THE NEWS, An explos'on occurred in the Star Foun, fourteen men. cone fatally.——A husband, wife and child were suff cated in a tene ment-house fire in New York, others escap ing with burns, ——Tho disastrous fire which droke out in Huntsville, Ala, and which at one tims threatened to destroy the business part of the city, was finally got under con- trol with the loss of one business block, known as the Struve Ll.ck. The loss is esti- mated at $50,000; only partly insured. The New Washington express via the Read- ing and New York and New England road, eastbound, ran into the rear of the Norwich boat express in front of the station at East Douglass, Mass, on ths New England road, A woman passeager on the boat train was killed and siveral others were injured.— The Window-glass Trust organizsd in Mil- waukee by the election of officers, ——All Western Company in, the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valleys, employing about 13,000 persons, were put upon eight hours per day. Pauline Newcombe, aged twenty years, years, an engaged couple, were drowned in boat. Extradition proceedings for the two Mexi- ean revolutionists were begun in suddenly of heart disease, in Danville, IIL Colouel Howard was read'ng clerk House of Representatives, —Dr. Lancaster Prew, secretary and treasurer of the Cen- the ostensible purpose of getting his eon. He has not since returned, and his fel- low officials say his accounts are disc wered to be short some $10,000,.— Owing to delay in alloting space, three of the leading corset manufacturers of this country- War- ner Bros.: Langdon, Batcheller & Co., and Roth & Goldschmidt, have decided not to exhibit at the Columbian Exposition. The space was promi ed last September, but was pot allotted until last week, snd then the amount was cut down from one half to two- thirds of that originally esked for.- ee MAY mistress, Heurietta Wilson, was sentenced by Judge Russell, in Ballston, N.Y.,to be Pullman, the electrocuted. George M hospital for inva id children. ——Robert J poisoning of non-union men at Homestead. wmTwo hundred men wers thrown out of employment by the burning of a big paper mill at Xenia, Ohio. Loss £75.06. John C. Boak, the largest retail furniture dealer in Au tin, Texas, assignee. The lia- bilities ar» about $20 000; assests not known, ~~ A suit has been flied in San Franciico to foreclose a mortgage for $150,000 on the North Pac fic Cosst Ra.lroad, The plaintiff is the Scottish- American Come pany, and a mortgage was given for the money used in the construction of a portion of the road, which is now ouverdne, -War- bi z- tole scope for the naval observatory on George town Heig ta Clarence G. cashier of the Corry, Pa. was arrested in | uffa o, on the charge of de falcation ——J. W. Mitchell was arrested in Now York city Newark detectives, plicated in Bloomfield, [ave t neat ner & Swaser have completed a Harmon, National Bank, on evidence collected by to be im thirty robberies of houses in Mo clair, Roseville, and Newark, The amount of the thefts wi.i seach several thousind dollars ——The striking bol.er-makers of the Chicago and Alton shops in Bloomington surren ered. Some wers taken lack.——A heavy snow st rm bas been prevailing throughout the Northwest. —— Martin Griswiller, chanicsburg, Pa., ex-deputy sheriff, ex. ister, and ex-deputy internal revenue col ketor, and a leading Democratic politician, Hs= is known that city.——Th + ei htstory bul ding cecu- piel by the American Cincinna: i, was partially burned. The loss their burning home at West Newberry, Mase. ueorge 3, Grover, British royal commis, sloner to the World's Fair, died suddeniy of heart disease in a Chicago Lotel ——Repro- to death by the r sled runing in frontof a attempted to murder Samuel Well and Ala, ~—A suit involving millions was begun Judge Stevenson Burke and others involviag the interests of the Canadian Copper Com- pany. ——Joha Michae s, his wife and three children, were found frozen to death in a but m Putman county, W.Va. ~The United Btates Pipe Line Company will reach the. seaboard by the way of Athens and Wilkes. barre, Pa., and through New Jersey. ——The Columbia Btraw Paper Company has ab- sorbed forty-one mils in different parts of the country,-——Governor Crounge, of Ne braska, in a message to the leg slature ex- plained the connection of the stale banking board with the failure of the Capital National Bank.