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The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
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THE United States Court for the Indian Territory was opened in Mnscogee, on the 3d. Over 200 cases, nine tenthS of which are civil, have b9en dOcketed for the present special term.
 AMERICAN residents and sojourners i'll England are collecting large sums for the benefit of the sufferers from the Pennsyl- vania floods. A large central fund is be- ing established, into which all collections will be paid and from which sums are drawn as needed.
 THE receding waters of the flood at Lewiston, Pa., left debrls piled up in the streets ten feet high.
 WHILE the people of the whole country are vieing with each other i'll sending prompt and efficient aid to the flood suf- ferers of the Conemaugh Valley, a few dealers ill the stricken district have shown how mean human nature can be by charg- ing famine prices for. the provisions they offer for sale.
 THE annual convention of the Amalga- mated Association of Iron and Steel Workers convened in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 4th.
 THREE HUNDRED passengers on the Penn sylvania railroad who were stranded at Altoona, Pa, were transported ill wagons forty two miles to Nineveh.
 Jos. BROBSToN, notary for a number of financial institutions i'll Philadelphia, has disappeared, leaving debts to an unknown amount.
 THE Postmaster General, on the 4th, sent circulars to about one hundred lead ing post offices to get statistics of Sunday work, with a view to reducing such work if possible.
 THE Wool Growers Association has pc titioned the President to call a special session of Congress to adopt measures in the interest of the wool industry.
 THE Connecticut House of Representa- tives, on the 4th, defeated the bill giving women the right to vote on questions per- taining to the sale of intoxicating liquors.
 PAST SUPREME CHANCELLOR JOHN D. LYMAN, ofthe order of Knights of Pythias in the United States with his entire family, wife and four children, were drowned at Johnstown. Pa. FARMERS, living in the country border ing on the Conemaugh Valley, who load ed wagons with provisions for the desti- ute survivors of the flood, had to fight their way into the stricken cities against the thieving Huns who tried to capture their precious freight. HIRAM MEEK, the engineer was badly ! injured, and one tramp was killed and another injured in wreck on the North Pennsylvania railroad, near Sellersville, Pa., on the 4th.
 ' THE report, circulated on the 4th, of the ' loss of 10000 lives in China, turns out to have been a misunderstanding A Chi nese firm in San Francisco who received the news of the Pennsylvania disaster, made the facts known 10 their country men, who. in circulating the story, trans 1 terred the scene to China.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
ARKANSAS TEACHERS.

Programme for Inc Meeting of the state TeachcrS' Association at Pine i;Iun
 Prof. Junius Jordan, president of tho Arkansas State Teachers Associa ation, furnishes the following programme for the meeting at Pine Bluff, June 10, 20 and 21:
 The association will meet at F. m. Wednes- day, June 20. The first order of business will be organization aud enrolment
 At8:30p n ". D Jones. Of Pine Bluf will deliver the address of welcome. and some member Of the association, not vet designated, will respond. Then follows the presidents ad. dress and Q social meeting.
 Thursday at n. m the regular work begins and tho following papers will be read:
 What Shall We Teach in Our Public SchoolsT by R. III. Miller. Camden.
 "The University and the State, by Howard Edwards Fayetteville.
 "Posstbilties in Educational Development" by ]. c. Davidson, Helena.
 Atep m. that day volunteer discussi ions will De in order, for which the following subjects have been suggested:
 How to Secure Public Sentiment in Favor ot Better Schools"
 How to Enlist Pupils and Patrons in School Work"
 "A Southern Association"
 At SEQ D. m there will be music md a recita~ tion followed by paper ny Dr. John C. Bran ner on The Geology of Arkansas
 Beginning at 2 a n. Friday, the following pa- pcrs will he read
 The Co-Educatlon Of the Sexcs,n by s. T. Lan- Atkins.
 'T.e Teachers Place in Nature" by w. 1T. Tharp, Searcy
 Why Should Not Arkansas Have a Normal School?" by T. $. COX, Van Burcn-
 Defects in Our School system" by J. H. Hin.mon, Monticello.
 Volunteer discussions will then follow on the Relation Of the State Feathers Associa- ton to the Nat ional Educational Association" and Recent Educational Literature" This will close the meeting
 The elocutionary exercises will be under tho management of Miss Ruth Mcbride, principal of pAblic schools, Pine Bluf.
 The musical exercises will be under the d. rection Of Mrs. T. F. Atkinson.
 Tine teachers will be entertained by the peo. pie Qf Pine Bluff.
 The following are the officers or the associa. ton:
 President-J. Jordan, Pine Bluff
 Vice-Presidcnts-J F. Coleman, Augusta; W H. Tharp, Searcy; J A. Sutiffe, Hope ". r. P.Venable, Little Rock; J. F. Howell, Fayette- vile.
 Secretary-Josiah H Sh mn, Little Rock
 Treasurcss-Mrs NJ. E. Brooks, Little Rock.
 Executive Board-Hon. w. E. Thompson, Josiah II. Shinn, ]. Jordan.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

