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FLOODS OF THE PAST.
Catastrophes Recalled by the Terrible
Tragedy at Johnstown.

CdIaSCrOpncS lSeCallcu ny Gue IcrrIDlc
Tragedy at Johnstown.
The Johnstown disaster is the greatest that
has occurred in many years. In She Mill River
disaster, May 10, 1874, when the village of Hay
denville, Mass, was almost swept of the face
of the earth, 140persons were drowned As
at Johnstown, the immediate cause of the
catastrophe was the breaking of dam. A
guard had been watching the dam, and about
8 o'clock in themorning it was discovered that
an enormous leak had developed out of a small
one. The guard started to give warning, but
the reservoir broke away and tie water from
pond ia acres in area came down like
wall, carrying away nearly the whole vii
lage. Several other towns on the Connecti-
cut River were inundated. Over, 300 fami-
lies were rendered homeless and 81, ,0O0, 600
worth Of property in dams dwellings, fac
tories, etc., was lost. Roads and bridges
were damaged to tho extent of 5000, 900.
At Lynde Brook, near Worcester, on March
30, 1876, thirty feet of the reservoir wall,
which had been leaking, gave way, and over
600, 900, 600 gallons of water were emptied
into the valley. Only one life was lost, but
gropsesrtsyy ss was damaged to the extent Of nearly
On March 81, 1877, the Staffordville resor-
voir, on the east branch Of the Willimantic
River, gave way, and torrent Of water
rushed down the valley at the rate Of FIVE
miles an hour, destroying mill dams and rail-
road bridges in its course. The people were
warned by man on horseback, and oil e1-
cept two of the residents of the valley es-
capped. The loss Of property on this occasion
exceeded 81, ,000, 900.
By the bursting of the Huron mill dam,
near Houghton, Mich, on January Q, 1884,
six lives were lost; those Of Charles e. Ray
mond, bank teller; his son and servant, and
Howard Raymond Of the Allouez mine, wife
and son. The money loss was not great.
A similar disaster near Lee, Mass, April
20, 1885, destroyed nine lives, and the dam
age to mill property, private dwellings and
roads and bridges exceeded $50, 900.
Ono reservoir calamity, that at Sheffield,
England, has been made famous by Charles
Reade in "Put Yourself in His Place." On
March II, 1864, the embankment Of the Brad.
field reservoir gave way, and flooded Shelf.
field and tho country for twelve or fourteen
miles around About $50 lives were lost, and
property valued at over s1,6oo,oOo was de-
StrnVnl
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

HENRY Z. DIXEY has shelved "Adonis."
''PINAFoRE" has been revived in Boston.
BUFFALO BILL has captured the Parisians.
Mrs. LANGTRY has sold all her scenery and
properties prior to long rest.
EMMA ABBOTT is quoted as being the rich
EST singer on the American stage.
QUEEN MARGUERITE, of Italy, is one Of
the best violoncello players Of the day.
LYDIA THOMPSON, the English burlesquer,
lost money on her late American tour.
LOUIS JAMES has decided to add ''Richard
Ill" to his repertoire for next season.
BOOTH AND BARRETT have cancelled all en-
gagements and Modjeska will fill their
Pacific coast dates.
SIGNoR NovARA, the well-known basso,
has been engaged to support Patti during her
operate tour in the United States next win
ter.
SINCE little Elsie Leslie made such great
success in Little Lord Fauntleroy," the crop
of child actors has become very large, in
Iced.
ETELKA GEEsTER, the once famous prima
donna, now lives secluded from the world in
a villa situated on the summit of a mountain
near the city of Bologna.
MISS ADELAIDE MOORE has returned from
tour of this country next season in a play
called THE Love Story"
'THE BRIGANDs" at the New York Casino
draws great crowds. A ivelier performance
of operetta, in a prettier setting, has not
hitherto been presented in New York.
CAMPANINI, the once great tenor, is as Door
as church mouse. All his estates in Italy
are mortgaged up to their full value, and with
bis property he has, saddest Of all, lost his
voice.
W. J. ScANLAN has made so much Of
success in Ireland that his tour Of that coun-
try has been extended. Alta recent perform
ance in Dublin he received eleven encores
when singing one of his songs.
MISS EMMA EAMEs, the young American
girl who made so successful debut as Juliet
at the Paris Grand Opera House, has beside
her fine voice a beautiful face and figure with
well-moulded arms and shoulders and pretty
hands and feet.
PAT FEENEY, a popular Irish comedian,
who not long ago gave $40 900 to the Duchess
of Marlborough's fund for the relief Of misery
in Ireland, is now so reduced in circum-
stances, owing to Illness that he is depending
upon the proceeds of a benefit at Dublin to
keep him from starvation.
AMONG Mr. Irvings pensioners are q family
which, when he was very young and very
poor actor in Scotland, once invited him to
Christmas dinner, and took occasion at the
same time to present him with a suit OF
clothes prepared for the occasion, and Of
fered with much delicate kindness.
SYB1L SANDEIsoN, the San Francisco girl
who has just made such an impression in
Paris by her singing in Massenets new opera,
has fine auburn hair, pale complexion and
magnificent figure. She dresses in black,
and the whiteness of her skin, the brilliancy
of hes eyes, and the peculiar tint Of her hair
combine to make her fascinating object
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EIGHT LIVES LOST.

