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»• "• • •. .» 'ii•-•i&asfci? ' • PR THE PLMNDEAIER J. VAN SURE, Editor and Pub. McHENEY. ILLINOK DEATHIN THEPLtfME am HORRID PATE OF A BALLOONIST., i - .it? / r ' KANSAS mm' • ' •A , Drops Five Thousand (Feet to the Earth--Vice ^Presideftt Stevenson; and Others B&ve a Narrow Escape-- Lawrence Green Flag Case Settled. Tragic Fate of an Aeronnnt. 1 George P. Anderson, an aeronaut, 22 years old, believed to come from Galena, Kan., met a horrible death at Paola, San., Thursday. His ascension was a feature of the Miami County Fair and was a peculiarly daring one. Attached to his balloon was a cannon. When the Wlloon had reached an altitude of 5,000 feet he climbed into the cannon with his -parachute, The cannon was fired and he was thrust out into the air. Just as his parachute opened a small rope by which he was fastened to it broke and he fell to the ground, a lifeless mass of flesh and bones, crushed beyond recognition. The tragedy, it is charged, was due to the aeronaut's own recklessness. Ordinarily 2ie used a life belt to attach himself to the parachute, but this time he made the ascension without it, trusting to the rope lie used in its stead. When the weight of his body, with the impetus given by the catinon, fell on the rope it broke under the strain and he plunged down to his death. '! Many Distinguished Men Hurt. ' Vice President Stevenson, Gov. Drake And his official staff, and a score or more *>t prominent Burlington city and county officials had a hairbreadth escape from death Thursday morning during the fes­ tivities attending the celebration of Iowa's semicentennial anniversary at Burlington. A flimsily constructed plat­ form, from which the distinguished visit­ ors were reviewing the parade, collapsed and pitched the entire party a distance of fifteen feet to the ground. The accident .was witnessed by thousauds and caused wildest excitement. Vice President "Stevenson was reported killed. Gov, Drake was said to have been fatally in­ jured. Secretary of State McFarland, •Mayor Nauman, County Treasurer Bur? TUB and a dozen more prominent men were included in the list of dead and ^wounded that rumors quickly compiled. >Happily the accident did not prove to be as serious as first reported. The Com­ mittee on Arrangements is being criticised on all sides, not so much on account -of "the poorly constructed reviewing stand •as for permitting it to be overcrowded. But for this negligence the accident could not have happened. County Treasurer Burrus will probably die. ed and fell, and before they were sep­ arated Robert stabbed Andrew, inflicting a wound that caused death an hour later, The fratricide escaped.. He is 24 years of age and Andrew was 2S. According to a Pittsburg manufacturer of sttel bicycle tubing, there will be no cheap bicycles next year. He says the prices on high grade wheels will be ad­ vanced to recoup the losses of the man­ ufacturers who suffered by the intro duction of the cheap machine and the war of prices this year. The Pope Manufac­ turing Company, the Gormully & Jef ery Company, and other leading makers of high class bicycles have been at work for some time trying to devise a scheme by which the influence ot cheap bicycles could be checked. Their efforts cul­ minated at a meeting held in the Hotel Waldorf, New York. The tubemakers ate also in the movement. The trust will pledge itself to coufine its trade to the United States, and foreign, especially British, makers are to refuse to sell in this country. The meeting at New York was a preliminary^ session, and another will be held withlh a few weeks to fix next season's prices. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., the pioneer institution, for the higher education of woman, received a severe blow Sunday afternoon in the burning of the main building, with a probable loss of $150,000. The buiia-' lngs have cost'over $300,000 and could not be replaced to-day for less than $300,- 000. Fortunately none of the 400 stu­ dents or faculty were injured. Iris sup­ posed that the fire originated in tlie laun­ dry from an overheated steampipe. The building and its contents were insured for $154,000. A. L. Willistpn, of Northamp­ ton, treasurer of the institution, says that steps will be taken toward rebuilding. Instead of having one large structure it is probable that the modern style of cottage dormitories will be adopted, each cottage, costing about $25,000 to $35,000, and accommodating fifty stu­ dents. A new gymnasium will probably be built somewhat after the plan of the one at Northfield Seminary, which cost about $35,000, and there will also have to be a chapel building, which may cost almost any amount up to $100,000. WESTERN. ifrel aland Not a E^cocnizei Country. I Judge Hopkins, in the Lawrence, Mass., Superior .Court, has quashed the some­ what famous green-flag case against Con­ tactor Patrick O'Brien. O'Brien was ^arrested July G for displaying an Irish Sag" on a portion of"a staging of the ®ew ward G schoolhouse Independence Day. As there is a statute forbidding (the display of any foreign flag upon a public building O'Brien was found guilty, and Judge Stone, of the Police Court, fined him $10. An appeal was taken to the Superior Court and Judge Hopkins ruled that Ireland was not a country in the meaning of the statute governing the -J, ' case and had no flag except that of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 'Ireland. The case was accordingly dis­ missed. BREVITIES, pg§£ jfer' •Which had been handed her by hep hus­ band, missed fire, and the woman Was dis­ armed by the officers. Lynching is threatened." • . ' MMMAjMijjgilgjjjjjjjgg F9^EI< EIGN. W?4 rasps? 