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Show THE ENSIGN. FI ELI) & Publishers. - ROLLU, NEPI1I CITY, A A UTAH. FLOOD OF DEATH, Cloud Burst in Pennsylvania Creates Awful Havoc. Thousands Drowned and Whole Siiige Ivusida, a young Japanese Towns Destroyed. woman, has been doing good work riTTM.L as KG.May 31. A fnod of death a her among people temperance lecturer, and she is to bo sent to the swept down tho Allegheny mountains this United States to study tlio methods afternoon und to night almost the entire city of Johnstown is swimming about in a hero. One of the finest privat3 resiliences in Washington will bo the one that is now being remodeled by Senator Hears t. It is a double houso in the colloidal stylo, and was formerly occupied by Secretary Fairchild. John Bright used to say that in one important respect a dog is superior to a man: When a man is utterly out of everything ho gives up; but a dog simply curls up and so oontinues to make both ends moot. rustling angry tide. Dead bodies are floating about in every direction and almost every piece of movable timber is carrying from the doomed city a corpse of humanity drifting with the raging waters God knows where. Tho disaster overtook Johnstown about 0 o'clock this evening. As the train bearing the Associated Press correspondents sped eastward tho reports at each stop A train of railway grew more appalling. officials were gathering who had come from Bolivar, the end of the passable portion of the road westward. They had seen but a small portion of the flood, but enough to allow them to Imagine the rest. Down through tho Panhandle came tlio rushing waters. Tho wooded heights of the Alleghenies looked down in solemn wonder at the scene of tho most terrible destruction that ever struck the romantic valley of the In the death battle amid Couemaugh. flouting boards and timbers were agonized men, women und children, whose heartrending shrieks for help filled with horror the breasts of lookers on. The cries were of no avail. Carried along at railway speed on the breast of tho rushing torrent, no human ingenuity could devise a means of rescue. With pallid check and hair clinging wet and damp to her cheek a mother was seen grasping a floating timber while with her other arm she held her babe. Tho special train pulled in at Bolivar at 11:30 und tho trainmen were there notified that further progress was impossible. The greatest excitement prevailed at this place and parties of citizens are out all the time endeavoring to save the poor unfortunates that are being hurled to eternity in the rushing torrent. The tidal wave struck Bolivar just after dark and in five minutes the Conemaugii rose from six to forty feet and tho waters spread out over the whole country and soon houses began floating down and clinging to the debris were men, women and children shrieking for help. A large number of citizens at once gathered on the county bridge, and they were by a number from Garfield, a town ou tho opposite side. They brought a number of ropes and these were thrown over into the boiling waters as persons drifted by, in tho efforts to save some poor being. For half an hour the efforts were " Gydrrand Vigfusson, the famous Icelandic litterateur, was filled with a desire to soo his native land just once beforo ho died. Ilis wish was denied and ho died at Oxford a few days ago of cancer of the liver. A new parachutist, W. S. Young, hopes to outstrip his rivals by dropping with his parachuto tied up in a sack. lie says he will go so high that ho will have timo to release tho parachute and come down as usual. Gun. Sickles will soon have the sensation of being present at tho unveiling of a monument in his honor, not as n disembodied spirit, but as far as circumstances allow in tho llesh. It will stand at Gettysburg in tho peach orchard on the Emmitlsburg road, where ho was wounded. Miss Lizzie Banks, of St. Paul, Minn., who has boon selected as private secretary by Mr. Hicks, minister to Peru, is a plucky little woman who has made a hit as a newspaper writer in the northwest. Miss Banks is to be tho first lady secretary ever taken abroad by a United States minister. The German emperor gave to Prince Bismarck, on tlio latters birthday anniversary, a lino old engraved prtruit of his ancestor, tho Provost Georgo Frederick von Bismarck, bora in 1697. It is framed in oak, and ornamented with the prince's and bears a dedication written by tho emperor. eoat-of-arm- s, U. M. Flag le it, tho Standard oil magnate, recently paid Ur. Allen, of New York, a foe of $85,000 for two months attendance upon his daughter. Tho fee was paid in the shape of 500 shares of Standard oil stock, and amounted to $12,500 per month, nearly $10,625 