Show rELE telegraphic GRAPHIC NEWS stlouis BT louis june I 1 althe the work of clearing up the debris and repairing the tee damage left by wednesdays wednesday storm continues with unabated vigor despite A drizzling rain making it etui u 0 comforte oom com forta tote ble for workers and victims alike A sharp disagreement has arisen among the different members of the relief committee many desire to ass ash outside assistance while others oppose it many animals of all descriptions i were killed in the storm and their petrifying petrify ing bodies are becoming a menace to those living jiving in and about the devastated districts district these are being removed in the past few days horses and mules males and five cows hove have been carted away the bodies were mashed in every conceivable manner and w were a re found la in all kinds oi of piao ep I 1 alonar the subscriptions received jai is one of from gates cate son of the tee national bank of scotland Und in london and 1000 from helen M gould V the telegraph companies have repaired the damage done their lines by wednesdays wednesday ya tornado and are again handling the business of the public without delay both houses bouses of the municipal assembly of st 81 louis louie tonight adopted resolutions asking outside aid for the cyclone sufferers the loss lose of life in east st JL mis which has been generally excessively estimated sibil amounts to large proportion port portion lob instead of being nearly as claimed by manolt many 11 Is identified I 1 with twos two a man una and a woman unknown in a addition to this ne man ia 1 missing closing and eight are so seriously injured that giant they will probably die the known list jiel of dead in st louis today foots up names all of these bodle shaving been recovered be t r sides aides it to la known that thirteen other persons persona have been killed in the storm eight in the river whose names are known and five within the city whose names are un unknown knowe none of those these bodies have been fre recovered covered of the dead bodies recovered in this city but one remains unidentified chelist the list of missing persons today contains the names of eighty eight persons not including the eleven said to te have been lost from the steamer libbie conger CHICAGO june I 1 D adler architect received this morning a letter from isaac beater his associate in the construction of toe str st louis convention ballin which mr states all the damage done by the storm of wednesday to the convention hall bad been repaired at a cost of less lesa than WASHING washington TOX june I 1 by direction of the secretary of the treasury the united states mint at carson city nov will resume refinery operations about july 1st ast these operations were suspended one year ago when a number ol of officials were arrested for irregularities lari larit ties les it is not cot expected that coinage which ceased in may 1893 will again be resumed Loii LONDON Dox june 2 A dispatch from moscow tu to the standard says it is estimated estimate J that a total of persons were killed and 1200 persons injured the majority of them fatally in the disaster of saturday there were 1277 victims burled buried today the bodies of those who were identified and claimed by relatives we were re in inter terrea reu in private graves grave but at the expense of the municipal au authorities thorl the great number of unidentified dead were buried in eleven great trenches each bach fifty yards long the I 1 he trenches were deep and the mutilated iteck bod bodies lee have to be placed close together to find room for them all alj there were workmen engaged all night long at the cemetery digging graves grave the surviving friends and relatives are for tho the most part of the ignorant and gimpl minded peasant classes and their grief and terror at the sudden calamity was expressed in a very demonstrative fashion only about halt half the bodies recovered have been identified and the majority of these are men though there are many ch children ildron and several old people the survivors have the vaguest pos pom sible idea of what happened to them andhor and bow they escaped they only remember a terrible str struggle uRgle in the vortex of conflicting human muscular mull energy many of them ascribe their escape to a direct miracle it is touching to witness how these pour poor ignorant people help belp to console each other tol dreas the dead rind and to td care for the couldren co cla ildren washington INGTON jupe june 2 benator Hawley from the committee on military affairs has re reported p gried his bis bill for the reorganization of the mili militia the bill is a of the laws re lating inting to the mill tiff with such changes as aa are necessary nece oary to adapt them to existing condit conditions iono the bill provides for two classes of militia the former to be the unorganized anti and to be known as the national guard ani the latter as the reserve militia it appropriates annually for the purchase of military stores and up lup L plies to be issued to the militia of the be states stater the bill also permits the use of united states forts forte by the militia upon the application of the be governors of the states state as a camp ground and authorizes the he use of the bubs belonging to any fuit foit for purposes