1 ifc: The Standard Oil Company is about to go into the ice business, and is planning to invade New York, Chicago, Philadel­ phia and St. Louis and drive the old con­ cern's ortt of the business. Two freight trains collided Wednesday night at Philson, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 124 miles east of Pitts­ burg, making one of the worst wrecks in the history of the road. One man is dead, two probably fatally injured and several others missing. By a wreck on the Lehigh Valley road near Batavia, N. Y., one man was killed and another fatally injured. The wind was blowing a gale and some of the cars caught fire. The fire resisted all efforts to extinguish it for hours. The wreck is very costly, but it is remarkable that no more trainmen were injured. The Spreckels sugar refinery at Phila­ delphia, operated by the sugar trust, has •hut down for an indefinite period owing to dull trade. About 800 men are thrown out of employment by the closing of the establishment. The other refineries in the «ity under the same management are not affected, but it is reported that they, too, will curtail their production on account of dull trade. ! In Judge Brown's court at Perry, O. T.f A. H. and Mrs. M. A. Drake, of Cloud Chief, O. T., were married for the third time. In 1S70 they were married in Mis- souri, but the high temper of each caused separation and divorce. Six years ago, near El Reno, they were again married, but two years later they separated and •were again divorced. • They have a daugh­ ter 12 years old who witnessed the third ceremony. Every possibility of ending the Lead- Yille, Colo., strike by arbitration or other amicable means has disappeared, for the time being at least, the Cloud City Min­ ers' Union having voted in regular meet­ ing to continue indefinitely its fight for uniform wages of $3 per day for all of the men in all the mines. Two hundred members of the union have withdrawn and will seek work. The mine operators will fill the places of the strikers with out­ siders as rapidly as possible, and the State militia will probably be kept .there «long time. ' TDfyfe cofohet of Wayne County, Ohio, rendered his verdict on the tragedy at Dalton last Sunday, holding that Thomas Kidd, aged 14 years, was deliberately murdered by Carl Mcllhenney, aged 7 years. Mcllhinney's age will exempt him from the charge of murder in the first de­ gree, and the authorities are in a quan- <flary as t0 what t0 do with the boy. , Barnum s only brother, George, was murdered for his money at his lonely r .but near Harrison, Mich. The United States and Great Britain are said to have arrived at a satisfactory settlement on the Venezuelan question. EASTERN. Tom Saunders and John Dotson, of Otterville, a village near Sedalia, Mo., quarreled Monday afternoon over poli­ tics. Saunders went home, secured a pistol, returned shortly afterwards, and shot Dotson three times, instantly kill­ ing him. . The Tiger Hotel at Burke, Idaho, was destroyed by fire Monday morning. Will­ iam O'ilara, a miner, was caught in the flames and burned to death. Seven of the guests, driven to the third story, jumped to the ground below. The burned and injured are: B. L. Searlefe, Joe Coburn, Miss Amy Johnson, Patrick McHale, Martin McHale, T. Smith and Abel Dan- ielson. Searles and Coburn probably will die. The others are seriously in­ jured. All were removed to the hospital at Wallace and medical aid called. A large warehouse and several small build­ ings also were burned. The Tiger Poor- man 200-ton concentrator was badly scorched, but prompt work of the citi­ zens of the town saved it. The loss is $20,000. Two robbers walked into the office of the Western Foundry Company at Al- bany avenue- and-38tll _streeY,"Chicago, just before 4 o'clock Friday afternoon, held up five men who were in the office, took $1,G00 from the treasurer's desk and got away, firing at their pursuers as they went. Policemen in three patrol wagons, and eighty workmen from the foundry followed the robbers, who were in a bug­ gy, but the pursuers were too far in the rear at the beginning of the chase. The buggy of the robbers was broken by a col­ lision with post at California avenue and 3Gth street. Then they ran across lots and seized a milk wagon,,fired bul­ let into the milkman's leg and sped away in the vehicle as fast as the horse would go. The milk wagon was afterward re­ covered at 23d place and Oakley avenue, where the robbers left it As a result of a disagreement among the stockholders of Maguire's Opera House at Butte, Mont., that theater is a mass of ruins and the city, with a population of 45,000, is without a playhouse, and scores of attraction)1, booked for the com­ ing season will have to be canceled. The building was erected seven years ago by John Maguire at a cost of $50,000. A concern known as the Grand Opera House Company secured a mortgage on the ground and James A. Murray bought up a large number of mechanic leins on. the building. The Supreme Court decided that Murray was the owner of the build­ ing, but the Opera House Company re­ fused to settle with him and would neith­ er buy the house nor sell the ground. Mur­ ray threatened to tear down his building, but the company thought he was bluffing. Monday morning he put to work a large force of men, and at night little but the bare walls remained of the once handsome house. The Grau Opera Company was to have opened there Tuesdiy night. The will of the lato Edson Keith, of Chicago, was brought into the Probate Court Tuesday and admitted to record. The petition which was presented for let­ ters testamentary upon the estate of the deceased merchant showed that he was worth $1,250,000. Of this $1,100,000 is in personal property and the remainder in realty. Included in the personal property are the business interests, bonds and life insurance amounting