BCHO EsTa b ma es} OONSOLIDATED JANUARY 12, 1880, VOL. VI, NG, 2, TOWN RECOVERING. ol ) el A e mproved Prospects for the People of the Flooded City. usiness Resumed, and the Work of Restoration Progressing. Johnstown, Penn., is steadily recovering m the effects of the terrible flood. The estimate of the loss of life has been reduced to between 3000 and 4000. The amount of money subscribed throughout the country or the flood sufferers isover $3,000,000. A ecent dls&mtqh from Johnstown gives the ollowing details concerning the resumption of business and the work of restoration and relief: The first real work under the supervision of the State commenced this morning at 6 o'clock. The whistle at the Cambria Iron and Steel Works was the signal for the men to commence, and about fifteen hundred start ed in with their picks and shovels. The ear ly morning was warm and cloudy. As the morning advanced the weather grew warm er, and by 10 o'clock the sun was shining brightly and every one on the ground was hard at work. During the morning a crowd of men in some manner secured an entrance to the town and wanted to inaugurate a strike among the workmen. James Mec- Knight, of Pittsburg, of the State contract ors, went to General Hastings, who is in full charge at Johnstown, and demanded protec tion for the men. A detatchment of mili tia from the Fourteenth Regiment were de tailed to the place and they drove away all the men who refused to work. This caused General Hastiggs to issne an order to the sol diers not to admit any one to Johnstown pr%fier without an order. e business men of the town seemed to have awakened to their senses, and this morning a number of them were preparing to start over again inbusiness. Two grocery stores were started near the Pennsylvania railroad freight station. Both places were doing a land office business and this encour aged other merchants to start up, and the probabilities are that inside of a week at lat est 100 stores will be in operation. Already two barber’s shops and one jewelry store thave been opened. General lfistings said : ““ As yet I do not fmow how many men are at work, but I sup pose there must be 1500 at the least calcula tion. Weintend to put as many men to work ms can be worked properly. I donot sugepose we want more than 5000, and it will be an easy matter to get that many men. Ido not want to employ any one but Pennsylvania men, and would like to get as many Johns town people at work as possible. They are the ones &at need the work. A false impres sion has broken out to the cffect that the boroughs here are under martial or mlitary law., This is a mistake. The State has charge of the work, and the only thing the military is doing is guarding the property. We will clear away all the debris on tue streets and level the town off. I do not know yet whether we will clean out the cellars of the houses, but if I had my own way I would doit. Itisas little as the State can do to clean out the places and give the people clean foundation to build on. Beside, there is not the least doubt that there are a number of bodies in these cellars and they should be taken out.” General Hastings has now gotten every thing down to a system. There will be but one morgue and hospital and one headquar ters. Everything has now been centralized, and it is easy to get at the facts. Captain Seers, of the United States Army, one of the Corps of Engineers at Willet's Point, and Captain Burbank, of the West Point Engineering Corps, have laid out the different boroughs in five districts, and com petent men have been appointed to take charge of each district. Captain Seers, inan interview, said: “I am only here to advise General Hastings and do what I can to help him. I think that inside of two weeks the three or four thousand men that will be at work will succeed in {)uttin g the town in very §ood condition, and 1 think inside of a month ohnstown will have almost recoverad from this terrible shock.” The general opinion among well-posted people here is that the loss of life will be be tween 3000 and 4000. It was generally given out that Johnstown and boroughs adjoining had a population of 35,000 people, but this is a very high estimate, and conservative peo ple put the population between 25,000 and 28,000. Colonel Rogers, who has charge of the registration, states that from all he can learn the population only