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THE NEWS.
Jacob K. Duundore, captain of a coat
barge, shot and killed John Cross, who, he
says, was trying to break open a trunk on
the barge, which was lying in the river near
Bizaboth, N. J.—-The Kinyon and the
Jones blocks in Oswezo, N. Y., were de-
stroyed by fire. A number of corporations
were burned out, including C. A. Tanner &
Co., hardware dealers, and the Western
Union Telegraph office, Loss $75,000; parti-
aily insured.—-The Westinghouse Air
Brake Company has declared a quarterly
dividend of five per cent. and an extra
dividend of five per cent. This means the
dstribution of $500,000, Fire destroyed
she Newton (Ala) Inn, postoffice, town jail
and five stores,
run over by an engine,
of jumping on the moving engine when he
could be ‘stopped be was ground to pieces.
was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The
durning building amid much excitement,
Fire destroyed fifty small bunamgs, woe
tupied by the poorer classes of Eureka
Springs, Ark. The total loss is about $35,- |
80. Toe fire was caus d by a defective flue
fn the house occupied by W. O. Brodie.— |
The east-bound Erie passenger traio No. 12
was run into by No. 10, another passenger |
frain, at Lackawaxen, twenty-three miles
west of Port Jervis. The rear Pullman
sleeper was demolished, and ten passengers,
the occupants of the ccach, were injured,
some of them seriously, No. 12 wus waiting
at the station for a locomotive to replace |
one which was disatled. The other cars were |
uninjured, and no passengers in them were
Burt, —- The builling of the Turnverein, of
Patter-on, N. J., was destroye! by fire, and
erveral persons were badly burt,—— Resi:
dents of Brandige, Ala., lynched Tom Brun-
eon, a colored rape flend.—— Harland Mur- |
fay, after a dispute with bis wife, in St. |
Louis, attempted to shoot her. The bullet,
Instead, struck and killed his sixty-five-vear-
@)d mother, who attempted to shield her
daughter-in-law from the jealous man’s fury.
Two 1 ittsburg, Pa., hunters named Au-
gust Stacley and Henry Johnson, members
of tho Pittsburg Club, who have a club-
Bouse on the Kankakee River, was drowned
asar Horse Sthioe Bend, on the Kankakee
River — Fire supposed to have been started
By tramps, destroyed the building on the
fice Dyons estate, near Elizabeth; NX, J.—
The sentence of Will and Tom Whitson,
murderers, who were to haog at Bakerville,
R C., March 24th, hava been commuted by
Governor Carr to thirty yeas in thy peus
$snt.ary.
lee Walton, colored, who assassinated
Raofus Haywood, a colored planter, was
tynchel by a mob of colored » en in Nitta
Yuma, Miss —Ozras M, Hath, who
was a wellknown figure in Illinois a»
third of a century ago, and who was twice
secretary of e..ie, died at his home, in
Springfield, in the seventy-ninth year of
Rhisage He was born in New Hampshire |
jn 1814. —H. H. Goldwaite, a traveling
#8 esman, accidently shot ani killed bis sis
terin-law, Miss Hattie Pischon, in Indian.
spolis. He had just cleaned his revolver, !
and was carel ssly showing its workings to
she inmates of the room, when it dischar sed
socidently and the bullet went through Miss
Pis hon's stomach.
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JULES FERRY DEAD.
Carried off Very Suddenly By
Heart Disease,
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His Troubles the Result of An Old
Wound Reoeived at Aubertin,
Jules Ferry, president of the French Sen-
ate, is dead. M. Ferry's death was caused
by heart disease. The eilection of the heart
from which M. Ferry suffered was due to
the effects of a bullet, striking a rib nesr the
base of the heart at the time he was attacked
by Aubertin in 1887. He was
were hastily summoned, the convulsions con-
tinued to grow in violence until at six
o'clock in the eveniing he expired in a terri-
bly severe spasm.
reporter:
“For the last two weeks M. Ferry had
complained of difficulty’of breathing, He
would start up in the night occasionally,
gasping and choking, Several times he left
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CoxnrAD Ley, 21 ears of age, was killed |
by the vursting of an emery whool in a lace
tory at Neoware, N. J,
Mus. Jous C. Joxxs and her Syear-old
dauguter were burned 10 death at Mt. Julia, |
Tenuessee, weir civtbes takicg bre irom |
brush heaps. i
MaraoNaxt diphtheria is reported to be |
prevalent wt Sten, in Murathon oounty, |
Wiecorsin, Thre were four deatos in a |
single launly and (bree iu anotuer,
by an explosion in an oil well at Martha.
ville, Ont, James Duncan and his engineer |
were killed, and auother man, named Ma- |
kenzie, was fuwlly injured
Presingxt Harry ‘lemple, of the First
Nebraska, are futaily iil, the resut ol vating |
poison, “which their ebhud p.aylully placed
vil eat alters ards enten by its parvo.”
