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THE RURAL HEW-YORSC**. 
JUNE 22 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, June 15, 1889. 
The latest returns from the Conemaugh 
Valley put the number of deaths in the neigh¬ 
borhood of 4,000. Considerably over $3,000,- 
000 in money has been subscribed for the re¬ 
lief of the sufferers—enough to give about 
$650 to each surviving family. Enormous 
quantities of clothing, provisions, etc., have 
also been given. At first about 7,000 men 
were set to work at $2 per day and rations, 
clearing off the wreck and burying the dead. 
Last Wednesday the State of Pennsylvania 
took official charge of the work and cut down 
wages to $1.50 a day and rations. All the 
workmen left except about 250. New hands 
are pouring in,however, and by Monday over 
3,000 will be at work repairing damages, etc. 
Governor Beaver proposes to get $1,000,000 
from the banks to be expended in whole or 
part in clearing up the valley which is to be 
done as a State sanitary precaution. A la rge 
number of prominent merchants have signed 
an indemnity bond to secure the bankers who 
may advance the money, should the legisla¬ 
ture refuse to make an appropriation to pay 
it. It would cost $250,000 to $300,000 for a 
special session of that body and the work can 
probably be done for nearly that amount. 
The Cambria Iron Works which employed 
about 6,000 hands, have already started with 
1,500, and will employ more as soon as they 
turn up and repairs and rebuilding give more 
room. Merchants are already starting afresh, 
and wholesale dealers elsewhere are liberal in 
giving them long credits. The 800 police and 
deputy sheriffs who did little good and added 
much to the troubles of the people have been 
dismissed. A handful of 32 policemen now 
look after things, while the soldiers maintain 
peace and prevent plundering. Tramps and 
thieves still try to ply their trade there, but 
on detection are jailed or banished. The ex¬ 
penses of keeping the people are put at $3,500 
per day, but as wage3 are earned and business 
progresses, the necessary outlay will rapidly 
diminish. How best to lay out the generous 
charity of the public is now the vexing prob¬ 
lem. About $330,000 of New York’s cash 
donations are still here awaiting advices from 
Governor Beaver and the other authorities on 
the spot. Investigation shows that the reser¬ 
voir dam was criminally weak in its con¬ 
struction. The owners of the lake have con¬ 
verted the Club House into an orphan asylum 
for the victims of the flood, and doubtless 
they will support it liberally. There is some 
talk of prosecuting them criminally, and 
more of suing them for damages. 
Once more there’s a great deal of talk about 
the establishment of a Plug Tobacco Trust 
with a capital of $25,000,000, to include all 
the important manufacturers in the United 
States. They are to sell out to the trust and 
then take stock for the amount of the valu¬ 
ation of their plant. There are several deni 
als of course, as usual. The concocters of such 
schemes want to spring them full-fledged 
on the public.Reports from the Standing 
Rock Indian Agency in North Dakota, 
say that Sitting Bull has been dangerously ill 
from pneumonia for some time and is so stead¬ 
ily sinking that he must soon pass into the 
“happy hunting grounds” where buffalo 
ghosts still range in millions. Of late he has 
lost all influence with the Sioux.The 
salary of a New York alderman is $2,000 a 
year, of which he sometimes saves over $10, 
000, besides spending $5,000 in “treating” and 
“loans” to his constituents.John Anton 
Wolff Grip is the new Scandinavian Minister 
to Washington.The Inter-State Com¬ 
merce Commission has been investigating the 
Kansas City Hog Trust, an offshoot of the 
Chicago Big Four syndicate. 
The internal revenue receipts, beginning with 
1863, when such taxes were first imposed, 
show that the beer business has grown in the 
last quarter of a century from the production 
of 2,006,625 barrels to 24,680,219 barrels. The 
internal revenue taxes have increased in the 
same time from $1,500,000 to $23,000,000. 
.A San Francisco firm has just built the 
largest wine cellar in the world, with a capac¬ 
ity for 3,000,000 gallons, at a cost of $250,000. 
It looks as if Prohibitionists would have a 
poor chance in the “ Wine State.”. 
It is proposed to start a Rubber Boot and 
Shoe Trust for the purpose of maintaining 
steady prices high enough to be profitable to 
manufacturers, jobbers and retailers.. 
Forest fires are doing a world of damage 
south and west of Superior, Wis. 
Canadian Odd Fellows, in session at Mon¬ 
treal, have refused to admit colored men to 
membership.Recent yacht races in 
England having shown that Lord Dunraven's 
new [flyer, the Valkyrie, is not much faster 
than' other crack English yachts, her owner 
intimates that he will "not contest for the 
America’sTCup'this"[year,"as the Volunteer 
could_outsaiI his.boat. Ajs.no other^English 
boat can be built in time, there will therefore 
bo no race. 
Myriads of locusts have appeared in the 
wooded districts around Barrville, Pa. 
