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the Georgia Enterprise. YGLUMI3 XXI W Lccurato Diagram of the Upper Conemaugh Valley, Showing the Lake and Heiaivolr, Which Were the Source [ of the Unperelleled Inundation. -Secured from Pennsylvania State Geological Survey, and kindly loaned [ ua by the Bulttmoie, Mil,, HERALD - See Key Below, |i&gplgfe-- - rue vtutti or rue ewemw :bi '\V Xv J r Mp <q fljujii cr Tee CwNUi i-4 —Conemaugh Lake and Iteserroir (sea* eral miles long and 14 miles above Johns • kMT town), uhoee broken dam flooded the valley. 4 B—Town of South Forks (J.ixD inhabitants). %(’—Mineral Point (800 inhabitants). E— ; 3 ■>> 4 * bp swept away. D—Town of Conemaugh 1 P—Woodvale (!lflOO inhabitants) G—Large n mills Tl—Homes of the 5,000 oiorkfngmen employed by iron and steel works at Johnstown. S—Cambria Iron and Steel t^K p s VV—Cambria City. Johnstown and Cambria Cities a,id Conemaugh borough contained a total population of nearly 30,- I M— Sheridan (800 inhabitants). T — Sang Hollow , 12 miles below Johnstown, where the railroad operator counted 75 dead carried down the river. X—Continuation of the river and railroad toward Nineveh, Lockport and Bolivar (see small which were completely submerged. T r. picture iu the uppa;- left baud corner shows the City of Johnstown IK miles distant) as photograneo by the Cambria Iron Cos. •ter the flood. Scenes in Cone ■augh’s Valley of Death. •Ivors Witnessed During a Walk I Along the Torrent’s Path. Hji'iili'iits of thi‘ Iu mutation .uli of Death Thirteen Mile*- l).*a<l Ibxlies and Wrecked on tin* Ground—Houghs the Stricken Town—An Es* |Hute of the Loss of Life. Jk ®DIT ~-j). n,lviii of tin* Nrw York V.’or.J among the first to roach Johns . tCMWLfr. i- the awful disaster, sent the fol rmKm x v description of what ho saw: IjPF** just. iMiiii' 1 1*. .it -ii:i*>! -w.i proper, •fwllrope bridge which was completed this •ttjßpon. I reached there at 5 o’clock last tell only what I did see aud do 'll v u a\, , u r valley on Friday evening cut a tfVlftp of death thirteen miles long. In its °we of the most thickly p6pu centres of the Keystone State, a few minutes from the tPUB the dam at Lake Couemaugb were rolling over one another ffliad whirl n*> they wore carried by the waters down the gorge between tie lolls. At .Johnstown the whole cen the city was cut as if a mammoth bad passed over tin* land. At that large stone bridge of the iVnnsyl >>i. -a if.. com puny owns. Tim Omemaugh i** bv it ni an angle. Into tliis M houses, tTim'S and tVnrcs that i-iunv the left side f the fixer rushed and dJlßpil , 'd one on top of another until the ’Ul'i'-r the bridge were closed, tile cur gj^Bl 1 ! 'e <'. '!!■ itiriu b \\;|s . handed end t!:. began t<> pile on high ii.itil ral'lcr . proic. t ••! above i>st-.no. To.on n •**.id;* all c: .1 (| v ii |ic p! •, one after another until this terrible a ten-led a half mile up the si ream. tell the horror of the shrieks of who were in the mass ol' tloat- niter the blockade had formed, the **^B* ,ll "T*. of tile houses caught lire Mini th. the railroad bridge became a jgitiltg furnace. Hundreds of people whe been drowned oi* crushed in the mad “stream were burned alive. Their us the Haines reached them made flu l,|t hearted wring t! *ir hands in agoi\ inability to render assistance. The JBgWMew front upstream. The air became h , th( * F n, .t,ine odors of burning 1 Un *'* atlas: the horrors t ) sighl. sni d 1 became so great that per vicinity were forced to leave tin phtoef IN can while t he greater bulk of houses had gone down along the right bank. On, mad Vttsu carried away a portion of the stone bridge, and then the flood bore down upon tbe thousands of homes and floated them farther westward in the Omemaugh. only a little after live Fridav aft,*r ■Bt when the first, warning came, and as it raining heavily all day the citizens Of Johnstown and tla* neighboring hamlets IlflMgiH that the slowly rising waters only a light flood. Thus the inhabitants either grouped in windows or in the doors, watching what they expected V 1 ,u; . nM imposing spectacle, but nothing (> * s,Mme seemed to think it necessary v should take to the hills, and >■ nil caught iu the fearful rush. l*atliotlc Incidents. y'iJPT Sf, enes will never all be written. ÜBlady told me of seeing her mother crushed i Ust before h* r eye*, and the mangled gjj£ carried off down the stream. William ’■per lost six chihlren and savor! a bal>e months old. His wife died three weeks ago. An aged Oormnn, his flv e daughters floated down on their point below Ninevah. where the uas wrecked. The live daughters were ned, but the old man and his wife stuck lf tr f e . an(l hung there for twenty-four ■fs before they could bo t a ken off of the most pitiful sight* of this ter- H e disaster came to my notice when the Wy of a young lady was taken out of the River. The woman was ap. •ruutljr ~mte young, though her featurk ' temoly disfigured. Nearly nil tho Hntlnngexeept the shoes was torn otr the H' 1 1,0 eorpse was that of a mother, for ■’'""‘O' m death the woman clasped a W' 1111 " male hnhe, apparently not more than * year oh tighly in her arms. The little ono HUS huddled close up to its mother's face. ■ s,le realized tlteir terrihle fate Had evidently raised the habe to her lips to Hnprmt upon its little lips the last motherly Hiss it was to receive in this world. The sight Hl“ pathetic one and turned many a stout ■<>, t to tears. Among the miraculous escapes to be re eon led in connection with the great disaster is that of George J. Leas and family. He re kid.