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THE wokld at large.
gunuaary of tho Daily Newa
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The war department has received full
confirmation of the report that the
threatened outbreak of Moqui Indians
in Arizona has been averted and the
leaders arrested.
A telegram has been received by Sur
geon-General Wyman from the United
States quarantine station atChandeleur
island, off the coast of Mississippi, an
nouncing the death there on the night
of June 29 of Assistant Surgeon J.
Groesvelt of yellow fever.
The statement that Hon. 11. H. Smith
s special bank examiner, had gone to
Las Vegas, N. M., to take charge of the
first National, was totally unfounded.
' The secretary of the interior has ap
pointed as trustees for town site entries
of lands in Oklahoma John Foster, W.
& Robertson and A. C. Snell, all of
Guthrie, to be known as board No. 6.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton
Jias appointed Taylor Faunae and Law
rence E. Brown, of Philadelphia, special
agents of the treasury department to
investigate the cases of the Keystone
and Spring Garden national banks of
Philadelphia.
Senor Romero, the minister from
Mexico, denies that Mexico is ripe for
a revolt against the present govern
ment
Lieut. Godfrey McDonald, of the
Sixth cavalry has been ordered to pro
ceed at once to Fort Bennett, S. D.,
and organize a military company of
Sioux Indians. Most of the redskins
were hostilcs in the Indian war last
winter and their leader is the wily
Chief Hump.
- GautemalA is reported to be prepar
ing to arrange for reciprocity treaties
with both the United States and
Mexico.
Secretary Foster has authorized the
acceptance of the offer of the Itata to
pay $5OO fine for the violation of the
navigation laws. This does not affect
the charges of kidnaping an officer and
violation of tfie neutrality laws.
THE EAST.
The Priestley carpet mill at Philadel
phia has been destroyed by fire.
Solomon & Frank, wholesale tobac
codealers at No. 85 Maiden lane, New
York, have assigned to Louis 11. Ras
eoacr, without preferences.
| Flint & Co., of New York, have re-
I dived a cable from their Rio Janeiro
tense stating that a cabinet has been
organized with Lucena as minister of
the treasury. He was minister of agri
culture under the former administra
tion.
W. K. Vanderbilt’s yacht Alva res
cued the crew of the schooner Wake,
which was discovered off Brenton reef,
K. L, in a sinking condition. Shortly
' after the men were taken off the
! schooner disappeared.
Ex-Vice-President Hannibal Ham
lin died at Bangor, Me., on the night
of the 4th.
Four murderers were successfully
electrocuted at Sing Sing, N. ¥., on the
7th. They were Slocum and Smiler,
two wife murderers, and Jugiro, a Jap
anese, and Wood, a negro, who had
killed men in quarrels.
An unknown man lifted the cover of
a sewer manhole on Third avenue, New
York, one night recently and dived in
head foremost twenty feet into the con
duit His body was not found.
An explosion of gas in the great
Greenridge colliery near Mount Carmel,
Pa., set fire to the works. Great dam
age was likely to ensue.
THE WEST.
1 The Centenary M. E. church and four
handsome residences, San Francisco,
have been destroyed by fire. Loss
$lOO,OOO.
The Park theater, St Paul, Minn.,
has been destroyed by fire.
The Chilian vessel Itata has been
safely brought back to San Diego, Cal.
There were two fatal balloon ascen
sions in Ohio on the 4th. At New Lis
bon Aeronaut Charles J. Jones was
killed and at Elvia Mlle. Zoetta Bent
ley met her death. Both were from
Cleveland.
About twenty persons were killed
and as many injured by the rear-end
collision near Ravenna, O. Most of the
victims were glassworkers from Find
ky.
Two of James Curran’s children died
at Birch Coolie, Minn., and another is
aotexpected to live. They ate some
roots which they found on
the prairie. •
ft# chiefs of the Minnesota Chippc-
Indians are in private council at
"kite Earth preparing a letter setting
Wth their greivances. They claim
that they were swindled out of 1,000,000
acres of laud in the Leaf river country.
Six hundred coal miners about Peoria,
El., have struck. The companies are
Well stocked and will stand out for
months if need be.
Commissioner Darby has returned to
Grand Forks, N. D., from the grasshop
pev district, which he states is increas
in area. The hoppers are begin
hatch on the low lying lands
coming out rapidly.
THMQierokee claim of title to the
been denied by Judge Seay at
Ajfl ?fisher, Ok.
s [ flE source of the Jake forming at
I r i Ariz., has been found to be the
Colorado river.
I Lo RE ? t>BSt Bernheimer, of the St.