per woek, $1,400 a day and $58 per hour. Tamiieki.ik, tho tenor who died tho other day, was once strolling through the market at Madrid, when ho noticed s a great lot of in cages. Ho drew a 1,000 franc note from his pocket, and handed it to tho proprietor, and threw open all tho cages, saying: Go and be free, my brothers! as the song-bird- birds flew away. Mr. in a Gladstone, who reads widely n languages, takes up his favorito, Iloiner, tho last thing lie says a page of it every night. soothes his nerves. John Bright was equally industrious, but ho was just as likely to read a French novel beforo dropping to sleep as he was to dip into his favorito Milton. half-doze- Red Clofd, the Sioux chieftain who has signified his approval of the administration by calling tn President Harrison, is 64 years old, but looks much younger. Ho owns a big farm, raises corn for sale and is rich enough to livo comfortably without doing work with his own hands. Ho hires young Indians to work his farm. The new earl of Carlisle, a strong teetotaler, lias closed all tho public houses on his property. His cellar d contained some of the best ale in England, and the brew houses were famous everywhere-- ; but they have been entirely destroyed and the vats For over fifty years tho late emptied. Lord Carlisle, who was a clergyman, had been in confinement in an insane asylum. home-brewe- One of the earliest recollections the late Lewis Ilayden, the well-know- of n colored man of Boston, was an amusing experienco that ho had when he IIo was porsuod on a saw Lafayette. fenco, joining heartily in tho enthusiasm. Ha attracted tho attention of the distinguished Frenchman who looked directly at him and lifted his hat. This so frightened the lit:le fellow that ho fell backward oil tho fence. Honors are accumulating on tho venerable head of Mr. Gladstone. Already a county in Victoria, Australia, and a town in Queensland are named after him, and now there is talk of the highest peak of the Finisterro range in New Guinea being christened Mount Gladstone. No white man, it is said, has yet reached the summit of this peak, but a German explorer, Dr. Zoeler, claims to have ascended to within 1,000 feet of it fruitless, until at last as the rescuers were about giving up all hopes, a little boy on a shingle roof managed to catch hold of one of the ropes. He caught it under his left arm and was thrown violently against the abutment but managed to keep hold and was pulled on the bridge amid the cheers of the lookers-on- . The boys namo is Edward Ilessler, aged 14. At midnight your correspondent secured an interview with him. His story of the frightful calamity is as follows : With my father I was spending tho day at rjy grandfather's house in Cambria City. In the houso at tho time were Theodore Enwart and John Kintz, Jr., Miss Mary Kintz, the wife of John, Jr., Miss Tracy Kintz, Mrs. Riba Smith, John Hirsch and four children, my father and myself. Shortly after 5 o'clock there was a noise of roaring waters and screams of people. We looked out the door and saw persons running. My father tokl us to never mind as the waters would riso no further, but wo soon saw houses swept away and then ran up to tho floors above. The house was three stories and we were at last forced to the top one. In my fright I jumped on a bed. It was an one with heavy posts. The w atcr kept rising and my bed was soon afloat. Gradually it was lifted up. The air in the room grew close and the house was inoviug. Still the bed kept rising until it pressed the ceiling. At last the posts pushed off the plaster. It yielded aud a section of the roof gave. Then sud. denly I found myself on the roof and was being carried down tho stream. After a little this roof commenced to part and I was afraid I was going to be drowned, but just then another houso with a shingle roof floated by and I managed to crawl on it and floated down, uutil nearly dead with cold, I was saved. After 1 was free from the house, I did not see my father. My grandfather was on a tree but he must lmvo been drowned as thd water was rising. John Kintz, Jr., was also on a tree. Miss Mary Klutz and Mrs. Mary Kintz. I saw drown. Miss Smith was also drowned. John Hirsch was in a tree but tho four children were drowned. The scenes were terriblo. Live bodies and corpses wero floating down with me and away from mo. I would hear a person shriek and then they would disappear. Along the line wero people who were trying to save us, but they could do nothing and only a few more wero caught." This boy's story is but one incident. It shows what happened to one family. God only knows what has happened to tho hundreds who were in the path of the running water. It is impossible to get anything