to $300,000. Of the real estate the family residence is the most valuable asset. The will was exe­ cuted March 13, 1895. A codicil follows which bears the date of May 7, 1896, and is also in Mr. Keith's own handwriting. Under the provisions of the will and cod­ icil the widow and two sons receive the larger portion of the estate. The first provision in their favor is that each of them is to have $300,000. The codicil, however, changes this amount to $250,- 000. The sum of $50,000 e/ch is pro­ vided for the children of Edson Keith Jr., and Frederick W. and Catherine Keith. Theso sums the testator desires shall be invested and kept as a sacred trust for the specified purpose. Bessie Bellwood, a noted music-hall singer of London, is dead •It in reported that the dock laborers of Hamburg have gone out on a strike. George Du Maurier, the artist and nov­ elist, is seriously ill with lung and heart trouble. Mary Anderson, the noted tragedienne and emotional actress, known throughout the entire theatrical world, is a mother. Monday a boiincing boy was born to Mrs. Navarro at Wimbledon, France, where she has been stopping for some time. Prof. Sir George Murray Humphrey, M. D.. LL. D.\ S: T. D., F. R. S., is dead at London. He" was bOlrn in 1820 and had held many high offices in Cambridge. He was a member, honorary member. Or offi­ cer of various foreign and international societies. Prof. Humphrey was the au­ thor of a large number of works-on ana­ tomical and medical subjects. He was knighted in 1891. , , . , A terrific hurricane swept the British coast rtli night Friday and the seas were very high. Great damage was done to the buildings about the harbors, wharves, piers, etc., and vessels were stranded at many points. Their crews, however, were saved by. the life lines. Much wreckage is strewn about the $shore in all directions, and the channel service has been suspended. So far there are few fatalities reported. The New York Herald Tuesday morn­ ing published the following telegram from the President of Honduras, dated Tegu­ cigalpa, Houduras: "Recent reports cir­ culated to the effect that a revolution lias occurred in Honduras are absolutely false.* The country is tranquil. The diet of the Republic of Central America was installed in San Salvador on the 15th inst. This event will insure for the fu­ ture continued peace and prosperity. "POLICARPIO BONILLA." The west coast of Mexico has been visited by a tremendous storm, which has caused great damage. Altata, port of the State of C'naloa, is inundated and the capital city, Culiacan, has suffered, se­ verely. Many small towns have been flooded. The little railway from Altata to Culiacan has been badly washed out. Waves of water poured into the principal streets of Mazatlan and the new embank­ ments for the protection of the town were torn to pieces by the enormous waves, impelled by the wind, against which nothing could stand. Aid is re­ quested for the sufferers, who have lost a large amount of property. The Cuban insurgents have blown up with dynamite a mail train from Puerto Principe. Five soldiers of the escort were wounded. The tobacco fields of the San Antonio plantation, Matanzas, have been burned by the insurgents. The Queen Regent has pardoned Oscar Zu- bizarretta, a nephew of the War Minis­ ter, who had been sentenced to death for taking part in the insurrection. At the railroad station of Villa Neuva, Havana Province, the police have captured a quantity of mahogany which had been hollowed out and used to transport arms and ammunition to the insurgents. Ac­ cording to official authorization, the rate of exchange of gold in specie is quoted 400,000 2,000,000 75,000 1,000,000 60,000 fcstimated Property Losses. Alexandria, Va. ............. $400,000 Brunswick, Ga. ..... V;...;•... F l o r i d a . . . Great Lakes V« Lancaster, Pa., and vicinity .. Lebanon, Pa ; Savannah, Ga. 1 l,o66!66o Sea Islands 500,000 Shamokin, Pa 350,000 Washington, D. C 250,000 At other places 2,000,000 It is a conservative estimate to say that fifty people have lost their lives from the Florida hurricane, and the number may run much higher. News from that portion of the State where the storm first struck is very slow in coming, for wires are down and railroads are impassa­ ble. The huricane struck Florida at Ce­ dar Keys, a village of 1,500 inhabitants, and reports show that it passed in its ptj£h of destruction oyer twenty towns and villages, and uiat between thirty an<5 forty persons have certainly been killed. Cedar Keys is about 100 miles southwest of Jacksonville. Moving northeasterly, the storm struck Willistown, a small town, where eleven houses were blown down. One person was killed and several so badly hurt that it is expected they will die. Near Jacksonville is ,i large turpentine farm, where State convicts are employed. Twenty of these were huddled together in a cabin. A heavy tree was blown across the cabin and six of the convicts were crushed to death. In Alachua Coun­ ty the storm did frightful work. In Gainesville the Methodist church and about twenty residences and business o houses were destroyed, and while a nuni- at about 11 per cent. premium ovor bank ^er of jPQPle were hurt no fatalities are IN ITS PATH Widespread Damage Caused by the Big Storm. SCORES MEET tfEATH. One Hundred Reported Lost in the Sea Islands. Terrific Hurricane Sweeps Over a Portion of Several States--Number of the Smaller Towns,. Are Com­ pletely Swept from the Earth- Destruction of Life and Property in Florida, Georgia* .Virginia, Mary­ land and Pennsyividuib Is Apntling --Great ]*akes Feel the Blow. r loss of Lrife by the Storm. Alexandria, Va. v..... Barge Sumatra, off Milwaukee ... . Brunswick, Ga. ; Pottsville, Pa. ; Reading, Pa. .........,....; ..