——Ths Erie Car Works limited, were seized by the sheriff of Eri, county, Ps., upon executions amounting to $.03,0.0 «0. B, Keliey, of Springfield, O., bas sold his patent on the overhead electric ‘rolley to the General Electric Company of New York. ——8ix blocks of buildings in Oakesdale, Washington, were burned, Loss £600,000, ssn ss IO iio OUTLAW MORGAN SHOT. m——— He Died with a Pistol in His Hand and a Rifle Across His Knee. Rosh Morgan, a notorious outlaw of Lee County, Va., was kilied while terrorizing the tittle town of Hunhbard Bprings,on the Loui. wills and Nas ville rod. While looking for a merchant name 1 Noe, who bad Incurred his enmity, he was shot by some unkown eitizen, He died with a cocked pistol in his hand and a Winchester rifle across his knee. Morgan bas boen a fugitive, with a price on his head, ever s'nee be committed a cold NOB LAW IN TEAS. Governor Hogg Declares He Will Bring the Lynchers to Justice. Despatches Sent to the Sheriff and Dis~ trict Attorney. Governor Hogg have done everything in his power to prevent the tor- turing to death of Henry Smith, the Negro murder, at Paris, Texas. He sent this dis, patch to the Bheriffs at both Paris and Tex- arkana: “Tse all lawful means to see that Henry Smith is protected from mob violence and claiges to brought to trial for the crime before the iawful authorities, Mobs must not be mitted to try prisoners in If you neelihelp call for it. By all means protect the majesty of the law and the honor of pers Texan HN. murder,” When information of the burning he the County Attorn:y at Faris to secure Governor Hogg received instructed tbo names of all persons engage! in the affair, and sent the following instructions to the Sberiff of Lamar county, at Paris: “1 scharge your swura duty as an officer of tee Suate faithfully and fearlessly. Promptly complain beture the proper au- thorities against any person known to 1 ave Smith, at Paris, an i report the names of ail wi. nesses to the distr ¢t and county attor ney, to the end that all the guilty persons may be effectually prosecuted, “To N. B. Doak, District Attornay, Clarksvi le, Texas —In the lyne ing of the Negro, Henry S nith, in Paris, the laws of Every good citizen is interested in maintaining and enforce ng ths laws of the and. Etaser law and order or anarchy prevail and there can be no compromise or middis ground, Mob law in Texas must be stamped out. Itis be isved and expected that you will proaapt ly, diligeatly and persistently a-cortain who are Lhe gully persous, fear es vy prosecuts them Any nesded will be promptly rendered, “J. 8. Hoa, G and assistance wernor of Texas." The Governor is very indignant and is em- phatic io asserting that ail guilty shall be punished. mmission OI is Persons SipxEY Syire and Willi drowned at Mart.u's skating, ¢ Dull. boys Ferry, Ohio, wore while THREE new cases of typhus fever and one d ath (rom the disease were reported in New Prevro-preumonia is said to have broken out again among cows in Pean yivaoia, Chester county, An lllino s Central passenger train a broken E ght men were severely injure BEVEN tons of powderat the Kolingy der Works, 1 ear Hunticrgion, West expludead. The me: were at diner person wes injured. THe typhoid fever epider the penitentiary at Jacks patients are in the hos ween two deaths, BY a colimion of two fre Miil«dale, Illinois. KE igine and Richard Mitchell M hone were killed, was rail, Irginaa, and no THROUGH the caral-wsnoss of tad “Fast Line.” of the Peansylvanis crashed into the reir of the hrst sect S.eeiton, Pa. The rear car, a sox 1 Williamsport, was telescoped, and vight pas sengeis wer: fo jured. AT the inquest held at East Bt. Louis on the remains of Timothy Houlican, who was oue of the wrecking crew injur d by the ex- pluei nat Wann, Hiinois, tue jury ret raed a veidict in when they he d tue Big Four Railway Company respousible tor his death by reason of wnepio) ing incompeient mea to attend ihe switches, As several Italian laborers at Fonda, New York, wers thewing out a dynamite cart. ridge, an explosion + 1ouk place