Smyrna times., 1889-06-12
News Items.

There is scarcity of lumber in Phil
adelphia.
Five steamers sailed from New York
Saturday, carrying nearly 1000 cabin
passengers.
No lives We're los. by the Seattle Nv.
l. lire. The financial loss Is estimated
at from $7,OO0,000 to $l0,OOO,O 900.
The completion Of the bridge at
Montgomery practically opens the
pennsylvania main line, which was
0bstructed for eight days by the great
food.
Officers of the Cambria Iron Com
pany, which suffered heavy losses at
Johnstown, Pa, by the recent flood,
expect to have the entire plant of the
company in operation in a week.
Ireland has not forgotten the assist
ance she has received from this country
IN the past, and now, although po1r
herself, comes forward with five thous-
and dollars in aid Of the sufferers i'm
the Conemaugh valley.
Sunday afternoon "Jacko" Walker.
a boatman aud fisherman. aud Frank
navy were carried over the Horseshoe
Fails at Niagara. They started in a
boat for the head of Goat Island. They
lost control Of the boat, which was
drawn into the current.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the
Cologne Gazette says that the Gar of
Russia told the Shah of Persia and
hotly, too, that if, while in England. he
should make any concession uaCavor-
able to Russia, 100000 Russian soldiers
now on the frontier would be made TO
march into Persia.
The name Of Daniel Peyton. the
young man who, needless of his own
safety, dashed through the streets of
JohnstoWa, warming the citizens fo
'Hee for their lives" will be classed
high up among the list of heroes for
future generation to learn lessons of
Valor from. Death came, but his name
will never die.
Tacoma, tue rival city of Seattle. has
responded nobly to the latter's call for
assistance, and on Saturday sent fifty
tons Of groceries and provisions to the
almost devastated city. The people of
Washington Territory do not do any
thing by halves, and when this far Off
territory Is admitted to the Union the
other States can feel proud in receiving
worthy sister.
A letter from Genesee Co. New
York, of June 1st, says: Ii there Is ANY
show for peaches in our section lhty
will be worth something, for the West.
ern New York crop is all killed. One
man who has $50 acres of peach trees
will not have bushel Of fruit. Last
tuesday there was q freeze that form
ed ice one-half inch thick, and the
grape crop is entirely ruined
The United States steamers Trenton
and Vandalia, which were wrecked Mt
Samoa last March, have been aban-
doned by the Government. All the
valuables of both vessels, including the
batteries, have been recovered. and
are now on the way to San Francisco.
on the steamship Alameda. Admiral
Kimberly and the remaining survivors
are on board, and expect to reach this
country about July Sth.
The fact of having those tents at
Johnstown a few hours after the oatas-
trophe stamps Governor Foraker as the
man OF emergency. Governor FOreak.
er Is great talker, and likes to
wave the ensanguined garment and
10 sur Democrats up generally, but he
mas proved himself a worker as well.
and floors for once the old adage "Ouick
OF speech and slow to act" Foreaker
will be liked better than ever, since
his last achievement on this errand of
mercy.
Washington has raised so far Si3. .S56
for the JohnstOwn sufferers. Ii is ex.
peeted that the amount will be swelled
TO $4,000 The relief committee hav-
ing the distribution of funds has
directed that 500 be sent to each of
the small towns along the Potomac
Lord Mayor Sexton, Of Dublin. Ireland
has eabled to America 91,OOO for The
relief Of the JOhnstown sufferers Arch.
olshop Walsh gave el00, PHILADELPHIA
mas raised S6l9,OOO New York 1892 900
ana Cincinnati $4,000. The entire
amount will reach about $4,000, 900.
Captain Kelly, of the schooner CITY
Oh Nausau, which arrived in Philadei.
phia saturday, met millions of feet of
the the logs from the Williamsport boom
200 miles out at sea. The Nassau was
bound from the Bahamas. Captain
Aelly says: "As far as the eve eouid
reach nothing was visible but miles of
noating lumber Where it came from
was a mystery to me, and climbed
up IN the rigging to see the end of Il
II possible, but there was nothing ~
oe seen but sea of yellow pihe fnm.
per The position of the vessel bv an
observation placed her seventy I've
miles south Of Cape Hatterasn
Ahis Is a year of unprecedented ham,
penlngs The Samoan disaster was
tne greatest Of the kind. The rescue
OF the Danmark's passengers was tho