had been attending a meeting of the wire manufacturers. He has lived in Johns- town all his life. He said: 'I can not imagine that the flood did as much dam- age in Johnstown as reported. The water would have to rise thirty feet higher than It was last June before it got above Wal nut street. About nine-tenths of the town is above Walnut street, so you see that the flood must have been very high to have reached that portion of the town. That railroad bridge did the whole dam- age. Had I been there 1 would have blown it up with dynamite had been ap- prlsed Hi time of the flood that was com ing"
 Engineer De Lozier said he helped out four women and one man near Sang Hol- low. One was an old lady that looked to be upward of eighty years of age. lie helped rescue twelve persons last night alive off floating drift He said he got into Johustown about four o'clock yester- day afternoon, and all that could be seen was tho tops of the houses. He left Sang Hollow this morning about nine o'clock. He counted eighty five people going down on drift. One of the most touching inci- dents, he said, was the drowning of a father, mother and three children. They came down on a roof, and just opposite the town the raft struck pile of drift and went to pieces. All five went down in the mad current. A momont later two heads were seen above the water, and their two hands clutching at the roof. That was the last seen of that family. This tr but one incident of a hundred that are related by people living along tho river.
 Mir. De Lozier said the scenes can not be overdrawn. He saw one woman go down on q raft with both eyes lying out on her cheeks. She was dead having been crushed among the timbers. Men and women with arms broken blood streaming down over their faces, and their bodies cut, bruised and bleeding, were q frequent sight.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
EFFICIENT WORK.
Forwarding the Mail Under Difficulties -Getting Into Running Order Again.

Forwarding the Mail Under Difficulties
 Getting Into Running Order Again.
 NEW YORK, June 5.-Superintendent Jackson of the Railway Mail Service yes terday received a dispatch from Chief Clerk Gore of the Harrisburg, Pa, t,ast- office station, that Clerk T. c. McGowan, who was on the train which left Pitts burgh last Friday, reported to him in person last night. Clerk McGowan. in his report, states that all clerks and mail on the train were safe. After the calam- ity, he says he secured a mule team and wagon, and loading tho wagon with letters, drove over the mountains to Ebensburgh. He then took a train for Cresson, and from there went by engine to Altoona, where the mail was delivered to train No. 20. Mir. McGowan- then made his way to Lou4ston.a
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
One Thousand Dead and Dying Bodies
 In n Pyrc.

TOMBSTONE, Pa., June 2.-It is impOs- sible at this hour to state the exact loss of life, but it is safe to place it anywhere from eight to twelve thousand. A step can not be taken without finding somo one who has lost friends. Some of them have lost whole families. The scenes in Johnstown are beyond description. In the once peaceful river houses are strewn without a limit. The worst of the wreck is at the Pennsylvania road bridge It was an arched bridge, and the arches were very narrow When the flood came and swept the buildings with it, all of them clogged in these arches. For fully one mile houses and parts of houses arc lying along the stream In this very debris is where the most of tho bodies are supposed to lie. It is a conceded fact that at least one thousand bodies are here, with little or no possibility of ever being brought out.
 THE CLIMAX OF HORRORS.
 About eight o'clock this morning, by some means or other, the debris tool, fire, and burned as fiorcely as if it were fed by oil and famed by the winds of Heaven. It started at the bridge, and burned clear up tho river as far as there was any fuel for the flames.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
Summary Justice.