snd «bout cariridg s were dascharged. One of tue Iwal aus, name not jearned, was buried through the air 80 feet and instaatly killed, Andrew Hajner, of Amsterdam was fa.aily injured. WORK AND WORKERS. Oneralo hoo sae gect on of the a . Tag trouble growing out of the switch- men’s strike at Moncie, Indiana, which was thought to have been seul.d, was renewed, the trainmen refu-ing 10 taks out ther trains, Tax lake Erie and Western Hailroad opened its switching yards, at Muncie, with pew men b ought from Chicago, wuo jer formed their work in the prese. ce of a how- ling, threatening mob, Tur North Bhamok n Colliery, at Trover ton, Pa, resumed operations after a lengthy shut down. Al Reading collieri= in the supply the demands of the coal trade. FORTY-FIVE stove mounters at the Detroit fi the wa sls, and there is a prospect, if the trouble is not soon settled, of 600 hands being thrown out of work. Presipest Bamven Gourers, of the American Federation of Labor, was in Pitsburg couferring with officers of the Amalgamated Association, menbers of Homestead's late A ivisory Committees and W. W, Erwi, the Bt. Paul lawyer, who is defending the Homest ad men charged with murder, in reference to those cases, It is said that there are now 3,100 men em ployed in Carnegie 8 ool Works at Home- stead. The number locked out last summer was 4800, Of those now at work 2,000 are places. Indiana, were before strikers of Mune Judge Baker in the U. 8, District Court at with cont mpt in hav. Jntanapoiis, ing interforred with the movement of traios ter the court had enjoined them from such action. Aft r warning the accused the court adjourned for one week. Cs A FAMILY FOUND FROZEN. Sma A Man and His Wifeand Children Per ish in a Hovel. The bodies of John Michaels, wife and tures little children, were discovered frozen to death in hovel inPutnam county, W.Va. A fourth child, an infant, was heavi y wrapped and was found to be alive Michaels and hin wife led a ort of gipsy life for years, wandering ab. ut through West Virginia in the summer seasons, and going South in advance of the snows in winter, It is sup- posed that they fai ed to get away in tice tuls year, and the severe cold, so prolonged, Sug them without preparation, to with FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, Senate, Sgr Day.~~Tre Committee on Epidemic Diseases report +d back toe Hou e Qua an. tiue bil , with a substitute, being the bill the President to en er int) ne otiat ons with representa dvs of the Provisional Govern: nont of Hawa i was laid before the Benate, and Mr, Chandler moved its reference to the Comnuties on Foreign He ations, Mr. the population, trade ant comme: ce of the Ha ~aitan Islauds, ' ut before he had con cluded the resolution was ial t asi le wiihoul action, and the Anti-option bil was taken The bill was passed, the vote Lela g nays 23, Tho Foititlei- t'on Appropriation bili was then takea up, and the Beuate 220 Dax A mo'ion was agreed to that smendments to the Aoti- pion bli), and ask a conference with the House, Conierie s were appointed. The Fortification Appropriation uill and ibe Ariny Appropriscion bill was passed, The District of Colum ia Appropriation bill was taken up. and after som debate wont oves witiout action, 330 Day Ian the Senate notice was re- crivedd of Se antir Car.dsle's re igonaton With the except oa of one hour in the early part of the aay, and a Lt. le longer time in the evening, the session was held beh nd clos dl doors, an | was sprut in the con-i ar ston of toe French avd Saaldish extrad tion tieati+s, and inoudentally of the Hawaiian guestion Int ses ton the Chandler Hawaiian resointio s, offerad some days sgo, was referre 1 10 the Comumittes on Foreign Relations, M «rs. Hule and Blac.burn, Were appoitied to a-sist in cou Ling toe presciential votes, and Mr Carlisle s resigoadion me senator from Keotucky was presented, The Disirict App: opriavon bill wis tasen up, coos.dered an passed. dita Day A bill oun elior to pay the awards of th: Court « f ( paced on the cal endar, wh na conference was aske | on the Mou e bill toratify the agreement with the Kickaj« Hos lutions were ; assed aud en og ox del.vered to the memo y of Lhe late Senator Burvour, of Virgin a House. an Day fhe H uss in « the Whole, resumed con id Civil action upon mittee ro “iltns War o Indians ommitiee on eration of tha ation all After ments the com y ad journed Sung y 24TH Day Ie House went into Commits tes of the Who tor the furihe © cons de a- ion of the Bundry Coil bul, The ites for tho river and Improvements were agrees! 