FRED.KURTZ, Eprror and Pror's ~TERMS;—One year, $1.50, when paid in ad nee, Those in arrears subject to previous rms. §2 per year. Advertisements 20 cents per line for 8 inser ns.and 5 cents tor each subsequent insertion. Centre Harr, Pa, Tauors, Jax. 30, DITMAN'S The Missing Flesting 30DY FOUND. President's Remains the Schuylkill at Hank Found in Philadeiphin—Evidence of saicide PHitADELPIIA, Jan, 27.—Th ccomposed ody » partly eph (x Intinan, wi itl sig since i itn the vivania rail the river at news spread 3 i Vis Fotitiid Hoaving Penn WHICH Crosses Schuylkill under the road | Filbert street Who over the cit iormous crowd of peo ple i e bank 1 Mn watching the body as it floated the 0 a wharl. Ltiken on the Sir in board a police clothing settled question f identi {he gold Mr thi watch and diamond ring or V Ditman when | found, a 8 paper and i mall rtaken Death from 4 Colleries Resuming. Bg tis be : trying lo moh down stars A Small z+ Void. Norweon, Pa., J A sad acci dent at this pla loprived a w poor family of sources of wort. Howard if OP, while « Philadelphia, Wils railroad, was Ki and had father has been cot tliness for a long kept the family { oriny sup vear-old trac the and Baliimore } YI by a his legs crushed. fined to 3 : ( rOEsly of train His he house by the boy had f assistance, both time and HO need Johuslown. A load of An Expliesion at JouxstTowx, Pa., Jan cinders was thrown into the Conemaugh river at a point where the Cambria [ron company is building a dump and an ex plosion followed that startled the whole town. Hot cinders were Lhirown a great dist and several small fires resulted Buildings windows broken and escapes from death are reporied HO one was killed or injured. ZR ¥ haken, Harrow but were sEeVOerad Prohibition and Weak Koneed Christians. Brapbock, Pa., Jan, Mrs. Ann Smith, wife of “Broadax” Smith, the colored philosopher, addressed a temper- ance meeting in Lytle opera house. She censured the church for not doing its duty in the late prohibition campaign and said that had it not been for the week kneed Christians the temperance people would have been victorious, ag His Wife Gave Him Landanuu, CENTRALIA, Pa., Jan, 28. John Hof- fey, aged 40, residing at this place, died from an overdose of laudanum admin- istered by his wife. He came home in- toxicated and in a quarrelsome mood. His sister advised ire. Hoffey to give him some laudan un to make him sleep, and shortly after he was given the dose was seized with convulsions and died in a few hours, For a | ablic Library. BCRANTON, Pa., Jan. 28. ~The heirs of J. J. Albright presented to the city of Scranton for public library purposes with a lot 110 by 167 fest, upon which o suitable building will be erected by the grantees. he structure will be known as the Albrghs Memorial build. 8 gi ether with the vales of the will be worth §i00,000, ADOUBLE EXPLOSION Deals Out Death and Destruction vith Dual Force. AN APPALLING LIST OF VIOTIMS. A Building Shattered and the Occupants Blewn Across the Street—A Crowd of Spectators Eagnlfed In n Quickly suo Exsplosion=—A Runaway Team Adds the ceeding Dashing Through the Throng Terror to the Seene~—Rescuing Vietims=—Pathetie Scenes List of Those Killed and Wounded, COLUMBUS, , Jan, #5.-~There is a ene of death and destruction in this city, whose horrible features and sick Is are surpassed only by the i Never in the history wiful disaster oc ilis of hor- who wits explosion death with Q, ening deta HMi, h the the fast night cand it deal o'clock an out the ts were rs Homos and frightful southern ading ww i vilel with t scene. Ther pres ii horror 48 moments alter o f fire sound ling entire department i re thron i with the thousands of who were returnin y Lael from Ww alarm « tote swhshops and tories ickly Spr ad the nev had happen city. Th ence there he aped horror Ujx ll be seen later oi A Natural Gas Main Explodes exXpi nit vise referred supplied ing past the and Bowers been Blown Across the Street. ian The Wis by SATY night tators they which arrying them Faplosioa. nt by a thun wie the earth h fying tim- all kinds. ati It was s TORNS wWeriess blown Douried cle lny the t had wen ants Hundreds of gil alk 4 Loy the Cu tar Bec were shock team i the spe been uninjured by eit turn attention the persons buried the hous Cruided Ly moans of gropw i In ead body form the ing places Crroups gathered and nd remen, who 3 the hory 3, ou Of and the mangled ing, men the , puling out a here, a mangled vet living d conveying them to rest. digging ath the ruins the cries and dy ¥ iH darkness re, al of men, women and children around the prostrate