THE NEWS OF THE WEEK, Telegraphic Notes of Interest , Briefly Told. HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. atmaU bat Wntrltlons The Sewi of the World From Pole to Pole Carefully t Cetllcd and Boiled Down for Bnif Header Throughout the Connlry. Wednesday, Feb. 8. David Torter, Deputy Collector of Bavannah, was, while beating bis wife, shot and killed by his son. Representative Orady of North Car olina introduced a bill In the House Monday to reduce the presldont'a alary to 135,000 a year. A. Dupre of Coto St Louis, near Montreal, and his three children were terribly Injured by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge he was thawing out The historic Appomattox, Va., Court House building was destroyed by fire Monday. All the county records and court house furnishings were entirely destroyed. 1 ExPresldent Cleveland will address the University of Ann Harbor on February 23, and a public reception will be tendered him In Detroit the same evening. Lattimer & Wlnton's Bank, at Ad dlson.N. Y was entered by burglars early Monday morning. It is believed that they secured plunder amounting to from f 10,000 to 115,000. BenJ. F. Lewis, a commercial trav eler, has brought suit against John N. Phelps, a wealthy real estate broker of Brooklyn, N. Y., for (50,000 damages for alienating the affeo tlons of his wife. C. W. Folsom, a cousin of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, committed suicide at Ironton, O., Sunday morning by shootincr himself in the heart Tem porary insanity caused by grip la said to have been the cause. William Doollttle, who disappeared from Cnrbondale, Pa., seven years ?go, arrived there yesterday. Four ears ago he found himself In Omaha, and then for the first time In three years remembered his name. Henry Goldman of New York ar rived in Milwaukee yesterday to make an investigation of the advan tages which are offered by Northern Wiscon6in for the establishment of a eolony for the exiled Russian Jews. ' The State Treasurer of Georgia has began paying the 4,000 widows of Confederate soldiers in the State the pension authorized by the last Legis lature. He has paid out $60,000 of the $400,000 which the pension will cost the State yearly. - Thursday, Feb. 4. W. A. McKemle, agent and operator at Wabbaseoa, Ark., for the St Louis . and Southwestern Railroad, was as sassinated at about midnight Mon day. . ,y m ' The Catholio church at Lyndenvllle, Yt, was burned yesterday. Loss, 5,000. - The fire Is supposed to have caught from the candles burning on the altar. The court martial to try Major L. C. Overman, convened at Cleveland, O., yesterday. Tho charges are em bezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer pnd a gentleman. Noah - Rlobards, the negro who murdered Policeman Sherman In New York some months ago, was yester day sentenoed to death during the week of March 81. An appeal was taken. , . a - The shoe factory ot Joseph E. Farrar, at Danvers, Mass., occupied by C. C. Farwell & Co., and W. H. Burns, was almost totally destroyed by fire last evening. The loss is over $100,000. ' During the funeral of M. A. Dalley, at Watsessing, N. J., yesterday, burg lars entered twelve houses in the town, carrying away considerable property. There is no clew to the thieves. The creditors of Brown, Steese& Clark, the big wool dealers ot Boston, whose failure of $3,000,000 in 1889 startled the entire business world, hare settled with the insolvent firm for seven cents on the dollar. "Spider" Anderson, the colored horse owner and Jockey, who has been on trial in Camden for two days on a charge of having murdered Wil liam, alias "Buddy," Robinson, on tSantember 19, was acquitted yester daf. Colonel John Withers, cashier of the Ban Antonio. Tex.. National Bank, committed suicide in a room over the bank Wednesday morning by shoot inir himself thro u ah the head. He graduated in the class at West Point with General U. S. Grant. Frank W. Newberg. a negro, was sentenced at Grand Rapids, Mich., vesterdav to thirty-six years imprison ment for burglary. Newberg became furious unon receiving his sentence and seizins a chair tried to brain De tective Joe Smith. It took six polioe- men to subdue him. Seven mail pouches containing let ters were mysteriously stolen from wagons carrying the United States malls Tuesday evening, while they