10, an ituou ispos ng of the Lill, the commities rv ul the H desta 1 { JOU Joa i ue ad orn Day In the House the Anti-oplion Lill creat d a siir h opponents of the legsin in were « ¢ plert, and the iustant Hatch made bicmoti on jor a con was addressing the pre jer, that the SeLAL i in com por cupied t were bir amen mens offe: xd in co s he hole by Mr. Fitch, to the ? ibe b tien rej Watson i: wa provide and § the i Ov PEOPLE AND EVENTS. Teg circulat fn far isl LF % Franox on of the Touosir paper, has bee Tus 33 to the ma stand wh re his reins Ting INO grave is near toe James River, in the northeestera part of the city the mosum-nt wil b> paelis Mouros Pack, a quater of a mile irom Suds 8 Tue women of Soros are working for the release of Mrs. Maybrick At 8 reeeuny in New York ih re was or an zad toe “Wom au's Interontion:d Ba eau of Justice” and it was resolved that it soou d have constit ent bureaus throughou: the Un ted 8 ates and Europe, It wil. firet br ng it influence to boar i: the cvse of the Amer.can poisotier languishing i+ Woking Prion A COLORED man, the first of bis race to ba admitied to the prie«t ho od of the Ep s opal Chu ch ia K atuc. y, was ordained in Louis vilie a few days ago. His pame is Wiliam M. Jackson, a. d he hasa charge in Hendor- son, Ky. Hidiather was reo born, and his mwohier an emancipate] slave He bad a good @ ‘ueation i: Ohio. and for a time was employed (no the War D per. ment in Wash- ington. A Barriwonz friend of the late Gene al Bu.Jer sass: “Ali the eccentricities be po» SOs80 KUCH 8 Chewing on he stump of a cigar in open court, puting snd blowing during th» examination of witnes es, strio- ing up and dow. in front of the § ry, wears jug bouto iniores 01 all occsions, a. Jd mak- fng a great stew when he entered any assem biy-—a.l these were origin iy done for effect became apart of bis ¥ Of 3 i “ ® MG BUES 8 cemetery uailure. Mn Cosay Doyiz, whore detective stor. fos are just now so mu bh talked about in literary coaches, is one of a coterie of young men who have recently made--or ae fast maxing-a name forth mele in li eratu oe, Tuoey 01. themes ves “Tue Vegabonds,' and ether once a month ia one of ths od-Tashioned taverns whi h abut on Fleet street in London, Jerome K. Jerome and tor hs choioe-t spirits be bas Conan Dead Man's Dairy™), I Zmewill, G, B. Bur- in, and until be came to America, Rudyard Lipling. Conan Doyie is a deserter irom the medical piofession, for when writin “Mican Clarke,” he had a good i nan Dovie ha: seen a g wi rl}, and among other travels, has been to Greenland in a Hhialing ship and penetrated the interior of Africa from the West Coast. A HUGE STAR-GAZER. The Telescope for the Naval Obssrva- tory Complated. Another great telescope, the third larg st in the world, bas just boen competed by Warner & Swaser, of Cleveland, Oblo. The instrament was constructed for the new Government Naval Obwervatory on George- town Heights, D ©. When the telessspe is to the zonith the object glass will bs tht, weight ® } feet al ove the floor, Tho weight of the tele: scope bs thirty tons, The tube is 32 fees long edhe Re Be Bin BB Bie i @ gp It bas tures motions of speod, PENNSYLVANIA — » Parts of the Btate, A verdict of guilty a indicted was re of R. J. Homestead workmen. “Jack” Crirronn put on trial at Pittsburg for murder committed on July 6 Beatty, charged with puisoning was Pinkertons and the strikers at Homestead He entered a plea of not guilty AN explosion occurred fn the Cooyinghan: and «ight mioers were burned, three probably fatally Jesse M bill into tue Bepate, pansy, severely Bakes futroduced a by the Penn svivania Ballot Reform Association, making SENATOR indorsed very important changes in the present ballot law AALUre Wis A JO1xT committes of the Lagi appointed to investigate Lhe site question and promptly report, Tug committee appointed by ths Reading of Trade to construction of