aged ninety-three years. He was the oldest priest in the United States, ani, as far as known, iu the world THK Ohio Prohibitionists in State conven tion on the 25th at Zanesville made the fol lowing nominations: For Governor, ney. J. B. He!wig, of Springfield Lieutenant Governor. B. Logan, of Stark County Supreme Judge, Gideon T. Stewart, of Nor walk Treasurer. D. M. Trowbridge, of To ledo Attorney-General, E. Jay Plnney, of Ashtabula. .. o..fh MARY JACKSON (colored) died on the 2btn at ithaoa, N. Y., at the age of one hundred and live years. JAMES H. FKNTON, a dealer in horse equip ments in Chicago, and widely known all over the United States, died in Paris on the 20th from consumption. ROI.I.A BUOWN ^colored) died on the ~tn at Louisville, Ky., aged one hundred and five vears, JOHN C. BAUR, a well-known newspaper writer and politician of Pittsburgh, la., died on the 28th. aged fifty-two years. FOREIGN. A WKE KIN* T'NINPANY on the 24tu re covered the cargo of the bark Midway, which was wrecked in 1 off Gape H»?n lopen while bound from London to Phila delphia with tin, lead and spelter. The metals were valued at $150,000. A GREAT sensation was caused on the 24th in the highest circles of society in Copenhagen by the suicide of Count sparre, a member of a prominent Swiss family, after he had killed his mistress. NEWS of the 24th from Ounalaska, by the steamer Bertha, confirmed recent repoits of the loss of three whaling schooners, the James A. Hamilton, the Otter and the Annie. The vessels carried about sixty officers and men. A BAND of Servian brigands is harassing the Bulgarian frontier. In a conflict on the 25th with officers five of the brigands and two gendarmes were killed. THE Government ot Switzerland on the 25th expelled all the Russian Nihilists, French Anarchists and German Socialists resident there who were not provided with regular papers from their own countries. IN London on the 25tli Mr. and Mrs. Will iam E. Gladstone celebrated the fiftieth an niversary of their wedding. The Queen telegraphed her congratulations to the ex Premier and his aged wife. BISHOP WALSH, of London, Ont., was on the 2"tth elected Archbishop of Toronto to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Archbishop Lynch. THE probable yield of sugar in the Porto Principe district of Cuba during 18W (W was on the 25th estimated at IS,SJU hogsheads or 14,U0 tons. ADVICES of the 20th from China say that the Yellow river had again burst its banks in Shangtung, inun luting an immense ex tent of country. There was twelve feet of water throughout ten large governmental districts. The toss of life and property was incalculable. SEVEN TiiorsiNP balesof American cotton were destroyed by the burning of ware houses on the 20th at Liverpool. A CYCLONE in Hungary, Transylvania aud Bukovina on the 27th swept over several thousand square miles ef territory, and hundreds of persons were killed, the crops were destroyed and enormous damage was done to houses und churches. PRINCESS LOUISE VICTORIA ALEXANDRA DAGMAII, eldest daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales, was married iu the royal chapel at Buckingham palace on the 27th to Alexander William George. Earl of Fife. The ceremony was characterized by all the pomp of royalty. Queen Victoria and all the members of the royal family of England were present LATEST NEWS. A Masonic* War. CEDAB EAMDS, Iowa, Special Telegram, July 29.—A temporary injunction was or dered to-d'ty by Judge H. Preston of Iowa promises to make the most bitter Masonic war ever known in ths state, or perhaps in tho union. The petition on which the temporary injunction was ordered was brought by the supreme consistory of Iowa of the supreme council of the An cient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Lotted States of America. The cause of the action is the receat legislation of the grand lodge of Iowa, in which it com manded tliat all the Master Masons iu the so called Cerneau" br neh of the Scot Lish Kite to forthwith sever their con nee tions with that bodv or suffer cxoulsir.n 1 ho m-.st prominent lawyers in tho stata have been retained on either siJe. A. Canadian Schooner SEIZED. NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, July 21)—The sealing ache oner Triumph arrived yester day from Behring sea, carrying new* of the seizure or. the 11th inst., by tho United States revenue cruiser Hush, of the Br t sh schooner Black Diamond, while seal ing in Behring sea. The Triumph had S.000 seals on board, but not having caught any in water over which the Americans claim