A tieight train on the Chicago and Erie
teen cals, pling thom up fu th: river, Tue
Ranway, New Jorsey, was shaken by an |
which occurred a fow |
**1t gi) co. siderable |
Buiidings
drugg sts sustained cone |
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pitome of News Gleaned from Various |
Parts of the Btats,
AvTER a long and earnest debate the State |
World's Fair Commis:ion decided to ask the
Log islature for an additional appropriation
of $100,000,
Dr. Paul GuiLrorp was put on trial at |
|
10 prevent conception. |
In avswer to a Benate resolution, Governor |
i
the expenditures of the World's Fair mana- |
ets and said not more than the §3.0,000 sap- |
propriated would be needed for the State's |
display.
A reduction in wages varyiog in different i
was made in
i
ile blooming mill of the Pottsville Iron & |
Tux property of the Westmoreland Coal
& Coke Company, in Westmoreland County
valued at $850, 00), in the in-
terest of mortgage credit rs
ALLENTOWN city officials stated that there |
the condition of |
was sold out
i Bo cause for alarm over
the table, and hurried toa window to get
fresh air, His sleep was much broken. and his
showed an unusual Inc« of energy and an
evasion to going out except when his oficial
duties called him, 1 almost forced him to
drive for a little whi o every pleasa it morn-
fog and evening. In the last tew da: s he seem
ed to recover somewhat his former energy
and spirits, although his difficulty in breath-
ing was increasing, he was determined togo to
Senator Poirrier’s ball, but eveataally I per-
suaded him to remain at home. I knew that
an evening ina crowded ball-room would
ageravate his trouble, and although he said
he felt better than at any time in the lust
week, he admitted that his health veeded
care! ul nursing if be was not to 1 e disabled
for his public duties. He wont to bed at ten
o'clock, Before midaight he awoke in a
chill. He fell asleep again, but rested un.
easily, finally awasing in avotber chill, mors
severe than the first o ie. | sent for the doc-
tor at once. He arrived at one 'clock, and
immediately gave M. Ferry injections of
morphia ond ether. He also applied cup-
ping glasses.”
This treatment was continued until five
o'clock, when M. Ferry felt relieved and
sank into a sound sleep. He slept well until
nine o'clock. Oth.r physicians were then
summooed for a Sons ion As M, Ferry
.
He was partly dre sed at 0.5),
He remained in it an hour in a condition of
such extreme prostrat.on that he could talk
At 10.30 he began struggling tor
breath. He sprang from his chair with sud.
This sudden rally was followed by another
M. Ferry y in hischair with
This effort was followed by an.
“Have
His strug. lo
He disd in
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CABLE SPARKS.
TaE true sources of the Congo river has
Tae committes of the Reichstag bas pass
A MACHINE saw at « yan jotte, Michigan,
| leaped Irom its bearings, and struck Hers
man Meinke iu the breast, and cut partinly
through as 1ody, severing the heart, It
continued fs flight, and, striking Amos
Coan, «nother workman, eat off bls arm at
the suou der,
A passenger train on the Philadelphia and
Biltmore venira: Railroad ran nwa W J.
mingtoo and Morthern freight at Chadds
ford Junction, Feuua. E.gineer Govige
Foillips, ot toe passeng-r al. , was ailled,
and conductor Walaa Camaios was slight
ly injured. ‘ihe Curower’s jury found that
tue wocident was due 16 toe negligence of
Eugiveer Philips.
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SHOT DOWN iN COUAT.
A Son Avenges the Murder of His
Father, Knew What He Was Doing.
A terrible shooting affray occurred in the
upper hall of the court house, Kashville,
Tenn Thomas Jones shot aod probably
fatally wounded Joe Winters Five shols
were fired, two of which took effect
Some months ago Tom Jones’ father, o
toll-gate keeper, was abot from ambush and
billed. Andrew and Jos Winters were
sharged with the deed, arrested and indicted
snd the trial of the murderers was about 0
begin,
The court room was packed with witnesses
for the prosecution and the defense. Joseph
Winters was charged with the murder and
Andrew Winters with being an accessory to
the deed.