of drill by any militia company DENVER june JuDe 3 general wheaton was notified today that massia the renegade apache chief had bad been slain in southern arizona by indian scouts massia killed billed three scouts before he be gave up the ghost the passing of massia maelia will be hailed with delight by all the inhabitants of southern southard arizona and new mexico for he be was a red handed banded murderer ous oua and powerful with the disorderly element of the san carlos carloa rod re dekins skins he was one of geronimos Geroni GeroD imoJo mod braves and succeeded to that hat old chiefs authority among the renegade his specialty was attacking remote ran rancher chap slaughtering the white men and women suit driving the cattle found over ane mexican border he was captured with geronemo Geron lino in 1886 and started lor veroon vernon Barrack st florida when by order of tho the band was to be oon at st louis masela escaped from the train and he was never recaptured EPSOM june jane 8 persimmons won the derby st Frue Fru quin was second earwig third 4 ST LOUIS june 8 A movement has been inaugurated to raise V or more to aid those who lost their homes to rebuild at an impromptu A meeting at noon today was wag I 1 contributed by prominent business 1 men it is proposed to loan the tor lia anajo io sufferers money on second mortgages mortgagee tite upper roadway of the fades bridge has been repaired with timber so as to admit the passage of foot passe poss engere 0 gen philadelphia june 3 the national brewers association today voted to contribute for the st louis storm sufferers Lo LONDON june jane S the bering sea sam convention was i this afternoon by ambassador bayard anti and marquis I 1 salisbury as minister of foreign affairs 6 CITY june 8 the 5 supreme court sitting in bane holds in the case of the st louis underground service company against the A street commissioner of st louis louie that all city ordinances that are granting corporations the right to lay conduits and subways for electric wires and other similar uses are void the city holds the streets to in trust and cannot grant their use for private purposes this opinion to is of great importance in view of the proposed subway system no now w contemplated by st sr louie MINOT IV D june 3 J A biker baker ex county commissioner ot of ward county was shot and killed last evening by his son eon william a boy devent seventeen een years old at his ranch twenty miles of melnot just before the killing baker bad given his bis son a hard ping pin after which he started to abuse the boy boys boya a mother was more mor e than man the boy could stand he toot toor his bis erfle r he and shot his bis father twice killing billing him instantly inet antly C CHICAGO june 8 A special from st louis mo saye say although it is one week since the disastrous tornado struck st louis louie and the east side it was not noticed until today that all the house boats in ill the river had disappeared between tho th chain of rocks bocks and choteau avenue last wednesday morning there were sixty four of theses floating shanties yot not one was waa left by the lury fury of the tornado but few of them were safe even in calm weather and three fourths of them were totally destroyed an old river man said the dent zone of the house boat are real no mads made they drift or are towed wherever their fads fade direct they are gypsies of the great rivers they know knew bat few people in the cities and are known by lew few I 1 was figuring last sunday a week how many of them teem were in this harbor for the june rise and figuring five to each boat there were over here last wednesday I 1 believe most ot of them were drowned because I 1 know it is both tradition abd instinct with them to stick to their floating homes until the last i not jNo ione one of these house boats is left I 1 have been patrolling the river now how for five days since the tornado and I 1 am suret bat that over of those people including women and children are lost the lower river will give up this summer over dead that have not dot as yet been counted amodia the victims ot of wednesdays wednesday a tornado LONDON june 8 3 A special broco fro 00 shanghai says the german officers officer lent to drill the chiaese army have been subjected to indignities and outrage the motive of which was to force them to deeben resi irn recently two germans were bertett beatea by soldiers and now no an officer named krauss has been murdered by the body guard ot of lin kun KUD yah viceroy of nankin in consequence the entire german squadron in chinese waters has been ordered to nankin it to is believed the germans will withdraw fifty of officers floers now in the chinese army and insist upon the payment of the whole of their contract another dispatch says the katsue rebels defeater defea teu the chinese general tung with terrible slaughter and the viceroy of nankin has ordered the german drilled troops droops to assist in sup pressing the rebellion washington J june u us 4 the house by a vote of to 88 33 today seated george W murray colored who has been contesting the seat of elliott ElJ iott democrat from the black or shoe string districts diat riots of south carolina party lines were strictly drawn save that parker rep bep voted in favor of Ei billott llott murray was sworn