jurisdiction, was allowed to depart. The captain of the Rush said he had orders to seize any vessel with Behring sea seals aboard. Seals i re reposed very plentiful 1 here is much excitement at Victoria. Forest Fires. BOISE CITV, Tuty 29. -Forest fires are sweeping this county, destroying one of tho finest belts of timber in Idaho The country is so dry that the fires are spread ing over a great, extent of country. Qov. Shoup has telegraphed the secretary of tl e lire61"*01' rt«VE -t A FOUL DEED. of tho Forakcr, I n A. ^rai' a'^ ex,'nKuishing A Youth Chargtul With Arson. MAN K A TO, Special Telegram, July G*' Charles Chiison, aged thirteen, of Decora township, was arrested to-day on the ehj.rge of setting fire to the house of Ed. ward Chin die, one of liis parents ncigh bors 1 he house was a new one and com pletely burned. Cremated by Electricity. WICHITA, Kai, July 2'.'-To-day Ernest had WICK, a threa-year old boyr became entangled in an electric wjre attached to the gearing of the electric railway and was killed. His hands and stomach were burnoa to a crisp. Akin to ii Cyclone, A u 1 i s a a of BOSTON, Ju!v SO—A cyclone storm wind aud rain tTiis afternoon uprooted orchards, ploughed a furrow fifteen feet wide a long distance, and threw out of the Chicopee river fifty" feot'bLrhr Streams are rising rapidly. An Aliiauce. e a a definite offensive and defensive alliance France and 18 b°en concluded between Germany. Colored If out lor of lr. Charles HHgh, the A. K. .Junes Popular Cincinnati I'liy tlrlnn. Murders Hi* throw* the Hotly of SewtM'-lIift Con Tension. iruiu ma The unfortunate man had beeu robbed and Tho Jones, Jones, is one of ing occurrences that could have oo lng occurrence* mav ourred in Cincinnati. The Colonel was in his 77th year, but was as active as a man of 50. He "had always had au inclination to military life, and kept it up bv holding a connection with the Ohio National Guaid, serving for a long time as surgeon iu* First llesrimei) neighbor, ap- murdered. The murder of Dr. A. E. familiarly known as 'Colonel the most shock- First llegiment who was his geon-General Governor 1'oniKer, wnu u.o v., _r pointed him a member of his staff as Sur He had been active in pub- Fie all'aus, nerving often in the municipal council, and had, besides, held fe\eral of tieea under appointment from the general Government He was, perhaps, more wide ly known i:i Cu.ciuuali than any oihei cit izen. There was but a single wound. It was upon the back part of the head and slightly on the right side, as if the blow had been given from behind. Dr. Jones left his hou-a, r.bout o'clock Thursday afternoon, wearing no c:iat, las feet in siippers, and went in tho direction of his stable, lie asked what ino it was, though wearing Ids watch. That was the last seen of him alive. Tho family did not become alarmed until after night, and then prosecuted their search quietly until Friday, when notice was given to the police. During Friday a traii of blood was discovered op posite the doctor's stable on Cemetery street, and, being followed, was traced to Park avenue, theinv south two or three squared to the junction of Cypress street and Francis lane, where on the grass was quite a pool of blood. It was here iu a man hole of the sewer that the body was found. It was wrapped in a 1 orse-blanket, or rather sewed up, so that it was drawn out by means of a rope fastened around it by a man who had been lowered for that purpose. The body had been doubled up compactly, as if for con venience in carrying, aud it is apparent that the trail of blood was that which trickled from hi., wounds, as his murd"rer car ried him t" the place w here he thought to conceal -e\er the trace of his crime, tor he iioped the water would carry tho body into the river. It was found that the doctor's gold watch and his money were gone» This must have been the motive for the murder, as the doctor i has not an enemy in the world. Hie po lice made several arrests, anioiii, them bciug Charles Bligh, th*» colored hootler, I who had been with Coiuii-d .iimcc about I two mouths. Charles Bligh was arrested at S o'clock Saturday evening at Madisonville, ., and i at once brought here. When pumped by the police he broke down and made a fuil confession of his awful crime. His manner was easy and his story of horror was told with as little feeling as if lie had been nar rating the most commonplace events of a dull day's experience. His utory was as follows: "My name is Charles A. Bligh. I was born at K clvraond. Ky. I am years old. ym married. In March last 1 came to ihis citv and on the thsrtl Wednesday in March engaged to work for Dr. A. E. Jones as hostler and for other work at live dollars a week. On the afternoon of 1 hursday last I was working lu the garden pulling weeds when the doctor came out In his shirt sleeves, wearing slippers and a slouch hat and began to scold me. "1 had just come out of the barn. The doctor told me he wanted the weeds pulled out of that celery and he d.d not want any more excuses about it. The doctor was cross and took a little stick and struck me, but it did not hurt. It was just a little straw. This was near the stable-door. Ho talked pretty fierce and cussed mc and said again he did not want any more excuses. 