in the way of news save meager details. In order to understand the nature of this calamity it is necessary to describe the location of the reservoir at Johnstown. The reservoir lies about IS miles northeast of Johnstown, and is the sito of an old reservoir which was one of the feeders of the Pennsylvania Canal. This sheet of water was formerly known as Conemaugii Lake. to 30ti feet above the level of It is from Johnstown, being in the mountains. It is about three and a half miles long and from a mile to a mile and a quarter in width and in some places it is loo feet in depth. It holds more water than any other reservoir, natural or artificial, in the United States; the lake bus been quadrupled in size by ar-- ' tiiieial means and was held in check by a dam TtKJ to 1,000 feet wide. It is ninety feet i:i thickness at the base and the height is llo lot. Thu top Las a breadth of oier Jo feet. Recognizing the menace which the lake to the region below, tbe South o resented Fork Club, which owned the rcservoir.had the dam inspected once a month by Pennsylvania railroad engineers and their investigation showed that nothing less than some convulsion of nature would tear the barrier away a.id loosen the weapon of death. The steady rains of the past 4S hours increased the volume of water in all small mountain streams, which were already swelled by lesser rains earlier in the week. From tbe information obtained at this t.rne it is evident that something in the nature of a cloudburst must have, been tiie culmination of the struggle of water against the embankment. The difficulty of obtaining definite inform ation lias added tremendously to the ex eitement aud the apprehension of people who had relatives aud iriends at tho scene of the disaster. The course of the torrent from thebroken dam at the foot of tiie lake to Johnstown is almost 13 miles aud with the exception of one point-thwater passed through a narrow V shaped valley. Four miles below the dam lay the town of South Fork, where the South Fork itself empties into Cone maugh River. The town contained about 2,000 inhabitants. It has not been- heard of it has from, but it is said that been swept away. Four miles further down on the Cone maugh River, which runs partly parallel with the main line of Pennsylvania Railroad, was the town of Mineral Point. It had $03 inhabitants, 110 per cent, of the houses being on a flat and close to the river. It seems impossible at this time to hope that any of them have escaped. Six miles further down was the town of Conemaugii, and here alone there was a topographical possibility of the flood breaking' its force. It contained 2,,")00 inhabitants, and must be wholly devastated. Woodvale, with 2,000 people, lay a mile below Couemaugh in a flat, aud one mile further down was Johnstown and its cluster of sister towns. On made ground and stretched along the right at the river's verve were the immense ironworks of the Cambria Iron aud Steel Company, who have $.",000,000 invested in their jJaiit. Resides this there are many other large industrial establishments on the banks of the river. How bad ly they arc damaged cannot now bo esti mated. PiTTsnuiio, Pa., May 31. The last re ports of reliable information received from Johnstown come through the Pennsylvania Railroad officials, and show that over 200 dead bodies have been counted floating down the stream at Johnstown alone, while along the line many additional lives have beeu ascertained as lost. There are but two houses in Johnstown proper entirely above water line. A special, bearing Pennsylvania Railway officials and Associated Press correspondents, has left the city for the scene. Telegraphic communication is entirely cut off, and until telegraph repairmen and operators with necessary instruments open up at the nearest point, but little reliable information can be obtained. Bolivak, Pa., May 31. A courier from the scene of the flood near Johnstown reports that the loss of life will reach 1,500. e four-fifth- Further Particulars. Sang Hollow, Juno 2. 