the asylum for ths Soard investigate the alleged faulty Insane at Wernersville, Chronic reported that many of the wost serious cl were well f« Tue min sters of Pittsburg an i ros unded Alleghany mot and protested against any change in t Sabbath law by ths present Logisla ure ex cept the increass of penalties for uf lola Ix refusing to allow ex-Treasurer John Mogel's claim of £540.18 against Berks County for expinses « on Inspectors Juige Ermentrout decided 1 no such ex penses may be lopcurred without the snuthor ity of the County Commissioners, Axprew Canxrcig made a very full state. ment of his relation to the Car ogie nter- exis. He has pot now ERI is again to have suy voicos J Lt eir active con trol i EPRESENTATIVES of we various labor broth whood« existitiz on the Lesigh Va le; and Central lath oa et at Lebizbtos, when fed srstd di cussed Turovan the pl 6 ol 11 bodies was ndard Oh: Compan” at Eris Ka road, the Uuite d States Pipe to cunnge Peunsyivania ing ther Gn exeCul ou Ex ben nd trould eted for the n ths Le the Adams to the may. THE Sian wes delea' cd in an a Loalesy the Trost Mannix GriswirLgn, fempptl iC Ef (Mines 2» 1 o oil desler who refused to buy of a prominent ex-office f Mechasial £, Wns ft rest { and bolder « Laken Hoo aga, caiarged with bigamy. epidemio in to Cue cholera ix becoming northern Chester Coun'y Tue number of lig or lie in Berk: Cot year, H0 AX or vduaasd into ing's Releet Council, providing for a con mse applicants nts isabout the same as last was inte Road. nano piste s3st tu of house sowaga Terrific Snow Btorm, and the Mercury Continually Going Downward. The snow storm which commenced several days #go in Washington has continued with more or los severity ever snoe bas at last developed into the rearest approach to a bl zzard ever known in this climate, Infeit tle there are sixteen inches of snow on the drifts in all u protecied spots momete: is falling rapidly. the city the storm is much more severs, A special from New Weston inster says: “The cold snap in the Frazier Valley at the pres the city the river is fiozen solid for filiy the ice. abated. The snow bas inches of an accident exploded, and M. G. M Morrison, con race tor and Jobn N. Harris «ssi-tant wrecked, jous poin s throughout the Northwest show that a bl gear of un soverit. whote section. Wihes are CABLE SPARKS. Ms —-— Canpixarn Fouroxn, Archbishop of Lyons, is dead. received by the Emperor. Tug Earl of Jersey has offered his resigua- tion ot Governor of New Bouth Wales, WM. FRAUQUEVILLE has declared a number of persons culpable in the Prjuarga canal scandal, ARCHDUCHE: 8 MARGARET BorPmie married to Duke Aiurecht of at Vienna, has found drowned, in the lunatic asylum near Haile, in Pros pinn Baxouy. Trial was begun in London of Welle, known ss “Monte Carlo Wells” on charges of fraud It is thought Gres: Britain can depend cases of an emergency. A DISPATCH from Buda Pest says that a number of p-rsons aud cattle were killed or injured in a railroad accident near Grau, ACCORDING to information from Vi-noa, eighty miners were killed and many others inju. ed by an explosion in the Fort Bchritt mine, near Dux Tae reconciliation of Milan and Natalie has not given pleasure in Belgrade, as the young radicals think Milan is plo ting to re turn to Bervia as dictator a DESTROYED HIS FAMILY. A Memphis Man Poisons His Two Chil- dren and Himself, ¥red Echumag, a cigar dealer of Mewphis, Tenn. , poisoned bis two children, Lottie and Frederick, aged respective’'y 12 and 14 years and then ok poison himself, The children are dead a.d Schuman is dying. Reverses in business and me'accholia on account of the death of his t wife, leading to are the causes a sizned for the act lived a secinded Life with his chil per A streak of insar ity runs through t.e family, a bio her bay- ing been coufl el in the luuatic ssyium. He jeft a leiter addressed to his brother, stating that 1t was 10 oue's d—d busicess bow be and his ch ldren died sn years ago Schumann's sister, Mrs suicide by hanging ber. Nive yonrs ugo, in the house that Bchumnan now a sho maker named Miler killed nunseid HBaeven years ago Chas les Eurich, a wea. thy quecnusware mor: chant, who ived jo the sume house, Was fouod there with a pistol ball in his brain. It was ailezed by the vewspapers thsi he Killed himself — Me MARKETS insanity, Schuman drea aca a hous or s COMIN ee COC 34 ANNtandards Moots sesame REn OR tr Pack.... NE ia CITY SBTEERS.... City Cows... Southern No, ui POTATOES & VEGETABLES. POTATOES ~Burbanks..8 S8 (4% Via. Yellow ise B25 af Y ame . 