I stJir *'^ erc^ ants ' exchange, believes in
K earl Y after the next democratic
g .fa k . na * 000v ention, and has issued a
PSt letter to the presidents of the
c l u b» Cotton exchange and
k as ' < ' n S' them to appoint com-
. s 10 tak e into consideration the
P us hing St. Louis’ claims
that preference.
hiindred men employed at the
|||*£*uringhaus rolling mill on Destrehan
St Louis, walked out on a
an d the works are now idle in
mg®*®quence. The men want Mr.
'eidripghaus to agree to a new sebed
prices, which he refuses to do.
Nagle, a. lawyer, was shot
Braynard, one of the opposing
E*** 1 in a property suit in Judge Tol-
JP at Red Bud, Cal., and died
The Robert and Minnie schooner,
libeled for violating neutrality laws in
connection with the Itata, has been dis
charged by Judge Ross at Los Angeles,
Cal. Officials of the government w’ere
considerably surprised at the decision.
Turing the height of a storm at Chi
cago the captive balloon at the world’s
fair grounds, recently imported from
Paris, was struck by lightning and de
stroyed. The French aeronauts, God
dard and Pamis, were both severely in
jured.
The lowa miners’ union has decided
to hold out for the eight hour day.
Only a part of the old strikers are now
out.
Rt. Rev. Joseph I) went; er, bishop
of the Fort Wayne diocese of the Cath
olic church, is very low and has been
given up by the attending physicians.
Mrs. Hislop, wife of the station agent
at Fond du Lac, Minn., was drowned
while trying to save her baby from
drowning. She put the child on the
bank of the river, but fell back herself
exhausted and was carried away and
drowned.
The northwestern saengerfest opened
at Milwaukee with over 4,000 people
present
Two freight trains on the Cleveland,
Canton & Southern railroad collided
near Newburg, O.,and a numberofcars
were smashed into kindling wood. Five
men were badly hurt, two of them
probably fatally.
Tile building occupied by Burkhardt
& Co., fur dealers, Cincinnati, and ad
joining premises were destroyed by
fire on the uight of the Bth. The loss
was put at $1,000,000.
Judge Plowman, at Deadwood, S. D.,
has declared the state prohibition law
unconstitutional. An appeal will be
taken.
The general executive board of the
Knights of Labor has decided upon To
ledo, 0., as the place for the next ses
sion of the general assembly. The
time is Tuesday, November 10.
4
THE SOUTH.
Three students of the Woodstown
Catholic college, St. Mary’s county, Md.,
were struck dead by lightning while in
their beds at night. Several others were
injured.
On the Kanawha <t Michigan railway,
Hear Charleston, W. Ya., a passenger
train was wrecked on a burned trestle.
Fourteen persons were killed and fifty
eight injured
Galveston was swept by a gale for
three days. Waters of the gulf were
driven inland.
Fire broke out in W. T. Harvey &
Co.’s lumber yard at Columbus, Ga.,
and $25,000 worth of lumber in the yards
was destroyed. The fire swept an en
tire block and the total loss will prob
ably amount to $100,000; insurance about
$67,000.
Voters under the new constitution of
Mississippi are required to register at
least four months before election.
Registration returns have been received
to make it reasonably certain that for
the first time since reconstruction a
majority of the legal voters of the state
are white.
Moses Bros.’ bank at Montgomery,
Ala., has suspended payment The as
sets will amount to more than the lia
bilities.
A tornado wrecked the walls of the
penitentiary at Baton Rouge, La., on
the 6th. Ten convicts were killed and
a number injured. Much other damage
was done in the Louisiana capital. On
the same day tornadoes were reported
in Mississippi.
At Blockshire, Ga., fifty mounted
men, fully armed, broke into jail, took
Robert Brown, colored, who raped Mrs.
O’Berry, to a spot one mile from town,
tied him to a pine sapling and riddled
his body with bullets.
Robert Frahkovich, Frank Nlilto
vich, Pete Strangle and J. Speech were
drowned during the gale near North
Point, Galveston, Tex. All were con
nected with the fish trade in Galveston.
The Jefferson Lumber Co., the Jeff
erson Woolen Mills Co., and J. 11.
Bemis, individually, of Jefferson, Tex.,
have assigned. The indebtedness of the
three concerns will aggregate over
$500,000.
Summit, Miss., was visited by two
cyclones the other day. They were
about eight miles apart Many houses
were destroyed and a number of people
injured and one child killed.
GENERAL.
Kaiser William met with a remark
able welcome on his arrival in England.
He expressed much gratification at his
reception.
The Russian government has con
sented to take part in the world’s fair
at Chicago. Baron Streuve will pre
side over the exhibit
The Fourth, in a political point of
view, was comparatively quiet The
day, nearly everywhere, was passed in
social enjoyment
The steamers Kinloch and Dunholme
were in collision in the British channel.
