THE NEWS. in San five The custom offi vials seizad a trank Francisco containing six hundred tael boxes of opium, valu d at six thousan} dollars. The opium came originally from Victoria, B. C., but was shipjed to Eastern points Lefore being returned.--Henry H. Busher, who resigaed the offi 8 of cashier of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton tail way, at Indianapolis, was arrested on the charge of embezzlement and grand larceny. Busher i: charged with having been imp.i. cated with the absc wading bonkke sper, ~N 1 der, in the emberz'emont of funds to the amount of s:venty-five hundred doliars. The Fish Frass Brick Company's Uolumbia, wers dastroyol by fire, with a loss of thirty-five thousand dollars. An in- surance of ten thousand dol ars is carriel 0 the property.—A slight shock was felt in Cuattan oga works in ear tngquake T nn, Buck Olsen, convicted of the murler of Policeman Steadman, in Dorchester, N. B,, was executed. —Joseph Ross and Joseph Craft were arrested in Vandalia, Ill, 01 the charge of trying to obtain money on bogus checks, —Tom and Walter Tolbert, the noted Mississippi outlaws, were captured and jailed. ——The Philadelphia and Wil stowa Railroad Company has been granted a char- ter at the Pennsylvania State Department, The capital is $10,000, and the line will be four miles long, from a point in Pailadel- phia to a point in Delaware county, nar the Spread Eag'e Hote', in Haverford Township. Big paciages of money, sh'p;el by the Wells, Fargo & Co, Expre s, from New York banks to Galveston, were myteriously stolen, wee Chrisman Hall, a new building of Clark University, in Atlants, was dedicated. — William Tucker died in Sussex county, Va, from overeating.—— Ex-Governor Henry Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, died in Wilkesbarre. wwThe sensational trial of William Rhode- beck for the murder o! David and Christine Sellers, near Mt, Gilead, Ohio, soms three years ago, was concludel in Clevelund with a verdict of acquittal. William Bened.c:, a detactive, who was intereste l in the pro ecu tion, was arrested at the close of the trial, end is held oa charge of perjury.—J. HK. ‘lark, for the past ten years editor of the Sussex Journal the leading Democratic illness. — Goshen, Va, pneumonia, after two weeks’ Weldon B. Harkirs died from the effects of an overdo.e of mor; hine. He was formerly in the book pub ishing business, and was kucwn throughout Virginia. in well I'he large furnacy at Emaus, Pa., afiera long idleness, is benz put in readiness for resumption, ard No. 2 furoace, of the Brooke Jron Company, at Birdsboro, after an idle ness of sone time wili resume by January 1st. Wanoer's forge neir St. Peters, Fa, which bas been idle months, operations with large orders on hand The Huntsville, Alabama, O.1 Mills, employ- Ing over thirty hands, work, owing to ths high price of colton ed aad the low price of oil. The bave bern running for over tan years. ——An east bound freight train on the Pennsy vania Railroad, ran into the rear of another freight at Glen Loch, Pa. The re.r «nd and several pars were wrecsed. A we.t-bound train erashed iuto the wieck, and the engine was thrown over an embackment and additional cars wreck: d. Frederick Millar was s:verely injured at out the log. The tracks were blocked for five bours.—— A posse of deputy sheriffs ra‘ded + an filicit still in Union county, Tenn. and destroyed 200 gallons of mash. —— Daniel Reardon, a workman, who had jus arrivel in New Castle, Del. and was loosing for his bosrding-house, got into the wrong Lous srd being mistakm fo’ a burgla-, was nearly killed by Pe er Moran. —— Ths Stone City Bank, of Joflet, Iii, suspended pay- ment, the trouble being caused by the sha - ting down of the En‘erprise Wire Fence Manufacturing Company. —— Harvey Myers, ex-speaker of the Kentucky legislature, was fndicted by the Cov.ngton grand jury for offering a bribe-——Bohemians in Cleve'an| game near mobbing an agent of the Frater pal Guaardiacs who first promised and then refused to purchase their certificates, James E_CGstrander, late treasurer of Ul ster County, New York, Saving Institution, was found guil:y of perjury, and seutenced to seven year's imprisonment : $x resume | has stopped mids sev. ral were Eagineer Angelo and Josephs Zapze, Italians, rer. fenced in Pitt burg to bang for the murler of Frank H lnst-tter, attempted to dash thir brains out aga ns! the prison wall, aftr being taken back to their cells in the county Sail. Both men were s riously injure], but were detected before sccomplishing their gurpoe. ——JIa Reme, Ga, a whie man namel Wooten, during sn altercati.n with & colored oan struck him over the head wiih the butt end of bis double-barreled shot gun. The gun was discharge! and Woolen was shot in the stomach and instantly killed. The negro will a'sy die.