1 a. m. The first accounts sent out of Johnstown of the disaster are far below the latest es timate placed upon the extent of the ealam. ity, aud instead of 2,0Jd or 3,000, it is probable that the list will reach s.oou. It is now known that two passenger trains, two sections of the ex press on the Pennsylvania Railroad, had been thrown into the maddened torrent and the passengers drowned. These trains were held at Johnstown from Friday at 11 a. in., aud were lying on tho siding between Johnstown and Couemaugh stations. The awful torrent came down the narrow defile of nine miles and with a fall of 300 feet in that distance, sweeping the villages of South away Fork, Miueral Point, Woodvale and Conemaugh, leaving but one building standing a woolen mill, where but an hour before had stood hundreds. Dashing on v ith the roar of a cataract and speod of the wind upon the fuir city at the foot hills on the plain in which but yesterday sat Johnstown in the mountains like a jewel in a diadem. The great Gautier steel works sat in this place and tho city below it, and the railroad tracks bounding it at the base of the mountains on the north. Hero is where tho trains were standing when the tide of water like a catapult came down upon them with such resistless force that heavy trains, locomotives and all wero overturned and swept down the torrent and lodged against the great stone viaduct, along which forty one locomotives from the Johnstown round house, heavy machinery und ponderous framework of the Gautier mill had accumulated the debris of more than 1,1)00 houses of furniture, bridges, lumber, drifts and human beings. Tho low arches of the stone viaduct were choked up immediately and tho water backed over tlio entire level of tiie valley upon which tlio city stood, to a depth of what from tka waterworks indicate about thirty eight feet. In the great sea tlius formed thousands of people were struggling for life. The scene is one of the most heart" rcuding possible for tho imagination of man to conceive. The accumulated drift gorged up at the viaduct to a height of forty feet and then took lire from the upsetting of stoves or lamps. Then wero the strong made sick at the sight. As the liames crackled and roared among the ury timber of tho floating houses human bodies were seen pinioned between houso roofs, locomotives. iron beams, freight, passenger Pullman and baggage cars, the greedy flames licking with haste their diet of human flesh. The scene was horrible beyond description. From infancy a few cays old to wasted figures of age, all were burned before the eyes of the beholders and uo rescue from late was possible. Strong men turned away with agonized expression and women shrieked at the horrors of the scene. The dead arc estimated at not less than S.OjO and the number may even exceed this estimate. Tiiis seems incredible, b .t until the waters v, ill have abated mid the Wji,1 oi ll i.uui.g ti.c J: ad Ionics Iron tiiis tremendous it will be icij o$i- b.e to tell how many lie es have been lost. Joiixsrow n, Pa., June 2. Johnstown is the mostcompieto wreck that the imagina. tien car. portray. Probably 1,500 houses have been swept from the face of the earth as completely as if they had never been erecte 1. May Street from end to end is piled fifteen to twenty feet high with debris. and in some instances it is as high as the roofs of the houses. This great mass of wreckage fills the street from curb to curb and frequently has crushed tho fronts of buildings in and filled the space with reminders of the terrible calamity. From the woolen mill above tbe island to the bridge, a distance probably cf two miles, a strip of territory nearly half a mile in width has been swept clean, r.ot a stick of timber or one brick on top of another being left to tell the story. All day long men, women and children were plodding about the desolate waste trying in vain to locate tho boundaries of former homes. Nothing but a wide expanse of mud, ornamented flcrc aud there with heaps of driftwood, remains, however, for their contemplation. These losses, however, are as nothing compared to tiie frightful sacrifices of human lives to be seen on every hand. During all thi3 solemn Sunday Johnstown has been drenched w th the tears of stiic ken mortals, and the air is filled with socs and sighs that come from break' ing hearts. Six hundred bodies are now lying iD Johnstown and a large number have al ready been buried. Four immense reliel trains arrived last night and the survivors are being eared for. A portion of the police force of Pittsburg and Allegheny are on duty and better order is maintained than prevailed yesterday. Communication has been restored between Cambria City and Johnstown by a foot bridge. Tile work oi repairing the tracks between Sang Hollow and Johnstown is going on rapidly and trains wiil probably be running by to morrow morning. Not less than 15,UDl) strangers arc here. Now that the waters have receded there is great danger from falling walls. All day long the cracking of walls could be heard across the river. Before daybreak this morning the sounds could not but make one shudder at the very thoughts of tho horri ble deaths that awaited many who had C3. caped the devastating floods. Library Hall was another office building of the many' in the city that were destroyed. Of the Episcopal Church not a vestige remains. The parsonage was swept away and the