JoHNsTowN, Pa., Juno "A party of searchers saw two men robbiug the body of a woman to- day. The thieves were caught In one of their pockets was found woman's ear, entire, sliced from the head with sharp knife. In the ear lobe was a sparkling diamond ring The captors placed ropes around the necks of the villains, and then strung them up to the nearest tree until they were dead. They then cut them down and buried them. Further investigation of the con tents of tho pockets of the fends brought forth large quantities of jewelry and the mutilated finger of little girl, on which was a gold band ring.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
nuryinn the Dead.

JoHNsTowN, Pa., June 5.-Yesterday was the day set aside by the citizens'committee for the burying of the unidentified dead that were lying in the morgue. At ten o'clock the men started to work and were busy all day. There was no pathetic scenes at these burials, the men doing the work in very natter of-fact way. At noon procession of fifty collins were seen going up the hills. There were no mourners and the sight was a gnstly one to behold. It will take several days to bury the bodies in the different grave yards, as there were no graves dug until yesterday morning. A detachment. Of men arrived from Pittsburgh yestef fday morning and started to dig graves.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
 Three Hundred Bodies Kecoyered.

TOMBSTONE, Pa., June 2.-The recovery of bodies has taken up the time of thou sands all day. The theory now is that most of those killed by the torrent are buried beneath the debris and the events of to days work in the ruins in large degree justifes this assumption. Six bodies were taken out of one pile of rub bish, not eight feet square, this morning. The truth is that bodies are almost as plentiful as logs, only the swirl of tho waters put the bodies under and the logs and boards on top in the general stack ing up of the animate and inanimate. The rigidity of arms, standing out at right angles to the bloated and bruised bodies, shows that death in niuety-nine out of one hundred cases took place amid the ruins, that. is, after the wreck of houses had closed over them. Dr. D. C.. Foster, who has been here all day, is of the opinion that most of the victims were killed by coming in violent contact with objects in the river and not by drowning. Three hundred bodies have been recov- cred to-day.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
The conductor of an electric str,

The conductor of an electric street car at Wheeling, ". Va, went on top of his car the other day to adjust the running pullies connecting it with the wire, and, slipping, grasped the wire to steady himself. He got shock that laid him out senseless, and was about to be taken down for dead when his face was accidentally touched by the wire, and he was brought to life again, little the worse for his experi- ence.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
Scenes Witnessed at Sang Hollow.

SANG HOLLOW, Pa, June l., 5p. m.-The reports of the number drowned vary with each person asked for an estimate of the loss of life. One man said that he over heard Superintendent Pitcairn saying that the number would not fall far short of five thousand. Others put it at three thousand and down as low as eight hun dred, anywhere between the two figures mentioned. $. H. Thompson, train mas ter, said dead bodies are lying along the banks of the river between Sang Hollow and Johnstown as thick as flies. It is the most terrible sight ever witnessed. The natives forgot their breakfast in the ex- citement, and men could be seen running in every direction, eating. as they went.
 Every train is crowded with people go- ing to the scene. Everybody has but one objective point-Johnstown
 l.. l.. Smith, General manager of the Gautier Steel-works, was on the train on bis way home from Milwaukee, where hs
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

Mss CLARA BARTON went to Harris burg Pa., on the 2d, to supervise the work of the Red Cross Society in TO- ieying the distress at Johnstown.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

Iris expected that President Harriso< and President Diaz of Mexico will meet at Fort Worth, Tex, some time this month.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

THE President did not attend church, on the 3l, but was busy all day arranging with Governor Beaver by telegraph for the relief of the stricken districts ill Pennsylvania.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

Ar Taneytown, Md, Mrs. Charlcs Me- Fadden and Miss Maggie Moore were drowned, on the lst, while attempting to ford stream during the flood.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

Ar the meeting of the General Assem- ply of the Pres byterian church in Belfast, Ireland, on the Sd, tho moderator took occasion to strongly denounce home rulc
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

ALL tho London papers, of the 3d, con- tained leaders deploring the disaster at Johnstown, Pa, and sympathizing with America.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

Mas. JoHN A. LOGAN will open school for young ladies in New York or Chicago shortly.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary of Important Events.