——Jesss Ayer, a prominent wealthy farmer who resiles near Laveoder Mountain, a few miles north of Bowe, Ga. was found murdered in the big road near his home. Col. Ayer took his axe and started to the woods to cut some wool, and being gone longer thaa usual, some of bis family were sent to look for him. When found be was lying in the midd’'e of the road dead, wit: his axe lyiag by bis side, covered with blood. «(3.01 ge Wieshington Dust, the ce ebrated bunco man, and a colleague of Tom O'Brien. Kod Austin and others dis tin (ub hed ia their lin, was sentenced to ten years in Clicton Pr.eon, having been con: vieted of robbery iu the first degree in bun coing the venerat le Johan M. P.ek, of A bany, N. Y, out of $10,00 two years ago. 5 THE WORLD'S NAVIES. Acceptances to the Review Coming in Slow'y from Abroad. Acceptances to ths inviwtion s sent out by the State Department to foreign counts jes to take part in the naval review are comiog in Only two of the first-class paval powers, Great Britian aod France, and of the smaller oases, Portugsl, the h riands and Hayti, bave sign their ention of send ng vessels, nd some of the South shined on round that t ey cou d not make a good th the a whips and obsolets WHITE HOUSE IN LOOK. Death Again Invades Frasident Harrison's Home, Rev. Dr. Scott Follows His Well-loved Daughter to the Tomb. The sha low of death cast a sombra cloud over the Executive M insion again, and the President and his family spat nearly the entire dav nt the bedside of Dr, Scott, the | President's venerable father-in-law, | ing the inevitable, which, owing to ths un- | expected vitality displayed by the invalid, HWail- | did not happ n as soon as was anticipated. Dr. G irdner visited thy sick-room at 7 o'clock and found that the case was beyond the j ower of medi al skill. He did what he delicately notified the family that the end was near at hand, In his opinion the inva il might pess away ina few n inutes. He added soriow. ully, that he would not call again, as nothing short of a miracles that could prolong li.e much lon- absolutely Dr. feott has provel a most remariable patient, and bad alr ady lived much looger toan hos fami y even hope i for. No.with- 10 8 1Y R00 1 health up t: the tims of hw have x: pt iu | pice with h s ph. sical souud- ness, Ou the 19th insta «t be was striciea with a cold, accompasied Ly a low, Cconsum- ing fever, and coutinued getting weak rand weaker unt Ssturday last, whn he ra. lied Lo suca ar extent that the fumily wer: en- coura ei to be.deve h- might recover, improvement in his condition was, bowever, of short duration, and tue follow ng e. ing he h d a reap e, s.uce which tune steadily lo t ground until the spark of wus exting ished. The Rev, John Witherspoon Bestt D was bora nu B aver county, Pa, June 18.0. nud was, therelors, in the KI] year of his a. e. He was a sop of George McEiroy Beott, a native of Bucas county, wiLo aster. ward we .t to Beav r county to take charge of a Presbyterian church. Dr. Seoit gra uted irom a Wash n. ton, Pa, and subsequently wok a ou. ~gradua ed course at Yas. Afterward be a. cepted a professotsoip in lhe lege trom wuich hh, gradua ed, which position .e bod for two years, Atout this time he married Mary Neal, and, golug West, be ac ceptad a protesorship in Mami Ualversuty at Miami, UO, iu Nn, WW uile theie three children were bora to him. klizabeth, after- ward Mrs. Lord; Caro ine, aft reaard Mis Hirrison, and Joun Neal Scott, A vumber of years later Dr. Beo't found ei the Oxford, Ouio, Female College and iu 185) bacame its pres dent. As he advasogd in years Dr. Scott gave up college work, and coming to Washington he was sppoint. ed to a clerkship in the laterior Dep rt ment