A Barge's Crew Upset in Lake Onta-
rio and all Hands are Drowned.
One Of the heaviest gales ever experienced
In that section swept over Lake Ontario the
other morning and eight persons perished off
Long Point while endeavoring to save them
selves. They composed the crew Of the
barge Batavia, one Of the three barges in
tow of the steamer D. D. Calvin, from Che
boygan, Mich, to Kingston, Ontario, with
timber.
The tow lines broke and the barges had to
shift for themselves. They were all water
logged. but the crews of the Valencia and the
Norway the other two barges' stuck to their
craft and were saved.
It is presumed that the captain Of the Ba-
tavia was swept overheard, and the crew.
becoming panic-stricken, shipped the yawl
and made for land, mile off. They had not
gone far, however, before their boat was up
set and all were drowned.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

CHICAGO has $50 fremen. d
OHIO has had general frost. Es II
ST. LOUIS has a leper hospital
CROP conditions are favorable. RI
THERE are $40 600 900 Buddhists. ~:
BROOKLYN has 5s11 ofaceholders.
KENTUCKY has weather service. &,
THE Dakota gold discovery Is no hoax.
MISSOURI is to have geological survey
UNCLE SAM has $3.50, 600 900 IN his pockst|
CONGRESS is to be asked to coin half-centE|
THE weather reports show excessive RAIN
fall. .. ,s5?s@
, FISH in the Iowa River are dying by thou.
sands. @- 80. $3.50
THE Paris Exposition Is still in q chaotio
state. :
INDIANA undertakers have organized is
coffin trust. .....-.s tS5
STAR-E1sH are making heavy depredations
on the oyster beds.
LAST winter 95, 100000 feet of logs were
prepared in Maine.
The volume Of money in circulatiou
amounts to s14 0O0, 900.
THERE are thirty deaths day from yellow
fever in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 5;
The total amount Of gold shipped to Eu-
rope thus far in 1889 is SIS, $40, 900.
A SUBMARINE cable IS to be laid between
New York and Guaira, Venezuela.
THE dog tax Of France gives the State an
annual revenue Of about 81, SOC, 600. II
A NEW party has been formed In South
Dakota, known as the single tax party.
CUT-woRMs are reported to be ravaging|
the cotton fields of Southern Arkansas.
Four colored to one white is the proportion
Of deaths from consumption in Georgia.
CATTLE thievesshave been rayaging the
lower tier Of counties in South Dakota.
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JUSTICE GRAY'S MARRIAGE.
He Weds a Daughter Of the Late
Justice Matthews.

Justice Gray of the United States Supreme
Court and Miss Jeannette Matthews, daugh-
ter of the late Justice Stanley Matthews,
were married q few evenings ago in
Washington at the residence of the
bride. The house was elaborately deco
rated with flowers and the bridal
couple, during the performance of the cere-
mony, stood in the front parlor, surrounded
by a scmicircle of palms. Tho Rev. DR..
Leonard OF St. Johns assisted by the Rev.
DR.. Hamin of the Church Of tho Convenant
officiated, and read the service of the Episco-
pal Church.
Those present were Mrs. Stanley Matthews
Paul and Eva Matthews Justice and Mrs.
Miller, Mrs. and the Misses Wood, Justice and
the Misses Strong, Justice and Mrs. Fielh
Mr.. and Miss Waite and Miss Lucy Corkbill
The ushers were VIM. c. Endicott, Jr., and
Blair Lee.
After the marriage supper was served in
the dining-room and late i'll the evening the
bridal couple left for country place in the
neighborhood of Boston, where they will re-
main until July, when they go to Europe.
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In Other Places.