rec tor of the church, Rev. T. Dillon, was pro-cio- Fatal Wreck on the Rio Grande Near b.1 Moro. Tihnidad, Colo., June 6. Yesterday morning a freight train left the track Je.7 Davis celebrated his eighty-firs- t near El Moro and Engineer Henthorn last Monday. birthday jumped from his engine, which resulted in Governor Hill of New Y'ork has vea broken leg. This morning another wreck of a more toed the High License bill. serious nature occurred near the same Aid for the Pennsylvania sufferers i3 place. As the Denver A Rio Grande fast in from every direction. pouring freight was coming in, the engine jumped The price of lead has reached four the track at the switch near the stock cents and the miners are happy. yards, the result of a defective frog'. The eugineor jumped from bis engine It is now thought that tho losses in aud escaped uninjured. Fireman Roberts the vicinity of Johnstown wi.l be about also jumped, but did not escape so luckily. $11, C00, 000. As he left the engine an iron rail caught The Massachusetts Legislature has him ai.d pinned him to the ground so that he was unable to extricate himself. H appropriated $'0,uiM fur the Pennsylvania sufferers. escaped with a broken leg. The head brakemun, Sims, was on the The coroner's jury is investigating tender at the time and it seems kept his the cause of the breaking of the Pennsylplace until the engine turned over. He was vania dam. caught under the tender. Tabor has again obThe concussion killed him instantly, and it was several hours before the body could tained possession of the Vulture Mine ia THE WORLD. Arizona. be removed. The arrest of Alexander Sullivan Eight cars loaded with general merchandise were piled up in one mass and it took for complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin the wrecking train nearly all day to clear is likely to occur uuy day. the track. The Kurds continue to perpetrate atrocities in Armenia. Roasting and outPlacing the Blame. raging victims is the constant practice. Johnstown, Pa., June 6. Thomas Jacobs, of Morrellville, is one of the oldest inhabitants of the Conemaugh Valley He said that the water of the river was much higher in 1837 than last Friday, even after the dam broke. The whole trouble about this deplorable affair,'1 he continued, seems to be from the narrowing of the channel of the river aud the deflection from its natural course. I remember well when the channel ran down where the mill below tho bridge now stands. The Conemaugh has always been a shallow stream. After heavy rainfalls it rises rapidly, us all mountains streams do. Its watershed is large and the hillsides so constructed that tho water runs down rapidly, causing quick rises and turbulent currents. Primarily, I hold the Cambria Iron Company responsible for narrowing the channel, secondly, the South Fork Club for not having made the dam secure beyond all possibility of a break, especially when they caused the dam to be enlarged by raising the breast and thirdly, the Pennsylvania Railroad for having constructed a drowned. viaduct with such low arches and with The Gautier wire works which was com- ribs calculated to catch pieces of drift pletely destroyed is owned and operated wood, if they happen to strike diagonally by the Cambria Iron Company. The build at tho piers. The dam made by the gorge ings will be immediately rebuilt and put at the bridge is what engulfed the town. in operation as soon as possible. The loss at this point is complete. Figuring the Loss of Life. The land on which it stood is as barren aud as Johnstown, Pa., .Lino 6. Doubt desolate as if it stood in the midst of the has been exnressed as to the estimate that Sahara Desert. 12,000 to 15,000 wero lost in the flooded disThe Cambria Iron Company's losses are trict. Of course there is no way of detergreat and included the supply stores at mining with any degree of exactitude, but this point. The Dartmouth Club, at which in guessing, reasonable and conservative, tho employes of the works boarded, was based on close figuring, at least 2, .00 bodies carried away in the flood. It contained have been found. Two thousand at the None were lowest calculation are in the burned debris many occupants at the time. saved. The estimates of the losses of the in the river, 3.000 in the unsearchcd saua Cambria Iron Company given is from banks, around the Cambria works, down to $1,500,000. But little of this can along the river and in the lower part of be recovered. Johnstown. From 1,000 to 2,000 are scatMr. Crouse, proprietor of the South Fork tered in the valley from Woodville to the Fishing Club Hotel, came to Johnstown, bridge, and a thousand or two below the this afternoon. He says th t when Coue- bridge between Johnstown