which position he held up to the time of the advent in Washin ton of President Harrison, when he resigacd at the jnetance of the President aud took up his abode at the White House, Here the venerable man le 1 the happy, contented and tranquil exist. enco that a man of his age so thoroughly ap- precin es after a .ife of activity. Every care was taken that he should be not ony poysicilly comfortabe, but should have every want common to ous of his n oatal calibre supplied. The room be cocupied was one of the best in the house, the windows overlooking tae main entrance, ths froot lawn rnd Penosylvania avenue. It was a pleasant room, and showed, in its contenis the care felt for bis every need, as well as the tastes « nn | inclination: of the occupant. It was supplied with the favorite Looks from which tr+ members of the hous hold would read to him, and bai in it also a large wr. ting desk, where the dcctor attendet tH a lsrge correspon lence, much of his mail being from hi« old college frisads. Dr. Scott was always the first riser of the Pr.osileat's housebol I, and was usua ly about long be. fore the family wera stirmng. Although he always had a carriage at his disposal he scarce. y eser ussl ao, preferring to walk when possible, He was engaged for month. prior to bis death on a vo uminous genealogy of the Scott fami ¥ but was unable 10 fio.sh is 1 he D. (S PORTER'S REPORT. fle Wants the Census Bureau Made Permanent, Saperinten lent Porter, of the Cosas, in his annual report to tha Secratary of the [nterior, strongly urges that the Caasus O- fice ba made a permansnt burean of the In- terior Department. Ho says he has con suited statisticians, experts and. others interested in the improvemmnt of omen: statistics, who favor the proposition, Mr Porter refers to the complaints that have lvwen made against ths accuracy of tie Eleventh Consus by ths authorities of cer tain cities, and says that the work of the enum rators has baen vindicate] by tims, Tae total disburssments up to June 3) amounte! to 8820168. OO this amount 2,435,458 was paid to enu nerators The population and social statistics em: $1,967 - sid: the statistic: of farms houws and mortgages, $1,005,771; Jrimting and stationery, £001,086. t is fur ther stated that in July, 191, there wera 23530 clerks on ths payrolls. and in Jane, 1822, the number had besa reduced to i2.4. The Superintendent is of the opinion that alter making due aliowanes for the io- crease of population, manufactures, agricul ture, mining and the extension of railroads, and after omitting from the calculation the cost of the investigation of individual in- debtodness, the per capita cost of the E eventh Censue, when finished, will not greatly excee l tons per capita cost of ths Tenth Census, There is money available to defray the necessary exoonses of the office up to March 1, 1805. From that time until the close of the fiscal year, Mr, Porter esti. mates that the sum of £40.00 will be re quired to continue the office. Of the thirteen volumes in which the results of the Eleventh Census will be embodied, there are now in the hands of the printer: eight quarto volumes, It is impossible to say when the work witl ba finished. A——— i ———————— WORK OF THE LIFE SAVERS, Oat of Nearly 3,000 Persons Imperiled ! Oaly Twenty-Beven Were Lost. | The annual report of General Buperin. ; ‘endent Kimbell, of the Lile Saving Service, | hows that thy establishment embraced at die © ome of the last flscal year M2 stations, mn the Pacific, and 1 at the Fal s of the Ohio, suisville. The number of disasters to locumented vaisels within the fleld of the sperations of the service durinz the year sas 57. There were on board 2,570 persons, of whom 2.530 were saved and 20 lost. The estimated value of the vessels in. cetihun ri e hat their cargoes h " wtal value of property | Hod #8 284 $25. Of thic amount $7,111,005 was saved, and #1,178.5600 lost. The number of vessols totally Jost was sigty, There were du the year 170 casualties to small craft, on which there were 358 por. | tons, B46 or whom were saved and seven he property mvolved in these i 1 is estima at 16.810, of whi 8 10 lost, The cost ¥ | | the yeur was $1,000,295, | WORK AND WORKERS, Three thousand orerators in the mills in Guadalajara, Mexico, are