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NEWS TOPICS OF LOCAL INTEREST
TO PENNSYLVANIANS,
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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
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i Lhe t
A"
track «
raliroad and
a passing ver it
WAS ©nOU
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existed
srry 6
od bof ore it on
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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
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