amounted to about 25,000, and this accounts for 10,000 people snggosed to be lost, e reports sent out from hero to the ef fect that 12,000 to 15,000 people were missing were based upon the supposition that there were 35,000 inhabitants in_these boroughs. _ F To-day was the second day since the mooa that Johnstown was not deluged with rain. The people are making heroic efforts to clean out their houses to fit them for habitation. Neighbors have combined to help one another to reset houses on their foundations and to remove the accumulations of drift and rub bish which bar entrance to their doors. The sewer pipes are allawry and the cellars are full of water. There is need for engines to pump out the water as early as possible. Syphen ing has been tried, but with no success, as the cellars are much lower than the ground. The Cambria Company started out a corps of surveyors this afternoon to locate lines of demarcation for the rebuilding and rapair of their demolished plant. The first decisive step tolx]var(} putting Johnstown's business men on their feet again was made M&Mhen about two lmn‘i:ed merchants who survived the flood. many of them without a dollar, met Adjutant General Hastings this afternoon, and were assured that they would be re-established in business on longom'edlt. Both Pittsburg and Philadelphia W lesalers have offered Johns town merchants this business courtesy upon the suggestion 0f General Has . The report of the Bureau of Transporia tion, which died with the Citizens’ Relief Committee, was presented to James B. Scott to-day. It shows that from June 4to 11, in clusive, lmp?lewm given free trans portation out Johnstown. Out of these $72 were over the Pennsylvania and 720 over the Baltimore and Ohio. One bundred and WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1889. seventy-six were sent to Fittsburg by the Baltimore and Ohio and 636 over the Penn silvama; 157 were sent to Philadelphia over the Baltimore and Ohio. The Bureau of In formation answered 287 telegrams and sixty eight letters, mostly inquries from anxious friends as to the safety of Johnstowners. The mass at the stone bridge was fired this afternoon and to-night is burninf furiously. With it is destroyed all hope of recovering the bodies that are certainly there entombed. Adjutant-General Hastings said to-night: *‘Provisions and clothing are coming in at a sa.tlsfactorty rate and there is no immediate prosgect of a diminution. I have instructed all the commissary peo;i_l‘? to be generous in dealing out supplies, here there is any question they will give the applicant the benefit of thedoubt. To-day we have been feeding a good many of the men, but every cent of it is being charged up against them. The soldiers are also taking supplies from the commissary depart ments, but this is all chaxiged to the State, and as soon as I get to Harrisburg I will make out a warrant for the amount in favor of the relief fund. This morning I tele graphed Mayor Fitler of Philadelphia for four steain fire engines. At 11 he replied that they were on the way with crews. I deemed this necessary as a precautionary measure, on account of the great mass of debris we shall burn during the next few daéf)‘” vernor Beaver announced that he had abandoned the idea of usingrSl,OOo,ooo out of the Pennsylvania State Treasury under the proposed indemnity-bond scheme, for the reason that such action might establish a bad precedent. He has decided instead to adopt the suggestion of William H. Kemble —that the money be loaned to_the Governor by private corporations. The Governor stated that he had been offered a million dol lars by national banks of Philadelphia with out secunt{) and without interest, the loaners to be reimbursed by the Legislature at its next session, and he has accepted this offer. This money will be used to clear the streams and place the highways in order and perform other necessary State work. o —————— T R ————— POSTAL CLERKS KILLED. Four Lives Lost by a Railway Acci dent in Ohio. The New York and St. Louis mail train met with a disastrous accident at Cumber iand Junction, three miles east of Steuben ville, Ohio. Owing to imperfect connec tions with the Pennsylvania Rail road, the Pan-Handle section was nearly two hours late in leav ing Fittsburg, and had orders to make up an hour of the %()st time between Pittsbur§ and Columbus. Just east of