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The Irwin County News. er= Official Orgran of Irwin County. A. G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop’r. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ■yy l. story, PHYSICIAN abd BURGEON, Sycamore, Georgia. •J^JAIlK ANTHONY. PHYSICIAN abd BURGEON, Sycamore, Gjjoroia. Will be loc 'ted for the present at the Dod¬ son House. Patrounge respectfully sol cited. T. 4V, ELMS, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Ruby, Georgia. Calls promptly attended to at alt hours. I respectfully solicit a share of Ihe public patronage Office in B. H Cockreil’s store. jQU. J. K GARDNER, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Ashburn, Georgia. Cad» answered promptly day or night. t33P"Spociai attention to diseases of women Lmd children. jgKNTON STRANGM, M. D. SPECIALIST. CORDEW.it, Georgia, Diseases of women, Strict ires. Nervous and all priva o diseases. Strictures dissolv¬ ed out iu - to 5 minutes by a smooth current of Galvanism without pain or detention from business; aud given to patient in a vial of alcohol. Correspondence solicited and best references given. Office north-east cor¬ ner Suwanee Ho n- ■ B. M. FRIZZELLE, LAWYER, McRae, Georgia. Practices in tbe State and Federal Courts. Real Estate and Criminal Law Specialties. yy A. AARON, LAWYER, Ashburn, Georgia. Collections and Ejectment suits n Special¬ ty, g3grOffice, Room No. 4, Betts Buililing. W. FUliVVOOD, LAW, REAL ESTATE & COLLECTIONS, Tutor, Georgi . s Prompt attention given to all business. fgf'OHiee, Love Building, Room No. 1. JOHN H Altlii SHOEMAKER, Ashburn, Georgia, My prices .are low and all work strictly OrUMTHrifoed. •3* DIRECTORY- CITY OF SYCAMORE. Mayor—A G. DcLoach. Counoilmen—W. B. Hasher. X. L. Murray. Si. W. Cockrell. E. It. Smith, J, P. Fountain, Superior Courts—First C. Monday Judge, in April «nd October. C. Smith, Hawkins- Ville, Ga. Solicitor General—Tom Eason. McRae,Ga. Clerk Superior Court—J. B. D. Pautk, Ir- Win ville. Ua. Sheriff—Jesse Paulk, Ruby. Ga ville, . Deputy Ga.; Sheriffs—C. VanHouten, L. Prescott, Irwin- Wm. Sycamore, Go. Monday; County Quarterl Court — Monthly second session, Monday second session, in January, April. July and October. J. B. Clements, Judge, Irwinn'lle, Ua. County Gn. Court Bailiff—William Rogers, Ir- Tvinville, County Commissioners’ Court—First Mon¬ day iu each month. M. Henderson. Commis¬ sioner, Ordinary’ll Ocilla. Ga. Court—First Monday in each month. Daniel Tucker, Ordinary, Vic, Ga. School Commissioner-J. Y. Fietcher, Ru by. Ga. County Treasurer—W. R. Paulk, Irwin- ville. Ga. Tax Receiver -D. A. Melnnis, \ ic Ga. % Tax Collector—J. W. F.mlk, Ruby, Ga. Purveyor—M. Barnes, Minnie, Gn, Coroner—Daniel Hall, Minnie, Ga. Board of Education—Jno. Clements Chair¬ man, Irvvinville, Ga.; Homy T. Fletcher, Ir- Winvilie, Taylor, Irwinvil Ga.; L R. Tucker, 8. Vic, Go; I,. P. Ocallu, Oh, e, Ga.; E. Coleman, Justice Courts—901 Dist. G. M, Second Saturday and in each month. Marcus Luke, N. P. ex-ofa, J, it; Wm, Rogers, Bailiff, L-w.lnvdle. Ua. Saturday in 1421 District G. M. Second each month. J. H. McNeese, J. P, Kisss- mee, Ga. James Roberts, Bailiff, Ocala, Gi. 1388 Dist. u. M., Third Saturday in each raont Bailiff, Minnie, n. V. Hanley, J. P ; David Troup, Ga. 98H Iji l G. M., Third Wednesday in eneb mouth. (J. L Royal, J, P., Sycamore, Gn. \ A. Jones & P. Royal, Builiffs, Sycamore, Ga. 982 Dist. G M.. D. A. Ray, N. P. & Ex- offlcio J. P., Sycamore, Ga. __ LODGE DIRECTORY- Svc inni ,., U. nlv... f\o. 210 IL & A- M Regain,- communications, -'th! Saturday. W Story, W. M.; A. D. Ross, Secretary. Oeill.i Lodge, V. & A. M.