SEVERAL earthquake shocks were felt on the banks of the Seine, France, on the 3lst.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

CAPTAIN c. HENRY WITTHAUs promi- nent citizen of New York City, mem. Der of the Old Guard, the Letderkranz Society, the Press Club and other organ tzatioas, shot himself dead after re. turning home from the Decoration pa rads on the 30th. He was forty- iyf years old and quite wealthy,
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
The Farmers Take a Hand.

TOMBSTONE, Pa, June 3.-At fve o'clock yesterday posse of farmers sur- rounded gang of fourteen Hungarians, who were robbing the dead and succeed ed, after a lively battle with rocks and clubs, in driving three of them into the middle of the stream where they sank heneath the MaNeS tn rise no more.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
From Eight to Fifteen Thousand Lives
 Lost,

PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 2.-AdJutant- General Hastings, who was Ill the vicinity of Johnstown last night, stated that the total list of dead in the COnemaugh dis aster will not fall below eight thousand, and may reach fifteen thousand persons. General Hastings has ordered two thou sand collins to be sent to Johnstown. Twenty-six undertakers are to go there at once from this city. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company are sending a carload of skiffs to Ninevah, hoping to get into Johnstown by this means. It was relia- bly, stated last night that not a living soul had entered or departed from Johns- town since the hour of the disaster, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
 Each hour adds new horrors to tho story. Some of the reports reaching the city tonight are appalling.
 In Complete Possession of the Flames.
 JoHNsTowN, Pa., June 2.-The massive accumulation of debris extending from eight hundred to one thousand feet along the south shore of the Conemaugh and immediately above the bridge is now in complete possession of the flames, and will be until further relief from the Pittsburgh fire department is received, so that another pang is added to those who had hoped to rescue the re- mains of their friends and relatives from ' the debris.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
A Bureau of Registration to Determine
 the Number of the Lost.

JoHNsTowN, Pa., June 5.-While the to- tai loss of life at Johnstown and the sur rounding boroughs of Cambria, Mof- rellsville, Kernville and Coneniaugh Will never be known, yet an attempt IS now being made to ascertain it within a req sonably fair limit. This is being done through a bureau of registration N T-aen was established Monday. Twenty Int agencies have been established wTain the flood districts, and all survivors have heen notified to register themselves and tba;r families at once. This work was baruu at four o'clock Monday, ant pt nine o'clock yesterday morning sixty 1to hundred persons had registered
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

Some queer answers were clicited during an examination of witnesses in a contested election case in Florida. "Who was the Republican candidate for Congress in this district?" was asked. Answer: Fl don't know" Would you know the name if men, tioned?n Yes, sir" Was it Robert IngersollP" Yes, sir, dat's de man." Well, who was Democratic candi- date?n II don't know, sir" Was it John Sherman?n Yes, sir, dat's dc very man." Well. what is Congress?" Il don't know, sir" "Is it man or a woman?" "l think it is woman. :" What kind of woman?" "A black woman"
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

GOVERNOR HILL of New York issued a proclamation, on tho 2d, calling the att tention of the people of that State to the disaster which had befallen the inhab- itants of large section of Pennsylvania, and invoking the efforts of citizens and organizations toward relieving the conse- ouent distress
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

TEN mines, employing six thousand men, will be indefinitely shut down on account of the floods in the Conemaugh valley, the pumps being under water and the pits mostly flooded.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

CRTsToBAL FERNANDEZ, the Cuban kid- naper was executed at Jovellanos on the 4tn
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

At Tallahassee, Fla, one of the pupils of tho colored school, in pass ing along a. street the other morning found hens nest. True to the in- stincts of his innocent nature, he gath cred in the eggs and hurried on. When the owner went out to get her eggs they were all gone, but the school books of the entcrprising little darkey were there, and his name written in them. In his moments of supreme bliss he had forgotten every thing ex- cept the eggs.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

ON the 31st Postmaster-Ge Wana- maker appointed a commission to in- vestigate and report upon the condition and needs of the New York City Post-of- fee. This commission is tue result of a conference recently held between Post master Van Cott and the officials of the Post office Department.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

The actual value of the real estate Of New York City is said to be $l8,- Q00,OOO,O 900.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
The Horror scd.