Decoration Day was also generally observed
throughout the entire country.
The Veteran Association decorated the
grave of the one Confederate soldier buried
at New Haven, Conn, along with the graves
Of their own late comrades. The various 6.
A. r. posts decorated graves at all the ceme-
teries.
st. Louis commemorated Memorial Day
with more fervor than it has for two decades
past. Five thousand G. A. r. men paraded
the streets and then went by boat to
Jefferson Barracks, where they united
with the 1000 soldiers stationed there and
proceeded to National Cemetery, where H.
Grated One hundred thousand people were
present Orations were delivered, salutes
fired and the military band played funeral
dirges.
Decoration Day was observed in Cincinnati
BY the closing of public buildings, schools
and many places of business.
Services were held at Fredericksburg Va,
under the auspices Of Phil Kearney
Post No. 10, G.. A. P, Of Rich
At the cemetery, Commander Burr, Of Phil
Kearney Post, called the assembly to order.
General s. Burdeste, Of Washington Post,
Chief G.. A. R., was the
orator, and General Edar Allen, Past Junior
Vice-Commander-in-C Chief, the poet Of the
occasion.
The decoration of graves was under the d.
rection of Meade Post, G. A. R., of Annapolis,
Md. The procession formed at 1:S0 p. NJ,
and was composed Of the Naval Academy
band, the Marine Guard from the Naval
Academy, the Governors Guards of
Annapolis, and Meade Post, G.. A. r.
The 'Bivouac of thn Dead" was recited at the
cemetery. The procession proceeded first to
the National Cemetery and then to the Naval
Cemetery, strewins the graves of the dead
with flowers.
Decoration Day Yves observed with patri-
otic enthusiasm in Baltimore. The different
cemeteries were visited by the Grand Army
posts. At the National Cemetery, London
Park, the processien entered the gates amid
the strains Of martial music and the
booming of minute guns. The national salute
was fired by guns from Fort McHenry. The
Grafton was delivered by the Hon. George C.
Hazelton of Washington The exercises
closed with strewing flowers and an artillery
salute.
The G. A. r. post and the Confederate
Veterans united in decorating the graves OF
Federal and Confederate dead at Birming-
ham, Ala
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TIE LABOR RsWokID
iron-makers are busy.

SOUTHERN lrOn-makerS are DuSy. t7A
Times appear hard in the coal regionA
THERE isa demand for labor in Montana.
THE omnibus drivers Of Rome, Italy, hsv
gone on strike. ...s. q
MANUAL training schools are to be inIo
ducedin Boston.
THE present production Of pig iron Is 14e1
600 tons per week. s. a,5 !, -. ~
THERE have been few strikes in the build
ing trade this year. :,..s
coke ovens are idle. -
The carpenters at Berlin, Germany, an
nearly all out on strike. & III
A STRIKE is threatened in the lace factorial
at Nottingham, England.
FIVE or six new coal roads are to be bml
in Pennsylvania this year.
COTTON seed oil mills and cotton factoria
are going up fast in the South.
THE striking miners in the Kladno disTict
in Bohemia, now number IL, 600.
THE American Federation Of Labor hal
issued charters to 130 organizers.
The St. Paul and Omaha Railway Com
pany will no longer employ Italians.
TIE daily output of iron from twenty fus
naces in Birmingham, Ala, is now 2310 tons
In Lynn, Mass, the idea Of co-operatio1
between employers and workmen has died
out. =
THE Pittsburg and Western road. insorda
to cut down expenses, has discharged go
men. g., s. ~ ,ess.
OvER 1900 miners were on strike In Mf7
nois because Of fifteen per cent. reduction
in wages. s5,
In Paterson, N. J., there are about 100 sill
mills, in which many thousands OF opera7vea
are employed.
THE socialistic Labor Party Of Massas
chusetts will hold State Convention in Bce41
ton on July 13.
In Rochester, N. Y, shoemakers are strfk-
ing against the new shoemaking machinery
that Is being introduced
A REDUCTION of ten per cent. has bean
made in wages Of the furnace Employed
throughout the Shenango Valley.
In Philadelphia silk and woolen mills the
workers earn 81 to Sc week, but have WORK
only eight months out Of twelve.
LocoMoTIvE-MAKERs are working twenty
five per cent below capacity, and car.buildr
ers thirty-three per cent. approximately
The average wages Of shirt-makers IN
Philadelphia, working twelve to eighteen4
hours day, is the princely SUM OF $4sa
week. ..... 5ys.. 81 a
In Utah alone $50, 900 900 of capital IS in-}
vested in silver and lead mining, which emI
ploys 1000 men at an average daily wage of
s. each. sS
MORE than one hundred Of the leading re.
tail harness makers Of New York and Its vi
cinity have organized the Harness MakerS
Protective Association. III
AN active organizer, Miss Eva Mcdonald
has undertaken the work Of inducing the facs
tory women in the Western States to JONI
the order Of the z. Of L.
In America workman produces upon and
average more than four tons Of BessemerS
steel per week. In England his product 81
but two and one-haf tons. l IS
THREE separate organizations are soon to
be combined in grand body under the tifle}
of the United Brotherhood Of Journeymen3
Plumbers, Gas and Steam Filters Of Amert
lea. y * s5 q
In Alabama, the Farmers Alliance, the
Knights of Labor'and other kindred bodied
are holding conferences with the view Oh
uniting to obtain control Of the State Legiss
lature. sr ..
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The Day in New York.