200 225 ONIONS . @ & PROVISIONS HOGE PRODUCTS-shide Clear ribeides Bacon sides BAA, «as 0enisnsnns unin Mess Pork, per bar..... LARD-Crude.... Pest refined. .... CHEESE CHEESE-N.Y. Factory. N, Y. fabs. .ccooanennssne Skim Cheese. . BEGGS, EGGS State. ............8 3 @#% North Caroling. ...oe.se AM a5 POULTRY. CHICKENS—-Hens..... 0 @% 1 Turkeys. anus 18 14 Ducks, per B..... ia 14 TORA COO. TOBACCO-Md, Infer's $§ Sound cOMMOR. ocsvvess Middling.. ccovcievsece. 800 FARCY...oonrvsssssnssss 1200 LIVE STOCK. 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Jonesco has eompiled statistics concert. ing trees which are struck by lightuing, and arrives at the following intcrest'ng conclusions. which are given in the last issus of the Eletricak World: 1t has been supposed for a long time that cor tain kinds of trees are particularly sub. ject to destruction by lightning, whil others arc quite free from danger. Amotiy the first is the oak and among the latter the laurel. An investigation of this state ment Jed the writer to the following con “At very high potential elec trical discharges all kinds of trees may be subieet to destruction from lightning. Trees containing oils are less subject to be struck : those containing very much oil being protected the most Light ning appears to prefer those trees which slight degree quantity of walter no effect op their § CIUBIons ; tio a only in I hae tained in the trees has liability to being struck. Dead limbs of of those containing starch as well those containing oil, are particulary contain of summer, con trees, subject to being struck, Cambium, bark and it ex do not alter the « mduactivity of trees. The nature of the soil has no connection with the frequency of the de y§ thie Lrees : tie 32. dan ead y struction by hghtoing, Forxpatioxs ror Sea Wanis —Bue- methods in suitable ations for sea walls are among the 1 portant of modern triumphs, and one of is what bas come to Ix } tem, originated abroad apt stion Lhe lar rocky service. Cas securing engineering the iatest of these known #¢ woe i, and of where segtions are taken : ar anil inner anda at the ex in si the course ments have sl ond at falling throug per LSE : wR first second {rom farting t th wi of the next sixty 1 throug? ig Where the space through which the body bh fallen may be ascertained Ly multiplying the velocity at that period by the number of seconds during which it has been falling, and dividing the result by two. This applies, however, only to bodies falling through a vacuum. The resistance of our atmosphere materially retards rain drops, hailstones, arrolites snd all other bodies which fall through it, snd were it not for the resistance it presents, every rain storm would be disastrous to the human race, as cach drop would fall with a velocity great enough to penetrate the full length of a fall-.grown man’s body, |! Nature, i of the ReOnaG 13 is noi i § rato of four feet whole velocity | the i Prowned by a Shelltich, Among the showy shells of the Pacifio Coast of the United States none are bet ter known or more widely distributed than the sea-cars or almlones, and none are more eagerly sought for by Chinese fishermen, One would scarcely antici pate danger, much loss disaster, from the pursuit of an object so harmless in it self; but it is reported that a Chinaman once lost his life near Bartholomew Bay, on the cost of Lower California, while mthering abalones, The foot of this shellfish is capable of taking a firm hold on a flat surface, sud in most cases it becomes almost impossi- bie to detach the shell without breaking it into 1 ents, The unfortunate fisherman referred to was collecting the shells under a shelvi rock hetween tides, and had thurst aro around & sharp edge to Sidoige 3 large one which he saw on the ivan, he Hiteed Wi Puget Sie the shell and Ee eal aires dott motion. ho tracted
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