^y ... Savannah, Ga. ................... Sea Islands ."...... i / , Towns in Florida ........... ]... !, Shamokin, Pa. ..'............., . 4 . 4 . 5 Q . 2 . 11 .100 . 40 . 2 bills. IN GENERAL. The yellow stream of English ^old flow­ ing into the United States treasury swell­ ed to unusual width Friday. Besides the $2,125,000 which arrived in San Fran­ cisco from Australia to pay for shipments of American wheat the Hamburg-Ameri­ can Line steamer Normannia, from Ham­ burg, - Cherbourg and Southampton, brought $3,250,000 in gold coin. The first vessel to test the big new dock at Port Orchard, on Puget Sound, since the acceptance test made by the Monterey, will be a Japanese vessel, the Yamaguchi Maru, one of the new line to ply between Seattle and Japan direct, in competition with the British steamers running into Vancouver. The costs of docking and usual charges will be exacted by the Gov­ ernment. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "A very moderate and yet distinct improvement is seen, no longer only in the buying pf materials, which continues and stiffens prices, but also in orders for products of some industries, in money markets, ahd in exports of staples. It is as yet little more than a step toward better things, but has already started some important works and prompted a few considerable contracts." Traffic on the Canadian Pacific Railway is preatly retarded as a result of the ope­ rator's strike. At many stations wher« the operators have gone out trains are al a standstill and communication with tho dispatchers is in many cases being car­ ried on by telephone. In the eastern por­ tion of- the Ontario division there is a blockade of trains which will cause a heiyry loss in the case of perishable freight. J. W. Leonard, district manager at Toronto, Ont., says the men who have cone •out were ill-advised, and he expects all the vacant positions to be filled in a short time. The eastern division of the Canadian Pacific is completely tied up, ex'cept the main line .mail trains, by the operators' strike. All pperators at local points are out. SOUTHERN. 4;- • , • • . Wolf Bros., wholesale dry goods mer chants at Little Rock, Ark., have assign­ ed. Liabilities, $50,000; assets, $475,000 Manuel Gregory, ^colored, was shot at Chattanooga, Tenu., while attempting to rob the house of Ernest Nail, a well- known citizen. The bullet, fired at a dis­ tance of twelve feet, struck Gregory in the head and flattened out as if it had been made of paste. The negro is not se­ riously injured. <. Thomas Willard, a Wheeling, W. Va,, bricklayer, while on a drunken spree, took his son, aged 17; Mary Wilbert, aged 12, and Mary Gray skiff riding on the Ohio River. He upset the boat. James Mc- - •_. ttt ii T. . I Grail rowed out and rescued Mary Gray Andrew Watt, a Rochester, N. Y., 1 and Willard's son. Willard and Mary plumber* and his brother Robert, a rail- 1 Wilbert were drowned ass"kxrxTi °f *• ̂ « wound that caused his death an hour the Georgia later. The fratricide escaped. He is 24 --- ! *• • - years of age, while Andrew was 28. Andrew Watt, a Rochester, N. Y., plumber, and his brother Robert, a rail­ road fireman, quarreled over mosey mat- grs. Andrew left the saloon in which e quarrel arose, but stopped outside to talk with two friAds. In a few minutes Robert also left the saloon, and, seeing ; lAndrew, attacked him. The two clinch- Company and of inc that ho ,arge against him be- in nennitUnz tho' f tbe S*bbath day light company to work onSunda? eleCtoic Circuit Court by Judge Bates at Stanford Ky. Mrs. Blakeman attempted to bW Uoltor. on the way to jail, but the pistol, MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.25; hogs, shiping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $3.50; vfheat, No. 2 red, G7c to 68c; corn. No. 2, 21c to 23c; oats, No. 2, lGc to 418c; rye, No. 2, 34c to 36c; butter, choice creamery, 14c to 16c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 10c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common short to choice dwarf, $25 to $60 per ton. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 65c to 66c; corn, No. white, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, i9c to 20c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2, 67c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 20c to 21e; oats, No. 2 white, 15c to 17c; rye, No. 2, 30c to 32c. v» Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $,3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50 wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. * mixed, 25c to 27c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 35c to 37c. Detroit--^Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 vto $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 23c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; rye,' 36c to 37c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 23c to 24c; oats, No. 2.white, 10c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 37c to 38c; ciover seed, $5.05 to $5.15. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 2, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; barley, No. 2, 28c to 34c; rye, No. 1, 36c to 37c; pork, mess, $6.06 to $6.50. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 i^ed, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3,00 to $4.50; sh<ep, $2.00 to $4.00; ifheat, No. 1 hard, 7.ic to 76c; corn, No. 2, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; butter, creamery, 12c to 17c; eggs, Wtat- e», tf.9 to l&a. reported. At La Crosse fifteen buildings were' destroyed. The Rev. W. A. Barr, Mrs. F. F. Mcintosh and her baby are reported killed. Near there four laborers, who were in a pabin at a turpentine farm, were crushed by falling trees. Newberry, in West Aluchua, is totally wrecked. C. J. Eastlin, Mrs. Nancy Moss, Frank Olmstead and David Jones were killed. At High Springs, Melissa Harden, Jane Morris and Sallie Nobles, colored women, are reported to have been killed. At this place a number of people took refuge In a box car, which was in the path of the cyclone. It was blown along the track, and then off it a distance of fifty feet,and every person in it was badly injured. Steve Mason and Geo. Johnson have since died. At Gracy, a small place, twelve houses were blown down; a woman was killed.but a babe at her breast was unhurt, although it had been carried some distance by the force of the wind. At Lake Butler, Brad­ ford County, Mr. C. H. Harkey, Mrs. J. M. Fu.tch and her infant were fatally hurt. Many buildings were blown down. At this place the wind blew to pieces two cars loaded with bricks, and a negro, Henry Sullivan, who was, 300 yards away, was killed by being struck by one of the flying bricks. At Live Oak the destruction is complete, but no loss of life is reported. Near Welborn the house of Amos White was destroyed and two of his children were killed. At Lake City eight business houses' and thirteen residences were destroyed, ' 'MWv'Sarih Fletcher and two boys were killed and Dora Jennings, Samuel Hudson and Jonas Mabrey were fatally injured. Six persons are reported killed at Fort White, in Columbia County. The hurricane passed over^Duval Coun­ ty, striking the edges of Jacksonville, but doing very little damage. Just north, however, in Nassau County, considerable destruction is reported. Five children were killed in the wreck of a schoolhouse. Miss Stewart, the teacher, had her arm broken. Lila Rails, a 12-year-old girl, was killed at her home, her mother being fatally injured. Harry Johnson was also killed. At Hillyards, another schoolhouse was wrecked and four children were kill­ ed. At Kings Ferry, Andy Johnson, Moses Lasiter, Simon Henderson, May Jones and a child were killed. Mrs. Fisher was nursing a sick child and the infant died as the house fell. The moth­ er was hurt, but will recover. Three sailors were killed on schooners that were loading lumber at Kings Ferry. There is no way to estimate the prop­ erty loss in Florida. The losses may seem heavier now than they will when more closely examined, but talk with in­ surance men is that Florida losses will foot up $2,000,000. This seems, however, an excessive estimate. Storm Enters Georgia. Across the line into Georgia the devas­ tation was continued. . At Folkston, which is near the Okefinokce swamp, the schoolhouse was wrecked and four children killed. Several ciisualt\es (ire reported in Camden County, Georgia. The storm then continued on its way to Bruns­ wick and Savannah. The hurricane in Savannah cost nearly a dozen lives and entailed a financial loss of nearly $1,000,- 000. Each report that is received is worse than at first. It was thought only one death would be the result of the hur­ ricane, but the number has increased un­ til there are eleven persons reported dead. Among prominent buildings damaged by the storm are City Exchange, Duffy Street Baptist Church, St. Philip's Afri­ can Methodist Church, Central Railway warehouses, St. Patrick's school. Geor­ gia hussars' armory, Henley Hall, city market, electric railway power house, Vale Royal mills, Comer, Hull & Co.'s guano factory, Commercial Guano Com­ pany's factory, Jones' Marine Railway, Fawcett Bros.' wholesale grocery build­ ing, Henry Solomon & Son's wholesale grocery, and M. J. Doyle's retail grocery. Hundreds of residences are damaged and the most beautiful trees in the city are down. The loss to shipping will amount to over $100,000v «. Reports from the coast are meager. The sea islands along the coast of Geor­ gia and South Carolina had almost a rep­ etition of the storm of 1893. Almost •venr cottage and cabin in -the wake of the storm Was destroyed, but the water was not piled upon them as in 1893, con­ sequently the'suffering was not near so severe. The number of fatalities on the sea island's is novt known, but it is not be­ lieved it will go over 100. Havoc in Pennsylvania, The east house of the Temple furnace, at Temple Station, five miles above Read­ ing, Pa., was blown dowa by the wind and nearly a dozen workmen were buried in the ruins. Two were killed. Heavy washouts are reported on the Pennsyl­ vania Railroad east of Huntington. The greatest single loss is that of the Penn­ sylvania Railroad bridge across the Sus- (juehanna at Columbia, nothing being left of it but the piers, the iroli span in the middle and the first span at each end. The bridge was a mile and a quarter long, and was said to be the longest covered bridge in the world.. It is reported that two men went down with the bridge, but no trace of them can be found. The bridge cost about $1,000,000. Columbia apears to have suffered more than any other section of the county. The dam­ age in the borough lis estimated at $500,- 000. The storm destroyed the coal break­ er at Natalie, belonging to the Pennsyl­ vania Anthracite Coal Company. Six tenement houses belojging to the camp were destroyed by fire, and six children, inmates, lost their lives. The fire orig­ inated from a stove overturning in one of the summer kitchens'; from the shaking by the wind. The damage at Shamokin will reach $350,000, The Patterson break­ er is almost a. total wreck, but thie debris was ,saved from the flames by "the down-/ pour of rain that followed the wind. Superintendent Vincent places the dam­ age to the colliery .at $40,000. Fourteen of the dwelling houses and twenty board shanties occupied by the mine-workers were also blown down, and five of the former were consumed by flames. Two of the tenants were killed, several injur­ ed and eleven cattle were crushed to death beneath the