Not since the institution of a day Of re-
membrance for the dead soldiers, twenty-one
years ago. has Memorial Day been more
generally or more fittingly celebrated In New
York city. Not talone were the grave of the
men made famous in history decked with
were twined for the unknown dead, and no
post or comrade stopped to ask the rank OF
the graves they visited.
Two reviewing stands had been built on
Fifth avenue; one at the Worth Monument,
the other across the street. Per.
haps there were 1000 people on both.
The reviewing party had seats on
the Worth Monument stand. This
was the party: Governor Hill, Mayor Grant,
Vice-President Morton, General Howard. the
Christian soldier; General jackson, Con:
The staff Of Governor Hill. It was e1.
actly 9:47 A. N. when the first of
the procession came by. There were
about 5000 men in line, and the
last one went by Governor Hill at EOS
o'clock. Of the eigtty-one minutes occupied
in passing the reviewing platform twenty
eight were taken by the United States regu-
lars and the soldiers of the militia regiments,
forty-seven by the Grand Army of the Re-
public veterans and the few miscellaneous
organizations behind them.
column. Then rode Major Waldrick, in com.
mand of detachment Of soldiers of the regu-
Tar army.
GENERAL Schofeld rode proudly at the head
Of the long column and made sweeping
salute with his sword.
There were fully 5000 people assembled dur
Ing the afternoon at General Grants tomb in
Riverside Park. To the south of the modest
brick structure had been erected a platform
for the orator and guests Of Grant Post, No.
S27, of Brooklyn, who conducted the memo
rial exercises.
The tomb was buried beneath the floral
tributes of hero-loving people, and the
statues in the parks were covered with
wreaths, laurel leaves and the choicest and
rarest of flowers.
Grant Post, G. A. R., arranged and had
charge of the services, which commenced at
four o'clock with a short speech by Com
mander George a. Price, followed by the
rendering Of Chopin's funeral march. Chap
iain-in-Chie Anderson offered prayer and
Rev. J. NJ. Buckley, D. D., IL. D., made the
Grafton.
The Seventy-frst Regiment fred a salute,
and the chaplain, Rev. Mason Gallagher,
closed with prayer. The United States man
ef-war Galena lay in the river below the
tomb and fired five minute guns during the
services and salute Of twenty-one guns at
the close
Memorial services were held at many
churches and in all the cemetries. Not only
were floral tributes placed on the graves of
the Union soldiers but laural wreaths and
lilies were laid on the tonbs Of Confederate
dead
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RIOTS IN RUSSIA.

Striking Miners Resort to Arson
Seven Victims in the Flames.
The silver miners in the Ural Mountains,
Russia, have struck and have set on fire the
houses of the managers in Ekateringburg.
The factories adjoining were also set a6re
and seven persons who were in the buildings
were burned to death. The military were
called out and restored order.
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HIS MOUTH CLOSING UP.
The Strange Affliction of a Wealthy
Resident of Wisconsin.