The Dunholme was sunk. Seven men
were thought to have been lost
Queen Victoria’s granddaughter,
lYincess Victoria Louise of Schleswig-
Holstein, was married on the 6th to
Prince Aribet, of Germany. The wed
ding was attended by Emperor William
in addition to the queen and other royal
persons.
Several fights occurred in Carlow
between Parnellites and anti-Parnell
ites. Sticks and stones were freely
used and several persons were injured.
A plebiscite taken in Switzerland
favors a new law introducing the ultra
democratic principle of popular initia
tive in legislation. The law empowers
a body of 50,000 citizens to submit the
text of bills to the chambers and to
compel the chambers to discuss such
bills.
The British war ship Cordelia, Capt
Harry T. Grenfeld, reports at Sydney,
N. S. W., that while practicing with one
of the Cordelia's six inch breech-loading
guns the gun exploded, killing Lieut
William B. Hillyer, Lieut Gordon and
four seamen and injuring four midship
men and ten seamen.
The steamer Danube has returned to
Victoria, B. G.» with-18,000 sealskins *
gathered from the Victoria fleet which
are in Behring sea. She reports that
all the vessels will continue sealing de- <
spite the order U council. ,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1891.
The \ atican authorities have request
i ed the papal nuncios at foreign courts
to invite contributions to compensate
for the speculative losses in the Peter’s
• pence fund.
Jews to the number of about 900 left
• Lithuania, Russian Poland, the other
1 day- -The police of Smolensk ordered
i them to embrace orthodoxy but the
Jews assembled in the synagogue and
vowed that they would not abandon
their faith. They then sold their
houses and in two days left the coun-
I. try.
It is said that efforts are being made
in Paris to induce President Carnot to
pay a visit to England and that the
> president himself favors the plan.
There was a riotous strike recently
among the reapers in the Volletri dis
trict, Italy. The troops who were sent to
’> the spot shot twomf the rioters and
I wounded a number of others in quelling
i the disturbance.
• A dispatch from Rome says that the
villagers on the slope of Mount Vesuvi-
i us are abandoning their homes and
vineyards, fearing that one of the
I greatest eruptions in the history of the
i mountain is impending.
Russian mercrchants have taken ad
vantage of the scarcity of rye to create
i a “corner” in that commodity. “Cor-
> nering” is illegal, but can be pursued
! with impunity by bribing officials. The
l famine is so serious that the grashdan
thanks the German chancellor for insti
; tuting a prohibitive tariff which stops
■ the export of grain from Russia.
Ihe Pope has decided to create in
> Mexico three archbishops to be called
Linars, Oxaca and Durango, and five
bishoprics, Cuernavaca, Saltillo, Te
huantepec and Chihuahua.
Spring wheat in certain parts of
Russia promises to partially make up
for the deficient winter crop.
Genoa, Italy, proposes to hold an
Italo-Americano exposition in Septem
ber, 1892, in honor of Columbus.
In a collision between trains in War
saw, Poland, six persons were killed
and several wounded.
Young Prince Aribert, who had just
married the daughter of Prince Chris
tian, had the misfortune to sprain his
ankle w hen about to enter the carriage
to start on his wedding tour. The
princess herself helped him into the
carriage.
hii.e the sultan of Zanzibar was
presiding at the opening of Cooper in
stitute his horses w r ere frightened by
the noise of a salute fired by the Brit
ish war ships and ran away and the
sultan, who sprang from the carriage,
was seriously injured about the head
and legs.
The influenza epidemic is reported to
have caused scores of deaths on the
Labrador coast. The situation is said
to be deplorable.
It is officially stated that the porte
will not permit Jews to emigrate to
Palestine. It is added that the porte
will not allow’ the entry of pilgrims.
The convent at St. Hilaire, Que., has
been destroyed by fire. The loss of
$30,000 was about covered by insurance.
High officials near the person of the
czar are said to believe that the Russian
autocrat contemplates visiting Paris
during the coming autumn.
The election at Carlow’, Ireland, went
disastrously for Parnell, his candidate
losing by 2,216 votes.
Arab slave traders have been totally
defeated by troops of the Congo Free
State.
The general education bill has passed
its third reading in the British house of
commons.
A Calcutta correspondent says that
owing to the partial failure of the mon
soon 19,000,000 people are threatened
with famine in Madras.
XIIK LATEST.
There have been fresh revolutionary
disturbances in several parts of the
Argentine republic. The government
is taking vigorous measures to quell
the threatened revolt in the provinces
of Entre Rios, Cordovas and Catamaca.
