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NEWS TOPICS OF LOCAL INTEREST TO PENNSYLVANIANS, “Pons, Jory 10, 18% Spr 151 Facts and Fancles Gleaned from Many Sources and Boiled Down te Briel Paragraphs for the Benefit of Busy Readers, PuiLaperpma, July 12—<Tho Reading railroad bas introduced a system of economy in the operation of its general traffic on Bouth Fourth street and its local stations which has resulted in the dismissal’ of many employes and a heavy reduction of expenses At the goneral office President Corbin bas introduced a system of bookkeeping which enables a few men to do the work of a large force without the necessity of increasing the salary of a single clerk In pursuance of this policy a number of men have been laid off at the Reading office, and a saving of $50,000 to $75,000 a year effected in the item of salary alone. Changes havo been made in the handling of coal at Third and Berks and Ninth and Green streets stations, which have enabled the company to dispense with the services of pighty to one hundred laborers At Port lchmond the force of laborers bas been re- duced ov?’ three hundred About $2,000,000 a year are saved in the ftem of wages to these laborers. Propor tionate reductions are to be made io other departments of the road, and the managers of the company say that they intend to save every possible dollar in exposes. An Old Colliery Starts Up. Suamoxin, Pa, July 14 — Buck Ridge col- liery, owned by the Reading company, which bas beco idle since the disaster of 1583 at which time soven mes wore smothered by fire damp, has again resumed operations Employment will be given to 400 men Exploding Gas in nu Colliery. Saamoxin, Pa, July 14 — A terrifie explo sion of gas occurred at the Stirling colliery in which miners Anthony Rudoski, Joseph Clamac, Joseph Filer and an uskaown driver boy were terribly burned, the two first named supposed fatally. The gas cam: in contact with a lamp hanging ou the cag of Clamac as the party wafe entering s gang way of the mine. The damage to the fine is very heavy. The Philadelphia and Read: ing Coal and Iron company own the working. A Wonderinl Gas Well. Prrrsecra, July 14 —A party of Pitts burgers, who bave visited the now roaring gas well of tbe Philadelphia company, back of Canonsburg, say that according to the registerad pressure tbe wall is tho largest in the world. The gas looks like a solid piece of blue steel for some distance after it comes out of the pipe Solid masonry, thirteen foet thick, was put in around the top of the well to hold the cap on. The tools and rope thrown oul were perhaps the heaviest of any yet moved in that way. The iron in the tools weighed 3,000 pounds. The wet rope, nearly 2.060 feet long, weighed as much more, but all was thrown ap like a rocket, the rope coiling around the ruins of the derrick like so much yarn. Mother and Daughter Killed by a Train, Lartrosg, Pa. July 14 Mrs James Cru san, aged 40, and ber 15-year-old daogbter were struck and instantly killed by the cast bound mail train, about half a mile west of town. They were gathering codl from the north track, and had just stepped to the south track to escape s west bound freigin train, when the mail train exes sround the curve in the opposite direction, striking and grinding them to pieces. Mrs. Crusan leaves a husband and six children. To Unite the Lutheran Church. Gerrysevnc, Pa, July 14 Committees from three branches of the Lutheran church are in session bere, arranging to publish a revised translation of the “Augsbury Confes sion” and Luther's small catechism. Revs Drs. A. C. Wadekind, of New York; F W Conrad, Philadeipbia; E. J Wolf and U. Valentine, Gettysburg, represent the general synod; Revs Dre. B. M. Schmucker, Polls ville; J. A. Selss and H. E Jacobs, Phila phia, the general council, and Rev Dr Herkio, Nowmarket, Va, , the united synod of the south. Thelr labors are for the pur. pose of bringing together the several branches of the church, More Firma Signing 10 Scale, Prrrseone, July 14 President Keating and Secretary Joseph DD. Wesks, of the Manufacturers Iron and Stesl association, feny all reports that were current fo the effect that a special meeting of manufactur ers had been called to reconsider their action in reference to signing the Amalgamated swale. Both gentlemen assert that no special meeting has been called for that or any other and that no ** break” in their ranks is feared 0 Amalgimated scale has been signed by three mills<Brown & Co. (The Wayne Iron works); the oo erm Rloges will resuine work immetiatel¥s : at Chartiers, Pa., have ad Vie Rl SL yi cking Iron inglon, he XE Semploying LOCO men, sighiod the Arrested for Conapiracy. Cantisng, Pa. July 16. Dr. M. C. Smith, a prominent physician of this city; Abram Marquart, a justice of the peace of Newville, and Androw J. Btone, of the samo place, who are charged with perjury, fraod and conspiracy to defraud the Old People's Mu. tual Benefit society of Elkbart, Ind, have been arrested at their bones, Aslatie Chalers. Pirrsauno, July 14. Dr. eCaridion pro nounces the disease of which Peter died on Thursday Asiatic cholera Mack was taken ill very suddenly on Wednesday and grew worse rapidly, dying in forty eight hours after he was taken down. There was every symptom of cholera. After death spots broke out all over his body, ; A Reduction st the Bethlehem Mills. Puitaperenia, July 164A Gen. Boulanger Wounded in a Duel with Floquet. AW KW ARDN ESS DID IT, HIS OWN He Foll After Thrust, The Result is» Cut fo Jis Neck Which | May Prove Fatal, wis Making & Desperate’ Upon ! Panis, July 14.