—Regular corn- imuucuiioii i uurs luy before the 4lh Sunday M.; in each month. J. A. J, Heuderson, W. D. W. M. Whitley, Kec’y, Ociilu, Ga. CHUdCH DIRECTORY- sycamore circuit. Sycamore—2nd Sunday and Sunday night Cycfometa—Fourth Sunday. Dakota- Third Sunday. Ashburne—1st Sunday and Sunday night. T. D. STRONG, Pastor. UNION PRIMITIVE BAPTIST. Brushey Creek—4 h Sunday and Saturday before. Sturgeon Creek—2nd Sunday and Situr- day Hopewell—lat betore. Saturday Salem—3rd Sunday & Saiurday before. before. Eld. Sunday H. and Harden, Pastor. W, Little River—3rd Sunday and Saturday betore. Turner's Meeting House—2nd Sunday and Saturday Oaky Gmve—4th before and Saturday before Sunday Emaua—Ut Bundayand James Saiurday Gibbs, Pastor. before Els. .NOTICE. Parties will are warned that no of hunting land Nos. or fish¬ ing l,., .Uowod on lot* 18, 1*. 17. 16. 13 and 44, in 3rd district of Irwin county. Wiley Elexchuus. “In Union. Htrength and Prosperity Abound.” SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA M JUNE I, 1894. CURRENT EVENTS Epitomized in Paragraphs, Giving the Cream of the General News. The floods in the Susqnohannah ami its branches are reported to be siowly subsiding. Ed Alvarez shot and killed Sain Milliard at the latter’s home near Starke, Fla. The general conference of the col¬ ored M. E. church will meet next year at Charleston, S. C. Gus Gudger, a negro, shot and killed Matthew Hardeman at the base ball ground at Dalton, Ga,, last week. A barn was struck by lightning at Sebru, Ky., and burned with 11 mules and a large supply of corn and hay. The mercury fell at Chattanooga on Sunday to 30 degrees, and there was more snow ou Lookout and Welder’s ridge. At Union City, Tcnn., George Carr, crushed the skull of Have Doan, wit h a four pound weight. Both the men are barbers. ' A . dispatch .. from. . Dennison, _ . Texas, rrl says: “Nothing like the weather of the past 24 hours has been experienced here for 20 years. Ten prisoners broke ontjof jailjat _ Ra- leigli, N. C., and got away, including Orange Page, who was under sentence of deatli for minder, The residents in south and east Minneapolis, on the flats, have been driven from their houses by the rising waters of the Mississippi. * Geo. S. Lemon and Geo. Avery, of Louisville, Ky., met in a duel at Falls, a suburb of Jeffersonville, Ind., and Lernon received a ballot in his thigh, t,, The , body , of , James . . Lamman, a son of Pevton Lowman of Gilmer county, Ga., was found lying dead in the pub- lie road. He had been stabbed to dea(b The officials of the Ramsey Coke company ^ of - rT Umontowu, . Pa., »; an- nounce that every foreign m heir employ will bo discharged and their places tilled will, negroes. C. H. J» Taylor, a negro, of Kan- ^ sas, appointed Recorder of deeds iu the District of Columbia, through the influence of Senator Martin of Kansas, has been eonhrmed by the senate by a ° 0 ° ' Mr. Benedict, . public . printer at the national capitol, discharged 500 prin- ters from the government offices last Saturday. He says he will further reduce the force by discharging 500 more by the first of July. The hotel and many other buildings of West End, a suburb of New Or- leans, and one of the most attractive and widely known resorts in the south was burned last Wednesday morning, Loss $50,000, largely insured. The British steamship, Akaba, clear- ed at the custom house at Pensacola, l< la. with a cargo of 2,021,000 superti- cial feet of lumber aud timber, for London, England—the largest cargo of the kind that ever left a gulf poi-t. The road connecting the city of Savannah with Tybee beach, which was entirely destroyed by the storm which swept the Atlantic coast lust siunmer, lias been rebuilt and is run- niug four trains daily to that famous resort. The Manchester, England, ship ca- nal lias been formally opened by the Queen. Seven miles of streets were lined with stands on the occasion, and tho principle streets and squares were closed to vehicles from 8;30 p. m, tili midnight. The corner stone of a monument to be erected under the auspices of the La- dies’ Monumental association of Nortli Carolina, iu memory of the Confedor- ate dead, was laid with imposing cer- emonies, at the capital of that state last Tuetday. The flood at Williamsport, Pa , lasj week reached the height of thirty-one feet above low water mark, one foot higher than the disastrous flood of 1889. There was eight feet of city water in the business portion of the at 1 p. m, on Sunday, George W. Smith, was found dead in his bed at his home near Hickory Withe, Tenn. He was a quiet christ- tian gentleman, 84 years ofd. On Ihe day da'v before his death he plowed al- aud was cheerful aud apparently rnJ nn rptiriuo-at 7 niu-hf The „ British , u stcamei, w-„- Billingham, , * ing al 4300 tons le of f D phospate, n Udl "?’ f“n for Copenha- Ca ‘I7" gen. She drew 20 feet and 8 iuches of water and wont over the bar with- out touching. Ihe is the deepest laden vessel that has ever passed over the bar. Frank Beil, a traveler, while in the town of Barberton, O., foolishly ex- hibiied in sevoral places a largo mm- ber of bills. At night lie was set up- on ina lonely place, beaten into iuseu- sibility and robbed of nearly $1000. Five men were arrested, charged with tho crime. The boiler of a mill a few miles east of De Funink, Flu., exploded, It shot up through the roof and foil 200 vards away. The mill was wrecked, J H Davis tbe fireiuau. was killed and John Cody, a mill hand, probably hurt fatally, Several others were injured. The secretary of the treasury has sent to the house of representatives a recommendation that $35,000 bo ap¬ propriated for a new light house at Ciinmleleur, La., the old structure having been so badly damaged by a storm in (Jctobrr that he deems it un- wise to repair it, According to the report of the dis¬ trict fire chief, after a pell of the bitrnl district in Boston, on the fire of last Tuesday, 137 buildings were to¬ tally destroyed, 20 partly burned, 487 families burned out and about 2,300 persons made homeless, The financial loss was about $500,000. George Gliarest, a professional wire walker, attempted to carry his wife on a steel cable strechcd across the public square at Shelby vilie, Tenn. The cable snapped and they fell to the steeet 35 feet below, Charest’s hip was broken and bis wife, is expected to die from injuries received in the terrible fall. MusLdhan, T .... daughter ... of ... General B- Hood > who u P on <h° death of her father twenty years ago, was, wi til her twin sister, adopted by Mr. and Mrg Thatcher M. Adams, whose uame gbc uow bears, is to be married to Mr. William Stone Post. The wed- ding announced to take place in Trin- ity church, Lenox, a suburb of Balti- more, Md., on June 14th. a. detective named Webber, was killed and deputy sheriff Smith seri- ously injured in a riot at Forest City, Ark., growing out of the arrest of prominent citizens of St. Francis county on the charge of whitecapping upon evidence supplied by Webber, Frank Gorman, a merchant of Pales- tine, is charged with shooting the de- tcctive and has been arrested. ^ Boulder .Creek, Cal., a man named Azoff approached the station agent and ordered him to throw up bis hands. He did so. Detective Len Harris, of the Southern Pacific secret eamce, ^ who had previous lnrorma- liou the ro , jb e l y wonld be at - , ted 8tepped 0llt of a rO0ln and A«.ffl|to surrender. Instead of d Wng so the robber quickly fired, shooting Harris in the stomach,' ami made’offl The wound in all proba¬ biffty is fatal 4 ^ main bllild{ng ? of cienMOn Cbi- |ege> t|)e South Cai oJina agr i cu | tuia | aud mechahical school, has been de- strayed by fire. It was a handsome three story brick structure, and the fl t e having begun in the third story, much of the college property was saved. The site of the college, two miles from Calhoun, was the birth place of John C. Calhoun and was devised to the state by his son-in-law, Thos. G. Cleuison. The loss is esti- mated at $80,000, with about $20,000 insurance. Five men entered the First National bank of Longview, Texas, at three o’clock in the afternoon, and ordering the president and cashier to hold up their hands, robbed tiie bank of $2,500. Several officers and citizens intercepted th■* robbers and a fight ensued, in which two citizens, Geo. Buckingham and