-d on Iron street, Johnstown. When the rush of water came there were eight people on the roof. The little house swung around off its moorings and floated about for nearly half an hour lief ore it came up against the bank of drift above the stone bridge. A three-year-old girl with sunny golden hair and dimpled cheeks prayed all the while that God would save them, ami it seemed that God really answered the praver of this inno cent little girl and directed the house against the drift, enabling every one of the eight to get oflT. Mrs. Leas carried the little girl in her arms, and how she got off she doesn’t know. Every house around them, she said was crushed, and the people either killed or drowned. Harrowing Story of au Eye-Witness. A correspondent telegraphs a word-picture of Johnstown as it, looked after the subsidence of the flood. He says: “The point of observation was on the hill side, midway between the woolen mills of Wood vale and Johnstown proper, which I reached after a journey through the por tions of the city from which the waters, receding fast,' are revealing scenes of unparalleled horror. From the point ou the hillside referred to, an excellent view of the site of the town can be obtained. Here it can be seen that from the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad which winds along the base of Prospect Hill, to a point at which St. John's Catholic Church formerly stood, and from the stone bridge* to Conemaugh, on the Conemaugh River, out twelve houses by actual count remain, and they are in such a condition as to be prac tically useless. To any one familiar with the geography of the iron city of Cambria County, this will convey a vivid idea of a swath averaging one-half mile in width find three miles in length. In all the length and breadth of the most peaceful and costly por tion of Johnstown not a shingle remains, ex cept, those adhering to the buildiugs men tioned. "But do not think for an instant that this comprehends in full the awfulue6S of the scene. What has just been mentioned is a waste of large territory swept as clean as if by a gigantic broom. In the other direction, along the course of Stony Creek, as far as Alexander Kennedy’s, the President of the town councils, some few of the houses still remain, but they are up side down. piled on top of each other, and in many ways so torn asunder that not a single one of them is available for any purpose whatsoever. It is iu this district that the loss of life has been heartrending. Bodies are being dug up in every direction. “On the main street from which the waters have receded sufficiently to render access and work possible, bodies are being exhumed. They are as thick as potatoes in a field, Those in charge seem to have the utmost difficulty in securing the removal of bodies after they have been found. “At the public schoolhouse the scene beg gars description. Boards have been laid from ilesk to desk, and as fast as the hands of a large body of men and women can put the remains in recognizable shape, they are laid out for possible identification, and removed as quickly as possible. Seventy-five still remain, although many have been taken away, and they are being'brought in every moment It is something horrifying to see one portion of the huge school taken up by rows and rows of corpses, each with a clean white sheet covering it, and on the other side of the room a promiscuous heap of bodies in all sorts of shapes and conditions, looking for all the world like decaying tree trunks. Among the number identified are two beauti ful young ladies named respectively Mrs Richardson, who was a teacher in the kinder* garten school, aud Miss Lottie Yost, whose sigter I afterward noticed at ono of the cor ners near by, weeping as if her heart was broken. Not a single acquaintance did she count iu all of the great throng who passed her by, although many of them tendered i-in cere sympathy, which was accentuated by their own losses.'* A Paul Revere Among the Dead. A nameless Paul Revere lies somewhere among the nameless dead. Who he is may never be known, but his ride will be famous in local history. Mounted on a grand big bay horse, he came riding down the pike which passes through Conemaugh to Johnstown like some angel of wrath of old shouting his por tentous warning; “Run for your lives to the hills!” “Run to the hills!” The people crowded mt of their houses along the thickly settled street, awestruck and wondering. Nobody knew the man, and some thought he was a maniac and laughed. On at a quick pace he rode, and shrilly rang out his awful cry. In a few moments, however, there came a cloud of ruin down the broad streets, down the narrow alleys, grinding, twisting, hurling, over turning, crashing, annihilating the weak and the strong. It was the charge of the. flood, wearing its coronet of ruin and devastation, which grew at every instant of its progress. Forty feet high, some say, thirty according to others, was this sea, anti it traveled with a swiftness like that which lay hidden in the heels of Mercury. On and on raced the rider, aud on and on rushed the wave, Dozens of people took heed of the warning and ran up to the hills. Poor faithful rider; it was an un equal contest. Just as he turned across the railroad bridge the mighty wave fell upon him, and horse, rider and bridge all went out into chaos together. A few feet further on several cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad tram from Pittsburgh were caught up and hurled into the cauldron, and the heart of the town reached at the hero, who turned neither to right nor left for safety for himself, but rode on to death for his townsmen. A Thrilling Story. James M . Walters, ah attorney, spent the night in Alma Hall. Johnstown, and relates a thrilling story. One of the most curious oc currences of the whole disaster was how Mr. Walters got to the hall. He has his office on the second floor. His home is at 185 Walnut street. He says he was in the house with his family when the waters struck it. All was carried away. Mr. Walters’s family drifted on a roof in another direction. He jassed down several streets and alleys, until he came to the hall. His dwelling struck that edifice, aud he was thrown into his own office. Alxiut 200 persons had taken refuge in the hall, and were on the second, third and fourth stories. The men held a ineeting and drew uj> some rules which all were bound to respect. Mr. Vn alters was chosen President. The Rev. Mr. Beale was put in charge of the first floor, A. M. Hart of the second floor, Dr. Mathews of the fourth floor. No lights were allowed, and the whole uight was spent in darkness. The sick were cared for. The