Mrs. Rebecca Raymond’s deaf and
dumb son Arnold was on a bridge at
Olney, 111., when a passenger train on
the Ohio & Mississippi railroad ap
peared. His mother, seeing the train,
attempted to save him, but both were
run over and killed.
The superintendent of immigration
of New York reports that 445,464 immi
grants arrived at that port during the
past fiscal year as compared with 328,-
921 during the previous fiscal year. Of
last year's arrivals 74,382 came from
Germany, 70,176 from Italy, 35,424 from
Ireland, 34,504 from Russia, and the
others from other countries in Europe
and Asia.
The bond of $20,000 given by Marsh,
the fugitive Philadelphia banker, has
been declared forfeited.
Drs. Austin Flint, A. C. Brown and
Robert Mosely as commissioners with
a sheriff’s jury at New York held an
inquest into the mental condition of
Herbert Victor Newcomb, the Wall
street bear, and adjudged him insane.
The Society of Christian Endeavor
met in convention at Minneapolis,
Minn., on the 9th. Over 15,000 were in
attendance.
Judge Blodgett, of Chicago, has de
cided against Phoebe Couzins in her
contest with the world's fair manage
ment
The Russian consul-general in New
York declares that many Russian Jews
who have come to this country recently
are seeking means to return, alleging
i that they have not been well treated.
During the session of the lower house
of the Austrian reichsrath a man com
mitted suicide with a revolver at the
entrance of the strangers' gallery. He
was identified as a hunter. He had
gone to the reichsrath to demand justice
in an imaginary lawsuit with the t
Rothschilds.
Maj. John W. Ryerson, a prominent
resident of Simcoe, Ont., and Abel
Blunker, a commercial traveler of To- 1
ronto, who had gone to Long Point for '
fishing, have been drowned.
The house of S. P. Anderson, a Swede
living near Clifton, La., was struck by
lightning, killing his wife and three
daughters, all that were in the house.
Anderson was close to the house when
the bolt struck, the flames were so
rapid, being fed by the explosion of a
five gallon can of oil, that none but the
wife could be taken from the home.
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Senator Plumb delivered the address
at Meade on the Fourth.
The preliminary hearing of James
Brennan, the slayer of CoL S. N. Wood,
has been postponed to July 22, at Hugo
ton. Brennan has been committed to
the Reno county jail at Hutchinson.
Mrs. Stella Smith, residing three
miles south of Ottawa, recently at*
tempted to light a fire with coal oil,
when the can exploded and she was
burned so severely that she died soon
after.
The lot at the northwest corner of
Merchants street and Fourth avenue
has been selected by Assistant Secre
tary Crounse as the site for the public
building at Emporia. The price paid
is $6,000.
Mrs. Jane Kuykendall, colored,
dropped dead in a street car at Atchison
the other night. She had just arrived
in the city from Everest to attend the
funeral of her daughter. She was
nearly 100 years old.
The contract for furnishing beef to
the state penitentiary for the next year
has been awarded to Voltz Bros., of
Leavenworth. They are to furnish
600,000 pounds at such times and in such
quantities as may be desired.
Justin Barrett, a boy about 8 years
old, was drown in the Missouri river at
Leavenw’orth the other day. He was
playing along the bank, when he made
an attempt to step in a short distance
after a stick and went down in an eddy
ten feet deep.
Lloyd Kirkham, 18 years old, was
frightfully burned while celebrating
the Fourth with several other boys at
Rosedale. The boys were firing a squall
cannon and had a quantity of powder
in a basket that was ignited from a fire
cracker thrown by another boy.
Dr. Charles R. Watt, a leading drug
gist of Thayer, was found dead in the
back room of his store the other morn
ing. He had evidently been dead for
several hours as his face was greatly
discolored and several bruises were
seen on his face where he had probably
fallen from a table near which hii body
was found.
E. L. Luther, manager of the Leaven
ivorth telephone exchange, is reported
to be $1,500 short in his accounts. A
warrant was issued for his arrest, but
he gave himself up, waived examina
tion and was bound over for trial next
September. He declared he would make
good the shortage, and it was said he
would not be prosecuted if he did.'
The alliance lecturers, recently in ses
sion in Topeka, are said to be preparing
to go into the fall campaign with the
intention of taking possession of every
county office for which elections are to
be held. It is said to be their intention
to prepare themselves for the discussion
of every proposition that is to come be
fore the public, and that they will have
speakers in every school house.
The Union Pacific railroad has made
an inspection of the crops in the coun
ties along the lines of its system in
Kansas. The report of the inspection
is exhaustive and complete. It coders
twenty-six counties and shows the
acreage of small grain to be 1,250,000,
divided as follows: Wheat, 80 per cent;
oats, 14 per cent., and rye, 6 per cent.