Cumberland Junc tion is a steep down grade over a sharp re verse curve. On this the frain, consisting of an engine, express and four mail cars, lunged at the rate of sixty miles an hour. }l)‘he last car was whipped from the track like the end of a whip lash and ploughed along the embankment on its side for a distance of over ome hund;'ed'feet. In leaving the track it drew with it the two mail cars in front, and the forward car struck a car loaded with steel rails, crushing in the side and throwing both ecars, which were not uncoupled, down an embankment twenty-five feet hi§h and landing them, bot tom up, in the ditch. In these cars were the conductor and brakeman and twelve postal clerks. Two of the postal clerks were killed outright, and nine injured. They were John G. Pa%pe, of Indianapolis, and f;tmes Rinehart, of Effing ham, 111. Both had their skulls erushed. Lee Burris, of Columbus, the conductor, had his right hip crusbed and his thigh sFlm open from the Yxip to the knee. John Mac- Farland, a brakeman, had his left leg com letely severed from his body and his right Eag crushed to a jelly. Both men were fatally injured and died during the night. ——— R ————— WET BY A BIG MAJORITY., Prohibition Defeated in Pennsylvania —The Poll Tax Retained. Returns from sixty-four of the sixty-seven counties in Pennsylvania give 164,470 ma jority against the proposed amend ment prohibiting the sale of liquor. Forty-two counties (not including Allegheny) gave 4525 majority for abolishing the poll tax, but the rural districts voted heavily ‘against this amendraent and it is lost. “Returns received at the Pittsburg Times office include every county in the State, and are as follows: Against the Prohibition Amendment 189,710 Wby D N el DR Majority against.......ccooieeernens 135,18 As the later returns come in i is apparent that the Prohibition defeat is more complets and overwhelming than wasever dreamed of. Exact figures from fifty counties in the State and close estimates on the other seventean give a majority against the prohibitory amendment of 200,057. These figures were not likely to be materially changed. Returns received show that the suffrage amendment (proposing the abolition of the fifty-cent poll tax qualification) is defeated by a decided majority, notwithstanding the fact that PhiladelEhia gave 92,525 majority for its fl.(heftion. The latest estimate from all but twelve counties was 146,996 against the poll tax abolition. BURNED TO DEATH, How a Mother and Child Lost Theit Lives—Two Men Perish. Elizabeth Tyler, aged twenty-five, wife of John W, Tyler, a printer at the South Balti more Car Works, at Curtis Bay, Md., poured coal oil on her fire while preparing breakfast the other morning. The oil-can exf)loded. setting fire to the :lothin%zfqus. Tger and her eight months’ old boy, jamin n Tyler. bumifinthem both so severely that they died within a few hours. ! A fire destroyed Boiton's mill, near Newn Mich. Adjoining it was a large ouse where the employes I A Al&::o .nand Ole lz[(:li.ennnyl e in flames, another man, am) from a window, received probably tuf in m. It is thought that the fire was incen- ANOTHER BROKEN DAM. A Kansas Village Flooded and , Several Lives Lost. Bridges Swept and the Growing Crops Greatly Damaged, The bursting of a dam at Uniontown, Kan., flooded the towns of Uniontown and Bell town, and several lives were lost. Union town is about fifteen miles west of Fort Bcott, on the Wichita and Western Railway. Two women and four children were drowned. The place has 600 inhabitants. Itis in the midst of a thickly settled country. The storm struck the western part of Bour bon County late at might, coming from the west, where it had played great %avoc. At Augusta it assumed the form of a cloud burst. In Fort Scott it commenced raining about 7 o'clock in the morning. Old residents say it was the hardest rain in thirty years. The water commmenced rising in Buck Run at 8 A. M., Lamb & Mead’s ice dam, on Sixth street, burst about 10 A. M., causing the water in Buck Run to rise at the rate of about three feet an hour, carryinsg away several houses and the bridge across Sixth street. The part of Fort Scott known as Belltown was entirely under water. People were taken out with boats. Several bridges were washed out, and trains were stopped on both sides of Fort Scott. The Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota track was under water for about nine miles out. The Memrhis road was badly damaged for about 1000 feet ten miles north of Fort Scott. All the people .in the bottom in east Fort Scott moved out. The upper valley of the Walnut was flooded from excessive rains. The river came up so suddenly that a family named Graham start ed from their home to the highland. The mother and babe were drowned, the father and one child escaping. Grain fields are flood ed, and much damage must result. Allen County, Kansas, has suffered severe ly from floods in the Neosko River and its principal tributaries. The streamshave been unusuall{ hi%h all spring, and heavy rains rought them out of their banks, flooding the bottoras for a mile or more on either side. Hundreds of acres of wheat, which was just ripening and promised a very large yield, are almost a total loss, while the submerged corn and other crops will be greatly damaged. The Bt. Louis, Wichita and Western Railroad bridge across Kock Creek, east of lola, has been undermined, and is only held by the iron track from %oing down stream. Nearly a (gmrter of a mile of track has been washed from the bed, while the road bed has been seriously damaged. Near the river west of lola a large number of small bridges and culverts along the wagon roads have been washed out. e — i AR ——— e ; kil ' MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. ! THERE are in London sixty-five theatres. DUBUQUE, lowa,is building a $40,000 opera ‘house. Lypia THOMPSON'S manager lost $15,000 last season. s CoxTrRALTO EMMA JUCH says she is just twenty-seven. POSSART, the German actor, will play in New York city next fail. PHILADELPHIA will have eighteen theatres n full blast next October. MRs. DALLAS-GLYNN, a once celebrated English Shakespearean actress, is dead. HARRIGAN, the Irish author-actor,is to dis band his company and leave New York. CoLoxEL JouN A. McCAULL has engaged Geraldine Ulmar as his prima donna for next season. BuFraLo BiLL is a more pronounced suc cess in Paris than ever Boulanger was before he ran away. MADAME ADELINA PATTIis not drawing the crowded houses at Buenos Ayres that greeted her on the occasion of her first visit. Gus WILLIAMS, the German dialect come dian, has been engaged for Herrmann’s Trans atlantic Vaudeville Company next season. Tag first company of genuine ‘‘negro” minstrel is said to have been organized in Macon, Ga., during the closing years of the war. Epwin Boord says that if he had been per mitted to follow his own bent he would have been a circus performer instead of an actor. OvR gifted countrywoman, Miss Marie Van Zandt, was invited to sing before Queen Victoria at the state concert given in Buck ingham Palace. IN Paris the Italian opera season is next to tabooed by fashion and the house is half em{)ty every night—another nail in the coffin of Italian opera. OMAHA boasts of a young lady, not yet twenty, who has composed an opera, written the libretto and led tgg orchestra at the first production of her work. Mrs. LANGTRY smokes com;immflge on a lounge; Mrs, Brown-Potter smokes between the courses of a dinner, and her dressing rooms are redolent of tobacco. IN the whole history of operain England, Carl Rosa appears as almost the only mana er who always d}:aid a bundred cents in a golln.r, and who died worth a handsome for tune. Boora Axp BARRETT have cleared some thing near $lOO,OOO by their month’s engage ment at the San Franeisco (Cal.) Theatre, and will enjoy their vacation tOjGther cruisin, lidly during the hot months along the eoa.s% ' between Bar Harbor and Newport. | ANOTHER musical prodigy, Miss Hanna Maria Hansen, a Norwegian gxrli aged four teen, is announced to appear in don as a pianist. Miss Hansen played before t.heK::s anh%?ueefixot Sweden,a:(tit.he age (}f four . ahalf. Her mastery power of technique ate said to be remarkable. EAcH of:el:le 135%)1 cob:(\)victatatf.'lgflet, ]]g.’ was presented with a bouquet of flowers the ladies of the W. . T.qU., on Flower Day LATER NEWS. AN ocean steamer which sailed from New York a few days since carried over 300 dele gates to the World’s Sunday-school Conven tion in London. They represented every sec tion and every Protestant denomination in this countiy. GEORGIE DWYER, the fifteen-month-old grandson of Septimus Turner, a farmer liv ing near Bristol, Penn., was drowned in a wash boiler filled