weaker women and children had the best accommodations that could be had, while the others had to wait. The scenes were most agonizing. Heatrendiug shrieks, sobs and moans pierced the gloomy darkness. The crying of children mingled with the sup pressed sobs of the women. Under the guar dianship of the men all took more hope. No one slept during all the long dark night. Mary knelt for hours in prayer, their supplications mingled with the roar of the waters and the shrieks of the dying in the surrounding houses. In all this misery two women gave premature birth children. Dr. Matthews is a hero. Several of his ribs were crushed by a falling timber ami his pains were most severe, yet through all he attended the sick. When two women in a house across the street shouted for help, he with two other brave young men climbed across the drift and ministered to their wants. No one died during the night, but women and children surrendered their lives on the suc ceeding day as a result of terror and fatigue. Miss Rose Young, one of the ladies in the hall, wax frightfully cut and bruised. Mrs. Young had a leg broken. All of Mr. Walters’s family were saved. Sleeping on the Ground. I walked along the hillside and saw hun dreds of persons lying on the wet grass wrapped in blankets or quilts. It was grow ing cold aud a misty rain haul set in. Shelter was not to be hail, and houses on the hillsides that had not been swept away were literally packed from top to bottom. The bare ne cessities of life were soon at a premium aud loaves of bread sold at fifty cents. Fortu nately, however, the relief train from Pitts burg arrived at 7 o’clock. Otherwise the horrors of starvation would have been added. All provisions, however, had to be car ried over a rough rocky road a distance of four miles (as I knew, who had been com pelled to walk it), and in many eases they were seized by the toughs, and the people who were in need of food did not get it. It may sound strange to say much about the damage to property, but it must be re membered that tlie living are those who now suffer and aid is asked for the thousands who art* left homeless and without a change of clothing. The damages, including personal losses, cannot fall short of $40,000,000. I learned in Johnstown that the Great Cliartiers Steel Works are swept away with all the valuable machinery. This alone en tails a loss of $2,000,000. One million will not make the Cambria Iron Works whole. Rich and poor were served alike by this ter rible disaster. I saw a girl standing in her bare feet on the river’s bank clad iu a loose petticoat and with a sawl over her head. At first I thought she was an Italian woman, but her face showed t hat I was mistaken. She whs the belle of the town—the daughter of a wealthy Johnstown banker—and this single petticoat and shawl were not only all that was left her, but all that was saved from the magnificent residence of her father. She had escaped to the hills not an instant too soon. An Estimate of tlie Number of Dead. Adjutant-General Hastings, whose bureau at Johnstown is endeavoring to make some thing like a complete record of the number of bodies found, sent, to Governor Beaver on Monday his official estimate that at least ftdOO deaths would he absolutely proven. This does not include the large number of deaths that will never be known of positively, and General Hastings’s own estimate of tho total is 8000. . The loss of property will be far up into the millions, but no one thinks of that, the tale of the dead is bad, says a dispatch, but the tale of the living is bad, too, and it must have attention. There are as many of them us of the dead, and they are hard pressed for food, clothing and all the necessaries of life. Their necessity will continue, not for a day, nor tor a week but for months. They are as destitute of all that goes to support life except the bare breath iu their bodies, ns are the very (load whose half nude bodies line tlio banks of the Conemaugh for miles. Their ordinary means of earning a live lihood are gone, with the rest of the town, but there is abundant work for every one. But there must be money to pay the workmen. Food for the immediate necessity of the people in Johnstown itself is coming iu from every side, and there is enough to relieve their wants. Toughs Invade the Stricken Town. Probably fifty barrels of whisky were washed ashore just below Johnstown, and those men who had lost everything in this world sought solace in the fiery liquid. So it was that as early as 6 o’clock last night the shrieks and cries of women w ere intermingled with drunkards’ howls and curses, tvhat was worse than anything, however, was the "MY COUNTRY: MAY SHR RVKR )(K RIGHT: RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRYf”—JrrKatun, GOVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JUNK lil. \MK fact that incoming trains from Pittsburg Kroiiirht hun<lr*<ls f toughs who joined with the Mlhvs ami Bohemian* in rifling thel mm lien, stealing furniture, insulting wotnen and on dcavoring Rassunu* control tif any rescuing J | >ar ties that tric'd to M*>k 11 Ixslies under tin I I tushes ami in tin* limbs of trees. There wn> no one iu authority, no one t akc command of even a citiseus' posst could it have Imsui organi/.ish A lawicsp mob seemed to control this narrow nn*k of land that was the only appnmeh to the city of Johnstown. 