idl, The trainmen of the Lilaviz Central dsysand for pay alls Tue miners of Boringfield, resumed work, an sub “il It'i ois amicab o teronts from Homestead are that places by January, The Beaver Falls were all restated except about six. Tug Rev. Mather Cuddibhy, a Roman Cath. olic clergyman, of Millord, Massachusetis, hes undertaken to bring about a settiemont He sad the eff ccted the men recent strikes have seriously business prosperity of the town. Mixers and laborers employed Lehigh and Wilkesbarree by Company, near workiog but little over quarter time, and in debt, upon A griev- ance commitltes waited Superinten- dent Lauall 10 learn He promised tw Tre miners of the Pine Brook and Ca- of tie Lackawanna Iron and Bteel Company at SBeranton, Peona., num. Lerivg six hundred were given sn increase of 10 per cont, {a wag s for mining coal, and for cutting cro s headings they were in- creased from H0 cents per yard to §1 41. Ia borers and all other employes about the mines and breaker of the company were also given increases of from ten to thirty cents per day. During the Knights of Labor Asse nbly inSt Louis, a resolution advocating the abolition of the militia was voted dwn and one adopted indorsing the popular system in vogue in SBwitvrerland. The asrembly de. World's Fair on Sunday and refused to in- terfere with the matter of selling liquor on the grounds. A resolution was passed in favor of restricting immigration to such persons as have money enough to supporl themselves one year. The Executive Board was instructed to estabuish a building and loan essociation and an insurance associa tion. CABLE SPARKS. Quzrex Vicronia bas conferred on Lord Roseberry the rans of Kni nt of the Gar ter Tug 8 cirlist Federation of London, bas hogun a campaign in that city agaiost pay- ing rent wh le the families of ils members bave tot suflicient food. Tag commission of the Chamber of Dopey ties of France to investigate charges © fraud asd bribery preferred against officials of the Panama Canal Compasy bas been complete i, I7 is believed in London that the British cabinet will surrender to radical and will introett ¢ in Parl sament a reicim the franchise before the Irish role bill is submitted, Tue sembofficial Journal de St. Peters. bourg d nics the report that the Hussian government is cont mpiating the restriction of the exporiation of gram or the imposit.on if export duties on coreals, Advice: revived in show that the house bill ¢» biomes Paris from Dogola Representatives are « ns dering the request to molong the Pan. sma caval concession. A favorable decision # expected in a forinight, of T is reported that n great deal of lobby. ing i= being done amon 2 the delegates to the [uternational Monetary Conferer ee in Brus s=le, those of one view on the subject of bie metaillsm trying to win over the others, It i» anvounced sem officially that the British government bas resolved to retain Ugands. Io this event a spacial commis sioner will be sent out to sup-ree le the of. icials of the British Est Afr.ca Company. Tue new Hungarian cat inet has promised bills for s'ate recognition of the Hebrew re. ligion and establishing the rights of civil registration, Specisi regulations to enforoe the registration of children of mized war risges will be made AT San Pancrozio, a suburb™sf Rome, a pri-st named Blondel aud his sist r, who was of their house, A léborer employed by the priest to do some work around the house was mortally wounded. He said the priest became insane, killed his sister, alt reards attacked him and then commitied suicide, Another teliof 8 that the Jat orer killed the priest and bis sf ster for the money they kept tn the bouse AN ENGINE'S HOT CHASE. away Car. Asa freight train was pulling out pes Bher dan Station, seves miles from Pitts bury, on the Pav-Hand e Rai road, a heavily joaded ca~, the la t of the train, brode | ose, Pittsburg. The operator at Sheridan telegra shed back over the line ali the wiy to Ptisburg t At Iagran cu’, When the op rator thers got word that loose ca was flyiog back over the track, he notifis i the eag ner and fireman of the engine, anil they preparsd 10 pursue the car. Within a few mon ents the runaway came thunder.ng aloug at the rate of thirty miles au hour, Then ensued a wild