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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

COMPOSER GouNoD will visit America neu
winter. -.-... II
'THE BR1GANDs" is a solid success at the
New York Casino. ....
CooUEL1N and Hading, the French artlsts
are playing IN London. n
ROBERT H1LL1ARp will be Helen Dauvrayt
leading man next season.
TRAGEp1ESNE JULIA MARLowE has closed
her successful road season.
OsMUSD TEARLE is to do Hamlet and Rich
ard III. at the Standard Theatre, London. 1
A CONCERT is to be given in Paris In which
only compositions by American au1nors WIZ
be rendered.
IT is said that the last season has been the
most successful divorce season ever Hnownm
theatrical history. Il
BUFFALO BILLS Wild West is doing an
enormous business at the Paris Exposition.
The Indians have captured the French.
A COMMEMORATIVE tablet has been placed
on the house occupied at Cremona, Italy, byI
Stradivarius, the celebrated violin maker.
COLONEL MApLEsoN is organizing new
italian opera company in London in which
Marie Titiens will debut as apriina donna.
GILBERT. it is reported, is already well ad-
yauced upon another libretto, Tor which Sr
Arthur Sullivan will shortly start the music |
JAMES C. DUFF is to revive all Of the sue
ccssful Gilbert and Sullivan operas curing
the summer season of his company In fmla-
delphia.
EopEnT BUCHANAN has Just arranged
Scott's poem, ''Mar1nion," for stage repre-
sentation, preserving the measure OF the
original.
THE success of Won Suppe's "Clover" at
Palmer's, New York city,is the greatest ever
known in the history of the McCaul Opera
Company.
An exhibition Of monkeys vas recently
opened at Alexandra Palace in London. AL
least thousand monkeys from various parts1
uf the world were shown.
AT the recent Artists Ball at the Paris
Opera House. Mime. Bernhardt was the con-
ductor of the orchestra and the younger N. !
Coquelin first violin player
CHARLES LAURI, Sr., the famous clown
and pantominlist, died in London recently.
He was the father of the Lauri family, WhoI
have often appeared in this country.
CERTIFICATES of election have been issued !
in every district to the members Of the House
of REPRESENTATIVES in the Fifty first Congress. |
The body now stands: Republicans, 164;
Democrats, l6l. ~.
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South and West.

ELEVEN business houses and Offices In
Syracuse, Kan, were burned.
JOHN FEAsTER and Charles Colston,
both colored, were hanged on the same
scaffold at Yorlville, S. c., for the murder
Of w. G. Abernathy, merchant.
Two men murdered the wife and son of
Rev. Jacob Harness, a Baptist minister III
Scott County, Tenn. They secured S74 in
money and then burned the house.
A TORNADO wrecked many buildings at
Danvers, III. A church was destroyed,
freight cars blown from the track, q tile
factory ruined and many barns and dwell
ings unroofed. The western part of Sedg-
wick County and the eastern part of King
man County, in Kansas, suffered greatly,
and space twenty miles long by five miles
wide was swept over by the tornado. A
farmer named Rogers and his family were
killed, and many Others are homeless.
F. B. REYNOLDS and Thomas J. Lloyd,
who murdered the wife Of Rev. Jacob
Harness, Baptist minister in Scott County,
Tenn, and his ten-year-old son, and then
robbed and burned the house, were taken
from Jail and lynched.
The Dunkards have held their annual
national meeting at Harrisonburg, Va.
Mr.. MCLEOD, agent for Mrs. Sterling's
plantation, got into an alteration with some
colored men at G saloon and he shot and in
stantly killed two Of them in Greenvine,
Miss.
WILLIAM ANDERSON, railroad section
master, of Alcove S. c., while suffering
from delirium tremens killed his wife and two
children by cutting the threats of each.
CROPS in Indiana have been badly dam
aged by rain and freshets.
THE Coroner's jury, in Chicago, after being
out five hours, returned a verdict recon-
mending that Alexander Sullivan, z. Q.
Sullivan, Daniel Coughln and Frank Wood
ruff be presented to the Grand Jury as the
men who were engaged in the plot against
the life of DR.. P H. Cronin, and were either
the principals or accessories to the murder or
had guilty knowledge of the conspiracy to do
away with Cronin.
EXAMINATION of the damage to the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal in Virginia by the re-
cent food shows that it can be repaired for
s3O0,O0O
AT Dalton, Ca, State Senator S. E. Fields
was shot and killed by his stepson, Dennis
Taylor. Fields was trying to chastise Tay-
ior.
WILLIAM ATKINSON. wealthy and promi-
nent citizen of Ironwood, Mich, committed
suicide by jumping into the shaft OF the Ash
land mine His mangled body was found at
the bottom of the 4CO-foot pit.
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CAVE JEWELLERS.
EXPLORER Schwatka Among the Wild
Tribes of Mexico.