Richard Chandler, prominent resident of
the town of Irving, Wis, is on the verge of
the grave as the result of an affliction that
has puzzled the doctors and which stands
unique in the records of medical history.
For several years Chandler's mouth has been
gradually growing together until now the
orifice is only about the size of a small mar
BILE. All efforts to check the strange growth
have been unavailing. Chandler is now nm
able to take sufficient nourishment to satisfy
the demands of his system. 1t is proposed to
cut his mouth open and prevent its further
closing by artificial means, and the patient
says his afiiction is forwarning of his ap-
preaching dissolution and will not allow his
physician to operate upon him. Chandler
is worth $500, 900, and he has only one heir,
an idiot son, now in an asylum.
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wall, SO that the engineer can view the pro
proper moment TO turn on the death-dealing
current should there, through nervousness or
other cause be any mistake in signaling. At
the last moment black cloth will be laid
over the condemned mans face, and an in
slant later will follow the signal for the
current 10 be turned on. tits estimated that
these arrangements will occupy at least
five minutes time-long enough for the
prisoner to experience the agonies of hun
dred deaths. When the current is turned on
death is expected to follow instantaneously.
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A Westinghouse dynamo with an alternat-
ing current will he used. The victim will be
seated on raised platform in a reclining
chair to the back of which he will be fastened
by straps around his body. A rubber cap
that will cover all of his head but the face
will then be slipped on the condemned man.
In the centre of this cap at the base of the
brain, is a metal cone, perforated, to which
the electric wire will be fastened. While at
tendants are fixing Oh this cap and attaching
the wire, others will remove the prisoners
shoes and socks replacing them with sandals,
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD.

IT has been decided at the Navy Depart
ment that the remains Of John Ericsson, the
great inventor, shall be taken back to his
native land in a national ship, and it is un-
derstood that the Chicago is to take them
across the Atlantic. The ship will then join
the European squadron as the flagship of
Commodore J. G. Walker, the present head
of the Bureau of Navigation.
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ROBERT SHIELDS, a laboring man, sixtyl
years of age, who acquired a homestead thirty
years ago on the present site Of Omaha, has
been awarded twenty million dollars dam-|
ages by decision Of the Supreme court o.|
the United States. Shields is now living az
Puyallup Washington Territory.
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PAR1s1ANs express great dissatisfaction
over the fact that the American section Of
the exhibition and also portion Of the Brit
sh section are closed on SuadaYa
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TIE plans for the enlargement Of the port
The improvements wiii cost s.. .oO06G
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A GOLDEN STREAM.

Seventeen Cities in One Day Subscribe
$564, 200 for the Flood Victims.
These are the totals of the sums raised in
seventeen cities on the first day that subscrip-
tions were opened for the sufferers at Johns
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SupREME CHEZ BARNES reported at Bos-|
ton to the tenth annual session Of the Sui
preme Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle
that there are 50, 0O0members and 5S4 castlesfnl
thirty States The total receipts were Sl4.-
631, and expenditures S18. .4SS.
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DEATH BY ELECTRICITY.

The Method to be Used in Furnishing
Murderers in New York.
Electrical Engineer Harold P. Brown, OF
New York, is experimenting the electrical
apparatus to be used in the execution Of the
convicted murderer, who will be the first
man to die under the new law in New York
providing that hereafter in the State the
death penalty shall be administered by cleo.
tricity instead of by hanging.
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THREE boys were drowned while attempt
ing to cross the Olentangy River at Column
bus, Ohio.
Daily Republican., 1889-06-29

EVERY Republican in this city
should not only pay his own tax, but
also see that his Republican neighbor
does the same The collectors are
now ready and willing to take the
taxes of all who may apply, and 1t is
certainly worth while making some
little sacrifice to pay it. There is no
doubt that on full vote there is q
Republican majority OF at least 1900 in
this city, provided every Republican
who is on the assessment lists pays his
tax and becomes qualified 10 vote in
1890. This means a Republican ma.
jority of at least 800 in the county, and
as we are certain OF carrying sussex
county in that year, we will be able to
elect Governor, Sheriff, Coroner,
Legislature and members OF the Levy
Court. This is certainly worth striv-
ing for, and as the collectors will not
sit in the evening, every Republican
should be willing to lose few hours
from his work for the purpose of pay
ing his tax.
Daily Republican., 1889-06-29
| Or boys.

We are displaying an I'm
mcuse assortment oil Suits at
such reduced prices that pa
rents who understand t h e
value Of Boys and Children's
Salts admit taat their value
YVES never equalled for the
prices. They come in every
known fabric, and would be
cheap at double the money,
The extremely low prices on
these different lines are turn.
ing them rapidly out of stock
so an early call will insure a
good selection.