and ex- The car flew along end the engiae after it. Over the loag W-foot high trestie at Temperanev | » the two thun- dere, und the engine caught up to ihe Tre engioeer ran back over the tender, and then began to There a sna cs sc mis SNS THOSE SOUVENIR COINS. With Secretary Foster. Vice-President Gage, of the Worll's Columbian Fa'r Commission, bad a satisfac. the Treasury ia regard ©) the dslvery of the five millions of souvenir coin, now being coive] at the Phila telph'a Mint. The Seo. retary informed him that they would be position as fast at complets] so goon as the Exposition shall bave filed with him the vouches and bond required the provis jon of the gov providieg for the coinage. Mr. Gage said there would be ho difficulty whatever in meoting each and every quirement of the that je would at once for the Tt $ vi ; in | abuut two weeks, ports to contrary notw thstanding, Fg mel th. Savant to n / auty), a will buried un ’ have been fully - BLEW OPEN THE SAFE: Make a Big Haul at Liberty, Mo. Burglars to $15,000, Four expert crack-men, with and the latest approved tools, in ereckirg the safe of the First National Bank of Lil rly, M You of money which, dyunmite suc re de and securing a rum though it cannot le definitely owing to the reticence of the offic ers of the bank, Is estimated at from know, The burglars were scared away get into the reserve vault of the :afe in which was $10,000 more, principally in gold, They had dynamite and a fuse attached to off. The first intimation of the at 10.3) o'clock, when County Riley, who has an office in the building ad- joining the bank, went to his office, When he entered the recom he saw that toe wall of tne building was caving io, and, on investi gating, soon found that there had tees a terrific explosion in the bank, which bad al- most wrecked Lo. h buildings, He at once gave the slarm, and, upon search being at work in the bank. They had eotersd thy lank by means skeleton keys, wh ch had «pened the door and apother leading toa room in which was the vault They then dril'ed holes through the « uter door of the vault, snd with a charge of powder blew out the time lock, which had b en set to open on Monday morning. In-ide this was a stel door to the burglar-proof compartment. The only money known to be cuiside this door was §3 0, They used dynamite to effect an cutrance through this secon! door. They must have used a terrific charge, for the henvy sieel « OOF Was Comp viely Doan to pieces. This gave the robbe: s » coess the money whice bad been in circulation on Haturday, ani, the deposits of merchants on ttat day beiug unu uslly beavy, $12,000 is considered a sow «stimale of what they got. Un the fi or of the bank were several sticks of dysawite and a number of toils, showing that the men left in a hurry 1t was learned that four suspicions look- ing men had been seen in town, They wer total sirangers. Two were old wen and Lwe were appareat'y about 20, One of them bought a large quantity of putty just belore dark, and this was used with the dynamite to geaden the sound, Leaving the bank the burglars went to the bouse of Mr. J. 8 Bteele sod stole a carriage and a team of horses, with which they made their escape. The sheriff and a pose traced them as far as the Milwaukee Hallrosad bridge over the Missouri River in Kansas City, where the horses were found in an al- most dying condition, baving been driven furiously. Here all tracy of them were lost, police of Kspsas City are working esse and think they have learpel who the wen ae, but refuse to give names it b» stated tht they got escrow: the river by weans of a boat which confederates bad in waitiug of oan but ti! ao on be DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES Wun Arthur Grom, son of a brewer, of Port €) tario, fel into a vat of Lot beer was fatal'y burned Tyrooip fever is sald t5 be epidem cat Bt, Louw. Botweon 90) aud 1000 cases have been rej orted within the lat two months, A nirrLe son of! J. A. Lee, who was bitten by a dog at Mo th Danville, Va., is pow suf- fe ing {rom bydrophobia and is not expected to iY Tux thres-masted schooner Flla T. Little, from Walkerton, Va , for Philadelphia, went ashore on Carter s Bar, oa the eastern shore of Virginia, snd will be a total joss. A corLrisiox