were on a ferryboat on their way rom New York to Hoboken. The robbers are suspected of being the same who robbed the Elmira mall of two pouches on December 22. Friday, Feb. 5. -' T)j.1am4 Ova n.rA flmnhfl Nab. VI UUUU w.wt, , have each had an earthquake shake UD. There are from seven to ten Inches of first class . ice on the Kennebec River, but bad weather prevents Its belncr harvested. of Wise county, Pa i.o. Hninri ii.a motion of Talton Hall' counsel for a new trial, and sentenced Forty Russian Jews were landed nt Now Bedford, Mass., yestcrdn), tho agent of the Baron Hlrsch fund hav ing found employment for them. A stook company has been organ ized at Burlington, Iowa, to loan money at five per cent to Russians who wish to emigrate to this country. The Cincinnati division of the Adams Express Company has dis charged twelve men who were found to be members of the Brotherhood of Express Messengers. , John Burko, aged stxty-four years, president of the E. & J. Burke Com- Sany, died at Orange, N. J., Thurs ay. He was a millionaire, and made his fortune in the liquor business. Russell Sage, Jr., the nephew and accredited heir of Russell Sage, died yesterday from meningitis, at the Windsor Hotel, New York, where he had been ill for some time past He was fifty-three years old and a bach elor. Eighteen ears of a freight train, whloh ran away on a down grado near Piedmont, W. Va., left the track and plunged into the Potomao River, fifty feet below. Three trainmen went down with the wreck, but only Fire man McDonnell was killed. The house of Brldgewafor Mere dith in Rarltan township, N. J., was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. The house and farm build ings burned, together with their con tents, were valued at $25,000, on which there was $5,000 insurance, Saturday, Feb. e. David Hastings, Market Clerk of Allegheny City, Pa., was found guilty yesterday of falling to turn into the city treasury money collected from stallkeepers. The largo woolen goods factory of Joseph Culbert of Philadelphia was seized Friday by the Sheriff on a Judgment note entered by Josiah Lin ton for $35,899. George William Northedge, of Chi cago, received news on Friday that he had fallen heir to an estate in Eng land worth $850,000, and then he went out to shingle a woodshed. The private banking firm of Morcy, Greer and McCalrn of Raton, N. M., has made a general assignment It is thought the liabilities will reach $80,000; assets about $00,000. The E. Goddard & Son Flour Mill Company of St. Louis made an assign ment Thursday. Liabilities $100,000, assets $97,000. The failure is believed to have been caused by poor business. At the head of Squaw Gulch, Crip ple Creek, Col., at a depth of thirteen feet, a chimney of ore has been dis covered which Is a perfect mass of shining gold. It Is estimated as worth from $12,000 to $15,000 a ton. While dancing at the reception given by the Pittsburg Club in honor of the re-opening of their new club bouse, Miss Kittle Shaw, daughter of a prominent physician of Pittsburg, Pa., dropped dead at 8.30 o'clock this morning. The Leland Hotel property, in Chi cago, including building, land and good . will, has been sold to A. J. Cooper, acting for New York capital ists, for $925,000. The building and good will of the house were valued at $300,000 and the land at $625,000. John A. Morris, the ohlef owner of the Louisiana Lottery Company, was arralnged in the United States Court at New Orleans, Friday, under the indictments found against him by Grand juries in El Paso and Austin, Tex. ; Sioux Falls, S. D., and Parkersburir. W. Va., for violation of the Anti- Lottery Postal law. . HoBday, Feb. S.! " ; ' " Fire In the business portion of Gorhan, Me., causes $12,000 loss. Fire at Merldan, Conn., guts the Cashen business block.. Loss, $20,000. A Sunday morning fire In Manches ter, N. H burned out two business blocks, causing a loss ot $125,000. The Kansas wheat plant is In fine condition and recent rains virtually Insure a magnlfloent crop the coming season. It is rumored at Columbus, O.. that employes of the Adams Express Com pany, are being hired for John lloey's new company. ,, "', W. C. Fees & Son, boots and shoes, Findlay, O., assign. They have creditors in Toledo, Columbus, Chi- eium. Cincinnati and New York.. f o f . . William Slavenskl, a hermit sev- enty-flve