'T bccame angry and as the doctor passed by me I picked up a bit of oak stick used in baling hay, and, raising both hands. I struck hun a blow from behind on the back of the head. He fell and was speechless, but not uCiitt. fie was not able to move he only breathed. I went on with my work in the gar den until about Cr'Jrt o'clock, .vl.en I got a suck in the barn that had been used tor oats and put lis* body in it, '•Ho was brcath'nst yet and drew up his le^ so that I could easily push his body into the sac.c. I then tied it up with a hitch nK-strap and went into the house and i/ot m\ supper as usual. The folks ashed m'e SCfm told them 1 the noctor and I had not. After supper they sent 1 (lhe to21fiiffdtvhe ll0Pt,,r's Ihem 'th .etVMS J"0* ^-in-law, 1 ,amU lKiCk itn,i to!d tl tm that the doctor had not een there 1 heal went lo the power-house of the cable roa.l and talked awhila with a col,red man am! .inic back al^ut lo o'clock, took the sack on nij shoulder, and carried it. down I'ark avenue to the man-hole. Two persons were aiif-ad of me os I went, but I kept out of their way S,iCkl0Wn0n thft »rass while I took off the .ron covQring of the manhole and then threw it in, covered up the manhole and went back 10 Colonel Jones' hous- and soon avenue."011° °Wn h°m° °U "I did not take Colonel Jones'watch nor his money. I did not know he had his watch or his money with him." vv iH Bligh is a mulatto. o vfinrs «i«t one.half feet tall, kera mus KILLED BY FALLING Rnd v tim lnt* CINCINNATI, O., July 2U The body of Colonel A Jones was found Satmday i in a man-hole not far Iroiii bia or nis confession was made in the presence ot about twenty persons. I)r. l:„bert Jones, son ot the murdered man was ores ent at the beginning, but when the murder ei began to tell how he struck his victim weVT) »ljll^d to leave the room. It is v-eb that the prisoner is under strong guai else his heartless recital would bring his swift retribution. The police do not "edit his story of not robbing his victim Only three dollars in money was found on hirm but they cxpect yet to find the stolen u ack® f™ "J .»4 Dr. Jones will be buried with military honors next Tuesday. The Governor's stair ent aTh?,nf'nf of hi0 tro°l)s will be pres ent. I he evidence against Charles iilrtri, he murderer, is now complete H?£ fessed bund ay that he had stolon General Jorn.8 watch and pawned it for$lu The ,in a Sixth Street paw n to Kwi i J'rob il,Iu Sble WALUs. Clticago Visited by a Disastrous Storm Wind an.I Italu. Hiir.iiK Ulii«h N,,,.** 1111 i I «1 i ti *. Kl.ti. .. it J* Kroete.l Ituilding I, Uo W „f Cr ing a Colt:ig« in IU iW'Hieut tlie Inmates Kilted ami Sev«»ial \V 1 u»h. ot fciEht "untied, CHICAGO, July 'J'.). —A rain and wind-stor of extreme violence, accompanied by tht der and lightning, broke upon the it" about tl o'clock Saturday evening andrau/r furiously for three hours. It was a roT sevens storm than i recollected since th^ one in June, is.*). A half-dozim hoij, were struck by lightning aml several buildings were blown over, kilh or wounding their occupants hundreds'^ basements 011 the North and Smita eiiic, were Hooded, destroying a great deal stored propeity, and a hundred minor., cidents are reported An estimate 0 the damage wrought exceeds SIIKI.OIMI. In the terrific storm a new three-storv brick building 011 the northeast cun„ 1 -avitt and Tweuty-lirst streets fell to the ground, crushing iu the wreck a cottii"^ which stood near by, and killm' eight persons, an follows Mrs. ('krjg tina Bocli, aged Mil years llauiiuh Uoch S years old Albert Boch, li years C. i'erdlnanchus, IW years ,MrR, l-^rdin nnchus, Ml years Cora l'erdinaaclius years Alida l'erdinanchus, y,,jrs Mary Kerdinanchus, 4 years. The woum^ are 1 1 iuUL) r**iuiii«uu:iiur, 1 -1 IU) WOmulft] are: Charles Boch, 4:. years August ]jwh li! years Luda I'erdlnanchus, Ferdinand!us, 7 years. tyKJtt# Tho cottage was a one-storv and base, nient building, and was occupied bv two families. In the front rooms lived" Cor. nelius terdinanchus with his wife and h\o children. The .ear room* we o upied by Charles Dock, hit wil an 1 three children. The building which foil upon it. was no that the fresh mortar offered little resistance to the furious gusts of wind and ruin, foundations were laid only live weeks ago but the walls were finished and the ryy{ w as partially oa It was owned bv William C. Brueshaber, of l»"o West Twenty-brut street, and August Karshhoek. of 'Four e e n s e e a n A s a n u w contractor. The accident occurred at .v The only victim 1 i•• was Charles Boch, •. ,\.