between two elictric cars caused by une of them gotting off the track, oceuri ed in C eve nnd, Odo, Ove man was fatally irjuied, and reveal jerrotms badly burt Mus Caantes F. Pavinas, of Richmond Va., was Iatally injure: by the explosion of chemicals which she wa. assisting her hus band to prepare for we in a to: pedo, Paul bas was seve ev barped. Whine driving across the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad track, near Belvidere, New Jerusy. the eam of Wi liam Devoe, of Fiat Brookvilie, was siruck b/ a train. De. voe was k lied and his wife and one child were badly injure Wiite Bobert Welder was walching » game of bass ball at the Stony Poiat School Howe near Drysville, Boris county, Pa, a bat flew out of anvtber player's bands, hit. tin: Welder on the heal with terrific force, crushing bissasul., Hs injuries ate probe ally fain! Hix lumbe-men who arrived at Ottawa from the .umi ering shacties 1eport that diphtheria is ma ing ser.ous bavoc among the men emp oyed un cutting timber ia the M dawaska camps, myny d athe having al. ready re ted, The jeople are panic. siriceen and are with wut medicsl ail, The six men escaped from the camp and tramped their way to Ottawa s:veral bund od miles The Ontario Gove mment has sent up 4 nom. ber of doctors wich wedi ine in the hope of checking toe diseae, which is of the most virul-nt type. A Jax of 3,000,000 feet of logs and debris in the >hohomish river, in Washington, threatens the Great Northera Raifroad bridge. A Satie dispatch savs: “The raliroad co npany bas a arge force of men at work trying 1o treak the jam. If tse Gr. at Northera bre dgs gos, it will tase the lake Shor. and Eastern i ride, and the city wagon bridge, located below, with it. The steamers Mamie and Isabwila were forced to drift trom their moorings, ani are now in the coutre of the jam, and probably totally wrecked Tho first fatali ¥ reported is the destuof J. A. Medora, a laborer, who was drowned wilde Lyng 10 save stock near Bhobomish.” Sn —. TRADED WIVES. ——— A Remarkable Case of Martial Ex- changes in North Carolina. A remarkable cave of wifeswapping took pace near the post flice in Blue Ridge, N. C., a few days ago, Tbe husband: are Ham Waters and Harrison Bianken hip, They were neightors and lived near cach othery sud vidted every day. wives. The quart«tte soon understood the havoe cupid Lad {layed in ths two families, and very soon Blankenship avd Mrs. Waters eloped, i returned, however, and the Tan Wate . ae she ing the ne. Waters, thio wos b st of the bargain, king! Mrs Pag Mr. Waters and three calico dresses to boot. bi wd the ot a 0 Marry, an e 3 nke ip furnished the case demanded by the Nerth Carolioa law ior divorce from the . Mo suits were brou nt and wife and the PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, Epitome of News Gleaned from Various Parts of the Btate, A Lemon Valley Jocomot.ve blew Bhenandosh, killing William up al lurry, the en. gineer, and slightly injuring the fireman and conductor, Tue auditors of defunct Life Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, will begin a distribution of funds on Decem- ber Oth, Tre Governor has reappointed Maldon H, Dickinson to the State Board of Charities MEDIA'S free delivery petal been put into force, the American SOTVICE has the soy Contral Rallroad acress the Delaware at Tue new double track bridge of Jer Easton has been completed A sUB-COMMITTEE of the Delaware County Republican Executive Committee has for mulated plans for the use of the Baker ballot at the next primaries, Tue Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad has reduced of tands, owing to a falling away in the coal movement, its forces train end Jacob nesy 1 nicotown of Frank Cooley have been arrested ‘harged w.th stolen goo is Tig aged parents receiving and concealing AT Pittsburg Joseph and Angelo Zappa, who killed Frank Helmstetter, and who killed Joseph sentenced to be hanged, and Frank Garvin, reorge Strasser, jandl, were who slew his bride, was sentenced to eight years and eleven months in the peniten tiary. Hrvon Boss Luckie, the have been missing since the charges of mas der and John Mo leaders who end ex Burgess Homestead strike ireason were to preferred against them, returned Pittsburg and surren dered, Oxg