The total production in the twenty-six
counties is figured at 9,000,000 bushels
of wheat, 6,825,000 bushels of oats and
900,000 bushels of rye.
W. D. Bell, the school teacher who
forged an order on school district 36,
Franklin county, and after being ar
rested broke jail, was arraigned before
Judge Benson at Ottawa the other af
ternoon and pleaded guilty to the
charge of forgery in the first degree.
He was sentenced to a term of five
years in the penitentiary. F. Jamison,
who assisted Bell in escaping from
jail, also pleaded guilty and was sen
tenced to the penitentiary for one year
and six months.
The executive committee of the Farm
ers' Alliance, with the state officers and
the congressional lecturers, met recent
ly at Topeka to perfect an organization.
The state will be divided into congres
sional, county and township legislative
councils, of which the lecturer in charge
of the district will be chairman. The
township chairman will report to the
county chairman, the latter to the con
gressional chairman and the congres
sional chairman to the state lecturer.
Van B. Prather, who will be subject to
the national council.
Two Shawnee county farmers lately
had a lawsuit over the ownership of a
dog. One finally proposed to the other
that they fight it out in Sullivan-Kil
rain style, which was agreed to. At
the appointed hour and place friends of
the two were gathered to see the fight.
The battle was for blood, and at the
end of thirty minutes it was declared a
draw. One man lost a finger and two
teeth, the other lost part of an ear and
received a black eye. The principals
then took the train for Topeka to be
patched up.
Prof Snow says of the weather for
June: “The month was one of ex
tremes. June 1876 seemed to have been
a similar one, and both lead the other
years in the amount of rainfall. This
was the cooler. While the humidity of
the other June has approached that of
this, the wind was considerably below
the average. The mean temperature
for the month was 70.74 degrees, which
is 2.65 below the average. The highest
was 90.5 degrees, on the 28th. the least
was 53 degrees, on the 7th. The total
rainfall was 10.1 inches, which is 5.J8
above the average. Rain fell on 18
days. There were eight thunder
storms.”
John Spence, 15 years old, premature
ly attempted to celebrate the Fourth on
the first of July at Kansas City t Kan.)
by firing a toy cannon. A package of
powder exploded badly burning his
hands and eyes and rendering him un
conscious. He will probably lose both
eyes.
A colored man named Wilson, whose
home is in Topeka, met with a bad ac
cident at the Santa Fe depot in Leaven
worth the other day. He attempted to
jump off a car while a flying switch
was being made and got one foot on
the track, which was crashed from the
knee down in * frightful manner. The
A CINCINNATI BLAZE. v
A Great Far House Destroyed Together
With Other BaslaeM Property—Loss Es
timated at 51,500,000.
Cincinnati, July 9- —A little after 10
o’clock last night came an alarm of fire
calling a relay of engines to the great
building occupied by A. E. Burkhardt
<fc Co., manufacturers of and wholesale
and retail dealers in furs and fur goods.
Fire had started in the lower of th*
two cellars and soon grew so great that
the entire department was called out,
At 11 o’clock the building was a fur
nace of white flame. The streets werfc
full of spectators. The store room of
this building has been pronounced by
traveled citizens and visitors the finest
in America
At twenty minutes past 12 o’clock the
east wall of the Hooper building rocked
and tottered and then fell onto the roof
of the Pape Manufacturing Co.’s build
ing next east of it with a roar
and crash, followed by crash after
crash and filling the air with blinding
dust, making darkness where a moment
before was brilliant illumination.
The Pape Manufacturing Co.’s build
ing was a three story brick. It was an
extensive picture framing establish
ment, one of the oldest and most exten
sive in the city, and carried a large
stock of pictures, paintings, engravings
and moldings. The front three-quar
ters of the building, where the most
valuable goods are kept was completely
ruined a mass of debris crushed into
the cellar and the outer walls thrown
into the street The loss can hardly be
less than 5100,000, while the loss to the
building is possibly 520,000, as it was
very old.
The building was the property of
William A. Hooper, banker and finan
cier, and was 100 feet wide on Fourth
street and extended back 150 feet to an
alley. Its Fouith street front was sev
en stories high and its height on the
alley was eight and a half stories. It
also extended two stories deep under
the ground. It was nearly new and
cost 8200,000 to put up, while Burkhardt
added $90,000 in interior adornment
within the last two years.
Burkhardt said that he could only
give a rough estimate of the valqe of
the stock in the building and that was
to the best of his belief between 8000,-
000 and 8700,000.