in amid republican cheers washington D C june 4 the conference report of the naval appropriation bill was taken up upa in the senate today the qu question estloa be log ing quays motion to lecaue from the amendment reducing the number of battle ships from four to two gorman said two questions were involved evolved one was it wise to order four battle ships when the defects in those already ordered had been disclosed and when the board was in session consider ing improvements in construction the other was as to the expediency of this ibis large expenditure at a time of financial stringency 1 I am always in favor of a fair increase of the navy said eald gorman german but I 1 am unalterably opposed to atle building ot of four ships considering the condition of the treasury and the improvements prove ments being made in naval con instruction I 1 the senator spoke of the charges made by chandler tillman and other senators that manufacturers were robbing the government unmercifully ci it if this charge was true the officers of the government were not doing right to in not reporting the fact to Congress and the work of ship build iniz ine should be stopped gorman did not believe that any investigation vesti gation had shown that secretary whitney or secretary tracy the two erest areat secretaries of the navy who contracted with the carnegie and bethlehem works have made any improving dent agreements today the united states stood ahead of the world in its production of armor speed of ships dud and of the navy chandler asserted that the information before the naval committee showed that the costs of reduction ln of armor plate at the carnegie Caro egle and both debem works was less than a ton and that by combination the price for the government was and a too ton quay a motion to recede from the battleship reduction amendment was defeated 17 to 33 wa as follows yeas republicans Aldric bBrown carter davis davie debois dabnis gear hans orough hawley lodge lage mcbride mitchell bell perkins platt quay shoup wilson democrats democrate morgan nuys nays republicans ler clark Ual ballinger linger hill morril nelson pettigrew pritchard sherman teller Demo democrats craw bate berry chilton chilian cockrell Coc brell george gorman harris hill jones arko ark lindsay mills palmer pascoe pugh smith vest vilas vila walthall white populists lists butler peffer total 33 83 the effect of bf this vote was to emphasize the disagreement between the house and denat senate the former insisting on four the latter on two battleships part of the conference report on the indian appropriation bill was agreed to 22 to 29 it covers a plan of establishing indian citizens in indian territory the report has been contested severely pettigrew 8 D in charge of the indian bill then sought to have the remaining items including that of indian scho school olp sent back to conference lodge mase maes moved to recede from the senate amendment on sec sectarian tartan schools school the house sustained the appropriations to sectarian schools but the senate amendment galve until july 1 1898 for change the motion to recede was defeated ayes 17 nays days 31 81 A bin bill was passed grunting er the be right of way through ft bliss blies military reservation to the el paso and northeastern railroad A request ot morgan that his hie resolution calling on we the president lor for lp information formation as to what it if any demand should 1 ae ae made in the case came of the competitor seized by the spaniards went over till to morrow A joint resolution was reported by morrill from the finance committee and passed authorizing the senate to enquire into the condition of the fur seal in the northern pacific the resolution appropriates for inquiry and authorizes the president to detail government officials to conduct the inquiry gear chairman of the pacific rall rail ways committee rose to make a state ment as to the union and central pacific funding bill he said eald was due the government and the debt would mature at an early date it was incumbent on Con greir to take some action protecting the in teresta of the govero government meoL for this reason he be moved that the funding bill now on the cu calendar lendir be taken op no at the next session and made continuous order of business until action was secured morgan who made the maino minority rity report on the bill said he be favored the motion the subject ought to be disposed of at the december session as it was of great importance berry ark objected to any agree meat and raised a point of no qu quorum rum before a quorum could be summoned the morning expired and the he filled cheese bill was taken up gear stated elated he would renew hit his motion tomorrow SAN BAN FRANCISCO june 3 pl thousand people tonight saw tim tom sharkey Bb Rh arkey the giant sailor from mare island navy yard knock out jim williams the heavyweight champion of utah williams was knocked all around the ring in the eighth round and at last his seconds second throw threw up tile the sponge to save him further punish ment williams weis weighed thed to in tit at while sharkey weighed only but shai aba r keys magnificent physique made him look the larger of the two sharkey was a 2 to 1 favorite in the betting although williams bad many backers after a little sparring on each |