JOHTSTOwN, Pa. June 2.-The magni- tude of the horror increases with the hours. 1t is believed that not less than two thousand of the drowned found lodg
 ment beneath the mass of debris in the triangle of ground that the Conemaugh cut out of the bank between the river proper and the Pennsylvania railroad bridge. There was the greatest funeral pyre ill history. The victims were not on il, but were parts of its horrible construc- ton. Whole houses were washed into the apex of the triangle. Hen-coops, pig
 5tys, stables, the refuse of the gutter, the contents of sewers, whole lumber yards, boom upon boom of logs, com posed the mass, when the upsetting of a cook-stove ignitcd the mass, and ;he work of cremation began. It was a costly sacrifice to the demon of the flood, being literal breast of fire. The smoke rose in a huge, funnel-shaped cloud, and at times changed to the form of an Ourglass. At night the flames would light up this misty remnant of mortality. The effect upon the living ig- norant and intelligent was the same. That volume of smoke, with it's dual form, produced feelug of awe in many that was superior iu most cases to that in the awful moment of the storms wrath on Friday afternoon. Hundreds stood for hours regarding the smoke and wondering if it forboded another visitation direr than it's predecessor. It was with feeling of absolute bathing that all people hereabouts this morning awoke to find that nothing but a mass of ashes, calcined human bones, stoves, old iron and other approximately indestruct- ible matter, from which only Q light blue vapor was arising. General Hastings took precautions to prevent the extension of the fire to another huge pile a short distance away, and this will be searched to- day for bodies of flood victims
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
As Badly on as Johnst own.

J0HNsTowN, Pa, June 3.-Conemaugh, Woodvale, Kernville, Cambria City and other surrounding towns in the flooded district are as badly off as Johnstown, At Conemaugh the inhabitants of the lower lying portion of the town have been literally wiped out of existence. At Woodvale the percentage of death is even greater than at Johnstown. Kernville has only a house or two as a monument to it's former respectable proportions. Cambria City is not even ghost of it's former self, while all along the line of the torrent the isolated houses of hundreds are without occu- pants. The relief provisions for Johns town must be extended to these other places as rapidly as railroad transporta- tion facilities can be furnished. The towns named all lie between Johnstown and the South Fork dam, whose bursting caused the disaster. At Woodvale the dead bodies of hundreds are lying in the debris, relatively as numerously as they are in Johnstown. At Conemaugh, the same condition of things prevails. The scarcity of the living at both places makes the recovery of bodies very slow work.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

THE London Times Berlin correspond ent reports that the American Commis- sioners to the Samoan Conference have had tough fight for the assertion of the principles forwhich they contended, and that the convention, when concluded, will show that their labors have not been with out success.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
Without Boats or Food, and Crazed with
 Anxiety.

SANG HOLLOW, Pa, June 3.-Advices from Johnstown arc that practically every building in the city has either been entirely wrecked, or damaged so that it will have to be rebuilt. Whole streets were swept clear of all trace of habita- ton. The people who escaped to the hillsides have no boats to get around with, and are hard pressed for food. They are camped out in the brush, and the women and children suffer greatly from hardships, besides being half crazod with anxiety over the fate of friends and relatives. The water is not receding much, because the choked up railroad bridge acts as a dam, and will do so until the debris that clogs the arches is re- moved, which will be a big job. The Pennsylvania railroad track is torn away bodily for distances of mile or more in two or three places. The Baltimore x Ohio track suffered also, but not so se- verely.
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

NELL $. O'BRIES, JR., of Nashville, Tenn. for many years reading clerk of the Lower House of Congress, was run over while crossing the track of the Louisville & Nashville railroad in Nash vile, on the 2d, and instantly killed. His body was ground almost beyond recornitiOn
The Springdale news., 1889-06-07

THE Times counsel, assisted by the counsel for MT. Parncll, began, on the 3d, all inspection of the private letters of the latter. The cores spondence covers pe- riod of six years, and comprises 5000 let tprs
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TnE public debt statement for May showed a decrease in the debt for the month of $s,702, ,s7190; decrease since June D, 1858, S72.GS2, 105.4). The total debt, less cash in tho treasury, was $l, O92 902 55ll9