The east frontage on of
the Hooper building was occupied by
Henry Geiershofer & Co., dealers in
clothing and manufacturers. They es
timated theij stock at over 8400,000.
Probably 8125,000 worth of this is un
der tarpaulin on the north side of
Fourth, near Race street, thanks to the
energy of the salvage company, the
fire having started in Burkhardt’s es
tablishment at the corner, which
gave time to save some of the goods.
The rest went with ’the great Good
man building. Geiershofer’a loss
will not be less than 8250,000 and they
have that amount of insurance that
their loss will be fully covered. The
loss of the building will not be less
than 8250,000, and if Mr. Burkhardt’s
estimate of his stock is correct, the loss
by this fire will reach 81,500,000.
HAMLINS FUNERAL.
Services Held in the Unitarian Church,
Bangor, Me.
Bangor, Me., July 9. —The city was
in mourning yesterday. Business places
generally displayed
festoons of crape,
flags and draped
portraits of the dead
ex-rice president,
I Hannibal Hamlin.
The remains were
, placed in a casket
sat 9 o’clock. At
110:20 they were es
corted by a guard of
t honor composed of
|G. A. R. men to the
' U nitaria n church,
! where they were
viewed by a con
stant stream of peo
ple passing through
HAMLIN'. the church.
The funeral services were held at
3:30 p. m. The funeral was one of the
largest and most impressive ever held
in this state. At the time of the fun
eral and passage of the funeral cortege
all business houses were closed.
At two o’clock a special train arrived
in the city from Portland and Augusta,
which brought among others, Gov.
Burleigh, members of the executive
council, members of the Loyal Legion,
and President Libby, of the state
senate. Senator Frye and many
other distinguished citizens arrived on
the regular trains. The Unitarian
church was filled almost to overflow
ing. The services, which were con
ducted by Rev. 8. C. Beach, pastor of
the church, were brief but impressive.
I The pall bearers were: Hon. S. F.
Humphrey, A. C. Boutelle, Senator
Hale, Philo A. Strickland, L. J. Morse
and W. S. Dennett
A Defeat For Parnell.
Dublin, July 9.—The election yester
day at Carlow for a successor in parlia
ment to the late O’Gorman Mahon re
sulted in a crushing defeat for the Par
nellite candidate. This district Parnell
admitted was his stronghold, and if de
feated he had nothing to fall bark
upon. The result was: Hammond,
McCarthyite. 3,755: Kettle, Pamellite,
1,539; majority against Kettle. 2,216.
Carlow is the smallest county in Ire
land. It contains a population of 45,-
000 and an electorate of 7,000. Andrew
Kettle, the Parnellite candidate, is a
farmer of Dublin county, who had al
ready been twice defeated at the polls.
Mr. Hammond is a popular merchant at
Carlow. ,
The Utopia Raffed.
Gibraltar, July 9.—The Anchor line )
steamer Utopia, which was sunk on the ,
night of March 17 last by runningnpon
the spar of the British irone lad Ansonia,
as a result of which ace He nt nearly 600
Italian emigants lost ttyeir lives, was
raised by means of cofferdaoßS
on a of. timber built
from the ship's sides to the surface and
forming an immense tank. Thia tank
was lined with canvass and was 410 feet
In length, feix powerful
pumps exhausted the water in thetaak,
which, with the .ram >1
ot ft, was dragged Onto share aM woo I
aventaaSlv riwtnd m th* Iwarih. ? - * r
HEALTH RESORTS.
A New Fork Medical Journal Gives Some
Timely Advice in Regard to the Spread
of Consumption.
New York, July &-»-In an article on
the selection of health resorts for pa
tients by physicians the Medical Jour
nal calls attention to the factors of
climate, water supply and others, but
particularizes with regard to one, say
ing:
Among communicable disorders con
sumption or tuberculosis takes rank as
the chief destroyer of mankind. More
over, it is precisely those afflicted with
this dread disease who receive marked
benefit from certain climates, and who,
therefore, congregate in large numbers
in such regions as seem most favorable
for their improvement In this country
they select Florida, the Carolinas, Col
orado and Southern California; in Eu
rope certain portions of the Mediterra
nean coast A legion of hotels and
boarding houses has sprung up to meet
the requirements of this migration.
Now, in the light of recent medical
discovery, each tuberculosis patient is
to be regarded as a nidus (nest) of
tubercular germs. From him others
may be contaminated by inhaling the
specific microbes which exist in his
lungs and which are continually being
ejected from him by expectoration.