forms curdling shrieks made the awful scene more vevolting as friends recognized friends injured or dead, par- enta found their mutilated children and vice versa, It required several hours to remove all the dead and injured from the ruins, and it is not yet known who, or how many the victims. Following is the list of killed and wounded so far as ascertained: Killed. blood are Charlies Becht. Mrs. John Marriott James Seymour, colored boy. Injured. Dr. T. K. Wissinger, badly and probably fatally burned and braised. Herman Baker, badly burned Daniel Cherry, burned painfully, Charles Woodruff, cut and bruised seriously. Mra. Tally, burned and injured internally, probably fatally. Patrick Suiskie, cut on head. Aaron Beens, cut oo face and head. Ben). Morgan, cut in head and internal in juries Charles Lowery, burned and brulsed, Albert Ticklider, bruised and cut. rady, burned and cul Edward Viemer, cut and burned. Wolff, cut and burned. Miss Belle Smith, badly hurt. Mrs. Corn, badly burned. Peter Marriott, terribly burned about shoulders and neck, Thomas Doyle, hands burned partially off, Emma Bowers, probably fatally burned, Marshall Kilbourne, horrible injuries on neck and head. William Brady, probably fatally saffocated. William James, hands and face roasted; will die. Mre, William James, badly cut and bruised. Blankinger, horribly burned and cut. The houses for several blocks around the scene of the explosion have been made into hospitals where many are be- ing cared for. The scenes at the morgue are ghastly, The remains of those killed are cut and burned almost beyond recognition. Resigned and Shot Himself New York, Jan. 25. — Ueor H. Lounsberry, who resigned as cashier of the Now York postotlice, shot himself at Hackensack, N, J., last evening, It ray CONGRESSIONAL, Summary of Proceedings In Sensts nnd House, Wasminaron, Jan, 22. The house got in & ver the rales, Mr. Bland protesting auainst the speaker's right to decide anbwo. brated without rules The debate was longed and the motion to appeal from the de. cision of the chair tabled by a vote of M9 to 136, A number of bills were Introduced and yes ferred, among them one by Mr, Reilly apr propriating $100,000 for a public building at Pottsville, Pa. The senate passed a fow unimportant bills concerning western lands, Mr. Quay duced a bill to Incorporate the Philadelphia and Camden Bridge company. Most of the session devoted sion of Mr. Berry's resolution census commissioner to gather cerning farm The over without action, Wasmixaros, Jan, 3. The the Oklahoma town site bill In committees of the whole sldered the Lill to pur arid wy tangin o pro~ Intro. to discus. requiring the siativtios cons matter went Wins Mortgages house passed thie house con hase three sites { the thirty-pinth de. wn Rocky ns, and to erect thereon buildings for f United States moved that the whole i. hut the ole snd one south o ee of lati wid one west of the Lrinlines house go lnlo the customs ad Democrats by dila reed an adjournment On sutued consideration of } was finally recommitie mittee, portant : sed the sens irther con alien arred 10 Feb, 3, Nevers Mr. Blair as tional were passed fon his » i the measure In soc red moved Berlin June of the Un i the seal of secrecy an (reaty the ple Germany and WHE re. al uipotenlaries Great Sam slgned Britain Wasnisuros 2 in house Mr, submitted the re the Dalzell, port of ths 1 tee O lections on smith ve Jac f West Virg business Clie « from After house ksan, ine wel y of the whole on the cusioms ¥ as ontana were i referred The senators-ele dmitied 10 The were pet Viaeges ihe senat crowded spectators in anticipation of Mr i : Oo exportation BiG I Was war: wer gsiweech «1 0 bours and mn wirtant went custom widerable and responsi. of & ppropriat the wi naider he ereelion and for Lhe af 11 je Alter sows ifs din . reported p for eon paged. }) IN THE WRECK. Killed aster in the Monon Railroad Dis ~The List of Injured. Jan. 98, Neven Additional par nt to the passenger SC i. on the Monon route, wl fear Carmel, Ind., add two th st of killed, while will probably si pode p those those injured be increased. The train was running at a rapid rate and was approaching the long trestle across Wilkerson creek when the tender of the engine jumped the track, The engineer reversed his en before the air brake could check the peed of the train the locomotive and baggage car had cleared the trestle, but the sleeping and smoking coach went over into the creek, both taking fire al most immediately and being consumed in a remarkably short time. Those who escaped uninjured busied themselves in digging out the dead and injured from the wreck, but before this could be accomplished the heat of the burning cars becume so intense that they had to withdraw, Following is a list of the victims; Killed —J. N, Deming, Sheridan, Ind. ; Mrs. Eubanks, Broad Ripple: two chil dren of D. 8. Oldham, Sheridan; one unknown woman. Mrs, Oldham, Miss Mary Hoover. Injured — J. D, Pearson, Sheridan, Ind.; H. C. Miller, New York oity; Louis Newman, George Munser, Charles G. Wirt, Frankford; 3. 