When the casos were called in criminal
court before Judge Anderson the defendants
successfu’ly pressed a motion for a sever-
ance. and then the cases were continued un-
til the pext term of eourt
After the disposition of the cases, Andrew
Winters was taken back to jail and Joe Win-
ters and bis wife remained in the court ron
to perfect a bond, By this Gime the court
room bad been practically cleared.
Finally, when Winters wa ked ia the door,
Joues, who was stan sing near the head of
the stops opened fireon him, Officer Price
wos about the first to reach Jones. Mrs
Winte:s and otters who witnessed the
she otis g, sald that Winters fell at the sec-
ond shot.
Several men in an excited manner ran up
to Jones and cri-d: “Don’t let him escape.”
To these cries Jones, in a sell pos essed man.
ner sad: “I ams not going to escape;
know what | have done, and bave no Wish
to flee.” Jone. was a! once taken to jail,
Jams Bondurant, who was stand ng near
the W inte 5, was struck in the groin by oe
of the stray bullets, and quite sever iy
wounded though his condition w unt though!
pe water supply.
TROUGH a rear-end ¢ llision between two
rains on the New York, Lake Erie & West.
sro Railroad at Lackawaxen, twelve people
were more or less veriously injured.
DirHTHERIA bas attacked over sixty peo,
ple and killed Pikesville, Berks
County.
ten iu
A inrge delegation of Philadelphians in-
terested in the pascaze of the Penrose bill
abolishing the Fublic Hulldings Commission
appeared before the House Committee on
Municipal Affairs at Harrisburg. Mayor
Stuart, Councilman Clay snd Hicks, Messrs
Thomas Martindale , Joshua I. Bailey, E. XN.
Willard and Charles Emory BSmiih
speeches in favor of the bil
Tug bo iy of Thoma. Deener, a hermit of
Drebrersville, who
nade
had been missing for
soothe time, was foun | in the rover and foul
play is suspected
Presine st pro tem Gobin, of the State
Benate, is out iz. an open letter in answer to
statements of Exe utive Commissioner Far
quhar of the World's Fair.
s recent criticism of that official's manage
ment of the affairs of the
by the facts
Trax Dispatcher John RK. Rup was sc
Ho declares tint
board is justified
quitted at Norristown of negligence and
sponsib lity for the Hose disaster
the Reading Raliroal Oclober U4
Wuuly was directed 10 pay the costs
Tux Board of Health of
ebarged the Failadelphic & Reading
road Company with ps Iatinzy
kill above the towa by dumping manure and
other decayed matter into it. ;
§iTne appointments! Maison
Judge of the Common Fleas Court of Schau
kili County the State
Senate,
Arraaisens Reynolds and Crane value the
assets of the eslate of the
Wilkes-Barre backer, at $12,460, while the
Habilities are $432,000,
Hox. Jaxes 8, Moonsmeap, Democrat,
and Alexander McConnell, Republican, of
Westmoreland County, and Judge Harry
White, of Indiana, are talked of for nomi
tion for the Supreme Court in the Fall
roe
Glen on
and the
Norristown,
Hail
the Schuyi-
Weldoer nas
nas confirmed by
Rockafeliow,
A mass meeting in defense of the Ameri-
ean Sabbath was held at Norristown in con
section with the Methodist Conference.
Ix case the Andrews Higby legislative
contest is decided in Andrews’ favor, Higby
Over Four Million Dollars’ Worth
“of Property Destroyed.
Boveral Persons Lose Their Lives--
About Thirty Injurde.
At 4225 o'clock in the afternoon fire broke
out in the building owned by EL. Ames,
corner of Essex and Lincoln streets, in the
wholesale business and small manufacturing
section. The flames spread with surprising
rapidity, and it wus over three hours Lefore
the Bosion fire department, aided by com-
panies from other cities, gained control of
tho destro~ing element. ‘I he fire was marked
by the loss of several lives, ard some thirty
persons injured. The financial loss is esti-
mated nt $4,000 000, and the insurance at
84,100,0.0,
It was the most destructive fire that has
occurred in Boston since November 28, 1889,
when two and a-half acres of business hous's
were destroyed, causing a loss of about $8,
000.000, The great fire of 1872 broke out on
the evening of November 9 and raged uncon-
trolled until woon the following day, destroy.