The 17-year locusts are due in New Jersey 
this year.W. E. Chandler has once 
more received the Republican caucus nomin¬ 
ation for Senator in New Hampshire. The 
Ex-Secretary of the Navy is certain of re- 
election .Governor Gordon, of Georgia, 
says that more men were killed in our civil 
war than England has lost in her nearly con¬ 
stant warfare since William the Conqueror; 
the statement is said to be absolutely true.... 
.The latest trust is one by the makers 
of castor oil, on which there is an import 
duty of 80 per cent. 
Ex-Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, has been 
quietly divorced from his wife on the ground 
that she has become a comfirmed drunkard 
and opium eater. This her friends indig¬ 
nantly deny. For some time she has been in 
an inebriate asylum at Flushing, Long Island, 
at her own request.Mrs. Har¬ 
rison, her old father. Dr. Scott, and her 
grandchildren, including of course. Baby 
McKee, are at the sea-shore at Cape May, 
N. J.The Dr. Cronin murder case at 
Chicago still attracts a great deal of attention 
not only there but all over the country. 
Alexander Sullivan, a prominent Chicago 
lawyer and Irish leader, ex-president of the 
Clan-na-gael, has been arrested as an acces¬ 
sory to the murder. There’s no doubt that it 
was a cool, premeditated crime perpetrated 
deliberately by an association one of whose 
cardinal tenets is the justifiability of political 
assassination by Irishmen. The members ar¬ 
rogate to themselves the right to try, condemn 
and execute offenders across the water and in 
this country also. Of course, as the coroner’s 
jury justly said, such an organization is in¬ 
consistent with the spirit, and against the in¬ 
terests of this country and should be at once 
abolished, under .whatever name it may act. 
Two alleged accessories have been arrested in 
this city; but for the present Governor Hill 
refuses to surrender them to the authorities 
of Illinois. 
The loss by fire at Seattle, Washingon, is even 
greater than was first announced. The town, 
like all new, tentative places, was built near¬ 
ly entirely of wood, with crooked, irregular 
streets. High rents prevented the tearing 
down of the buildings, and improvements 
generally. Now that all the old business part 
of the town has been destroyed, the streets 
will be laid out more regularly and fine build¬ 
ings will replace old, ramshackle frame af¬ 
fairs. The fire may, therefore, have been a 
“blessing in disguise.” Charity has liberally 
helped the needy, and with true far-western 
grit and energy the place is already being 
rapidly rebuilt, and business even among the 
ruins of the “old” and the bricks and mortar 
of the “new” is once more booming. 
Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, has ap¬ 
pointed Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson 
to be State Librarian and Military and Naval 
Historian with a salary of $2,000 for five 
years and $500 a year for expenses. An ex¬ 
cellent appointment.Governor Hill, of 
New York, has signed a bill for the suppres¬ 
sion of “bucket shops.” Will it suppress 
them?.The Canadian sealers of Brit¬ 
ish Columbia say they will resist seizure if 
overhauled by American cruisers In Behring 
Sea.Several months ago Attorney- 
General Hogg, of Texas, began suit against 
the Southern Pacific railway and other lines 
for the return to the State of 15,001,000 acres 
of land which had been given to the railways 
on certain conditions. These conditions the 
State showed were violated,and the forfeiture 
of the lands was demanded. Judge Key de¬ 
cided in favor of the State, and held that the 
railroads had wilfully violated the conditions 
and had no title to the lands. A great por¬ 
tion of the lands has passed into other hands, 
having been sold by the railroads, and under 
the decision the supposed owners have no titles. 
Mr. Calvin S. Brice, the genial many-time mill¬ 
ionaire, who managed the last Democratic na¬ 
tional campaign, and contributed towards its 
expenses, has been unanimously chosen Chair¬ 
man of the Democratic National Committee 
to succeed the late Hon. William H. Barnum. 
Looks as if the Democrats intend to main¬ 
tain in 1892 the tariff position they held in 1888. 
.Over 700 singing birds secured in 
Germany have been liberated near Portland, 
Oregon. Are they friends or enemies of the 
farmer and horticulturists?.The 
trial of the * ‘electric” sugar refiners is going on 
here now, and makes “mighty interest¬ 
ing reading.” The swindlers bought the 
best refined sugar in the form of cubes, 
broke these cubes with hammers, and, 
after sifting the pounded sugar, passed it 
down a shute into a receiver, where it was ex¬ 
hibited as a product of their “electric” refin¬ 
ing process. This was certainly one of the 
simplest swindles ever practiced upon gullible 
men—and keen-eyed business men at that!.,.. 
Partv lines are not drawn on ballot-reform 
legislation. In Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine 
and Ohio, Republican legislatures have re- 
\ iected ballot-reform bills. In Connecticut, 
Massachusetts and New York Republican leg¬ 
islatures have approved such bills, while a 
Democratic Governor in New York and a Re¬ 
publican Governor in Connecticut have ve¬ 
toed them. The people appear to demand 
such legislation, but “ practical politicians ” 
see neither office nor boodle in a scheme that 
promises to prevent fraud, bribery and intimi¬ 
dation.The Weldon extradition bill 
recently passed by the Dominion Parliament 
has been submitted to the imperial govern¬ 
ment for ratification. It is the first case on 
record which provides for the extradition of 
criminals by an act of the legislature instead 
of by a treaty. It’s likely to be ratified. 