J. W. McQueen, were killed, and Marshlial Muckelroy badly wounded, One of the robbers, a small dark com- plecled man, was killed. The others es- caped, taking bis horse and gun, A large posse went in pursuit, it j s ostimated that half a million dollars will scarcely cover the damages resulting front the storm in Minnesota and Wisconsin last Tuesday. The down pour of rain was phenominal and tho rise in <he waters was so rapid dams were broken, many bridges car- ried away and much property destroy- ed. Two persons were killed by light- t'i'ig, a woman and two children were drowned in the Engalle river near bpring Valley, Wis., and two men near Mindon, Minn, Railway traffic i7 as suspended by the loss ofbriges. A number of Nashville, fireman were poisoned at their headquarters in that city. Returning from dinner they drank freely of ice water, which was kept at tho rear of the engine house, and were seized with intense pain and nausea. Thinking the cause was in something they had eaten at dinner, they sought relief in vomiting «"d drank more. It happened that sev e ' al cltlzuus ™, me and dl ' a " k °, f th ® tke water ' T *V at °® ce developed the same symptoms. Physicians were called and most of the victims were partially relieved, but some were car- ried home in critical condition. An ana iygi„ 0 f the water showed the pres- cnee of a considerable quanity of ar- geinc . It is Slipp0se d to have been p | aced in the water while the men W ere at dinner. -— > — >rt.e sheriff Makes .v G.»od shot. Sheriff Isaac Roussard of Lafayette, La., shot and killed Henry Jones, a negro ravisher, who had been wunted for a month. The fiend met a little 7-year-old girl and her little brother in the road, and seizing her carried her off aud accomplished his purpose. The sheriff went to the salt mines, Hearing he was there, and in an at- tempt to arrest him, was met by a des- perate resistance. The sheriff, during the trouble, shot the negro through (he head with a Winchester, AT THE CAPITOL, Synopsis of What it Being Saio ant Done at Washington from Day to Day, One Hundred and Thirty-Second !>ny. Sevate —In (he senate the resolutions meet dailyjat 10 and take up thetaritl at 1:30 was agreed to. Thereinain- of scliednlo A—chemicals,oils and paints were acted on, and all of B—earths, earthenware and When the next schedule reached,—metals aud manufac¬ of iron and steel, tho bill went for the day and the senate at adjourned. House —In the house a resolution to tiie committee on railways and a clerk was agreed to. The and judicial appropriation bill was then taken up iu committee ihe whole. General debate on the was closed at 5 o’clock. The house voted lo adjourn over Saturday, and took a recess unlit 8 o’clock to consider private pension and relief bills. One Hundred find Thirty-Third Day. Iu the senate at 11:20 the tariff bill was taken up and Mr. Gallinger de¬ livered the third part of his speech against it. Several items of the glass and china schedule were acted upon and the bill went over.—The rest of the session was taken up with bills on the calendar, of which over a dozen were passed, me more important being the bill for the suppression of the lot. tery traffic, the bill making additional regulations for the protection of tho seals, and a bill for the relief of rela. tives of the seamen who were lost in the effort to save the crew of the Mag¬ gie E. Wells.—A resolution authoriz¬ ing the employment of a stenographer ami such other expenses as it may deem necessary by the sugar trust in¬ vestigating committee, was agreed to, and the senate adjourned until Mon¬ day. line Hundred and Tliirty-Voilrlh l)ar. Senate. —At 10:30 the tariff was taken up and the day was spent in discussing iron. The amendment of¬ fered by Mr. Peffer to put it on the free list was lost, only four senators voting for it. An amendment increas¬ ing the duty to 60 cents per ton was pending at the hour ef adjournment. House.