ing 800 bu iness houses, occupied by 1,800
firmus, entailing a 1.ss of $80,000,000 and fif-
teen lives,
iy ons whole square, b unded on the north
by Essex sir«e on theeast by Lincoln street.
on the south by Tufts streel, on the w st Ly
Kingston street. In aidition to this square,
ane tulldin zs on the north ot Ess x street, ex-
ending along Columbia street, nas burned;
tiso tures buil tings on the east s de of Lin.
win street: also oo the south side of Tults
dreet, the Emergency Hospital, which was
it part of the United States Hotel, and the
tear corner of the hotel,
Tiree unidentified dead bodies bave been
wken from the ruios and there are supposed
0 be wany others y+t undiscovered.
sjured will number about tharty.
lve Bames broke out in the toy depart
sul of Horace Partridge & Co, in the PF.
LL. Anes building Tobe cause is at pre en!
suknown, but the start is described Ly those
searest iL as jesembiing the bursting of fire-
trackers
The amos spread with incredible rapidity
ad in a very few moments the entire inter.
far of the building wa burning. There were
way employes of the Partridge Corvpany
at work at the time, and the oth r flo rs of
the building were sprinkiet wi b buman be-
logs The usual avenues of escapes were at
ff, and then began a scramble for
{life which sickened bebolders.
The panic-«iricken ("mates fled to windows
and roof. Some escaped by binning down
telegraph poles, 0 hers by leaping nto blan-
kets au pets, B vera! jump d to the pave
ment, six to «ib stories, and were terribly
mangled. Others—bow many cannot be
told-fel back nto tre flam 8 or wereov r
ewe by the dense bla k smoxe, which suffo-
cated all who dd not speedily ~reape |
he entr fire department of the city was
speedily on the scene. The departm nt of
Somerville, Cambridge, Newion Quincy
and Brockton srrived ater Ly train and aid |
was requested to be in read ness from more |
distant cities Fortunately further help wae
sot noeded
Vas: ere
w.ls of peonie began at orce to
flock t
the scone, aod as a matter of pro
caution Governor Kursell spoad ly or ered
tw companies of militia under arms, and
proo eded to the fire fo person where he was
soon joined by Mayor Matthews
The tire sp ead 1apidls from building to |
building, and, despiie the heroic efforta of
the entire fire system of Bgffolk oc unty. was
sot contr le! until neariy 8 o'clock P. M.
The conflagration as viewed from a dis
tance was grand, A dence pal of bisck
smoke covere | thet rection o! the city, and
as darkness came on this was lightei up by
the flames, while coossional fi shes of fire
sud t urning embers shot up into the ebony |
Neir to the scene was awful. While the |
Ames Building was burning there we e re-
A SO ATH
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
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Moire, Jeane Cravuvin has received the
sppomtm mt of Proiwssor of Common Law
General, Biavngaanno bullt the first
«his country. The 10nd
was constructed ju t after the wer sod ex-
feuded from the City of New Or.eans to tie
Wittiay B. Moruisox is said to be an
inveterats 'n wépaper reader
ever sees ir. Morri on without one or two
newspapers tucked uader his aro it must be
Ww. eu ue has ou a dress suit,
Iv Prov, Barwarp, of Lick Observatory,
Hamilton institution within a year or two
Prolesors Crew, Keeler aus burnham hav-
lug retired within a short Lime,
Mu CLEVELAND is said to have had pick-
nates ior every member of his old Cabinet,
Mr. Baya d was * Tom,” Mr. Mann ng was
“Dan,” Mr. Whitney “Wii,” Mr. Faurch id
“Charley,” tue venerasbe Mr. Lamu
“Quaint,” Mr. Vila “Bil,’ Mr Garand
YALL” Mr, Dickin on the ‘Squire,” and Mr,
Endicott “Willi.m." Mr, Ceveiand rarely
address | any meuber of his Cabin-t by his
official iitle. Even at form. Cabinet mest-
ings be would lean back io b » chair and say:
““fomumy, let's bear » hat you bave been uo
ing at the Btate Depariment.” or “Quist,
teil us about the Indians,” and so on.