Tribes of Mexico.
Lieutenant Schwatke arrived at Deming,
New Mexico. In Southern Chihuahua his
party found cliff and cave dwellers, wild as
any of the Mexican tribes that Cortez encoun-
tered. The abodes they live in are exactly like
the old abandoned cliff dwellings Of Arizona
and New Mexico. Upon the approach OF
white men the people climb to their caves O or
cliffs by the aid of notched sticks if the cliffs
are too steep. They can, however, ascend
vertical stone faces if there are the slightest
crevices for their fingers and toes.
The cliff dwellers are sun worshippers.
They expose their newborn children to the
full rays of the sun, and show in many other
ways their devotion to the great luminary.
They are usually tall, lean and well formed.
Their skin is of blacS-red color, more like
the Africans than the Indians.
Lieutenant Schwatka says that nothing
has heretofore been known about these peo-
ole except by the half-Indians Of the Mexi.
can mountains. He estimates the cave and
cliff dwellers to number from 5000 to Il, O0O:
They are armed only with bows, arrows and
stone hatchets.
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MURDERED WITH AN AXE.
Insane Lucien Freeman Kill His
Mother and His Keeper.

Lucien Freeman, thirty years old, killed
his mother, Mrs. Orville Freeman, aged sixty
seven, and John Morgan in the farmhouse in
which Mrs. Freeman and her son lived about
a quarter of a mile from the village of Meri-
den. n. H. Lucien managed the farm
He was at times insane, and, although
he was not considered a dangerous
person, he was watched closely. A brother
STAYED with him on Friday and SATURDAY,
nights, and then engaged John Morgan OF
Meriden to go to the farm and take care OF
Lucien.
Early in tic morning Lucien entered Nor
cans room and struck him two blows with
nm axe. Morgan was killed by the first blow:
Mrs. Freeman was partially dressed and had
left her room 10 SO to the kitchen, when She
was overtaken by her son who struck her on
the head with the axe. -,
Lucien appeared at the house of Orvile
Eaton, two miles away, about $50 A. ~ and
told what he had done. The Shcrif was
notified and arrested Lucien. He showed the
Sheriff where he had left the axe in the pas
ture near the house, and it was found there
covered with blood.
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AT Villa Nouvelle, near Toulouse, France,
a rejected suitor murdered farmers daugh-
ter, the father and mother, and man SER
want.
THREE hundred and fifty-four thous n
persons visited the Paris Exposition on 4 re
cent day. Of this number sc. 600 made the
ascent of the Eiffel Tower.
THE Duke of Portland, the wealthiest
nobleman in England, and Miss Dallas
Yorke, daughter Of a country squire, were
married in London by the Bishop OF Lin
coin.
CARDINALS hats were presented to the
Archbishops of Paris, Lyons and Bordeaux,
at the request Of the Pope, by President
Carnot Of France.
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There are grave fears Of infection and
those in charge are doing all in their power
to get the dead bodies under ground. Ihe
dead bodies of many animals are being touna
and they are buried at once. The stench Is
said to be almost undesirable. Estimates OF
the loss of life vary from ten to fourteen
thousand. Subscriptions are still coming IN
generously from all sections Of the country:
The gorge caused by the embankrnent OF
floating debris against the Pennsylvania
railway bridge, sixty acres in extent ana
forty feet in height, is supposed TO contain
hundreds of bodies, and the work OF three
days has hardly cleared space as Dig as
ball room floor.
So little effect has the work Of the past
week made upon the wreck that one viewing
it for the first time to-day would suppose that
it was exactly as the food left it, and with
the force now at work on it month will be
consumed in clearing away the debris.
The ruins, filed with dead bodies, menace
the people who have survived the hardshlps
and exposure of the past week, and the 1ear ear
of pestilence is spreading in the minds OF the
people. Indeed, the situation here IS very
gloomy from every point of view.
Ten thousand men have been gathered here
from all over the country. This has been
made the Mecca Of the tramp, the ldler and
the thief, and nameless fear OF the rlohng
and disorder which experience in other scenes
fortells must result from this gathering IS
taking possession of every mind.
The Whole city is surrounded by guard
of militia and very strict regulations are en-
forced while efforts are made to cut OF as
far as possible, the means Of entrance to the
CITY. and tickets are not sold to Johnstown
except on a permit from the Relief Commit
tee at Pittsourg. More troops stand under
orders. at Pittsburg, ready to come here at
once if needed.
The excitement and exaltation CT the past
week has buoyed up the people, but now
cases of nervous prostration and other all
ments resulting from weakened condition,
overwork, improper, irregular and scanty
nourishment and exposure are developing on
every hand.
There is a small army Of physicians here,
gathered from everywhere, and the sick are
being cared for in fairly good order. :,
AlIroads leading TO Johnstown are crowded
with cars and wagons bearing provisions and
clothing for the sufferers. Freight traffic
within miles of the stricken city is parall llyzed,
and the merchants of the surrounding towns
have almost exhausted their stocks. Orders
for goods Of every description have been sent
into Pittsburg, but unless they are for survlv-
ors of the food they will not be shipped. The
different commissionary departments are con-
stantly crowded with applicants for food and
clothing
The subscriptions from all parts of the
United States, and from the capitals OF
Europe, on the seventh day after the flood,
reached the munificent sum of 81, s50, OOo
Funds continued to pour in for the relief OF
the sufferers, and besides the money con:
tributions large amounts Of clothing and
provisions were forwarded to Johnstown by
the sympathizing people Of other cities.
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A ROOF OF ROCK FALLS.
Foar Miners Killed and Two Fatally
u,r+bv n Sudden Cave IN