-- The legislative and judi¬ cial appropriation bill was resumed in committee of the whole under the five minute rule. Mr. Boatner withdrew ins amendment providing for granting leaves of absence without forfeiture of pay, and Mr. Hayes, of Iowa, pro¬ posed an amendment declaring that section 40 of the revised statutes had been repealed. Adopted. (This amendment is tbe same in effect as that withdrawn by Mr. Hayes,)--Mr. for Boatner’s amendment providing the deduction of pay of absentees except on account of sickness of them¬ selves or families, was ruled out on n point of order. At 5:05, having dis¬ posed of fifteen pages of the bill, tbo committee rose aud the house ad¬ journed. t)nc Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Day* Senate. —In the senate Mr. Walsh of Georgia introduced as a substitute for the bill heretofore offered by him relating to thu robbery of mail trains, an amended bill, which, after a second reading, was refers ed to tiie commit, leefeni postoffices and post roads. Al 10:30 tbe tariff bill was taken up. The amendment making the duty on iron ore 40 cents per ton was agreed to. Other items of ihe bill, up to No. 116, were acted on and il e senate af ter an executive session, adjourned. House.—A substitute for Mr. Dim. phy’s .J joint resolution was reported tl m lbe committee on rules. It pro¬ v j des f or an investigation of the al. leged armor plate frauds bv the house naval committee. Mr. Stone of Ken- lucky proposed an amendment direct- ing the committee to inquire into the cost of armor plate. He wanted the country lo know why the government pays $800 per ton for steel plate, while railroad companies can buy steel rails at $27 per ton. The resolution as amended was agreed to, Tho legislative, executive and judi- cial appropriation was taken up is committee of the whole. When the paragraph relating to the civil service commission was reached, Mr. Euloe of Tennessee, moved to strike out th. paragraph carrying appropriations foi salaries of the commissioners and clerks, amounting to $33,940. Othei amendments were proposed. Aftei three hours debate Mr. Enloe’s amend¬ ment was agreed to by » yea and nuv vote oi 109 to 71. Mr. Dinglv of Maim gave notice that in the house he would demand a separate yea and nay vot< on the amendment. The cornmittei then rose, and at 5 :05 the house ad. journed. a-u Thirty-sixth nay. b f, NA ^ K '. A leso bition was offered | Mr Kyle, of South Dakot a; , declar- , it as the sense of the senate|that the of the United Statesi shall »ot use force to restore to the throne 6p08ea U e e „ of tbe Sandwich D 11 8 > °| 01 hepuiposso e» toy- '■ 1 exl * '“g govemtnon , iat 10 ^ ona governmen having feSQB •July recognized, the highest national interests are that i* shall pursue its own line of policy, and that interven¬ tion in the poiiiical affairs of those Islands by other governments will be regarded as unfriendly to the United States. Tho resolution went over,— The tariff bill was taken up. Para¬ graph 117 was amended by fixing tbe duty on railway bars, of iron or steel. T rails t and punched iron or steel Hat rails, at 7-20 of a cent per pound, which is $7.84 per ton, the present duty being $14.44 per ton. Mr. Gor¬ man, of Maryland, addressed the sena te, occunvinrr an hr*ivi» ______ ‘'essys. Aldrich and Teller replied briefly tariff and bill the latter moved to lay the on the table; ayes 128, nays 38; lost. —Pending consideration of paragraph 121, the hour of 5:30 arrived and the senate held a 30 minutes executive ses¬ sion and then adjourned.—Of a total of 225 pages of the bill, 200 remain jo be considered. House —The legislative appropria¬ tion bill was resumed in committee of the whole.—The paragraph trans¬ ferring to the civil service commission control of the clerks detailed for work therein, was stricken out. Mr. Caruth of Kentucky moved to strike out the words, “within the classified service,” in tho item appro¬ priating $20,000 to enable llu secre¬ tary of tho treasury to complete tho accounts in the offices of the first and second comptrollers and commission¬ er of customs, which it is proposed to abolish. The motion was carried, yeas 30, nays 28, and Mr Ditigly gave notice that he would call for a yea and nay vote in the house.