years old, near Michigan City, ma., was beaten into insensi bility by masked robbers, who got no oooiy. Adiutant-General McClelland died at bis home in Harrisburg. Pa., Sun dav evenlnor. Mr. McClelland has been cromineni instate ana aauonai politics, and worked earnestly In 1888 lor Mr. ueveiana in new xorx. Elmer Becb. alias J. K. Stratton. was convicted in Denver, Col., Saturday.of bavin St forced a $12,000 check. Stratton is one of the famous cans ot letter box robbers who have operated in nearly every city in the Union, and who were arrested at Atlanta, Ga., in October last Tuesday, Feb. 9. At Lamed. Kan., Sunday, fire de. stroyed $125,000 of property. The Merchants' Han it . or Moor head, Minn., closed yesterday. The Ulster County, N. Y., Savings Institution was reopened for business yesterday. Miss Amanda Jensen attended dance at Turner Hall, Kansas City, last Thursday evening, and died few hours later of heart disease. - W. H. Beers, president ot the New York Life Insuranoe Company re signed yesterday and the directors voted to pay him $37,500 per year dur ing the rest of his life. . The Court of Appeals at Albany this morning decided that Jeremiah Cotto, the Italian now awaiting death at Sing Sing by electricity, must abide by the Judgment of the lower oourt and die. John Hyer, the Jersey City embez zlor who recently escaped from De tective Dalton while on the train and near the end of his Journey home, sailed for Australia from San Fran Cisco on Sunday, on the steamer Ala meda. By the explosion of a locomotive on the Reading railroad In Philadel phia on Monday night tho fireman of the engine, George Reardon, and two unknown boys who were stealing a ride, were instantly killed, and five other men were injured, one fatally. Capt John Hughes, the pioneer ship builder of New Orleans, died Saturday night, eighty-seven years of age. He built the Confederate ram Manassas, which was burned when Farragut's fleet passed the fort, and a number of other vessels for the ' de fense of New.Orleans. HARRIS FOUND GUILTY. Tho Jry Says Re Mnrdered Relet Potte, tile Olrl Wife. Ntw York, Feb. 1 The most extra ordinary murder trial which has been before the courts in this city for years came to an end last night In Reoorder Bmythe's oourt, when Carlyle W. Har ris, a medical student twenty-three years old, was adjudged guilty of murdering, by morphine poisoning, his young wife, Helen Potts, who died a year ago, under suspicious cir cumstances. The case has occupied the eourt for nearly three weeks, and baa eaused unusual publlo Interest The court room was packed every day, and some days as many as 8,000 people were turned away. ' The testimony was concluded yes terday morning, the rest of the day was oonsumed in summing up and at 0.25 p. m. Recorder Smytho gave the case to the Jury. They returned at 10.50 p. m. with a verdict of guilty ot murder In the first degree. Mrs. Har ris, mother of the prisoner, fainted on hearing the verdict and on recovering denounced the court and Jury. Ex-Assistant District Attorney Jerome, leading counsel for the de fence, says that a new trial will be demanded. ATLANTA'S GREETING TO CLEVELAND. Artillery Salute, Cheering, Hank-Shaking and Speech-Making. Atlahta, Ga., Feb. 3. Ex-President Cleveland passed through Atlanta yesterday on his way home from New Orleans. At Central Station he was given a tremendous ovation. Fully five thousand persons were assembled in and about the station, and from the time the train rolled in till it left there was a continuous roar ot ap plause. Cannon saluted the arrival of the train, and before it had stopped Gov. Northern got aboard and introduced Mr. Cleveland to tho multitude. For twenty minutes he shook hands with the crowd, and In response to calls made a short speech, thanking the people for their cordial reception. CHICAGO TO FOOT THE BILL All She Aske le That tho Nation Shall Pay It Bills. v Chicago. Feb. . 