and Bolivar. maugh Lake broke the water seemed to leap Tindreds were carried down to tho broad without touching tho ground. It bounded rivers ir. the tremendous current and may down the valley, crashing and roaring- never come into the bauds of the living. Said Adjutant General Hastings this carrying everything before it. For a mile its front seemed like a solid wall twenty morning: "In my opinion the loss is greater feet high. The warning given tbe stricken Mian we can now show figures for. city was sent from South Fork village by Freight Agent Deechert. When the great Decrease in Circulation. wall that held the body of water began to Chicago, 111., June 6. A Washingtumble at the top tie sent a message begton statement prepared at the Treasury ging tbe people of Johnstown for God's Department shows there was a net de-- i sake to take to tbe hills. He reports no reuse of $li'i,7$0,t'US in the circulation duraccident at South Fork. ing tiie month of May lust and a net inRichard Davis ran to Prospect Hill when crease of $1,973,910 in money and bullion in the water raised. As to Deechert's nics. the the same period. The Treasury during sage, he says just such a message had been principal loss in circulation was in gold cersent down at each flood since the lake was tificates, United States notes and National made. The warning so often proved use. Hank notes, and the principal gain in the less that little attention was paid to it this Treasury holding was in standard silver I cannot describe the mad rush, time. United States notes and gold coin, dollars, At first it looked like dust, that in the order named. ho said. must have been spray. I could see houses The total circulation at June 1 is stated going down before it like children's play- at $1,3', 7, 470, 251, and, the total backs set on edge in a row. As it came and bullion in tiie Treasury on the money same near I could see houses totter for a mo- date $'itj4, 192,23U. ment, then rise and the next moment be crushed like egg shells against each ser-iiou- s other. As the roads to lands round about arc opened tales of almost indescribable horror come to light and deeds of the vilest nature perpetrated in the darkness of night are brought to light. Just as the shadows began to fall u; on the earth last evening thirteen Hungarians were noticed stealthily picking their way along the banks of the Conemaugh toward Sang Hollow. Suspecting their purpose, several farmers armed themselves and start'd in pursuic. Soon their most horrible fears were realized. Tbe Hungarians were out fur plun. dor. Lying upon tbe shore they came upon the dead and mangled body of a woman. Upon her person were a number of trinkets, jewelry aud two diamond rings In their eagerness to secure the plunder the Hungarians got into a squabble, during which one of their number severed the finger upon which were the rings and started to run with his fearful prize. The revolting nature of the deed so wrought upon tiie pursuing farmers, who by this time were close at hand, that they gave immediate chase. Some of the Hungarian showed light, but, being outnumbered they were compelled to flee for their lives. Nine cf the brutes escaped, but four were literally driven into the surging river, and TAo inhuman monster to tlicir death. whose atrocious act has been described was among the number of involuntary y At a meeting of 4U0 of the Panama Canal shareholders in Paris it was decided to send a commission to Panama at once id inspect tho canal works. Governor Ilill was hissed at the Cleveland banquet in New York when in his speech he attempted to justify his veto of the Ballot Reform Bill. Secretary Windom is said to work harder than any other man in Washington. He is at his desk day and nigh; and indulges iu no known recreation. Associated Press dispatches from(inany points show an aggregate collection during the afteiTiooruriiud evening of Monday for tiie flood sufferers of $305,091. The wedding of Justice Gray and Miss Matthews takes place next Thursday, aud just a week later ex Secretary Bayard and Miss Clyrner will be married. Governor Warren, of Wyoming, has issued a proclamation calling a constitutional convention to be held in Cheyenne on the first Monday iu September. Washington was threatened with an inundation last week. The Potomac was so high that the water put out the fires in the furnace room at the Washington muuu-ment. Seattle, in Washington Territory, was visited by a very disastrous tire on the tith. Over thirty blocks of buildings were destroyed, the money value of which reaches the millions. The Santa Fe statement for April shows gross earnings of $2,2S7,11U; operating expenses, $1,723,127; net earnings. $558,-9$This is an increase