Carta LuGaro, of Uganda fame, is
descriod thus: A Norman knight of the
historic type, which founded the kingdoms
of England, Portugal, Cyprus, Jer. ss em,
Graod Canary and the Two Biciles, small,
wiry, keen eyed, witu a strong jaw, snl an
Intell. ctual forehead, betokening ibe mas-
terful Norman atdlity fo. greppiing «ith
There is something about the mou bh aud
nostril » hich bumanitoians might
unless they bap en d to be in Af:ica, sur-
rounded by srnies of th: { anuibsistic)
alien. If be lives he may prove an A rican
Clive, uniess, hike Clive, ae suc umbs to the
irrepressible domestic foe of imperial great
ness,
dislike,
scenes i REI —
TORTURED BY THIEVES
Incredible Brutality Resorted To to
Get $1800 From sn Old Man.
On Leatherwood Creek, Ky., three
enierel the home of Thomas Bryant, who
docs not believe in banks, and, after gag-
ging the family, procseded to compel Bryant
to tell where his money was hidden.
They fired pistols close to his head, choked
sli. burned him with hot stones and fina ly
stock his feet in the fire, holding them there
nil! burned to 8 crisp. They got $1800 and
escaped on threes of Bryant's horses. Bry-
aut wil dis,
men
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CANNED GOODS,
Taz German troops in Eas: Africa have , may Le pomisated for Sheriff of Crawford peated explosions like fireworks mingled TOMATOES -Stnd No. 88 #0
The bouse of Benjamin Fleischer, who lives
in the southwestern part of Jackson
county, Kao., was totally destroyed by fire.
H 8 three children were probably fatally
burned. In endeavoring to rescue them, Mr. |
Fleischer’'s hand: and arms were almost
tured to a erisp.— During a terrible thui-
derstorm lightning set fire to 110 bales of |
open cotton in the Social Mill, in Woon- |
socket, RB. I. Much of the cotton was ren-
dered useless, and the las will be soveral
thousand dol ars, —E F. C. Young, of
Jersey City; Jeremiah O'Rourke, of Newark,
and Bernard Naughton, have formed a cor-
pora i n to be known as the Consolilated
Traction Company. They have an suthor-
fasd cap tal sto-k of $15,000.0 0 and the pvr
is to consolidate the tracti .n companies
of Jersey City and to build branches to New-
ark and other surroundicg towns wee Emm UG]
and Wm, Conrad ara in jail at Corydon,
Ind., charged with parricide,—Mr, J. B. |
¥.ickinger, the successful inanaging editor
of the Ohio 8 ate Journal since 1887,
ager of the American Press As.ociation in
New York. D. L Buwersmith, city editor,
Deputy Sherif Whales, who has been a
familiar figure around the Tombs in New
York, is dead, another victim to the inclem-
monies at Washington,
4frs, Clarissa Fairchild, widow of ths ince
Bopreme Judge Fairchill, of Arkansas, is
dad, Mrs. Fairchild bad an eventful his-
tory. She was a Miss Clarissa Bulkley, of
Williamstown, Mass, and one of twelve
brothers and sisters being the last of them
to dis. ~The four story brick bu ding oc-
cupied by the James Bradiord Company,
dealers in oils, paints, ete, in Wilmington,
was damaged by fire to the extent of $15,000,
Chieago and Northwestern Depot, Lock-
wood’s elevator, several hundred cords of
wood belongisg to the railroad and a quan-
Sty of lumber belonging to private parties,
Loss sbout $20,000, Warden Brown, of
Sing Ling prison, has tendered his resigua’
tion. He will probably be succeeded by*
Warden Durston, of Auburn.—"1rain D
spatcher Join BR. Rupp was acquitted in
Norristown, Pa., of negligence and re ponsi-
bility for the disast-r at Hose Glen, on the
Reading Railroad, October 24, in which sev.
eral lives wore lost, «While fighting a do-
structive praire flo near Dorrance, Kan.
five en were severely injured, the flesh on
their lim" being burned to a crisp —~The
Kapsas Trust en! Banking Company, of
which Senator Ingalls is president. closed its
doors, The liabilities of the concern are
estimated at $800,000, and the assets will
prola. ly reach $700,000.
Covowmt ArsxaspEn C. Boskix, Lieu.
Jmant.uveruwt of Homtbeh aralyied
waist down, and Refer for
i Se oc Is an Abia A vor
Fes A
won a victory over the hostile nlives,
Taz Arabs have signified their intention
of supporting the new Sultan of Zansilar.
It is reported that there is opposition
am ng the tories to Mr. Balfour's jeader-
ship.