• succeeded iu freeing bri* Bruised and bleei. i istreet to a grocery st.ee alarm. In a few mitiut the fire department, un shal Meyer, and Uveniv 1 der Lieutenant Thonii. I gaged 111 the work of re .• an hour passed before 1 taken out. It was that inanchus, who was n u rua* evening when every member of the two families were on the first floor, Jiut ,«c sudden was the crash that engulfed them that not one escaped from the house, all going dow n under a mass of Hying bricks and mortar. A slight swavn structure, a swinging of its ri a word of warning coul^ be gi collapsed lie tail before utter!* !in- lie -eil tht i\« tht •crs 0! i 1 Mar ..:a. un. re en ueari? I v waf V Fenl i.'or» ra then he bov l.(^l") v iteau! inl hei i Ferdinaiifhus i.nd Any..-! i recovered, the little girl au not seriously injured. was found doubled up that reotcd on her neck a: little son was near her. .Mr-. Little Ada Ferdinandsi. her crying and taken out of work. She and hei sister Lud i were the only ones saved in the Ferdinand:1 fur ry, both parents and three children N tag dead when taken from the debrit Ail the dead were taken to the morgue and the wounded arc cared for at the county hos pit&L 1 ut«d by .•0 llOiUI The rain-storm won the most remarkable deluge ever experienced in Chicago. ID four hours more than four inches of rain fell, an amount whose excess is only ap predated by those who remember that two inches of rain seldom falls in twenty-foui hours. The storm was also severe in the suburb!' the rain flooding cellars every w here. Thou sands of dollars'damage was dne. In Hyde Park, I.ake and all the adjacent district/ great damage was done, wind, ligntning and rain contributing to the work of de struction. l'he unprecedented rain-fall, the higt wind and the incessant lightning caused 1 Iocs* of property that is ditticti to esiiumtc. All kinds of property suti 'rod gootlf iu cellars and ba«enien:-, street*, shade-trees, sidewalks, lawns. shrub bery, driveways, unfuiMu:! lieii^ and dwellings. Ther were iortj iour alarms of li: many iroit lightning and most from tho destruction0 the insulation of the electric liL'lit wir®li In no case, however, was the los-» a heavy one from this source. One fact was luudf clear by the storm: the sewers of liicagc were unequal to the task of carrying otf th« water that fell. A result of the .-torni wili probably be an agitation of the matter looking tow arils a radi^il improvement hi the drainage facilities. SKVF.M: STOKMS I:I.M:WII! H!:.. 1'AHI 1:ITSJ: W V a u y -V phone reports from above terrible rain and Hood VVashlngton i 3 e say there was Friday night in upper waters of the Little Kanawha. Ke' ports from Grantsvillo say Calhoun untj was devastated and crops, fences ftDc houses were washed away during the night Several lives are also reported lost l'ar' tic 1 ilars are hard to get. The river 8' Grantsviile is reported to be fifteen fee' and rapidly rising. Iteportn from sections along tho Little Kanawha stiatt I hat a fearful storm occurred during th night and much property was destroy® Middle Island and all big creeks abov^i* I'leasant County are reported rising rapidly Bear Hun, Hitchy County. Hollered terribly The loss is reported at not less than 000. MILLIONS OF MONEY. The Count of tl»« Cash In the U|,ltet States Treasury Completed. WASIIIN'OTON, July L".l. 'I'lre count oft"' cash and securities in tho United BtaW Treasury incident to the transfer of office from Mr. Hyatt to Mr. Huston, incumbent, was completed Saturday after noon. There is $i?H,0(WMM(i. agi «n effort will be made C°nVi:t Bligb 800n PO«- A of eight dollars was found in the ije* silver vault, \j here H",»M),IKM) silver dol'af are stored, and a deiicit of $I"» in the 0 silver vault containing '•°t* shortages were immediately made good persons rRopotiKible for e safe keeping the m'110.1. It is believed that this mouj was lost during the recent flooding of vault,