—At 5 o’clock the committee rose and the house ad¬ journed until tomorrow. One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh nay, Senate. —The senaie resumed con¬ sideration of the tariff. Tin plate was left at 1 1-5 cents per pound, as in the house bill Barbed wire, commonly used for fencing, was put ou Iho free list. Paragraph 143 was before the senate when, at 6 o’clock a motion, bv Mr. Harris, to adjourn, was carried. House. —Twenty-live minutes were devoted to I lie private calendar and committee reports, and the legislative approriation was then resumed in committee of the whole. At 3:50 the committee rose and reported the bill to the hon e.' All the amendments on which separate votes had not been de¬ manded were agreed to. The amend¬ ment declaring that section 40 of the revised statutes, which provides for deducting pay of members for time absent, except in case of sickness, lias been repealed, was lost: yeas 104, nays 127.—Tiie amendment striking out tbe appropriation for the salaries of the civil service commissioners and clerks was lost: yeas 80, nays 158. The amendment striking outlhc pro¬ vision that Hie clerks io be tempora¬ rily employed in bringing up to date tiie business of the treasury depart¬ ment shall be taken from tiie cla-si- fled service was lost: yeas 45, nays 127. The bill was ihen passed aud the house at 5 o’clock adjourned. THE Us, A J, - . ..IKE, Hiot anil Itiiule in ill • Pennsylvania Cnnl ltu trfoi). The attempt of the Latrobe compa¬ ny to lesume work, was prevented by a mob of .Slavs and Iialiaiis. They were armed with clubs, bars of iron and big steel files. »* * At the Liganiere works, a dozen deputies were confronted by a inob of 260 strikers armed with clubs and re¬ volvers. The deputies were attacked from the rear and one of them was struck over (he haed with a club and had his rifle wrested from him. * * * All the works in the coke region of Uniontown, report an increase of forces. The strikers are inclined to go to mining coal, because, ilicy say, the united mine worker’s union lias repudiated its promises of assistance. * * i, A number of men on their way (o the Claridge mines were attacked by 50 of the foreign strikers’ wives and terribly beaten. Three of them badly injured. * » * Six hundred strikers assembled at (Fayette City, captured a delegation of Frick workmen and are holding them at their camp. * * * The Marlin Arms Co., of New Ha- veu, Conn., have received an order from mine owners for a thousand rifles to be shipped at once to the Pennsylvania coke region—making the fourth order of the kind within a month. * * „ About 1800 strikers, most of them .Hungarians and Slavs, of Yonghio- h eny mines, attacked Ihe deputies at ' Washington Run last Thursday morit- |j()g at day break . The deputies, who were f 0l . t jfi ed behind two box cars, m « t tbe a ( lac k with a vollev , licil . winchesters. Tho strikers, after a few gho(g b ,. oke al)d fle(] _ ]og . ing eight men killed and more than score wounded. The men killed 4 u foreigners, mostly llungariaiu. $ 1.00 a Year in Advance. VOL. V. NO. 3. I. A TEST TELEGRAPHIC TICKS At Vernon, Texas, a whole block of buildings was burned, The loss is es¬ timated at $50,000, A dispatch from Unionto wn, Pa,, 'gays: Many of in the starving strikers condition. and tlieir families are a Some are homeless by reason of evic¬ tion from the company’s houses. Three car loads of negroes engaged to work for the Rainey (Joke company have passed through Connelsville, Pa. A committee of strikers attempted to board tho cars, but were driven away by the officers in charge. Four men were drowned in an at¬ tempt to save tho crew of a schooner which was drifting helplessly off shore eight miles north of Port Huron, Mich. The life-saving crew, from Sand Beach, subsequently succeeded