A coxrricr between Servian peasants
and troops resulted in ten persons being
killed,
Hear Jusaren, Freisin-iger
was elected to toe Reichstag from
aite.
Pore Leo has given his benediction fo the
profs to build a residence for Monsignor
at i.
A MOTION to order the slaughter of callie
at the jort of eatry was defeated in the
House of Commons,
AvLimiy Sap, Sultan of Zanzibar, is dead
aod toe British bave placed Hamid Said’
apn the throne as his successor.
A LUSCH was given on the s eamsh'p New
York, at Southampton, at wh.ch many cel
sbrated persons were present.
THE election of a member of Parliament
for Grimstsy resulted in t o return of a lib
eral-uuionist, a loss to Giadsone,
A RURRICANE swept over the east coast of
Madagsscar, wrecki g many vessels, de
stro, ing prope: ty and killing several peo
pls
candidate,
Leigh.
Taz Spanich Republicans suffered unex.
pected reverses in ibe provincs, and the
government ms jority in the Cortes will be
: about 100.
| Braix is satisfied with the pacific inten.
| tions of the United States towa ds San
Domingo, and wii withdraw the Spanish
| warship now at the Island.
{| Tax House of Lords has rejected a bill
amendi g the Jaws for the distribution of
real estate of intestates, ¢ aiming that it
struck at the law of primogeniture.
Tae Italian government has informally
that the United States shail for-
mulaie defin te proposals before inviting the
reassembling of the moustary conference.
Tux Chiness censors kave preferred
of treason inst Houng-Tehum,
formerly mini tor to Russi and Germany,
in having renounced the rights of China
the Pamur regions.
MOTHER AND BABIES BURNED
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Bhe Sacrifioss Her Own Life Trying to
Save the Children.
D. F. Dizon, of Chailotie, bas received
word of the fatal burniog of the wile and
two childr pn of bis son Thomas Dixon at
Rutberfordton, N. ©. The fire occurred
about sight o'clock. Mrs. Dixon was alone,
her husband veing at Shelly. After she bad
gotten ready with ber Lilo ones to retire,
and wile sitting Ly a table with her young-
table 4 ne ok, sone toy and
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aLy torn over Lae lamp, which
and th ew the burn.ny oil over the mot.er
Lirew, Mrs. Dizon might have saved
wif wut for ber of os for vhs children,
vod unt] nive o'c a few wm utiles
ustanid 10a ea her, bul was ues er
Hurst reached by the
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J. W. HYATT
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DEAD.
Was Treasurer of the United States Un- |
der President Cleveland.
James William Hyatt died at 3 o'clock in |
The |
of Mr. Hyatt's death was |
Bright's disease, although be had been a
James Wil inm H att was Treasurer of
born in Norwalk September 13, 1137. His |
father, James Hyat!, was a manufacturer
fouthern market. Mr. !
Hyatt atiended the public schools until he !
was 11 years fage. He toen stirted t) make |
out as sutler with one of the thee months’ |
regiments. Whes he returned he was em- |
banking houses of New York
that be was rapid y advacced until be be. |
Mr, Hyatt remained with Lockwood &
t+ ined a © wtroiling intecest in the Norwalk
vy, he returned to
1a 1874 be became president of
the co 1y, ard Bled that position until
his deat v was chosen vice-president of
the Da: bury & Nurwa k Hailroad Company,
ana continue i m that position until o
president. In 1200 Mr. Hyatt was chosen
deato! the Fairfield County Natiooal
k. Ini8i5 ani 1876 Mr, Hyatt repre
souted the town of Norwalk in the biate
Le. isla ure, and served on the Finance Com-
mittes. In 18.6 he was app luted Bank Coos
missioner and resigned in the fail of 1886 to
’ the appointment of United States
Bank Examiner teudered to him by Presi
Bes orion he esigned in 1567, whee
i» posi r , Ww
President | Cleveland inted him to be
Tr. asurer of the Uni ed Mates, In 1884 Mr,
Hyatt was elect «d to the State Beuate, but
because the dutis of a Senator
wer. incompatible with his position as Bank
Norwalk.
ci
COUNTERFEITER3 CAUGHT.
A Gang Unearthed Near Parkersburg,
W. Va., and the Money Found.
1t has been suspected for somes time that a
gang of cou terfeiters had the'r headqoar-
ters somewhers near Parkersburg. The
home of A. B Burdett, alias Arthur Mills,
was surrousded and Bur lett captured,
‘When the house was searched moulds for
25.cent pieces and nickles and scraps of
metal was found. The officer & so captured
adtper wlleged wandint of She gtug, Buuey
nea,
Burdett owns considerable property and
is engaged in buying and selling produce
and it was while engaged in this business
County.