Foar Miners Killed and Two Fatally
Hurt by Sudden Cave in.
A terrible accident occurred at the Gay
lord mine at Plymouth, Penn, the other
morning. A number of miners were at work
in large breast, when, without warning.
the rocky roof fell i'll upon them. Four men
were instantly killed, viz, Reese Lloyd, Pat
Curley, William Williams and Matthew
Davies.
Two Poles had their legs cut off, and were
probably fatally injured. Insufficient prop
Din to sustain the roof was the cause OF the
accident.
THERE will be twenty-five places to fill in
the Pennsylvania Legislature next season on
account Of the expiration Of the terms of
twelve Democrats and thirteen Republicans.
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Estimated Loss of Life and Property.

The loss of life by the floods in the towns OF
Mineral Point, Franklinborough, East Cone
maugh, Woodvale, Kerinville, Cambria;
Minersville, Morrellville, Sheridan and
Coopersdale, which, with Johnstown, constl-
tute the string Of communities in a1da the direct
loss of property about Sc, 0Oo, 900. Johns
town proper will probably add about 1000 to
the death list and about 5000, 600 to the
financial loss. The Pennsylvania Railroads
loss Will be about So O00, 900, making the
total loss, as near as can ROW be figured, over
5000 lives and more than S34, 1000, 900 Of
property.
The loss of life at Johnstowr proper is but
little more than guess, and may go far
higher. 1t was too large place for anybody
to know everybody, and the survivors are so
scattered that the registration of the living,
which has reached IL, 600 in the district, indi-
Gates nothing. The loss iii the smaller towns
is obtained from leading men in each, who
have in a measure got their heads again, and
are able to think with some coolress In de-
tail the loss falls as follows:
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but few rods distant. Mrs. HaRmd:
scampered with her fellow travellers to a.
hill about 100 feet away. Miss Halford rel
turned to the car for her mothers medicine;
case. This might have resulted in her death: a.
up to her waist.
Miss Halford was overcome by the food be-
fore she reached the hill and, had it not been
for the gallantry of Postofice Inspector
Sprangler, must have succumbed. Sprangler'
lifted her in his arms, and at the risk Of his
own life carried her to place of safety.
"The words: To the hills! To the hills! are
ringing in my ears yet" said pretty Miss
Halford to a newspaper man.
Mr.. Halford, who suffered keenly from sus-
pense and anxiety, was elated as may be i'm
agined. II am the happiest man in America"
he said to correspondent. ,
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Miss Halford's Narrow Escape.