in saving the schooner’s men. The striking miners of Shady mines Tenn., are in great distress, as indi¬ cated by tiie following appeal sent to the jlabor organizations of Chatla- ilooga. “\Y r e struck to restore the 20 per cent reduction, Wo were not making enough to live on. Many of us are now destitute and we ask for meat aud bread.” Assistance was sent them from Chattanooga. Seven inen were killed in a collision between a freight and bridge train in the Standing Rook tunnel on the New¬ port News & Mississippi Valley rail¬ road last Saturday. J. Crisp, West- port, Ky.; R. L. Power, Paducah; J. Candrey, Mayfield; Boss Butter, West Point; Nick Hill, conductor of bridge train; John B Dnnoaa, Dulany, Ky.; and George Whitehead, Paducah. Advices have been received at the state department in Washington giv¬ ing additional particulars of the earth¬ quake in Venezuela. It seems that the greatest damage was done on tho line of the San Carlos and Merida rail¬ way in the Andes, on which several stations were thrown down and a number of valuable bridges destroyed. In places black water lmviug a fetid odor was ex polled Jfrom cracks in the earth. The village of Laugunillos disappeared, ami a lake now occupies the sight. The Venezuelan minister at Washington has been asked to re¬ ceive contributions for the relief of the sufferers from the great catastro¬ phe. I’osson by the Flooil. The total losses at Williamsport, Pa., as estimated by conservative men, are $3,000,000. This includes $1,500,- 000 ou logs, $250,000 on sawed lum¬ ber and tbe balance on property throughout the city. publio Mayor Elliott lias called a meeting for tomorrow lo take action looking to the care of the homeless. It is estimated that the homes of 10,- 000 people were invaded by the water and are in such a damp and unhealth- iul coiiuition as to make them undesir- ab.e, Railroad traffic is resuming from the east and west, and within two days traffic will he almost com¬ plete. At Johnstown, Pa: Penn- sylvania railroad, $50,000; Wood vale property, $0,000: pottery of H. Swank & Son, $3,000; Cambria Iron company, $10,000; business men and property owners in Johnstown, $16,- 000; Pennsylvania Traffic company, $10,000; tiie city, $10,000; McCon- aug'hey estate, $6,000; other losses, $10,000. A Fatal Hirlii. A most deplorable shooting affair took place at Dorseyvilie, La., ou the Texas and Pacific railway. It seems that a dago and a negro engaged ina fight in iront of Block & Lebe’s store, which attracted the atiention ■ f Messrs Adolph B ock and Jules Lcue, his brother-in-law. Tiie negro took of¬ fense at something that was said and went off aud got his gun and returned. Seeing this, Messrs. Block and Lebe armed themselves. In the shooting which followed Messrs Adolph Block and Jules Lebe and the negro wore killed outright. Mr. Block is a young man who caine to this parish from high Clinton, La., where he is held in esteem. Mr Lebe is from Texas, BATTLE AT A PltUUAllY. Fifty Sitot h Fired and Two Men Are Killed in Cnliloi-nla. A battle occurred during the pro¬ gress of a republican primary at the Dallas school house, about eighteen miles south of Hanford, California, which resulted in Jamos McCaffrey being instantly killed by Wm. Ryan and James O. Ryan, father of YVm. Ryan, being mortally wounded. Tho messenger who brings the news of the affray says that a dozeu men were in the battle, and that no less than fifty shots were fired. Officers and physi¬ cians have gone to the scene of the tragedy. The Cold Ware. Following the great storms which have devasled so lurge a region of the northwest came snow and frost. Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, the earth lies under three inches ol 8 „ow. At Omaha, >eb.,ioe a quar- and ter of an inch thick was formed, vegetable crops in ail exposed sitna- Over lions were killed by the freeze. a large gect i 0 n of Indiana the frost cut I down corn and all tender plants. The same is uue of tho other states named abov*, . J v-.kc si*