dismantled barn. The windstorm, though furious in New York City and vicinity, as elsewhere in the East, did but little damage ashore, and thus far no disasters on the Long Island, New Jersey or New England coast have been reported. The greatest damage sustained is by the prostration of telegraph and telephone wires. The storm was severe throughout New Jer­ sey. In Buffalo the wind raged at a velocity of fifty-eight miles an hour, and at Syracuse thousands of dollars' worth of damage was done. The big grand stand at Kirk Driving Park was com­ pletely demolished. The Yates Hotel was badly damaged by a falling cornice, and the immense plate glass windows forced outward by the suction of the air.. Storm Around Washington. Reports received from tho suburban towns about Washington, D. C., show that great damage was done throughout the surrounding country by the storm. On the,outskirts of the city few localities escaped: Iu Washington the Papal le­ gation was unroofed and the Chinese legation was damaged about $1,500. Com­ munication by telegraph and telephone with the outside world was absolutely stopped. The White House was slightly injured by the storm, a portion of' tho copper roofing being stripped off and other damage done. The tall flagstaff, from which the signal is given to the city that the President is in (own, disappeared (•(Tmpletely. Iu the beautiful grounds sur^ rounding the house twenty-five of the splendid trees, elms, sycamores, walnuts and magnolias, some of groat age and of historical associations, were complete­ ly leveled, while fully fifty of the surviv­ ing trees suffered the loss of their tops and principal branches, and are perma­ nently defaced. The vast pile occupied by the State, War and Navy Departments was touched on the southern side by the storm, and lost portions of its roofing and many slates, while a structure erected by the signal service for the study of clouds was par­ tially demolished. The new naval ob­ servatory building suffered in the same fashion, to the extent of about $1,200. At the Washington navy yard the big ship house was partially unroofed, and the gun shops were damaged slightly by the stripping of tho roof. A special bulletin issued by the weather bureau states that for one minute the wind reached eighty miles an hour. The storm's damage is estimated to run from $250,000 to $500,- 000. The weather bureau gives this official history of the storm: "The storm which passed over Wash­ ington last night was reported on Sept. 26 as a tropical cyclone moving north­ west from the Caribbean Sea, it being then southeast of Cuba. During the 27th it passed northwestward into the southeastern part of the Gulf of Mexico, and on the 28th moved northward west of Florida. On the morning of the 29th it was central over Southern Georgia, and by 8 p. m. of the 29th had advanced to Southwestern Virginia. The center pass- 'd over Washington about 11:30 Tin .day night, the lowest barometer read­ ing 29.30. During the first three days the storm appeared to have very little energy, but on the 29th developed force rapidly as it moved northward." Crew Drowns nt Milwaukee. The barge Sumatra, consort of the B. W. Arnold, bound down from 5 Chicago, foundered off the Government pier at Milwaukee. Four sailors were drowned. The captain, mate and cook were rescued by the life-saving crew. The Sumatra was bound for Milwaukee loaded with^ing illness. 'lie record of the wind's ' Austin B. Crary, railroad iron. The fury in Chicago harbor was that of a storm almost equaling in fury the great hurricane of 1894. Half a dozen vessels were sunk, and as many more badly dam­ aged. The schooner Seaman broke from her moorings and raced back and forth, pounding the docks and smashing the smaller craft on every side, while their crews "were helpless. Capt.' McCreary, of the Seaman, two of his men and sev­ eral men on board other boats moored in the slip had narrow escapes. Three or four sailors were thrown into the water, and were forced to battle for their lives. Drunkards in Turkey. This reminds us that the Turks, who are mentioned occasionally in the news­ papers, have a singular manner of reg­ ulating drunkenness. If a Turk, over­ taken with wine, falls down in the street and is arrested by the guard, he is sentenced to the bastinado; this pun­ ishment is repeated as far as the third offense, after which he is regarded as incorrigible and called "imperial drunk­ ard," or "privileged drunkard." If he is then arrested, he has only to name himself, mention his lodging, say he is a "privileged drunkard;" lip is released and sent to sleep upon the hot ashes of the baths. Thus does Pouqueville in­ struct us. But suppose that the privil­ eged drunkard is suffering from a Btill or a numb and cannot give liis name, address or station? What then? Of what avail his honorary title.--Boston Journal. SAVANNAH IN RUINS. AWFUL STORM SWEEPS OVER GEORGIA CITIES. Scarcely a House Escapes Damage and Seven Persons Lose TheirU^ives --Property LOBS Exceeds'a Million- Destruction "Along the Coast. Fury of the Winds. Seven lives lost and a million dollars* worth of property destroyed is the record of the storm which swept Savannah, Ga., from 11:30 a. m. until 12:15 p. m. Tues­ day. Hardly a house escaped without more or less damage. Reports from Brunswick, Ga., state that the storm wa3 very severe there and at adjacent points. A number of lives were lost, and the property loss will exceed $1,000,000. At Savannah the Plant system depot wan demolished and a number of churches leveled to the ground. All the shipping in the harbor suffered severely. Disaster at Brunswick. Wind and watfrr worked/destruction at Brunswick; the streets were filled with debris, wires, telephone and telegraph poles and parts of buildings blown