People say it is retroactive; but as the Par¬ 
liament voted down an amendment declaring 
it so, it’s hardly likely that the government 
will extradite the “ boodlers ” now across the 
border.Col. John C. Kelton, 61 years 
old, a graduate of West Point, and a distin¬ 
guished soldier in the late war, has been ap¬ 
pointed Adjutant General of the Army to suc¬ 
ceed General Drum “ retired” for age. 
.After the “Glorious Fourth” “Ola 
Glory ” is to be.emblazoned with four more 
stars .to represent ..the, four new States, the 
Revised Statutes providing that such addition 
is to be made “ on the fourth day of July 
next succeeding the admission ” of the State 
or States .The Grand Jury here have 
indicted the three doctors who carved mind- 
reader Bishop so prematurely, for having cut 
him up without authority from the coroner 
or relatives.That English syndicate 
has just added to their long list of American 
breweries, one at Newark, N. J., for which 
they paid $5,100,000—$4,000,000 in cash; the 
balance in stock. The American Exe¬ 
cuting Company is the title of a Chicago con¬ 
cern, with a capital of $25,000, which wants 
to do all the legal hanging and electro-killing 
throughout the country on contract. 
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Feb, 14, 1888. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, June 15, 1889. 
An agrarian congress opened at Paris this 
week. Mr. Saunders was elected American 
secretary. Henry George made an address 
in which he referred to land reform as the 
starting point of social reform. Mr. George 
was unanimously elected honorary president. 
M. Lonquet was chosen chairman and made 
an address in which he spoke in terms of 
warm praise of Mr. George. Rather strange, 
this attempt to introduce Henry Georgism in¬ 
to the land of peasant land proprietorship 
par excellence!... 
The latest news from Stanley comes by way 
of Zanzibar in a letter dated December 2; but 
which must have been written in February, 
“authorities” say. He was at Usuri at the 
southeast end of Lake Victoria Nyanza, hav¬ 
ing suffered heavy losses of men on the jour¬ 
ney from Arumiwi. Emin Pasha was not 
with him; but he may have been following. 
After resting at Usuri a short time,he had re¬ 
turned to Victoria Nyanza to secure stores 
which had been deposited for him at Insalala a 
year ago. In sufferings, heavy losses of men 
and stores and failure of the object of the ex¬ 
pedition, this has been by far the most disas¬ 
trous of all Stanley’s journeys in the Dark 
Continent.Russia, Germany and Austria 
have sent an identical note to the Swiss Gov¬ 
ernment demanding that it should deal more 
severely with Anarchists and Socialists. 
....The Shah of Persia has just made a visit 
to Russia where he was right imperially en¬ 
tertained with military reviews and other 
grand public displays. Then ha went to Ger¬ 
many, where he is now receiving much the 
same kind of a reception. Russia and Eng¬ 
land are strenuous rivals for a preponderance 
of influence in Persia, and it is said that the 
Czar intimated that if the Shah made any con¬ 
cessions to England during his projected visit 
there, 100,000 Russian troops now on the north 
of Persia would at once enter the country. 
The report is hardly diplomatic, but is signifi¬ 
cant.The French government is 
still trying to devise some means of helping 
the Panama Canal without taking on itself 
too much responsibility or embroiling itself 
with this country. ^. k The 1800,000 Frenchmen 
who have put money in the venture must be 
soothed if not aided. 
The worst railroad accident that ever occur¬ 
red in Ireland happened near Armagh last 
Tuesday. An excursion train, in three sec¬ 
tions, containing 1,200 passengers, nearly all 
Methodist Sunday School children, left Ar¬ 
magh for Warren Point, a watering place at 
the mouth of the river Newry in Couinty 
Down. In ascending a steep grade on a bank 
76 feet high, the first section passed on all 
right but the engine of the second section 
couldn’t haul up the cars which rau madly 
down the slope smashing into the engine of 
the third section which was following. Sev¬ 
enty persons were killed, most of them being 
about 20 years old, and only a dozen child¬ 
ren. The elders were in the rear car, hence 
the great mortality among them. Several 
hundred were more or less severely injured.. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, June 15, 1889. 
Up to the last week in May, crop prospects 
were exceptionally good in nearly every part 
of the country. May 23, some parts of 
the country were visited by frosts, but no ex¬ 
tensive damage was done. May 29,30 and 31, 
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Western New York, Northern Ohio, Indiana, 
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Minnesota were visited by frosts of greater or 
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Wisconsin were snowed under to a depth of 
six inches. These were immediately followed 
by heavy and long-continued rains, which, 
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many parts of the country. Pennsylvania 
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