1 saw ]mthorn take watcho from dead ineii'H jackets and brutally tear tingcr-rings from the hands of women. Tin* j ruffians also climbed into the overturned houses and ransucked the rooms, taking whatever they thought valuable. No one dared check*them in this work, and con sequently tiie scene was not as riotous as it would liave linen if the toughs had nothud sway. In fact, they became beastly drunk after a time and were seen lying around in u •.tu pur. Walking in (Tic Torrent's Path. I walked late yesterday afternoon from New’ Florence to a place opposite Johnstown, a distance of four miles. I describe what I actually saw. All along the wav bodies wort seen lying on the river banks. In one places woman was half buried in the mud, only a limb showing. In another was a mother with a babe clasped to her breast. Further along lay a husband and wife, their arms wouuo around each other’s necks. Probably fifty bodies were seen on that side of the river, and it must lie remembered that here the cur rent was the swiftest, and consequently fewer of the dead wore landed among the bushes. On the opposite side bodies could also be seen, but they were all covered with mud. Neai Johnstown the wreckage became grand in it* massive proportions. The scenes, as 1 neared Johnstown, were the most heartrending that man was ever called to look upon. Probably three thou sand people were scattered in groups along the Pennsylvania Railroad track and every one of them had a relative lying dead either in the wreckage above, iu the river below, or in the still burning furnace. Not a house that was left standing was in plumb. Hun dreds of them were turned on their sides and in some cases three or four stood one on top of the other. Two miles from Johns town, on the opposite side of the river from where l walked, stood one half of the water-works of the Cambria Iron Company, a structure that had beeu built of massive stone. It was filled with planks from houses, and a large abut ment of wreckage was piled up fully fifty feet in front of it. A little above, on the same side, could b<* seen what was left of the Cam bria Iron Works, which was one of the finest plants in the world. Some of the walls are still standing, it is true, but not a vestige of the valuable machinery remained iu sight. The two upper portions of the works won swept away almost entirely, and under the pieces of fallen iron and wood could be seen the bodies of more than forty workmen. At this point there? is a bend in the river and the fiery furnace blazing for a quarter of a mile square above the stone bridge cams into view. “My God!” screamed a woman who was hastening up the track, “can it be that any are in there?” “Yes, over a thousand,” replied a man whe had just came from the neighborhood, and it is now learned that he estimated the number at one thousand too low. The renes of misery and suffering and agony and despair cam hardly be chronicled. One man, a clerk mimed Woodruff, was reel ing along intoxicated. Suddenly, with a frantic shout, lie threw himself over the bank into the flood and would have been carried to his death had he not been caught by some persons below. “Let me die ” lie ex claimed, when they rescued him. “My wife ami children are gone; I liave no use for my life.” An hour later I saw Woodruff lying on the ground entirely overcome by liquor. Persons who knew iiim said that he had novel* tasted liquor before. The Death Score. The committee at Johnstown in their lasi bulletin placed the number of lives lost at eight thousand. Tu doing so they are figur ing the inhabitants of their own city and the towns immediately adjoining. But it must bt remembered that the tidal wave swept ten miles through a populous district before it even reached the locality over which this com mittee has supervision. It devastated a tract the size amt shape of Manhattan Island. Here are a few facts that will show the geographical outlines of the terrible dis aster: The Hotel Hurlburt, of Johnstown, a massive three-story building of 100 rooms, has vanished. There were in it seventy-five guests at the time of the flood. Two only are now known to be alive. The Merchants’ Hotel is leveled. How many were inside it is not known, but as yet no one has been seen who came from there or heard of an inmate escap ing. At the Conemaugh round house forty one locomotives were swept down the stream, and before they reached the stone bridge all the iron and steel work had been torn from 7i. TTiT* great catastrophe to go more into details. 1 stood on the stone bridge at 6 o’clock and looked into the seething mass of ruin below me. At one place the blackened body of a babe was seen; in another, fourteen skull* could be counted. Further along the bone* became thicker and thicker, until at last at one place it seemed as if a concourse of people who had been at a ball or entertainment, hail been carried in a bunch and incinerated. At this time the smoke was still rising to the height of fifty feet, ami it is expected that when it dies down the charred bodies will be seen dotting the entired mass of burned iebrif _ SERIOUS COMPLICATION. PATRICK KUAN TO BE RECALLED FROM THE UNITED STATES MISSION AT CHILI. Irish circles in New York are full of the report that minister to Chili Eagan has been recalled to explain tho refer ences to his name in the Chicago trial. John F. Scanlan, who was iu Washing ton, stopped there on liis way to Chica go, and it is stated that it was on his statement that the recall is to be made. James J. II ’gers. the Brooklyn lawyer, whose name is signed to the Clan-na- Gael report as one of the executive com mittee, has given an interview to report ers, in which he affects to believe that Dr. Cronin is not dead at all, and that the body found was never conclusively identified as that of the missing man. He savs there was no reason for Cronin s death, and adds: “Tho body might have beeu placed in the catch basin by men interested in helping the enemies of the Irish peoplo. There are evidently some men deeply bent on bringing out to the public the purposes for which these moneys were expended. If you have noticed the reports of tho alleged Cronin murder in nil tho newspapers the first three days were remarkably alike as if inspired by the same set of men. To me the whole thing looks more and more every day as the clever work ot some smart men interested in making it appear that Cronin was killed. The doctor, I feel convinced, is still living, and has been sent out of the way to help tlie scheme of an alleged murder. He may not be cognizant of the scheme, but he is all the same being used skill fully to help it.” Rogers is an ardent admirer of Alexander Sullivan, the Chi cago lawyer, accused of complicity in the murder of Cronin, and this is tho latest theory that is said to be now talked continually inside the circles of the Clan na-Gad