8. The Chicago Di rectors of the World's Fair have con cluded that they will not ask Congress to loan or appropriate a dollar lor the local directory. Congress will, however, be given a bill tor reconsideration whloh will provide for an appropriation of about $4,000,000 to be bandied entirely ty the National Commission In the exe cution of work expressly delegated to the commission by the aot creating the Exposition. . M'lLVAINE ELECTROCUTED. , :. Tho Brooklyn Grocer's Murderer Dtea In the Chair at Sing Sine;. Sisa Siso, N. Y. Feb. 8. Charles Mcllvaine. who murdered grocer the night of August 21, 1890, while burglarizing Luoa's house, was exe cuted In the prison to-day by eleotrlp shook. This was the sixth eleotrooutlon under the new law, and was the first one to which reporters were legally admitted, Gov. Flower having signed the bill last week. A Penr Wldow'e loa Abdaeted. PrrrsUBCr, Pa.; Feb. 8. John Kane, the eight-year-old eon ot a woman living in Wtloi street, was enticed from home Saturday evening by an unknown man and no trace of him has yet been found. The mother la in poor circumstance. Her hueband left her about two vears aso and since then she has not heard from him. The police believe he is the abductor, but Mrs. Kane savs the description ot the man given by a boy who saw him does not correspond to in appearance i air. Kane. Fatal Explosion at Newark, H. J. Newabk, N. J., Feb. 3. An alcohol condenser exploded on the second floor ot the factory of J. Rurnmell & Co.. at the oorner of Dawson and Johnson streets, shortly before o'clock last night Oscar Leurlcn, a nlumber. and his helper. Albert An derson, were killed. It Is thought that a boy, who was working with them, is burled In the ruins. Tho bodies of Leurlch and his helper were found on the ground floor, burned to a crisp. Ho More Star Chamber Elevation. Atkint Feb. 4. The Qovernor has signed the amendment to the Electri cal Execution act allowing the warden nf a. Kt.ata nrlaon to seleot six reputa ble members ot the press to witness executions. Treiaas Sentence Commuted. Albany, Feb. 5. Gov. Flower has commuted the sentence in the case ot Nioola Trews, who is now in Sing ainn nndar aantanM o( death, to lm Srisonment tor tbe term ot his natural fa. ' - ffflWh b " NO MORE DOCTORS FOR MCI They said I was consumptive, sent toe to Florida, told tin to keep quiet, no excite ment, and no tennis. J nut think r( it. One (lay I found a littln hook called 'Guide to Health,' by Mrs. 1'lnklinm, snd in it I found out what ailed me. Bo I wrote to her, Rot a lovely TPily, told inc Jint wliat to do, and I am in splnndid lirnltli now." LMLfflKiUH'S&gM conquers all those wesknewos tnd ailments so prevalent with tlio tax, and rcUoroi por lect health. All Druggists stll It as s stnndnrd arti cle, or ecu l ly mail, in form of Tills or Lozenges, on receipt of 91.00. For tho euro of Kidney Complaints, either sex, tlio Compound has no rival. Mrs. l'lnkliam freely answer letters of Inquiry. Enclose stnnip for reply, Sen 1 lice tnd Iws 2-cent itamni tor Mrs. Pinkh isro's"V titled IE." I iiion. M in. r beiulltul 88-diq Illustrated booh, en ' UUIUfc IU HtALI n NU lllUUtl I contains s volume 01 vaiuanie imormtnon h iart Hi, sne may save yours. Lrtlia. B. Plnkham Mod. Oo., Lynn, Ktnse. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF CARPET, MATTING, or OIL CLOTH, YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT W. H. BlOWEl'S 2nd Door above Court House. A large lot of Window Curtains in stock. Our Spring line of PARLOR & CHAMBER FURNITURE ' 1 t U now in stock. See our values in PARLOR SUITS from $40 to $200. CHAMBER SUITS . ; from $25 to $250. 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MILTON, Pa., DEALERS IX PIANOS, By the following well-known makers i Chlckcring, Knabc, Hnllct & Davis. Can also furnish any of the cheaper makes at manufact urers' prices. Do not buy a piano before getting our prices. .O.V Catalogue and Price Lists On application. THOMAS G0RREY. CCHTRiQTCR ::l MM. Plans and Estimates on all kinds of buildings. Repairing and carpenter work promptlj attended to. Dealer ia Builder's Supplied. Inside Hardwood finishes a specialty. Persons of limited means who desire to build can pay part and secure balance by mortgage PATENTS. Cnwnts snd Trnde Marks obtained, snd nl Pnti'nt buslucss cuuduuU'd for MuUKHATK FKEH. ol'H OFFITK IS OI'POHITK TI1R IT. 8. p i T. KNT OVPK'R. We have no siin-ntron,-ir..' business dlrert, hence enn tmnsact pni,,nt ohm. n' In lets time snd at Less C'ottt tlmn those re mote tniin WiiMhlnirtnn. Hrnd model, ilruwIiiK or photo, with descrlp tlon. We ndvlKO If putrnfiiblo er nut, freo if chnnre. Our fee not due till patent. In secured. 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