hundred non-union workmen left the It The mill officials refused to make any statement Carnegie mills at Homestead in a body. is presumed that they wers discharged concerning them Cuanres Scanegcpguxost, at Harrisburg, found Richard P. Cadow in a bedroom of his house, fired six shots at him and subse quently settled a criminal prosecution be had entered, each man paving hall she costs, AT West Chester Benjamin Wagoner was acquitted of the murder of John Ehoffver, Judge Hemphill holding that the statements of SBhoffner before his not received as dying declarations AT CALAMEL, road, a Hungarian social § death coud be on the Sewickly branch arty ended in the i eating of the host, whose son-in-law, named Kovoe, then shot Audrew the bead Girman through Tue Kuights of Labor are to bold a legis- Intive convention at Harrisburg in Decem- ber to draft legis'ation desired, particularly an anti- Pinkerton bill Tern was no break smong the striking river miners below Pittsburg, and both sides rewain firm AT Avoca the workings of Langcliffe Colliery collapsed, causing several acres of surface to sink from two to six feet Norn posted Pottstown Iron Works of a reduction to $1.75 per ton for puddiers on December 12. £% were at the APBOTT ARNGLD. 8 hotel bagesge man, was burned to dea'h at Bradford while trying to rescues horses from a burning stable, CoUNseL for Frank T. of in the 8S vond Lerbsiative District, Scranton, where. by Jehan T. Quinan elected, Opel, Rep, will soak 10 bave a recount ihe vole Dem, was declared Tux one hundred and fiftieth an-iverary f the landing i1 this country of Heinrich We chior Mublenberg was ocslebrated Pethlsbem's Lutheran churches Jos Fisuxn bas been acquitted at Wilkes-Barre of the murder of John Wash ngton. Mus Axx Davis is dead at the age of 101 years in the Schuylkil! County Alm<house, A YRYIGHT car on the Fan-Hand ee Road near Pittsburg broke loose from its train ard was rushing fast towar | the city when a locomotive that had gome in chase caught the fu itive aul, coupl ng fast, ts flight. Tuieves entere! the residence of George Bechtel at Pot'stown, snd after looting it, sither malic ously or accidentally st it afire iranixe Railroad enginecis are survey. ing a road between the Clark's Valley Ex- temsion and the Williams Valley Railroal, in staved Fx-Bunorss McLuckie bas: been released at Pittsburg under $10,000 ba 1 in the treason cha’ ge against him, The Curt will be asked in the murder cases against thm to be r ch in anthracite, has been purchased by Seranton eapi atists for $105,000, severely shocked at Putt vilie by co ving in fallen across a tio ley wire. Trnomas Mosun entered a siore in Mount Carmel and, spooting into the crowd, struck Miss Mary Wytciie, inflicting a posib y {atal wound. IxTenest in the abandoned Reading, Lan raster & Baltimore Railroad is revived by a rejort that English capital sts have prom ived to furnish the rema nder of the required money, provided one-third is raised in the United States A rrr child of Amos Comp, a rail romder, residing in Harrisburg, was burned to death by the col oil lamp exploding. Heaters employe | by the Potistewn iron Co ngany are oa a strise beaue of an ob noxious order, Ir is denied that ex-Presideat Weibe will be a candidate agsinet Sa nuel Gompers for the presidency of the American Federation of Labor, sor ved its dec sion, Firry men employed in emn ction with Hellertown, have been thrown out of em ment by the stoppage of work, Tue o srner stone of the new institution for the chronic invane at Wernei svilie war laid with interesting ogremonics, 0000 the Irish JAY GOULD 8 DEAD | Consumption Ended the Great Financiers Life. Estimated at $75.000,000 to $100,000,000, A despatch from New York, says Jay M, The direct auss of Mr, Jay Gould's de ith, as stated at +h wid His Weal 1 wuld diel at 9:15 o'clock A the house, was pulmonary consumplion Jay Gouvrp atl The scene at th house raiduight was n textraordinary, it wes stated that at that time te strong master mind bad csased 10 battle for life. His side, and they rec at his bed. of hildren were guized that tie hopes the past few days were vanish ng, and that che end was not jar off They tearlu iy ad. mitted this to a few closs persosal friends, and then begai the vigil which