8. Whitsett, In- dianapolis: M. B. Ingersoll, of Detroit; J. P. Alwzier, G. W, Stingel, Rossville; Harry Angle Investigation reveals that the accident was due to spreading of radls about (50 feet from the trestle, Death uf Ex-Senator Riddlaberger. WixchesTer, Va, Jan. 25. —Ex-Sena tor Riddleberger, who died yesterday mwetning, had been confined to his room since the holidays. He was uncon scious for three weeks, except at inter vals. The funeral will take place this afternoon at 8 o'clock, The interment will be at Edenbit Harrison H, Riddleberger was born in Edinburg, Va., Oct. 4, 1844. He served three years in the Confederate army as lieutenant of infantry and as captain of cavalry. Ho was a lawyer by profes sion. He was twice elected to the house of delegates, und served a term as state senator, Since 1570 he was editor of three different newspapers. He was a dential elector on the Democratic ticket of 1876, and the same on the Re. adjuster ticket of 1880, In 18%] he was elected to the United States senate, and took hie seat Dec. 8, 1853, His term ex. pired in March of last year. ine, but Mrs. Parnell Agsnin In Need, Bonpextows, N, J., Jan. 27.-~The sum of money recently given to Mrs, Parnell, in r of Charles Stewart Parnell, by her friends in Americe was ingutficient, and she is again less, The relief axpuctél from ar Lgjuat. ters was not ‘ EE THE PLYMOUTH TROUBLES Exaggerated af the Hesurrece tion How WiLkespanne, a, ports in the morning the Polish trouvles al somewhat exaggerated it Nilkes, the leader f the nian faction, who strangely not a Catholic hike the others is the leader of the qusturbing as soon as he was released on to Plymouth swearing that i of the children had been { Polish cemetery, of which he that he would have them d hazards, Upon his arrival there he mob of resurrectionists himself at their hea cemetery, The grave the earth the But the approach of R10 interrupted fai and led Wo the {i the business Fhe bio tilted or On « ompiaint rinis Wil th fender teporia at the Cemviory I'he apove ht of removed fo Wer A Young Man Start of a Phi Pau ander A Nataral Prirsat station, on railroad, a pressure of four drillers four men wer but one Cian Well Ignites reorge Moo Deputy Collectors Appointed L.axcasTER, Pa... Ja Yi Fridy es the aj Charles VW. Myers, ¥ deputy ship of York cout an animmied contest Hart pointed division deputy pointimont rE. Lo Lie is i or this position Aannoun Gilbert, ol Uetivabu Was ap Cold Water Cand dates SCRANTON, Pa. ftionists of this city have nom John R., Fordham for " ww. Lies Crocker for controlidh Hate son for treasurer, Abraham John H. Moore ard H. BRSELEOTS. Jan i ~The Prohib ih Injured in an Eleokriv ¢ SCRANTON, PA, Jan. : ligion of ele {ric street cars on Lhe i avenue hill Conductor William and Mail Carrier Rush jammed through door . cut. * ‘ win Died While Conversing in a Chair. MecnaxicssUnra, Pa., Jan. 2%, Simon K. Oyster, residing at New Cumber- land. died while silting 1 a chair and conversing with relatives. Heart dis ease was the verdict of the family physician. fearlet Fever Follows the Grip. BoyeErtrows, Pa., Jan. 25, -Scarlet fever is following in the wake of the grip in this vicinity. At Huis Church & child of William M. Conrad died of the tever and four other children in the same family are ill Died While Pulling on His Neate Porrsvitue, Pa. Jan, 23. — While William Styers, a well known resident of St. Clair, was pulling on his boots, he suddenly fell over and expired. A Grip Vietim PorrsviLie, Pa, Jum 20 -- John Kohler, one of the moss prominent cit. an of Pottaville, died of the grip, aged \ years, Have Philad. You Read TIME, This Morning The Times Is the most extensively ireulated and read newspaper pu! yedd in ivania LEsion of pt interest of p rrity IOCEN res, hone PON Dest sGnse A IY and gen News of the whole on of & r #43 CWB tEKLY PRESS, Dollar. ’ of The Weekly Press is hacript price ke ne are attracting attention everywhere y 1t i on ANE A Children’s Paper he special department for children is now ad 0 the school children snd school f America. 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