—As anticipated, the stormy one between Prime Minister Floquet and en. Boulanger in the chamber of deputies Iminated ih a duel yesterday. The en- ter took place on Count Dillon's estate t Nouillysur-SBeine, within an easy drive of the city. M. Clemenceau, who is a cousin and former bosom friend of Boulanger, was the second of M. Floquet, and was associated in the affair with M. Perrin, while MM. Le Bou- langer, displayed great excitement, GEN, BOULANGER forced the fighting from the very first, and made a number of deadly thrusts at his ad- versary. The prime minister, it was easy to soe, was totally unused to handling a sword, and it is n matter of the greatest astonish- ment that so unskilful a fencer should bave been able to parry his adversary’s lunges so successfully It sy to that the general was determined to inflict most 4 ous injury on the premier pele. tha second encounter M. Flog slightly wounded in the hand, and blood began: o flow freely the seconds pro posed to stop the duel. Boulanger had also been slightly wonn in the Neither of the principals, ever, would to stop } which was then renewed with increased in tensity. Gen. Boulanger made a desperate lunge forward, slightly wounding the prime minis ter’s loft breast. Unable to recover from the impetus of his lunge, the general actualy ran his neck onto the sword which M Floquet had kept pointed straight at at him. A terrible gash in the throat was the result, the blood spurted forth in torrents, and Boulanger fell un- eomscions into the arms of hisseconds The surgeons in at- tendance immedi ataly took meas ures to stop the flow of blood, and Inter on conveyed him into C house on the estate, where he now lies in a very precarious condition, M. Floquet’s sword having penetrated six centimetres at a point between the jugular vein and carotid artery. Dr. Monod, who is attending on the gen- oral, issued a bulletin regarding his condition yesterday afternoon. I$ says there is a deep wound in the right side of the general's nock, and that it causes marked difficulty in his respiration, At present the doctor » unable to give an opinion as to what turn the case may take The general's condition is now reported as worse, fever having set in, and his chances of recovery are regarded as very precarious M. Floquet's colleagues in the ministry were waiting at his house for news of the duel, and were overjoyed to see the prime minister return safe. He was given an ove tion by the immense crowd which bas boon surrounding his residence all day long. Mme Floquet knew nothing about the matter until her husband's return, after it was all over, Was ¢ a who was ve 18 the Loner log. consent the fight FLOGUET mint Dillon's HURLED 10 DESTRUCTION. An Express Train Crashes Through a Virginia Trestle, Wasnixoros, July 18. —Egpress train No, 62, on the Virginia Midland railroad, went through the loose trestle two miles from Omnge Court House yesterday, Several persons were killed and twenty-four badly injured, two of whom will probably die, The train pulled out at the Sixth street sta- tion, this city, on time. It consisted of en gine No. 604, manned by John Watkins, en gineer, and John Kelly, fireman; one mail oar, one baggage, two coaches and three Pullman sleepers Conductor Neil Taylor was in charge. The run to “Big Nancy" trestle, about two miles the other side of Orange Court House, wae made in three hours, Fur some time the Midland road has been engeged in repairing its bridges and treaties, and teen had been at work on the “Big Nasoy™ for days. But the weak point in the irestle bad evidently been overlooked, for the engine bad hardly crossed it before there wai a shiver and trembling of the structure and the upper part collapsed. The engine, mail and baggage car and day coaches went over the side, two of the Pullman's alone remain. ing on the track. A terrific crash followed, and it was a wonder any one escaped alive, The scene that followed was of indeserib- able horror. The shrieks and mosns of the injured, the shouts of the wildly excited pas sengers and the hising of the steam were HIRAM _SIBLEY DEAD, oo wR # A Stne Founder of the Western Uni Hole. graph Company Phitanthygiiet. Rocuegren, N.Y. "July Mr. Hira Bihia¥, tho famous philanthropist of Hoohisd tor, died at his home in that city yesterday in the Slst year of his age. He was well known throughont the country through his many deods of charity, and was a generous donor to We Rochester university and to the city of Rochester, He founded the Bibley College of Mechanic Arts of Cornell ui versity, endowing it with $100,000, and built Bitley hall, in Rochester, at an