Comparatively few tuberculous
patients are as yet aware of the in
fective nature of the discharges fnom
their lungs and of the need fortheir de
struction, although it is now ten years
since Weichselbaum, of Vienna, caused
numberless rabbits to die of tuber
culosis by having them breathe air
which was made to pass over the sputa
(spittle) of human consumptives before
it reached their cages. The bacilli of
the disease, discovered by Koch, are at
present in large numbers in the expec
toration, but they are not specially
dangerous so long as they are not dry
enough to be blown about in the at
mosphere and to be inhaled and begin
devastations anew in some delicate but
still healthy pulmonary organ.
We say, then, and desire to empha
size these facts, that consumptive pa
tients are not fully aware of the venom
that is in them, that their relatives and
friends do not know of the danger, and
particularly that this knowledge has
certainly not yet reached the hotels
and boarding houses of the health re
sorts; and we might further add that
even the physicians at many of these
climatological stations seem not yet to
have awakened to the need of acting
upon the results of recent medical re
searches.
Let us examine almost any one of
their hotels or boarding houses. In
many of their rooms for years consump
tive patientshave passed whole seasons,
taking no precautions as to the ulti
mate destination of the bacilli which
emanated from them. They spend
whole days upon spacious verandas, on
whose floors are numerous tell-tale
stains, each at some time or another the
temporary resting-place of number* of
tubercular germs. The warm sun and
the gentle airs, which are the special
features of such resorts, both favor mi
crobic desiccation and local dissemina
tion. What chance, then, we ask, has
the consumptive to avoid further Inocu
lation of his wounded pulmonary tis
sues? What opportunity have the
healthy relatives or friends who accom
pany the patient or other winter visit
ors to escape the risks of breathing this
bacillus-laden atmosphere?
It will be seen that the consumptive
owes it to his fellow-men to protect
them from contagion as far as possible.
This he can do to a great extent by the
careful destruction of his expectora
tion. At the large apothecaries’ shops
paper cups are to be had by the dozen
at a small price which after use can be
burned. The keepers of hotels should
see that the rooms of tuberculous pa
tents are plainly and appropriately fur
nished for their special use under the
advice of a physician, and after the de
parture have them properly disinfected
and renovated. In such rooms, in the
long eorridors and upon all of the piaz
zas there should Im* an abundant supply
of cuspidors; these should always be
half filled with water, and the contents
should be burned or otherwise destroyed
daily.
The verandas should be thoroughly
scrubbed with soap and water, or with
with some antiseptic solution dally.
But naturally our chief reliance must
be placed upon the education of the in
valids themselves and their relative* or
attendants to a knowledge of the facts,
and upon their conscientious and scru
pulous carrying out of the procedures
recommended. In the meantime, un
til these innovations are made, con
sumptives and other delicate visitor* to
such winter resorts will do better
to flee to farms or to tents and
camp out upon the hotel grounds
or in the pine woods or among the
mountain soMtudes than to endan
ger their future Id rooms which reek
with the germs left by former occu
panta, or upon veranda* where lurk
virulent and insidious enemies.
A New Cere for Com u» pt lon.
Pari*, July • —Dr. Lannalongue's
method of treating tabercuk«is is to
inject a solution of chloride of zine into
the affected tissue. The solution hard
ens the tubercle tissue, producing a
condition unfavorable to the existence
of the tubercle bacilli The process of
treatment is todtoua, but it is a remark
able scientific application of the Pasteur
and Koch methods. The doctor him
self admit* that he proceed* according
to the Pasteur method and operate* OB
the Koch bacillus.
Strack Os a Reef.
Galveston, Tex., July 9.—la the
great storm of Sunday night the fishing
schooner Danica struck on a reef at
Smith's Point, on the northern shore of
Galvcsym bay. The heavy sea soon
swept the entire erew, six tn number,
overboard. Bat one man. Vincent Sago
vich, reached the beach alite. The
otljer five men—Capt Robert Frano
vitch,.£raak Miltovicb, Peter Sirengel,
John Speech and a man whose last
MMseis unknown—were drowned. Sag-
VOL. I. NO. 1.
ELECTROCUTED.
Execution of Four Murderers By »«*-
tricity at Sin* Stag, N. T.—Everything
Worked Well-Death Instantaneous.
Sing Sing, N. Y., July A—The killing
of the four murderers, James A. Slo
cum, Harris Smiler, James Wood and
Shibinja Jugiro, wm done yesterday
morning.
Slocum was killed at o’clock;
Smiler was put to death at 5:14; Wood
met his doom nt 5:89; Jugiro waa killed.
at«;OA
At 4 o’clock Slocum walked into the
death room, accompanied by Father
Creeden. He seemed to be making a
tremendous effort to keep his com
posure. He had received Father Cree
den’s last offices and had declared him
self ready to die.