in net earnings over April, 1888, of $323,148. The London Daily Xcws refers to the Pennsylvania disaster as the saddest, most striking and most overwhelming misfortune that ever befell a people of the race. English-speakin- The public debt statement c;nune 1st shows the total casli in the Treasury to be $U2.UUJ,8n8; total debt, decrease during May, $4,702,877, decrease since June, 188s, $72,052,105. Tbe French President has considered favorably the request of the American residents, for permission to hold a public celebration in Paris on July 4. President Carnot consented to unveil the statue of liberty. Brigadier-GenerDrum, who has just been placed on the retired list, is be lieved to be tbe first private soldier that ever attained the rank of Brigadier-Genera- l in tbe regular army of the United States. The Bank of Omaha, which was incorporated last fall with a capital of $100,-0jvery little of which was paid in, closed its doors on the 5th. The liabilities are between $1X1,000 and $70,000; assets nominal. The failure is due to bad loaii9. Father Arnold Datnen has been stricken with paralysis at Evanston, Wyoming. Father Damen is over 75 years old. As a missionary he has long been Proessors Cant be Imported. famous among Catholics from New York Washington, I). (., June 5. An to San Francisco and from St. Paul to tha attorney of this city recently wrote to the Gulf. Secretary of the Treasury in behalf of the The President has made the following Catholic University of America, located in Receivers of public money. appointments: the District of Columbia, saying that tho John S. Carlin of Montana at Bozeman, to have desired the services of university and James J. Dolan of New Mexico at Las several learned European profes-or- s for Cruces. Registers of land offices, Frank E. tiie divinity department of the University, Baldwin ol Colorodo at Pueblo and Eddy and inquiriiur whether the immigration of F. Ferris of Montana at Bozeman. such persons would be regarded by the deA Pittsburg dispatch says the coffin partments as a violation of the terms of tbe alien contract labor law. The Solici- manufacturers there are worked to their tor of the Treasury lias given his opinion fullest capacity and coffins are being that the immigration of foreign professor3 si, ipped rapidly. Sunday morning 10 carunder any contract, expressed or implied, loads were sent down containing 2,200 cofwould lie ckarly a violation of the alien fins. They were distributed at various points along the river where the dead had central t labor law. al 0, been collected. A missionary letter to tbe Society says that tiie Mahdists have made Western Abyssinia a desert. Whole flocks and herds have been destroyed, thousands of Christians thrown into slavery, thousands of others have been butchered, and hundreds of tbe noblest inhabitants have been taken to Mecca as slaves, in Anti-Slaver- y violation of treaties. Monument Washington, June 4. Washington in Danger As soon as The Union Pacific Company is making extensive developments at tho Dana coal mines in Carbon County, Wyoming. Two slopes are down C00 feet and three levels are being pushed ahead at the rate of 3r0 yards per month. The town of Dana is being built to accommodate employes of the new mine. New houses are going up rapidly but a large number of people are li ing in tents. Galveston reached the fiftieth year of its corporate existence on the 4th, and to mark the event arrangements have been made for a civic and military celebration to continue ten days. Tiie celebration sur passes in variety and magnitude anything of the kind ever undertaken in tho State aud consequently it has brought together the largest gathering of citizens of Texas ever witnessed and also a large number of visitors from all parts of the country and irom Mexico. the freshet subsides. an examination of the Washington Monument will tbe made by tho officials in charge. Rumors are current all ab nit town that the constant wear of the waters which stil1 The Northwestern Oil Company, surround it, lias injured the foundations) be serious. The soil composed of Milwaukee and Chicago Dar and the damage will monument stands is ex. tho which upon ties have commenced the work of develund it does not take a i coding. y marshv oil in lands comtheir The Wyoming. oping great w liile lor t no waterd to pi notr.,to. pany own h'.oai acres f coal and oil land tout Congress it wi.l be n i.iCuiLiort near the town of Bothwell in the Sweet- oass.-- an act ato it two year-- , ago ordering The Connecticut Legislature ha- - apwater country. A well is being sunk to tho lilling up of Babcock hole which was propriated $25,000 for the flood sufferers in at its base. strata. test the Pennsylvania. i. |