THE NEWS. m— Rev. J. A. P. McGaw and Elder MeClaren, of Toledo, wore elected delegates to the Pres. byterian General Assembly, which will meet in Washington, May 18. Both are pronounced Briggs men, Chihuahua advices says that a pack train of bullion from Jesus Maria dis- trict was seized by the rebels early, and every dollar confiscated, The value of the bullion is estimated at $40,000.——Dan Adams, col ored, who was sentenced for seven years for trying to kill Ray Shout, in Salina, Tex., was iynched by a mob, Prof. Oakman B. Stearns, a prominent Baptist clergyman, died in Boston, Two Americans are sald to have killed a half-dozen Mexicans, including the sheriff, who was them, and members of the posse. In the United States Court of Appeals, in 8t. Louis, a decision in the ease of the Edison Electric Light pany against the Columbia Incandescent Lamp Company was given against the Edison Company and in favor of the Columbia In- eandescent Company. J. A. Shea's fruit eommission house, on Bridge Min- neapolis, was burned, and the Jewell lodg- ing-house, adjoining badly damaged. The lodgers escaped in their night garments, and two men were almost unconscious when they were dragged from the third story, Total Joss, £60,000 ; insurance, $30,000 A eyclone struck Osay: City, stroyed a large number of caused the death of two Theodore Semford Doolittle, Brunswick, N. J. Matthew negro, was found guilty of murder in the first degrees in the Court of Oyer and Terminer in New York, He was charged killing Emil Kuckelhorn ina house « West Twonty- fourth street, whers, it i Heged, he went for the purpose of David Amey, a wealthy resident of Harmony, and his wife drove into Pa., to friends. A team of he s ran into the rear, smashing their « ing out the occupants, Fhe dragged Mr. Amey for two Squares, Mrs, 3 The deceased Was seventy years arresting Com- Square, Kansas, de- buildings snd -~ ev. died in New Johnson, o persons, with Upper Easton, visit them from arriage and throw- runaway horses eagusing injuries from which he died. Amey | badly hurt. of age. The Pelican Saw Mill, {in New Or- Jeans, was destroyed by fire, also a feet of lumber, with no nsu cottages in the vieinity and a pile-driver also burned. The total loss foot undred thousand dollars, Th: pied by laboring peo furniture. - Louis from a Methodist that A. Bentley Worthington, the so-called apostle” of Christian selenos faith, who, in with Mrs. Plankett, disappeared York four years ago, has Zealand and drawn together bund fevers in his faith, ——A passenge ain on the Iron Mountain Railroad : I pear Victoria, Mo..and two sleeping cars and a baggage and expres car thr conductor, two were injured. A fourteen-yvear-old girl, m bo) secompanied by a boy arrested in Richmor from Washingtor of the most prominent died in Bichmond. man, discovery of & eonsp million Thir'v cottages wera o00U~ who all their -A letter roceived in Bt misister st les company New s of bo~ 3 Rid] WD Over, passengers and trainmer The of Texas, are grostly agitated eral county officials, murdered kis little step burg, was sentanced tot penitentiary. —The Bank and Trust Comp Tenn., made an were killed and several in) on the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Mich, a i welve £0 assist mea ison Michi sid for mo eR in 8 C0 gan Raliroad, Farwell, Near did considerable damage a o: the steamer Chathan Boston from Baltimore ; ®Krike of the shopmen the Union Pacifle was Degiul son, a convict in the Auburn | and killed two othor eonvie was killed and thpe fatally boller explosion in ¢ grindst Parkersburg, W.Va. - ——W. H. Bagley, banket of Jacksonville, failed for $43,000, deadly assaults occurred in Chicago, Thomas Carbine was shot by Policeman Harding while resisting arrest, Paul Linse wasshot by Carbine during a row in a den of thieves,and EMzabeth Mill was shot by John Haupt io a fit of jealousy. injured in ne {ackory near hy Pray The members of a band of whiteonps in Georgia were convieted,~——The announce. ment is made that an immense fron and steel combine that includes thirteen of the most extensive companies in Ohio and Pennsyl vania has been organized under one manage- ment, with 2 capital stock of $12,000,000 with Cincinnati as a distributing point, All the preliminaries to the combine were finally arranged throu. ) Cincinnati and New York brokers. — The principal business block of Plymouth, Mich., was destroyed by fire. Loss about $50,000, A destructive hail, wind and rain storm passed through Indiana, cleaning a* strip about two hupired yards wide entirely across the country. The town of Gravelton was wreeked.