camps. A HERO. By the capsizing of a boat in the har bor of Providence, K. 1., John Moran, aged eighteen, James McNiff, nineteen, and William Ilart, sixteen, were drowned. James Hamilton, aged eigb' teen, was saved. McNiff was a good swimmer and declined proffered assist uocs ifl favor of Hamilton. SOUTHERN ITEMS. ITEM. OF INTEREST FROM VA HIOL 9 POINTS IN THE SOUTH. AN ITI-Iu; |) A' '( (.UNI U WHAT IS OdiNO ON IMPOhI vN< E IN Till SOI'TIIKRN HTATIH. ('apt, I.m ien L. Bom, president of the board of aldermen, of Richmond, Va., died Saturday. The Pullman Palace Car Cos., have gent a Representative to Raleigh, N. and will tight the slate tax levy in the courts. . United States Senator Joseph K. Brown is so si|< at Ida home in Atlanta, tin , that o|nc politicians arc log-rolling for his successor. E. H Davenport, senior member of the large importing and grocery house of Davenport & Morris, of Richmond, Va., Uiod Sunday. Bishop Quintard's beautiful residence, at Suwanec, Tenn., was burned Saturday night. The bishop's valuable collection of curiosities was totally destroyed. Edwin Harris, late deputy collector of New Orleans, La., has been indicted by the jury on ten count* for em bezzlement of sums aggregating nearly $4,000. All the laborers at the government work, on the Warrior river, near Tuska luosa, Ala , went out on a strike. They demanded an increase of pay and the dis charge of the present foreman. The con tractors refuse to accede to either of theii demands. Dispatches report that a severe wind, rain and hail storm, passed over a large porti fr.' Of Wostera Missouri Sunday, do ing eousideratile damage to crops and buddings. Near Warrensburg a church was Id nvn down and two persona dan gerously injured. Murtin La lrvett, a sporting man well known in Charleston, Savannah, Gn., Co lumbia and Greenville, S. C., dropped dead at 3 a. m. Saturday, lie was engaged in placing a game of cards when lie was suddenly attacked by heart disease, and died in a few hours. A meeting of the Greenville, S. C., Farmers’ Alliance was held there in the courthouse on Saturday. About one hundred representatives were present. Nearly n.l the sub-alliances in the state were represented. Resolutions were passed adopting cotton bagging to take the place of jute. The Henderson Steel Cos., let the con tract for the erection of a thirty ton steel plant, at Birmingham, Ala. The com pany has hud a small experimental plant in operation over twelve months, and the stockholders have become fully sat isfied of the success of the Henderson patents which they own. An excellent quality of steel is made from the phos phorous iron ore of the section. One of the most dramatic incidents ever witnessed in a church in Atlanta, Ga., took place on the occasion of the delivery of a Bermon by Judge Howard Van Epps on Sunday, who acted us sup ply for Rev. Dr. Morrison of Jhe First .Methodist Church. The judge’s subject was the betrayal of Christ, and as he described the scene and the agony of the Savior in the garden of Gcthsemane, a furious storm raged outside, and the learned jurist’s remarks were punctuated by flashes of lightning and peals of thunder. A dispatch from Arkansas City, Ark., gives the details of a terrible " cyclone which swept through that city Sunday. The Methodist and Baptist churches and several residences were wrecked, while the roof of the Arkansas elevator, m which is located the Missouri Pacific depot, was blown across the tracks, de molishing a number of loaded freight cars. The ouly lives lost were those of Kate Wrdton, aged 15; Tudy Walton, aged 9. Mrs. Walton, the mother, was badly injured, and another daughter, Lizzie Walton, had a hip dislocated. All arc colored. Robert L. Howell, a young man 19 years of age, and Zacli Aleywine, a night watchman, had a dispute in the round-houso of the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad, in Marietta, and the lie passed between them. The dispute was about some potato slips sold by Aleywine to Howell; the latter went off after a pistol and shot Aleywiue through the heart. There seems to be some kind of fatality about the watchmen at this shop. Almost exactly three years ago,a negro watchman was murdered while on duty there, and not the slightest clew has ever been discovered as to who did tire crime. J. 11. Benjamin, editor of the DcLaud Aeirs, shot and instantly killed C:pt. J. W. Douglas, at Now Smyrna, Fla., Thursday. Douglas is a prominent citi zen of Daytonia, and a well-known poli tician. The shooting was the result of an old fend renewed by recent attacks by Benjamin in the columns of his newspaper. Douglas assaulted Benja min, knocking him off the pier into the matsh and jumping on him, choking him and holding his head under the water. Benjamin managed to get hold of his revolver, and placing it against Douglas’ body, fired. The ball entered his heart, and Douglas died almost instantly. A fight between the strikers and scab laborers at the Sloss furnaces, Bumiug hani, Ala., was averted Saturday by the timely arrival of Sheriff Smith with a strong posse. 'I he colored coke drawers at the Sloss furnaces struck Fridsy for an advance of ten costs per oven in wa ges. New men were secured and put to work Saturday morning. A large num ber of strikers appeared on the scene and, attacking the new men, drove them from the ovens. The strikers then surrounded the ovens and refused to let tiny one work. The new men were mad. and wanted to fight. The company appealed to the sheriff for aid, and soon a strong posse arrested six of-the ringleaders and placed them in the county jail. Very few court attendants are attending the Woolfolk trial at Fort Valley, Ga. Many predict a mis trial. Opinions differ ns to the evidence heard. Including the mistrial, 393 men men have been examined as talesmen, 227 disqualified, 111 declared competent, and four set aside by con sent. There tre 050 names iu the jury boxes. Every mime had been drawn when the twelfth juror was ac cepted. A majority of the twelve arc church members, two of them Primitive Baptiste, eleven have blue eyes, one dark brown. J. M. Frederick is a grand father. "Three hours were used in exam ining two jurors. Just before sunriso on Thursday, as Alfred Prioleau, a negro, was going to his work, passing an unoccupied store near the railroad track* at Ridgeway*. 