equal cost Mr. Bibloy was born in North Adams, Mass, , and took up his permanent residence in Roc hestor in 1843, at which time he had already made a name and fortune for him- golf, An early associate of Professor Morse in establishing and promoting the electric tele graph business, he, in with Morse and Ezra Cornell, had much to do with obtaining, in 1560, the famous appro. priation from eongress of a subskiy fc years. of £840,000 per year for constr and operating a line to the Pacific, The Overland Telegraph company organized about the same time in Bed Fran gisco, The two comyg %, uniting their in terests, formed the Pa Telegraph com pany. Meanwhile the work of building begun, and on Nov, 15, 1861, § ws nounced that the line was open for busines eleven days from the time eonstructio first bop a profitable one from th 17, 1864, it became the pr ern Union company Myr, Sibley had 1 in organizing the New Valley Printing ¢ leased the Of ng nny co-operation iw ten ting was wie an oan Yo Oooan Nn Was possession of valu patent and had cor igan Telegraph o tiation the two «¢ and Mp montis Union Telegr aph Aft inter, un rnd wiih river the Atlantic and it wa HBibley cable put pris, Mr nion cempany {LOOKS BAD FOR THE STRIKERSS Damagiog Testimony Against the Conspirmionrs” Alleged Dynamite { the ron y agai was a most extras When Mr Rus i eR ua, four or art Fu dyoamite Wf the Chi iTOTH, & i Lhe t A" track « raliroad and a passing ver it WAS ©nOU incy existed srry 6 od bof ore it on 0 more engis pew mud fe Pp it wintrust rats The man pilot and in « was the defer who was the chal fu ng want, J. OO, Bow before the Foon the two ex jog 1 days at Eola Garman ing nm eR Peosion E Hoge, « of the Ba thn © the cused the but way of to jure the © using the Hnpany's i roperts days after this conversation Bowie lefendant Smith at Atrora, and tal him also about using dynamite to blow up the company's property could be used, how much damage it co and Invited hia to go out into and see it tested “At § o'clock the night Bowies got a buggy at Aurora Smith with kim to Eola. i the ¥ exh dynamite oa those that were found 4 when they arrested on tiroad train. He opened the end of the cartridge, inserted a fumigating cap, such as is ved for oxy artridges, and attached to a piece of fuse and explained the ter. They drove down to this arcssed the track, and came the track ; drove fifty or sixty yards from the track. Bowles got out of the buggy, and put the cartridge on the rallway, and reported that be had done so when he came back They drove back to Aurora, and just ag they wore entering the town the éxplosion took place, and part of that engine was wrecked, “As they were guing bome Bowles told Smith that he wan going over into Indiana to get some more dynamite. He would send him some, and be mast pat 8 on the Burling. ton track. Bowles sent the dynamite through the defendant Bauereisen. June 14 Smith took the dynamite and, by Bauereisen's ad: vice, put it on the track at South Auroraand caused the second explosion. Between June 14 and July 1 Bowles was in Indiana, and much correspondence passad between him Baners sen Part of that correspondence will be exhibited It iv in the handwriting of Baaereison, and shows that Bowles was doing some busines: of a very seoret nature and ro quired great care. One letter says that if he thought ‘the man was following him to shoot the «and then told him 10 "not buy any soeore stall at present, for obvious reasons,’ “Wilson, Broderick and Gooding, who were Brotherhood men in Aurora, come into the story now. July 5 Smith met these men in Aurora and talked with them about using dynamite against the Burlington. It came out that Gooding had been storing the dyna mite in bis house Some use of the stuff was to be made in Chieago, Gooding took Bmith to his house, and from a closet brought out four cartridges, such as wore captured with the prisoners on the train. Bmith took the cartridges to the hall of the Brotherhood, and in the antercom delivered them to Bowles, Wilson, Broderick and Banereison. ha ali wont down to the train together, Smith oar. rying the dynamite under his arm. At the train he gave it to Bowles Broderick, Wil. son and Bowles took the train to Chicago and | wero arrested upon it with this very dyna § nite in their possession, : itardny une ot thus ouriridgen was sis ploded to test it. It blew A Juarisvineh INL dep In in the bande d by toki him bow sid do the country on ited ides « wore moxding « the cap whale mat little town, back again over (Gs L OPR New Goods New Summer Wear Our Stock is contains many new = New Styles! and yi being unpacked and 1 : $ ’ acsigns, patierns and RRREAMEIS, Centre Fiall. BHO: ct ORMICK M DEALERS IN M- DUMIOK BRO? wll Px ALL KINDS Bed Room Suits, Side Boards, Be dst ads, y— p— pm de aS pn — i ar od WGA he wh he lg Ta ble 3, i positive cure 1o 5, Influenza v { O8 for i Henry, Johns vi 1% he iy ses of Ams of Appetite, it Qeaiers in moa esprit ’ Burlin Fon, be 8% exter m jualin + 1b is a safe, , on He instantaneons, ITROE will Every bottle war: ttle. 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