with buttermilk. STATE ATTORNEY BISBEE, of Barre, Vi, was thrown from his carriage at Williams town Gulf and fatally injured. . PRINCETON COLLEGE, of New Jersey, has conferred the honorary degree LL.D. on President Harrison. GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania, ac companied by the members of the Relief Committee, visited Johnstown. On reaching general headquarters the party mounted horses and made a tour of inspection which lasted over three hours. The Governor ex pressed gratification at the progress made. THE remains of John Sevier, first Governor of Tennessee, which have lain for seventy four years in North Alabama,were reinterred in Knoxville with imposing ceremonies. A twenty-thousand-dollar monument will be erected over his grave. SENATOR MANDERSON, of Nebraska, has just received $4OOO back pension money for an increase of pension on account of a gun shot wound received in the war. THE postoffice at Waycross, Ga., was bro ken into and robbed of $ll,OOO and a number of registered mail packages. P. O’SuLLIVAN, Detective Coughlin,Frank Woodruff and Martin Burke, who was re cently arrested in Manitoba, have been in dicted by the special Grand Jury of Cook County, 111., for the murder of Dr. P. H. Cronin, in Chicago. Harpy HamiLToN has been hanged af Rome, Ga., for the murder of Joe Lee, a Chinaman. THE Secretary of State has received a tele gram from Mr. Straus, the United States Minister at Constantinople, saying the Sultan of Turkey donated $lOOO for the relief of the Johnstown flood sufferers. Tae President has appointed John R. Lewis Postmaster at Atlanta, Ga., vice John W. Renfoe, resigned. WiLnLiaM J. Vickeßy, of Indiana; Charles H. Clarke, of New York, and Llewellyn Jor dan, of Mississippi, have been appointed by President Harrison Postoffice Inspectors on mail depredations. TORRENTIAL rains, accompanied by thun der, have swept over Hesse, South West phalia, Nassau and Thuringia. The storm extended east to Saxony and south to Bavaria. Serious damage was done to corn, hay and fruit crops. Several persons and a large number of cattle perished. A REVOLUTIONARY manifesto from Servia has been circulated in Bosnia and Herze govina announcing that Austria intends to annex those territories. The populace was gareatly excited. THE TREATY SIGNED., Work of the Samoan Conference in Berlin Accomplished. The agreement negotiated by the Commis sioners to the Samoan Conference for the settlement of affairs in Samoa has been signed by all the members of the Confer ence. America having abandoned her principal objections to the agreement previousliy ar rived at, the plenipotentiaries had only to malke unessential modifications in the word ing of the draft. The draft guaranteesanau tonomous administration of the islands under the joint control of Germany and America, England acting as arbitrator in the event of difference arising. The Samoans are to elect their own King and Viceroy, and to be represented in a Senate com posed of the principal chiefs and Chambers elected by the people. Samoa is to have the right of levying duticsof every kind. The agreement also stipulates that the Germans shall receive a money indemnity for their losses. A special court will be appointed to deal with the land question. The Americans made their adhesion condi tional ulgon the ratification of the agreement by the United States Senate next December. The status (l;’uo will, therefore, obtain in Samoa until December. LA —— ee i THE DROWNING RECORD. Seven Lives Lost in One Day in Vari ous Localities. While swimming in the Vermilion River, a short distance below Danville, 111., Robert Courtney, aged fifteen, and another lad, were drowned. Otto Meyers, aged twenty-three {flears, was drowned at Shelton, Conn., while bathing in the Housatonic. A man named Arns and anunknow’bo were drowned while swimming at St. au.E Mrs. Charles Cleaves and Erdine Cole, a goung woman of 16, were drowned at Syring eld, Me., while bathing. Mrs. Cleaves leaves four children and a husband in the West. e —————— I —— TEE total length of the submarine cables at present in use is 113,031 miles. Of this length 102,531 miles belong to various cable companies, and 10,000 miles are Government property. Price Five Cents. NEW SERIES—VOL. I. NO. 21. ARTHUR'S MONUMENT. A Memorial Erectjtd by His Friends Unveiled Albany. The handsome granite and bronze monu