Mrs and Miss Halford, wife and daughter
of President Harrison's Private Secretary,
have reached Washington. Both were occu-
pants of the day express on the Pcnnsylvania
road, which was supposed to have been lost
at Conemaugh station from II 4. n until 8
p. NJ. on the fatal Friday. Then the conductor
heard the roar of the coming waters and
rushed through the train ard shouted: 10
the hills; to the hills for your life'
Mrs Halford and her daughter sprang to
the platform with many other passengers.
By that time the great volume of water was
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TIE coroacrs jury investigating the cause
OF the death in New York of Mind-Reader
Bishop reached the conclusion that Bishop
was dead before the autopsy was made, but
that Dr.. Irwin ''through overzealousness
acted in some haste respecting the direction
of the performance OF the autopsy"
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lake went roaring down the valley. That
three | miles of water was drained out in forty
five minutes. The downfall of those millions
of tons was simply irresistible. Stones from
the dam and toulders in the river bed were
carried for miles. Trees went down like you
might cut a mullen stalk with swish of
yoIr cane. Iiwas terrible sight to see that
Avalanche of water go down that valley al
ready choked with foods. Colonel unSerr
was completely prostrated by it and was lald
up at the club house sick from his experiences"
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Fears Of an Epidemic in Johnstown.

A Washington dispatch says that Surgeon
General Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital
Service, has received several kilograms from
Johnstown, Penn, concerning the situation
there. One of them is from Passed Assistant
Surgeon Darlington, in which he says that
he had conferred with DR.. Lee, the Secretary
of the State Board of Health of Pennsylvania,
and had looked the situation over. He adds:
"There is danger Of sickness unless active
sanitary measures are taken. Corps are now
being organized, dead animals are being
burned as rapidly as possible, and distnfect-
ants used freely. The work will require con-
siderable timen
Anotheris from DR.. Lee, dated Johnstown,
and saws: ''The situation here is very seri-
Gus. A large sanitary corps will be needed
with Carington, to remain as long as his SER
vices are needed. Make arrangements for at
least month"
DR.. Hamilton sent telegram to DIR. Lee,
saying that DR.. Darlington can remain as
long as his services are necessary, and that
disinfectants had been shipped. DR.. Lee
acknowledged the receipt of this telegram,
and said further that temporary depopula-
ton is being urged"
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TEE Pleasant Hill Society of Shakers. near
High Bridge, KY, is disintegrating. It has
been declining in membership very rapidly,
and the survivors are now preparing to allot
the lands to the faithful among this peculiar
sect who still remain, as the social feature
will be abandoned.
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Two men in Salvador, Guatamala, recent
" committed baroarous outrage IN the VI
cinitv OF San Tecla They stripped coftes
tree of its branches, sharpened its apex and
then impaled on it All unfortunate woman,
who died shortly afterward.
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OUR MINERAL WEALTH.
The Chief Products Of the United
States During 1855.

States During 1000.
The annual report of Chief Day, OF the
Division of Mining Statistics for the JTear
1858, which will soon be issued, contains IN
teresting statistics in relation to the lnlncra:
products of the United States. The gold
product was valued at S53, la, OtU, and the
Silver at s4s, ,O0O, ,OOp. The values OF other mr.
erals dug out of the soil n the year were:
Iron. S2S, ,9a4, 900; copper. ss's3, S33 954; lead
SO $50 00O: zinc, Sl.60,OC0. The coal produc-
ton was AZ, OS7, $50 tons, valued at s2ol 22l,-
100 at the mines The total value o. miner
ais of all kinds was S591, ,G5S, e31.
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AN immense bridge is to be built across tho
Mississippi at New Orleans. There will be
two piers in the center of the river. The
President of the Poughkeepsie On. y Bridge
Company is at the head it. It will be one OF
the greatest bridges ever built
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The Loss of an Express Train.