ouly ea «4 » ® ’ when the last breath 1aoft Lie bo ly Early in the evening it became knowa that ] v s only a matter of a few hours, bal bis death w He ha {| never rallied, after be orrhege of a bem- the lungs, on welore day Thasksgiving. He had a~0 her ho two norrasge days later, and still anothe- oa Wednes. day. Thisappourcoment was a great sur- pris» to ali but the most intimate srquaint Gould had a'l alovg been iTOm Nervous apoces of Mr supposed that be was sul dyspepsia His isst illness dates | took a drive at that ft ms Park with his physician csught cold. He was» from nervous dyspops take much nourishment feeb od cundit slight aliment shown for years a weakness, vecame «f fast week, when he failed t office, it was raid at his ouly slightly indispose i, Le n so, but his conditic critical. Dr. Muun, bis physiciar Janeway ig consulialion pothiag could be done but bours as comforiaiie as possi Every device known to medical experts had been used to pro ong iyouild but all proved fruit ess patient - fered but little pain, owis y the efforts of the physician. What pai iid suller was caused mostly by the hit ughing, wh shook his entire frames made him pet ceptibly weaker. He bore up travely uotil the end, and utered no complaint He was grateful for a | that had teen done for him, sod especially for the untiring efforts of Dr, Muon, who did everytl his power to alleviate his sufferings, His isst three hays wers entirely free from suffering. and hs coaverssiton with bis family, io the conscious perio l before his death, was most touching acd beautiful The end came while be slept The Gould family are prostrate with grief, Miss Helen Gould was ili when ber father was taken sick, and the blow has come upon her with terrible force ‘he moemuers of the fami y are very much devoted to each of her, Mr. Gould bad a domestic man, mous weight of « nancial operat ons, and father s5 shorily after the demiss of 1 mo ber Liss come w.th an added foros of fl ction tue arrival of the with the coffin, at abou! mrevel to many teed M1 s death I ccm ato DIRE WANT AT HOMESTEAD, Strikers snd Their Families Ars in Sad Need of Aid. Peports irom Homestead are that a ma jor.ty of the families of the defeated strikers are suffering serious ¥ for the want of the n. cessitios of life. (Ald must Le forthooming immediately as the disiressad condition is rapidiy Leo ning more prevalent. Home stead cit zens sre renderang every possible sssiste nce, Lut they are entirely unable to meet the fast iocreasing demands, A cities pens’ meeting was held in sho McKaesport Opera Hou eo, and a relief organiza fon ef. fectel, James Power, of Chicago, one «f a cpmmitiee sent Ly Cheigo labor organiza. tions 10 investigate the condition of the Homestead sti fkers addressed the meeting. He has conducted a he to-house canvass and reports the coudition of wany of the once pros; e.ous family as pit able in the extreme, tie says toat nut oVer J per cent. of the total pumber of strikers have secured work, and that there is much distress, A commities to solizit aid for the needy Homesteadors was organ zed in Pitsburg. ‘ie Associated Ir.ss reports there is a mistaken impression atiroad as to the num. ber of the old employees who bave been taken back to work in the mills. About 220 men formerly employea there have ap- plied for work since the sirike was aban. voned, and not more than 25 per cend. of this pumber have teen tasen on. Of the re. wander, a large propottion were more or le:s directly dependent on the weekly allow. ances from the “strike lLenefits™ mented by the popular contributions t were independent of benefits paid by the Amalgamated Amociation as vach, Many of the vow die men, too, are not membars of the Association, and walle tae men who were members will probalwy be ine that time and nibble sismnd this ready fen Lon Fo Uitonary ei . ps 10 hs that he was That may bave was sdruitted to be ne buat 1d life t suf and ng in very much of nstanding bis =nor m his giganti the death of 1 siwavs been notwil res {1 fi- he be a af. undsriake.’a wagon imif-past ten o'clock first intelligence of Goud will not bave even thi. i definite awistance, FLOODED WITH OIL. A Phenomenal Oil Well in Olle Drowns the Country,
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