ment erected at the grave of the late Presi dent Chester A. Arthur, in Rural Cemetery, at Albany, N. Y., by some of his personal admirers, has been officially unveiled, with outceremony, by the donors, who inspected it. CHESTER A. ARTHUR'S MONUMENT. Themonument over General Arthur’s %:ive was designed by Mr. E. Keyser, of Albany, and the work cost $lO,OOO. A broad flight of five granite steps leads from the path to the turf which covers the burial plot, while around the enclosure are granite pillars, be tween which are suspended heavy chains of bronze. In the centre of the plot is the monument, a sa.rcoghag'us of dark gra.nite, perfectly plain and highly polished. The sarcophagus stands on two piers of lighter colored granite, also bighlty polished. The iers rest on a broad base o hfiram'te. and the gase is supported by a smoothly dressed gran ite plinth ten feet long and six feet broad. At the foot of the sarcopha, stands a figure representing the Anggu?)f Sorrow. ng:figure is of bronze, and is of heroic size. It stands with folded w(nggeleaning against the sarcophagus, one Wm%l ing thrown out ward by the pressure in the most animated and picturesque manner. The left arm of the (Pgure is extended along the sarcophagus laying on the tomb a palm of bronze. There is no inscription on the sa.rcoghagus, but on the base is the word ‘“Arthur” in letters raised in high relief, and also a tablet of bronze sunk into the base with the inscrip tion: : CHESTER ALAN ARTHUR, : : Twenty-first President of the United : > States. . s Born, Oct, 5, 1830. it s Died, Nov. 18. 1886. o There are also buried in the plot General Arthur’s father and mother, his wife and a son. A fund for the erection in New York of a statue to General Arthur has beem raised, and the money has all been paid in., As yet no design has been adopted, but one: soon will be, and the work will then be be-: gun. The statue will doubtless bs placed in: one of the principal %%blic squares or parks in New York city. hen it is ready to be unveiled, the exercises that were to have been held at the unveiling of the Albany monu-. ment. or others similar. will be carried out.- e N EE——— { PROMINENT PEOPLE, THE Czar refuses to visit Berlin, b ADMIRAL PORTER is seventy-six years old., EplTor MURAT HALSTEAD is in Germany: ' MRs. CLEVELAND is learning to play the: violin, : HeNRY CLEWS, the Wall street broker, has! written a novel. i JEFFERSON DAVIS was eighty-one years: old June 3, 1889, —— rs‘: Cyrus W. FIELD began lifc as a clerk in a New England store. i BRETE HARTE has taken up his permanent residence in London. ! LORD ZETLAND, the new Irish Viceroy, willj serve only one yez’zr. " IT is rumored that President Diaz will visit! the United States next fall, ? CLARA BARTON, President of the Red Cross’ Association, was born in Maine, : Sir EDWIN ARNOLD, author of the “Light; of Asia,” is coming to this country. i VICE-PRESIDENT MORTON is becoming anj extensive property owner in Washington. THE first of living Americans in the esti mation of European nations .. Buffalo Bill, ' Kate CHASE SPRAGUE is writing a biog-I raphy of her father, the late Chief Justice! Chase. : KINGLAKE, the English historian who E now seventy-eight years old, is not in good. bealth. . JOSEPH PULITZER, owner of the New Yorlk; World, once acted as stoker on a Mississippf; steamboat. EbpilsoN, the electrical inventor, is said tos have amassed a fortune of $12,000,000 by his: inventions. : Jim Keexg, the famous manipulator of} wheat corners, once drove a .nilk wagon in & California town. - His RoyAL HiGHNESS KinG MALIETOA, off Samoa, has developed an inorJdinate desire for beer and pretzels. JOHN Davis, the wholesale d i is the richest man in Mis';(-u:'?,' fidsvm being estimated at $22,000,0(x\. Hox. E. J. GaY, of Louvi.ana, who died the other day, was the richest man in thei South. He was worth $10,000,000, Eplsox says it cost him thirty-five cents a. mile to learn the game of poker on a train: from New York to Chicago not long ago. HrrPoLYTE, the winner of the Hagfian con test, isa most inveterate smcker. Heisnevert :yithout a strong, black cizar between hist ins. et I e ANOTHER band of buffalo which has not beanfimra.llyknown toha.vebeeninexist-’ ence been discovered in the ‘“‘Bad Lands’ around the Bull Mountains, about bhalfway between the Yellowstone and Missouri Riv ers. in Dawson Countv. Mcntana.