down and carried away. People were injured by flying objects, and one lady was killed jttt Everett, a small station a few miles distant. H./'M, Merrill, of the Atlanta Telephone Company, reached Atlanta late at night from Brunswick and states that the city of Brunswick is badly damaged and that three big vessels were sunk in the Brunswick harbor. The latter were blown away from their moorings. Mr. Merrill s>ays that the famous old gunboat, the Monitor, was blown away from her pier and that she was floating helplessly in the harbor in danger of going to the bottom. A part of the Oglethorpe Hotel, the leading hostelry of Brunswick, was blown away and other big buildings were totally or partially wrecked. Many houses in the suburbs were blown away, and the water rushed through the streets in tor- Tents, carrying property, household furni­ ture and valuables toward the harbor. Dead in Brunswick, our persons were killed outright in Brunswick, as follows: William Daniels. Able Davis. John Jefferson and baby. A careful estimate places the damage at $500,000. Many persons were dan­ gerously injured. Savannah is a port of entry of Georgia. It is the capital of Chatham County and one of the most important commercial cit­ ies of the State. It was founded by Gen. Oglethorpe in 1733 and chartered as a city in 1789. Its population is in the neighbor­ hood of 45,000. The site of the city is a sandy plain, elevated about forty feet above low water •k. It is regularly laid out, with wide streets, closely shaded with trees of many varieties. The city is built mostly of brick and many of the private dwellings are handsome specimens of architecture. Among the public buildings the custom house, theater, court house, City Ex- Hmnge, Cotton Exchange, Masonic Tem­ ple, Metropolitan Hall, Hodgson Hall (library and headquarters of the Georgia "* Historical Society), Armory Hall and St. Andrew's Hall are the most important. Handsome Church Kdifices. There are a number of handsome church edifices in the city, chief among which are the Independent Presbyterian, St. John's (Episcopal), Cathedral of Our I r.dyof Perpetual Help (Roman Catholic), and- the Jewish synagogue of Mickva Israel. The public schools are many and afford liberal provision for the education of the poor. The private schools are also numer­ ous and stand high in the estimation of the citizens. Among the charitable institutions may be mentioned the Savannah Hospital, St. Joseph's Infirmary, Orphan Asylum, Episcopal Orphans' Home, Hibernian So­ ciety and Port Society. Two monuments.' one in Johnson Square to Gen. Nathaniel Greene and the other in Monterey Square to Count Pulaski, are points of interest. One of the Best Southern Harbors. The harbor of Savannah is one of the best on the southern coast, and the river is navigable for steamers to Augusta. The depth of water on the bar is twenty- two feet at mean lower water, and ves­ sels drawing nineteen feet can cQme up to the wharves. Steamers run regulaMy to Now York, Boston, Philadelphia, Balti­ more and other ports. Savannah is the terminus of the Cen­ tral Railroad of Georgia, the Atlantic and Guh! and the Savannah and Charleston Railroads. The chief articles of export are cotton, rice, lumber and naval stores. As a cotton port that city ranks second in the United States. The city has gas works, water works, street railroads, cotton factories, paper ruills, several foundries and plaining mills. Telegraphic Brevities. LieUt. Duff, U. S. A., retired, died at Port Huron, Mich., of apoplexy, aged 05' years. The next convention of the German Catholic societies will be held at Colum­ bus, Ohio. ' C. II. Enos, a prominent business man and several times Mayor of Lead City, S. D., died at Hot Springs after a linger- The Hand of a Queen. A delicate piece of sculpture is a mod­ el of Queen Victoria's hand, which is still a very handsome one, and is said to have signed more important state papers and been kissed by more import­ ant men than the hand of any other queen that ever lived. famous "Hey Rube" and donkey and cart clown of Barnum's circus and other shows, is insane at Cin­ cinnati, Ohio. The Dublin Express says that the police have discovered a large quantity of dyna­ mite and detonators at Mahlin Park, two miles from Galway. Telegrams received at Ottawa, Can., by the Minister of Marine, report that the sealing vessel Viva was seized in Behring Sea by the cruiser Rush for infraction of article 1 of the Paris award. A band of Bulgarian brigands armed with dynamite bombs near Seres, in Mace­ donia, have carried off the brother of the Austrian consul at that place and also a wealthy Greek landed proprietor. James McMillan decoyed his estranged wife from her father's house at Cleveland, Ohio, drove her to a dense wood and hacked her throat with a knife. The woman is alive, but in a precarious condi­ tion. McMillan escaped. The Seaboard Air Line has filed a .no­ tice of the restoration of all passenger rates on its lines. The competing lines did not meet these reductions in passen­ ger rates. All rates ate now restored ex­ cept those on the Chesapeake Bay. If the Seaboard restores rates on the Bay- line the Pennsylvania-will restore rates on the Norfolk nnd York connections. The Brantford express on the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway was wrecked a short distance from the west­ ern limits of Hamilton, Ont. Engineer James Facer find his fireman. George Jackson, were instantly* killed. The" pas sengers escaped with a few bruises. Lord Rosmead, high commissioner for South Africa, has ordered the arrest of Col. Baden Powell, pending an inquiry for having confirmed the execntion of the Matabele chief, Makoui. Makoni was captured by Maj. Watts, tried by a drum­ head court-martial and shot within twen­ ty-four hours, without waiting for the confirmation of the sentence by the High Commissioner. BLED. 