8- he was suddenly fired upon by Cor nelia* Means, also colored. The weapon used was a double-barrel shot gun. Means wq about fifteen feet from liit victim, and ns Prioleau fell to the ground lie rushed upon him and struck him three heavy blows with the butt of the gun, upon the forehead, breaking the weapou at the breech. Returning to the house, in front of which he had fired, Means Did by his gun and got his pistol. Then, standing over till now dead body, he pointed his pistol downward and fired once, the hall cutering the wooden bridge on which the corpse lay. Means was arrested. The Augusta, Ga., exchange has just compiled the answers of its correspond ent, in reply to crop inquiries iu seventeen counties in Georgia, and five counties in South Carolina. Sevcuty-six corre spondents report the acreage as lastyeai; fortv-Beven report a decrease of tcu per cent, and six an increase of five per cent. Seventy-seven report planting as having progressed favorably, sixty-six report that it has not. Oniy one correspondent out of 133 reports the plant up with good stands. All report bad effect from :00l nights, retarding growth and pro ducing lice. The general tenor of all reports is that the crop is not in good condition. One hundred aad eight cor respondents reports the crops from ten days to two weeks late. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS Elton EVERYWHERE— ACCIDENTS, STRIKES, HUES, AM) HAEEENINOS OE INTEREST. The Bank of Omaha, Neb., has failed, with liabilities of $75,000; assets nomi nal. Emperor William’s review of the Eng lish fleet off Spithcad, has been fixed for August 5. Eighteen miners at Essen, Germany, who wore recently on strike, have been sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from two to six months for rioting. Herr Seigel, editor of the Vaterland. i clerical paper of Munich, Germany, has been sentenced to six weeks’ imprison ment for libelling the late Dowager Queen. The Germans in Switzerland protest against.the German official press attacks upou the Swiss government. Meetings have beeu culled in Berne to discuss the matter, and great excitement prevails. The French cabinet considered favor ably the request of the American resi dents for permission to hold a public celebration in Paris July 4. President Carnot has consented to unveil a statue of liberty on that day. A severe tornado Saturday evening wrecked many buildings at Danvers, west of Bloomington, 111. A church was destroyed, freight cars blown from the tracks, a tile factory ruined and many harna and dwellings unroofed. Missionary letters to the Anti-Slavery Society, in Loudon, England, say that the Mahdists have made Western Abys sinia n desert. Whole flocks and herds have been destroyed, thousands of Christians have beeu thrown into slavery, thousands of others have been butchered and hundreds of the noblest inhabitants have been taken to Mecca as slaves in violation of treaties. On Sunday, Private William Young, of Company C, Fourteenth regiment N. U. I'., committed suicide in his tent at Johnstown, Pa., the scene of the flood, by shooting himself in the head with a title. He was a farm laborer. He had been sick for several days, but nothing in his manner indicated that he contem plated taking his life. He was 29 years if age, and leaves a wife and two child ren. In a debate on the educational budget in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris, France, the effort of ex Premier Ferry to address the house caused a great un roar. A member of the right shouted: ‘■The blood of the Touquin dead chokes you!” and many similar cries were heard, be Cussagnac advised the house to sub mit and listen. “We swallow our dis gust !” exclaimed Bourgois, deputy for the department of the Vendee, and order w.is restored. FRATERNAL GREETINGS. UNION RECOMMENDED BETWEEN CONGRE GATIONALIBTS NORTH AND SOUTH. At a meeting of the American Home Missionary Society, held at Saratoga, N. Y., to decide the condition on which Southern white churches that have re cently applieil for congregational fellow ship shall be aided by the society, after a very earnest discussion of the present and future relations between them and the congregational churches and associa tions already in that region, the members of which are mostly colored, the follow ing resolutions were unanimously adopt ed : “In the full conviction that these churches are in accord with the princi ples of this society, and with those held by the congregational churches which it represents, Resolved, That we heartily welcome them to fellowship. We com mend them to the fraternal sympathy and prayers of all our people, and we request the officers of the society to ex tend them such financial aid as they may need, as promptly as its treasury shall permit. Resolved, That this society rejoices to learn that an effort is being made to unite the Georgia Congregation al Conference and the Georgia Congre gational Association on principles of equal recognition and the fellowship of all churches of each body, and trust that such union shall be accomplished. Great satisfaction was expressed at the unanimous adoption of these resolutions, as at oho time it was feared that there might ho a serious split on the casta question." KANSAS CYCLONE. The section around Wichita, Kan., was vi-ited by a most severe storm Sat urday. The western part of Sedgewiek county and eastern part of Kingman county suffered most, and a space twenty miles long by live miles wide was swept over by the cvclone. A farmer named Rogers and his family were killed, aud many others ure homeless. A heavy rain, followed the hail, which laid low the grain and fruit crops. DRY^GOODS TRUST. It is said on good authority that nc gotiations are now pending which will result iu transferring to a number of for eign capitalists some of the largest dry B g(Tods houses of New York. ALLIANCE DOTS. SOM: THING FOR FARMERS TV If FAD AND STUDY