——The boiler of J. C. Keleh's saw mill, near Brook, Ohio, ex- ploded with a terriflo report. The mill and machinery were blown to pieces. A number of the employes were badly injured, and two of them; Charles Peck and Edward MoClerg, instantly killed, ROBBERY AND MURDER The Perpstrators of the Double Crime in Danger of Lynching. At a late hour the other night, Joseph Cook, a clerk in the store of J, Pp, Clayton, at Scranton, Miss, was nssaulted and the safe robbed of $1,100. The clerk was oar ried away by the thieves, No clas was given except 8 wagon track, but citizens followed that up, with the resait that Cook was found neonscious near Plokett's Manor, He summoned, and succeeded in bringing the vietim to, Before be died he stated that he by James T. rt. Cit: tha » gulity par were od while aking 8 The money was found upot persons, The arrest was made by Sherift Moore and posse, and he now bas the jail guarded to prevent the citizen : lynching the men, THE TORNADOS WORK. ———— A — BAAS AAT [t Cuts Its Swath Through the South and West. ———————— A Family of Eleven Roasted to Death in Their Cabin. arriving at Meridian, Passengers Miss, | frightful storm that bere A sete and Colonel ravelod in a northwesterly direction, inmates perished, Jerry's plantation was swept clean and sey. From owners in th Every was carried bir, His son had his skull erushed one of the largest plantation stick of away an wery house demolished, Krouse was ondly injured. and his wife and daughter were slightly h On this plantation Henry German children wero ’ » yf thelr nis wife nnd nine imprisons under the rains « cabin, and chen # the family to death, Threo miles Wwe, slowly a nu Smt! sorfous tine still was rains wns destroved OW Dann fore + fy fear sel aod ols Wires ai Urieans flown Are strewn t I all deseript Pe pata stormed t inoked LIke 1 air. The oy wind and rain that lasted mo DOFSONRS Wen re Lhe sky became ovels ound was heard, » jared coud was rapidly approach t As it peared the wind sprang © ple prepared fo thd, Large houses were foundations if they were ws path of the Gir Prise the a we from the onslaugt The Auditor oiservatlory ently that tae ooks previous res f signal BEV IOw 1 fs § nt of rain. snow and hail, has plaved havoe with telegraph wires throughont the West, There is no workable wire further west than Des Moines, Throagh- out Iowa, Wisconsin, Western Ulinois, Ne- braska and Missouri the wires are practicall; useless, and communication fa out off from Mississippi and Louisiana, East of Chicago ap the wires are largely useless, Weysesnona', Pa.~A mighty wind storm get in in this locality and raged with increas. fng fury until 9 o'clock, The uproar was so great that people were afraid to venture upon the streets, Small bulldings wers ahat- tered, roofs and chimneys blown off and trees uprooted. Pupils were with difficulty got- ten home from school. Merchants stayed in their places of business at dinner time, fear- ing to go oul. Several minor accidents to weons were reported. There was little rain at Hagerstown, Al Chambersburg the precipitation was heavy and steady. oe MURDER IN A PRISON, m— A Convict Attaoks Other Priscuers and Kills Two of Them. John Johnson. who is known as the “Blue Ni; ge” from Clyde, run amuck in the broom shop of Auburn Prison, Auburn, NX. ¥. He was armed with n sharp knife used in cutting broom corn, and first attacked Charles Peck, a fellow convict from Westchester county, Leaving him dead in his tracks, he next stabbed Daniel Brinton, another prisoner, the blade entering Brinton's stomach and causing death in an hour, Johnson stabbed right and left while he was st liberty, and several other convicts suffered severe cuts, The bade of Johnson's knife was broken off during the melee and cannot be fonnd. He dirested a vicious blow st Keeper Muahul] after the biade had been broken but it did not penetrate his clothing, The keeper drew his revolver, but just us he pulled the trig- ger somebody hit bis arm and the ball went wide of ta mark, It Johnson into surrendering, however, and he made no further resistance. He was taken to the prison jail. been an old gradge held by Johnson against a number of convicts in the shop, and he made sa threat that as soon as C Baker hud a day off he would do up shop. Baker was not on d and Johnson started in early to earry out his threat, Johnson was first sentenced to Auburn in CABLE SPARKS, A dslegzation called upon Mr, Gladstons to urge Lhe government to advocate Imper.al federalinm, It is reportod at Madrid that the Japanese seized the Pelew Islands, near the Spanish possessions in the Pacific Ocean, Bricox, the French anarchist, was con. He was sentenced to twenty years penal servitude, Tae court of arbitration on the Bering son has decided not to admit for the present This is a victory for the American sida, Oxx hundred firemen and trimmers sent from London to Hamburg to take the places of Hamburg-Ameriean Line strikers, refused to work when they reached Germany, Tur German imperial loan is covered by subseriptions to nearly quadruple the mount asked for by the government, and the Prussian loan to triple the amount, sin: Diet has the bill reforming Prussia, The bill election somewhat less Tre lower house of the given its nal approval of the system of election in Pru muskes the system omplicated, Hass Ricuren, the ceolebrated cond orchestral concerts, has resi tion as director of the t urt Opera in Yienng, to take charg performances in Boston ¢ Jand Made