So many conflicting reports have been pub
lished concerning the loss of passengers and
damage to the trains overtaken by the Hood
at Conemaugh that General Manager Pugh,
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was asked TO
furnish the Associated Press with an official
statement of the exact number OF persons
known or presumed to have been drowned
from the two sections Of the day express, and
also statement as to what became OF tne
trains. Superintendent Pitcairn, at Pitts
burg, who has had the matter under investl-
cation, was communicated with by telegraph,
and these facts were elected: =.
AS near aS can be learned, nineteen lives
| were lost. ETo cars, passenger coach and
a baggage car were washed away. The bag
| cage car has been found. The missing coach
NAV have been carried down to the debris at
the Johnstown bridge. Some hours after
the food struck the train three Pullman
| sleepers came in contact with q burning car
Of lime, and were destroyed.
Brave UnseIfishness of Two Children.
Frank Fraunheiser, during the flood at
| Johnstown, tried to save his wife, little son
and two daughters, by dragging them up 10
| fine roof of his house. His wife and eldest
daughter were carried away, but he managed
| to cling to the two small children until the
house was crushed. The children were buried
beneath the ruins, and the father, worked for
hours to get them out. When he reached tne
children, the boy said:
Don't try to save me, papa. fmfast nere'
| Get Katie out"
The little girls leg was broken, and she
cried out to her father that it was useless to
! try to save her, and begged him to rescue
her brother. The father succeeded IN drag
ging both children from the ruins, and when
| he took the little girl in his arms, her race
was white with the pain Of her broken hmo;
| As she was carried into house she looked
up suddenly and said, with smile: Dont
look so sad, papa, 1 will cheer you up"
Wreckage Floating Down the Ohio
A large quantity of wreckage from johns
town has been pick up at Portsmouth, Ohlo.
| At Sciotoville pocketbook containing 800,
a set of silver spoons marked rs. Y, bank
book of the First National Bank of Johns
town containing credit to Nathan Dyer,
| and two locks Of hair were found.
Portions Of wreekage from the Conemaugn
Valley have passed Cincinnati. The Chief
of Police ordered patrol Of sklffs to searcn
| for dead bodies among the wreckage.
Noble Clara Barton.
Miss Clara Barton, President of the Red
Cross Society, is now at Johnstown. The fol-
lowing cable message addressed to her, has
| been received from the Grand Duchess OF
Baden:
! "CARLsRUHE, June 9.
"To Miss Clara Barton. Washington:
| "God bless your work in floods disaster,
"GRAND DUCHESS"
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SHIPS Of war ana ironciad Instructions are
TO be sent to tho Behring Sea to maintain the
rights Of the United States in that quarter:
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THOUSANDS BUTCHERED.
Western Abyssinia Made Desert by
the Conquering Mahdists.

lIIt OUILQICIIHS -H&hIf9eS'
Missionary letters to the Anti-Slavery
Society say that the Mahdists have made
Western Abyssinia desert.
Whole focks and herds have been de
stroyed, thousands of Christians have been
thrown into slavery, thousands of Others
have been butchered and hundreds Of the
nob:est inhabitants have been taken to
Mecca as slaves in violation of treaties.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-27
THE HOTEL JEROME.
FOrmAl Opening of '. o. Byxbe

Formal Opening of '. 0. Byxbee,s
 HosteIry Tt Aspen, Col.
 MfRIDEN, Nov. 28.-A number of Meriden people have received invitations to the for nal opening and dedication of the Hotel Jerome at Aspen, Col, November 27.
 The Hotel Jerome is the new one of which John c. Byxbee of this city is principal owner, and where his family are now visit ing. His son, Theodore M Byxbee, will be in charge, and his nephew. Frank M. Byx- bee, will be ono of the clerks. r.
 A Protest.
 Tothe Editor ofthe JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 feel that many readers of your paper will unite with me in protesting against the vul- gar habit of candy munching in the opera houses. Last evening at MT. Stoddard's lec- ture on the Rhine, had for neighbors a young couple-possibly country gawkeys who knew no better-who made themselves conspicuous by rattling around paper box every two or three minutes for peppermint drops, and then audibly crunching them to the annoyance and disgust of those near them.
 If people must eat at a concert or lecture let them bring soft candy and soft paper that will not remind others too strongly of that useful domestic animal for which Chioa- go is famous.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-27
NEW HAVEN LICENSES.

The Rate to Remain at $4OO.
 The New Haven county commissioners yesterday announced that they had decided to place the license fee at $400. This is the same as ill the smaller towns and will be re- ceived with satisfaction by saloon keepers. It is thought by some that the county eom- missioners would raise the fee to $500.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-27
marrted Last Evening.

George Palmer and Miss Ella B. Piercy, daughter of Mrs. George F. Piercy, were married last evening at o'clock by the Rev. I. c. Meserve at the brides home, 76 Hill street. The bridesmaid was Miss EstelIe At kins of Montclair, N. J., and the best man was George F. Austin of this city. Later in the evening Mr. and Mrs. Palmer left for Philadelphia. They will be gone two weeks. On their return they will reside at 76 Hill street.