ON. THK HAIUtOAUS FlItM. At a meeting of the Joint Rate Com inittoe of tlie Trunk lines and Central Traffic Association, a vote was taken upon the application of the Baltimore A Ohio Railioad for a reduction of the rates on corn to the basis of 20c. per one hun dred pounds from Chicago to New York. The vote stood against the proposed re duction. wooi.onowrNo. President Harrison has received a let ter from a committee of the National Wool-Growers’ Association of the United Slates, dated at Columbus, Ohio, urging the necessity for an extra session of Con gress, to Ire convened at the earliest prac ticable day, for the purpose of enacting necessary legislation in regard to wool growing ami other industries of the country. BAD CROCS. Fine raius fell here, but the cool, win dy weather that has prevailed since that time has somewhat counteracted till benefits of the rain aud prevented the rapid growth of the crops. Farmer! Mill complain of bad stands of cotton, late planted corn. The wheat crop will fall far below the average, and Spring o its are a total failure. Full oats nrc fairly good, but the acreage is small.— Qrtenu'ood, S. C., Paper. IIP. KAT.B COUNTY, OA. The Farmers’ Alliances of DeKslL county bold their quarterly meeting at Wesley chapel on July 4th, and the fam ilies of all the members in the county are invited to attend and have a basket din ner. It promises to be one of the largest gatherings of farmers and their families ever held in the county. There will ben DcKalb county colt show in Decatur on the first Tuesday in August. One pre mium has been offered for the best eolt, and other premiums will be offered. There ure some fine colts in the county, and the day promises to be an interesting one to stock raisers. KNCOURAGINO. Money to move the crops will not bo needed for two or three months yet, and until that time conies, gold exports can go on without exciting much uneasiuess. But if there should not be enough mon ey readily available when tliut need be comes apparent, business will suffer. Crop prospects still remain good, and all rumors of anew rate war among the main lines of railroads have thus far been shown to be groundless. Indeed, il crops turn out to be as heavy as they promise to be, there will tic but little chance of a rate war at all this year. The financial outlook, in fact, continues to be highly encouraging. POOR OUTLOOK. Crop prospects in Maryland, Pennsyl vania and Virginia, have greatly deterio rated, the recent heavy rains having prostrated the wheat, anil the damage is only to be reckoned when it is known bow much will come up. A wcll-iu formed gentleman from Frederick coun ty, Md., one of the finest wheat districts of the state, says that a great deal of the wheat was down and would never come up, and this is a fair indication of the situation in these three states. When one considers the brilliant promise of a few days ago, the present aspect is de plorable, while every moment of a con tinuance of rain increases the damage.— Baltimore Journal. THRIFTY COLORED FOLKS. The colored pcoole in the Albany, Ga., section is gradually becoming more thrifty. Those who own their farms, if they will work themselves, aro generally doing well. Sometimes they pay very high prices for their land, buying it on time at almost any figure asked. It is a struggle for several years to pay for it, hut when this iscventually accomplished, they usually make good citizens, having peace, good order and the welfare of the country at heart. Said Lewis Davis, colored, of Dougherty county: “Three years ugo I bought ltlil 2-3 acres out in the green woods, for SBOO, on time. I cleared a portion of the land and went to work on it. lam gradually paying off the debt. Last year on the part of the land which I cultivated, I made 14 1-2 bales of cotton, 280 bushels of corn and 150 gallons of syrup, which I sold for fifty cents per gallon. I raise hogs and have between twenty-five and thirty head of cattle." now to no IT. The eld town of Wethersfield, which is on the Connecticut River, near Hart ford, Conn- was for a century at least, the center of the onion trade in Now England. Forty years ago it divided with the town of Bristol, in Rhode Is land, the honor of raising the hulk of all the onions consumed in the country. Forty-five years sgo the cry of “opposi. tion to monopoly” was started against the middle men who acted as and the growers organized for them selves. They selected three of the bright est and smartest young men in the town to go to New' York and manage their business there. They decided to stick by the young tradesmen through thick and thin. The result was more money for the farmers aud handsome commissions for the agents. The mo nopoly was broken down in the end. The cultivation of onions has been dying out rapidly for the past fifteen years. Not one-third of the acreage which was sowed during the War is now used for the crop. Tobacco and garlic have sup planted the popular product ot a cen tury. GEORGIA CHOPS. There are some interesting points in the crop report for the month of Juno which is now being issued from the state department of agriculture of Georgia. Corn is a little off. The condition of the crop has fallen from 90 on May Ist to 90, owing to unfavorable weather. The hud worm lias been destroying stands in bottom lands. The fields are in good condition as to culture, the piaut, as a rule, bus a healthy color, though small. The prospects of oats has steadily and rapidly declined since the last report, the present showing a reduction of 69, as compared with an average condition, against 98 one month ago. The small urea sown iu the Fall has contributed tc prevent au almost total failure of the crop. The wheat crop is unusually good, being 93 compared with au average. These figures are probably below the real facts. The condition of tlie cotton crop was critical, though m>t alarming, even on the first of May, as has been in timated. Since that date the only re deeming circumstances have been the absence of any sudden and overpowering disaster, guch ss flood or frost, and the NUMBER 34. opportunity nlTorded