He was firmly strapped into the ehair
and the death current waa applied.
Death was instantaneous. There waa
a sudden contraction of the nerve* and
all was over.
Smiler came next. Rev. Mr. Edger*
ton cheered him up. Before Smiler had.
time to think he waa strapped in the
chair and an instant later the current
of electricity was flashed through him
that sent him into eternity. .
Next to follow was Wood, the negro.
He had been worked up to a state of
religious enthusiasm and it waa while
in this frame of mind that he waa fast
ened into the chair and killed by th*
fatal shock.
Jugiro was stubborn to the last. ’ "
There was no apparent hitch in the
four executions and they were pro
nounced a success. The death of the
four men appeared to the observer to be
painless. Death came like a flash. It
was one awful shock and then ob
livion.
The doctors took charge of the four
bodies immediately after death and be
gan an autopsy to discover a* far aa
possible how rapid had been the killing
and the precise effect produced.
The witnesses were besieged by re
porters as soon aa they made their ap
pearance from the prison. All of them
refused to say anything, except that
the execution passed off without a hitch
and had been a success Warden Brown
had laid a strict injunction of secrecy
upon them all and had evidently made
such an impression upon their minds
that they were loth to talk. All looked
thoroughly used up and exhausted.
They had been through a terrible or
deal and the effects were plainly visible
on their faces
Slocum waa awakened at 8:30 a. m.
and as he sprang from his cot, rubbing
his eyes, he asked: “Is it time?"
“Not quite yet," Principal Keeper
Connanghton replied; “but it will soon
be bow, my boy."
Slocum gave a sort of gasp m he re
alized that his last hour had come.
Nevertheless, he steadied himself an<l
after a trenrulons minute jer two /
said: “All right, I will be t®*dy.”
While he was waiting fhr hi* last
meal on earth, his spiritual adviser*
came into his cell and passed about fif
teen minutes with him. He received
holy communion.
His breakfast was ready. He ate
sparingly of boiled eggs and coffee, and
at 3:15 he signified that he wm ready
for the supreme trial
The Invited witnesses who Were
anxiously waiting for the death scene,
took up their positions There wm not
as much formal order about the march
as there used to be in the Tomb*.
Slocum walked steadily to the awful
room. His arms were tied behind hi*
back and a strap on his legs allowed
him to step about twelve inches at a
pace.
No time was lost. When the death
chamber was reached, Slocum walked
to the fatal chair and sat down. Hi*
feet were tied and his arms and head
firmly fixed to the proper place*. He
was ready in a moment.
A moment later Warden Brown
touched the boll and the current waa
applied. Slocum died instantly.
Half an hour after Slocum waa
awakened Smiler had been aroused,
and while Slocum ale his breakfMt
Smiler was being prepared for his crisis
by Rev. Edgerton. Exactly thirty-one
minutes after Slocum's dead body had
been removed from the chair to the au
topsy room,Smiler was placed in the seat
of death. In the fraction of a second
after the straps were secured the fatal
spark was applied and Smiler was dead.
One of the jury fainted, but Keeper
Con naugh ton's presence of mind quelled
any consequent disturbance.
The electrocution of Wood nod Jugiro
then followed quickly.
Slocum and Smiler were wife mur
derers. Wood and Jugiro had killed
their men in brawls
The electrodes were not applied, M
in the Ke mml er case, to the top of the
head and the base of the skull, but were
bound to the foreheads of the con
demned men and then the calves of th*
legs. The current wm turned on in
each ease for twenty second*. The
voltage was between 1,500 and I.SOG
In each case there were apparent evi
dences of revival, m in the Xenrmlor
case, and in each of these four case*
the current wm turned on a sec
ond time. In spite of the fact
that the sponges were kept con
stantly wet. all four men were burned
by the current, especially about the
calves of the legs. The medical men
present agree that death came on the
first contact, and that the seeming re
vival wm merely a reflex muscular ac
tion. None of the witnesses were over
come by fright, and all of them who
have spoken have made the statement
that the electrode* were sneceeafnl and
that death in all rose* wm Lostau
taneou* and painless.
Loe Axgaura. Cal. July A—Jsdge
Rom yesterday dUmhaed the libel on
the schooner Robert and Minnie, seized
in connection with the Itata eptaoda.
The schooner loaded at San Frnnebee
with arms and munitions for Chilian in
surgents, which were transferred at Sa*
Clemente to the steamer ItaU and were
taken to Iquique. Judge Roa* in bi*
derision say* that while the fact al
leged may be good reason for confiscat
ing the ItaU. there i* nothing to show
that th* schooner fitted ont for pur
pc«» of war, and bcacn |b< Übcl b dfir