'in Ten "Sears for Get. Tl^^^^^^Hrtment has at f>pe£^^^^^^Hbn evil of long standing nnd^| Hy be looked for. It is in theV Hpaying premiums to new war^^^^^Kncreased speed. Within the ^^^H^years about $3,000,000 has been this way, yet there has been D^Mlttle advance in the matter of speed. Vessels would make speed records on their trial trips and receive the bonus, but w^en put into service they could not maintain their records. Of the $3,000,000 abou two-thirds has gone to the Cramps of P filadelphia. W$en we begin the building of the new tiavy, it was thought desirable, be- causi jof the untried capabilities of Ameri­ can builders, to offer them generous in­ ducements to improve their plants and put forth their best efforts. The premium was Decided upon, but it was not the speed bonus of to-day. The earlier ships were contracted for on the plan of a premium for increased units of horse­ power. Under this system were built the Yorktbwn, Petrel, Concord, Bennington, Charleston, Newark and Baltimore. With the exception Of the Baltimore, which earned a'horse-power premium of $106,442, the contractors earned but lit­ tle. It - was the Baltimore's big horse­ power bonus which determined the Navy Department to change the system and future contracts embraced a provision for speed premiu«ie alone. These offers were more than liberal. They began with the Philadelphia and San Francisco, at the rate of $25,000 per quarter knot in excess of the contract requirement of 19 knots. Under this both vessels earned a bonus for their builders of $100,000, they having madp 20 knots on their re­ spective trials. When the New York, Columbia, Minneapolis and Olympia were contracted for the offered premium was increased to $50,000 per quarter knot over 20 knots. The Cramps built the ships and made them go very fast on their trials, the Columbia earning $350,000 and the Minneapofis $414„G00. This last prize opened the eyes of the department, and thereafter the offers of premiums were very much reduced, and in the later contracts for battleships and gunboats they have been withdrawn altogether. The great prize of $350,000 just won by the Brooklyn is the last of the big pre­ miums. There are now only four ships under construction that are to pay pre­ miums for speed--the battleship Iowa and the three gunboats building at Newport News. The rate on these last, however, Is much lower. The Iowa is to receive $50,000 for each quarter knot excess, but the guboats will only get $5,000. At this rate the possible prizes wili not be great, though the Iowa may earn $100,000. The Kearsarge and Kentucky, battleships, are to receive no speed premiums, nor are the three additional battleships, author­ ized by the next Congress. On the con­ trary, they are to forfeit $25,000 for every quarter knot under 1G. WHEAT ON THE JUMP. PriceB Have Advanced Steadily and Speculation Is Kcviving. Within fifteen days the price of wheat in Chicago has advanced 10 cents, and there is more buying as (prices work has been an advance above the closing figures of the previous day, and last week tho advance was 1% cents. This has brought about a more confident feel­ ing in everything in the way of grain and provisions, and the despondent feeling that has prevailed for two months is fast disapearing. Speculation is broadening, and the farmer is receiving the benefit. The market Friday was a daisy. The wise traders, who thought 65 cents for December was h\,rh-water mark, and sold out their long .wheat at a fair profit, as well as the short seller, who has been feeling for the top to get out a line, thought they had a cinch, nnd played for a break. They got it, as December sold from (iovi cents to 64^ cents. Then the situation changed, and the early sellers suddenly wanted their wheat back. , It was a a ordinary market up to midijay, but in the last hour the price advanced .steadily. After the close sales were made at 07% cents. Fifteen days ago, at 57% cents, it had no friends. Now it has «n abundance of them. The ieature of the advance is that prices nil ovei1 the world are moving up as fast is they do in Chicago, and the cash wheat is being taken by millers and exporters faster than at any time in years. There is no manipulation, but simply a supply and dejnand market. A coterie of big traders are arrayed on the bufl side, who have great confidence in the future of values. They are John Cudahy, W. R. Linn and W. T. Baker. They bought wheat because they believed it cheap, and W. T. Baker does not hesi­ tate to say that he believe* it will sell at $1 before another crop is raised. Supplies are well adjusted to requirements, anit America for once holds the key to the situation, and can dictate prices to for­ eigners. HONOR FOR ANTIETAM'S DEAD. Fine Monument on the Battlefield Re* cently Dedicated. The monument to the dead soldiers of the battle ,of Antietam, erected by the Philadelphia Brigade Association, was recently dedicated with impressive cere­ monies on the old battlefield. The mon­ ument is built of Vermont granite, is 75 feet in height, 14 feet wide at the base, with a die 6 feet square and 6^* feet high. A shaft 53 feet in height rises from the base. The inscription is this: "Second THE ANTIETAM MONUMENT. Brigade, Second Division, Second Corps. Arfny of the Potomac." The cost of the monument was $15,000, and rises on the turnpike, 200 yards from the old historic Dunkard Church, around which the bri­ gade fought so valiantly, losing 545 men in one day's battle. The orators of the occasion were Gen. 0. O. Howard, Gen. Isaac J. Wistar, Gen. James AV. Latta, Gen. H. H. Bingham,' 001. Thomas J. Stuart, Capt. John EL Reilly, and Capt. W. W. ^;rr.