farmers io get en tirely clear of grain where it was poasi lile toplow. The dry weather,cold wind* and low temperature generally, have re tarded germination aud growth, and eu oiurmrud insect depredation. It is not too much to say, that the cotton proa iKM-t on June 1 was lower than it has been on the same date within at least ten years. All of North Georgia, and par ticularly iu Middle Georgia, there ii uni versal complaint of poor atnuds, and a lousy and unthrifty condition of the plants. In extreme Southwest Georgia the crop is much better than elsewhere. The fact that the crops are clean and the soil generally in mellow condition, to gether with the recent rain* that have fallen ovor the greater part of the state, encourage the hope that even yet the be lated crops will spring forward and yield abundant harvests. An unprecedented yield of fruit is well nigh assured, as no heretofore known disaster can occur to destroy tlie crop, excepting possibly continued and excessive rains throughout the period of ripeuing. WASHINGTON, D. 0. MO VKMENTS OF THK PRESIDENT AND BIS ADVISERS. AI-l-OIN 1 UESTS, DECISIONS, AND OTKKB MATTERS Ol INTEREST FROM THK NATIONAL CAPITAL. John C. Kelton is now the adjutant general of the army in place of Gen. Drum, retired. President Harrison has ordered that Sunday morning inspections under arms shall be abolished, and the inspection shall consist on Sunday of merely as to dress and general appearance. Surgeon General Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital Service, left Washing ton on Thursday for Johnstown, Pa., te confer with tlie state board of Pennsyl vania regarding the sanitary condition of affairs in the fiood-bhghted district. Sir Julian Pauncefotc, British minis ter, called on President Ifarrisou, in company with Secretary Blaine, and de livered a message from Queen Victoria, expressing her deep sympathy for the sufferers by the recent floods in Pennsyl vania. A report of the American consul at Amoy. China, to the State Department, furnishes some startling fact* as to the adulteration of tea shipped from that country to the American market. Next to England, this country is the greatest tea market in the world; and as the sys tem of British inspection is now very strict, Chinese merchants are hunting up other fields to which they may send their spurious and doctored goods. Gen. Hepburn, Solicitor of the Treas ury, has rendered an official decision that the importation of learned professors from Europe to teach in American schools and colleges “would be clearly a violation of the terms of the alien con tract labor law." a similar ruling, the congregation of a church in America is prohibited from engaging u minister of the Gospel to preach to them, if he is not a citizen of this country. Tiie President ou Thursday appointed, to be collector of internal revenue, John B. Eaves, of North Carolina, for the sth district of North Carolina. William A. Allen, of Tennessee, for the 2d district of Tennessee, vice Nathan Gregg, re moved. David A. Nunn, of Tennessee, for the sth district of Tennessee. Eaves is a farmer by occupation. Alien is a resident of Greenville, and has been in terested in the manufacture of tobacco iu Greenville county, and iu Virginia. Nunn is a native of the state, and lives at Brownsville. In the ease of Capt. George A. Armes, U. 8. A., retired, sentenced by general court martial to be dismissed from the service, the President hus commuted the sentence in consideration of the good service which this officer has rendered, and of some mitigating circumstances connected with the offenses of which he was found guilty, to confinement within such limits as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and to the deprivation of the right to wear the uniform and insignia of his rank in the army for the period of five years. His conduct in connection with inauguration day parade, and hil attempt to pull Governor Beaver’s nose afterwards, formed the basis of the charges against him. lie was actiDg as a secret guard to the President at the time the alleged offenses took place. SEATTLE’S FIRE. A careful and diligent investigation thus far made in Seattle shows no lives have been lost. While the flames were raging, a man was seen carrying firebrands acros an alley. He was setting fire to a house that had escaped the flames, when a special policeman commenced shooting at him. To avoid the shots, he darted into the house he had fired, and never came out alive. While the Occi dental hotel was burning, Officer James Campbell saw a man attempting to get into the Puget Souud National Bank by the back entrance. He ordered him to stop, when the man drew a revolver, and the officer fired three shots aud brought him to a standstill. At a mass meeting on Saturday night of the people of Port land, Oregon, if was unanimously de cided to abandon the Forth of July cel ebration, and forward the fund raised for the purposes of Seattle sufferers. Considering the de struction of all the hotels, restaurants, stores, banks, newspaper offices and telegraph offices, the stoppage of the liable aud electric railway, the depot and ‘.he wharves and the general demoraliza uou, there is not a* much inconvenience is would be expected and no suffering at ill. Estimates of the local losses range ill the way from $7,000,000 to $10,000,- )00. It is safe to say that 25 per cent, jf the lusses will fall on the insurance so.mpanies. GERMANY ANGRY. The German papers ssv, that unless the Swiss Bunderath reproves the official concerned in the Wohlgemuth affair, Germany will take reprisals by restrict ing tlie frontier intoieourse with fteight, postal and passenger service. Wohlge muth is a German police inspector, who was arrested in Switzerland on the charge of bribing a Swiss to act as agent provocateur, and was expelled from the country. cotton. The total expansion in the cotton area for all the states has been for several years small. The changes this season are a little larger than a year ago. A net increase over 1888of 2.34 per ccut, bring ing up the total to 20,309,480 acres ir 1889, against 19,845,430 in 1888,