More Than {is Predecessors. ombia, Cores, agary, Peru l erican Biales JB Mr. Harrie Me { wis general hie (ast session twenty-thege such Mr. Ulevelan appointments i ahead of his § ent of Dow with the ir, and that, to een a large bor of offloss recently raised to the dignit presidential offices. In 1885, Mr, Clove named sixty-five such postmasters, and vour 113: Mr. Harrison found time 10 install 156 before the Senate got away. In the other departments of the ment the nominations acted upon by Sonate in extra session were as here cated : Ireasury Mr, ( leveland, first term, 15, second term, 48: Mr. Harrison, 18. Heads of departments and asalstant secretaries Mr. Cleveland, first term, 15, second term, 19: Mr. Harrison, 18. Military and war Mr. Cleveland, first term, 22, second term, 15: Mr. Harrison, 1. Navy and Navy Depart- ment Mr, Cleveland, first term, 18, seoond term, 14; Mr. Harrison, 4. Judicial Mr. Cleveland, first term, 6, second term, 34 ; Mr, Harrison, 9. Mr. Harrison appointed 18 men to offios in the Interior Department, in- cluding the governors and secretaries of the territories, some of which became states dur ing his administration, and from the State Department sent in the names of 13 officials, the majority being del os to the American Repabdien’ Congress, rom the Interior Dee partment Mr, Clevejand this time sent in the names of 13 officials, and from the Stat: De partment but 3, In Mr.Cleveland's first term he had nine nominations unacted upon, wih drew one and had two rejected, This time he withdrew one an’ had seven left over with out action by the Senate, Mr. Harrison wich drew three of his nominees, had two rejected, and the Senate adjourned without artine = nine others, a ——————— TO CHANGE THE OAPITAL. Ie Louisville Working to be Made the Legislative Center of Kentucky. It begins to look as if the fight for remov- ing the State capital from Frankfort is in earnest this time, The Loulsville Council has ordered an election April 27th on a propo. sition to lssue €1,000,000 of bonds, which will be given the State, together with a sult. able building site, If the capital Is removed to Loulaville, Lexington has offered $250,000 and a build. ing site, The Legislature is strongly in favor of moving the enpital away from Jraaton and unless this Legislature does it, necording + It must remnts where alal the friends iI AWAY govern the indi GANTES ISLAND SHAKEN. Earthquake Shocks Carry Death and Pestruction Before Them, The Principal City's Almost Total Demolition. The Islana of Zante, one of the Jonlan Islands, was visited by a gtructive earthquake, resulting in of life und property. In February snd March last the island sustained a principal most de- great Joss vast amount of disturbances and a large number of lives were lost, The shock appears 10 have been most violent in the city of Zante, the greater part of which was destroved, The people ure panic stricken and the authorities helpless, The streets are impa able filled with and timber, the the houses which were thrown down , belng masses of ston wreckage of by the earthquake, rWESTY BODIES RECOYERED, bodies of killed by falling walls Thus far the twenty persone have been removed feared dead are ruins he persons odd rans into the ba Everyth is in confusion ser hing bo t be pursued 3 wr portion of the inhabft thie debris and it b util! from the many morn in the svete plains Dak © isira wore taken to were ren Turd Ldvites fr the whole sland has been de Many villages have the thought that Lh nt Nows ae egraph t be estims pif Waal Caine cas with or the sufferers, IRE SCENE OF rhe Island of Zante is si Rea and is one « riilos fijles it 50.000, wet suf red] 8G severely, Set the od 000 inhabitants, and is Archbishop and of a Roman tishop. It Hes on the piain at the antain, upon which is it by the V4 § enturies ago, a safe harbor, with a light quarantine station, and mans The houses occupy the gentie slopes rising from a semicireaiar bay, A hill called the Skopos, probably the Elatos « f the ancients, tO th, rises 10 & height of § 50 at the top of which is s monastery primands an extensive DRDGIWNA utili sey negions ih { hst give Yale iy : #0 died there in VOT fe about £500 130 udents pening « about complete, Its cost will bx 600, it will lode be ready for the of in 1x The removal of the famous old South colledge begins at the end « vay oollege year Tue Liberty Bell 2 20 be placed in the en trance rotunda of the Pennsylvania State ballding, and will be guarded Ly sis reserve policemen. It will be transported on a specially constructed car attached to a special train of Puliman cars which will convey the World's Fair committer of the City Council, Mayor Stuart, and other city officials to Chie ago, A procession and military escort will accompany the beg from Independence Hall to the railroad station in Philadelphia, Ix the late George I. Beney, of New York and Brooklyn, there died a philanthropiss whom perhaps Western art collectors knew better than Western business men A years ago he was thought to be worth $7,000,000, He is believed to have given away as much ns $2,000,000, Wesloyan University, $550,000, was the largest beneficiary. wis a student there, though not a graduate, In 1855 he sold 285 paintings st suction, real. ing $408,940. He made his wealth in bank ing. He was also interested in raliroade, G. Winraep Prance, of New Brunswick, N. 4. has issued an address to the eloctrio. fans of the country, aski them to rales money to put the tombs of Benjamin Frank. Hin and hix wife in good order, erect a new fence and a bronz: memorial tablet, At pres. ent the graves are sadly neglected, the tomb stones going to decay because of the lack of coment, afd the fence about them an ugly and tawdry fron one, He says: “The es timated cost of repairing tomb and making fence and tablet is $1,000, and in order that alimay ¢ mtribate I would suggest that 10 vents be the sum from each sutsoriber, It there are others who care to give larger sums an endowment fund will be created and the income devoted to keeping the tomb in ree pair for many years to coma,” Guxenran Lew Wattace bas returned to his home in Indiana after a season spent in the South, He appears to be in excellent health, and a Cincinnati reporter who inter. viewed him when he passed through that was impressed by “unmistakable ary alr, florid complextion, and splendid about nid wid a f the college vor {the pros mi ue” Advanced AL hr pu General W far greater pains : ey “Hen Hur,” and ‘ attention to the historfeal which deals with the » PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, Epitome of News Gleaned from Various Parts of the Btate. Tur Penrose bill for the abolition of Public Buildings Commission reading in the House of Hepresentatives, a proposed amendment continuing the Commis- sion In ofiee being defestod by avoteof 115 © 74. Tue committee appointed the prasad wocond by the Legisla the hoois met at Harris. ture in 1891 to investigate min nsgement of soldiers’ orphans’ & DUrg to examine witng jded by a delegates 10 Lehigh des vote of 45 10 18 10 instr I'ne Presbytery of the General Assembly to follow the past de Hyerances of the Assembly in the Briges matter, Hexny HILDEBRAND Wa found guilty of o* Lan thie attempting to murder 3 ¢ caster, and sent for sey Fast crn Penltentirmg Lee Bixa, a Ching Is the State's two sonal property tax t £ Phila- igments pr $ ita neninst the City Judge McPherson gave ju of #553.042 and ot Ritorney ri ports «i LO Ih § nit wd with fadirated with Se — DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES Ax explosion in the ( pany a works at Chicag 5 arty snd Dtally Injured Jesse Mus, Boxiey and her four-year-old son, of Hinton, West Virginia, wore drowned in the Greenbrier river walle trying 10 drive across the stroum, Two electric cars on the Menton and Balle. fontaine line ran iute a horse oar of the bio ¥ MeCue ¢ sengers on the latter car were seriously njured Vicron Loup, & member of the Lord & Delaware, while superintending some repairs A rocker of gas in the Black Diamond paked lamp, carried by a laborer. The ex. plosion killed Wm. George, aged 46 yoars, burned, Two electric cars in East Orange, New Jor. sey, going in opposite directions on different the whole side of both cars being torn out. Many of the passengers were out and bruised, Auax, giving the name of John Driscoll, of Buffalo, was found losked in a freight car at Pittsburg, in tho last stage of According to the story he told after being resuscitated, be was without food or drink 144 hours, Tur engine of a mger train on the Louisville, New Albany and Chisago Rail. road went through a bridge near Frankfort, Indians, Suiting 20 fort, Engineer Brooks war killed and Fireman O' Hrien was injured, Through the presence of mind of Brooks, who applied the brakes, the coaches did not eave the track. DEATH IN THE FLAMES, Two Children Loss Their Lives, and a Number of Men Injured. Twos okildren burned to death and four or five men injured internally were the results of a fire on Church street, Norfolk, Va. The fire ooourred in a boarding house and so fiercely did it burn that two children belong. ing to the proprietress wers roasted to death, To escape from the flames four or five men jamped from the third story to the ground and wero jujured internally, A reusonu rom Ton Angele Calon gare vi he fu Sei a et in Pleo Cannon, in the San Fernando to Be in Kew Orleans, from Houduras indicate that the revolutions y curried almost everything before gemnn 10 be only % question of a few days when they will be in full con- trol of the The Coiba for Sew Orleans on Wednesday and all vern ment, Dunwise left § antral £ $4 Mi CORLYOL Os THE but two departments wore Br A es ew wey FLOUBR—~Balt High Grade Extra..... . WHEAT-No. 2 Red COBN-<No. 2 White NOW ooconivsnnns Ear Yellow per bri OATS Southern & Penn Western White Mixed RYE-—Na, 2... HAY {hoioe Time Good to Prime. .....ev en BTHAW Rye in car ids. Wheat Blocks.... . Oat Blocks Best Pat.$ 4 80 400 CANXED GOODS TOMATOES No 2......... 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