Tug Delaware River at Easton rose
twenty-ove feet above low-water mark and
damage was feared at Trenton and points
below,
Tox body of a man named Mann, missing
for a month from Fairfield, Adams county,
was found buried under rocks, and tie pol.ce
L161 water was reported in the Susque-
bouna and Delaware Rivers, but no great
Tur Lancaster County Tobacco Growers
Socisty took favorable action on a proposi=
tion to form a national association to main.
Two houws st Front and Buttonwood
strects, Reading, collapsed, injuring four
person: quile seri susly.
Jvoee Douy, of Westmoreland county,
decided that W. KX. Porter and A. B. Hun-
ter, Repu! licans, wore duly elected to the
Legislature and not W. I. Barnhart and
Colonel Eli Waugamsn now seated.
1eADING is alarmed over a varioloid epi
deanic.
Tag Barbers’ National Association, in
session at Pittsburg, declared against legis.
i~tion allowing opens shops on Sunday.
isis AIO.
THE AUSTRALIAN FLOODS.
It: Suburbs.
The Australian papers which arrived om
the steamer Alameda at Ban Francisco,
print graphic details of the great floods at
Brisbane and suburbs last February. In
the city of Bisbane and its suburbs the dam-
age done by the flood is estimated at #15,
000,000.
There was a fa 1 of sixty-seven inches of
rain in three days and three steamers were
floate | out of the river and landed high and
dry in the Botanical Gardens, The towns
Bundam: a. Ipswich and Godna were all
lr water the people bad ic flee 10
Ko serious consequences were ex ed
until February 3, when reports from Tpper
Brisbane watershed showed that hoavy
floods were inevitarle and all the possicie ef
ds to ye tort,
forts were muds to prepa For
that he had an opportunity to scatter the
wi bh the boarse shouts of firemen the ciang-
ing and puffing of eaginex the crosh of fall
ing walls, the rumble from hurrying teams
and the sur ing of the vest crowd which
soon gathered and rushed to aud fro in
everybo iy's way.
Tho three largest builiings burned—the |
Ame Lincoln and Brows-Durrell—were of
tnodern construction and built in the most
pon-vrmbustibls style possivl - for mercan- |
tiie use. The Brown Darrell had front walls |
of sandstone and rear walls of brick. The |
Ames and Lincoln were much like it
Incoming trains from all directions were
beavily laden during the early evening, and
pably over 30,000 outsiders beiped to
pack the streets ix the vicinity while the fire
was in progress
Th+ principal buidings burned were ns
follows 1
Ames Building, seven stories, corner Ea.
where the fire
Lincoln Bui ding, Ava stories, on the op
wite corner. ou the site of old Crvsial
Palace, occupind by tae Singer Manufactur-
ing Company and a large number of uther
Ludiow Building, six stories, 185 Essex
street,
Browse Durrell Building, seven stories
of Esex and Kiogston streets,
The fire. |
Fivestory brick vuilding, corner of Co-
Uni od States Hotel, slightly damaged.
wpper stories and by
small traders below,
PRINCESS KAIULA
Received by Mr. and Mrs. C'eveland-« |
Members of the Commission.
At haif-past five o'clock President and Mrs,
Cleveland accorded a spec al reception $0
Princess Kaijulani, the meeting taking place
in ti ¢ Blue Parlor. The Princess was accom.
panied by Mr. and Mrs. D vies their daugh-
she ever fell in Jove with,
day Mr. Dav unaccompanied
Ay, called
Pe Fines 17 any of, bis famap,
MO, 2rernosannssnrns .. N23
PEAS-—-Standards 12
CORN—Dry Pack...eosee
CITY BTEERB......vv0-.§
City Cows J
Southern No, Sig
POTATORS & VEGETABLES,
POTATOES —Burbanks..§ 83 @§%
Va Yeliow...oconnes ws 30
174
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PROVISIONS,
HOGS PRODUCTS-shida$
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BOOS,
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Turkey
Ducks, por B...cooienes
TORACOO,
TOBACCO-M4. Infer's$ 150
Middling.. «.ccovvoenses 800
FOnCY covers coesnnsenese 1300
LIVE BTOCK.
Beoves......8 525
435
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