THE NEWS.
Ex-Governor Chase and Zimri Dwiggines,
o! Chicago, have been summoned before the
Indianapolis grand jury to tell what they
know of the affairs of the Greentown Bank,
and the cashier, now under arrest, promises
to make a clean breast of the whole matter,
intimating that he was simply the victim of
his superiors, and that they are the real oul-
prits, —Harry Hill, who is wanted in At-
Janta, Ga., for a forgery amounting to $20,-
000, was arrested in Chicago by detectives,
He is about thirty years old, and belongs to
one of the best families in the South. The
forged notes bore the name of Mrs, Porter,
wife of the president of the Merchant's Bank,
who, for years, had been a staunch friend of
his. —— Harry K. Webster was appointed re-
ceiver of A
ford. Iowa. His first statement shows lia-
bilities of $35,000, with assets, par value,
£40,000. Lew.s W. Baker, of Hoytville,
Pa. committed suicide, Charles Jones, of
North Adams, Mass, , shot himself dead whiie
hie wife and two sisters were trying to pre-
vent it.——John Wilis, an employe of the
Buffalo Furnace Company, accidentally
locked himsel! in a furnace and was suffo-
cated. —--The Thorp & Martin Manufactur
ing Company, manufacturers of typewriters
and other light machinery, in Boston, as
signed to George E. Adams and Edmund NH,
Talbet, The liabilities are reported to be
$100,000, with nominal assets about the same,
The Inamond Plate Glass Company of Ko-
komo, Ind.. closed its works oa account of
the demoralized condition of the market. ——
Edward B. McCown, Joseph Bachner and
John H. Jones have filed a bill in the Bupe-
rior Court in Chicago, asking for the ap-
pointment of a receiver for the Geneva Cloek
Company.
are set up to be $213,500, with liabilities #25 -
000. ——One person was killed and several
wounded by a cyclone near Hoseaale, Miss,
The New York Chamber of Commerce
passed a resolution asking for the early re-
peal of the Sherman Silver Purchase act. —
The Plankinton Bank in Milwaukee closed
ts doors, and William Plankinton was made
assignee. ——A bill was filed in the Court of
Chancery in Newark for the appointment of
man Protiva bas been in progress for several
weeks, was discharged by Judge Sheehan,
The court made this decision on the ground
that the charge of bribing Alderman Pro-
tiva was pot supported by sufficient evi-
dence.
Carrie Vogt, aged fourteen, of Newark, N.
J.. drowned herseM because she feared ar-
fe imprisonment the sentence of death
banging over J. R. Vonpolnitz, convicted of
wife
the la gest lumber dealers
suspended, —
from heart
Judge Joseph M. Beck
and had lived at Fort Madison since 185),
Walton county, Ga., while
sheriff in serving a peace warning on the
Connelly brothers, Malsby shot one of the
latter before he died, Mrs, Cavanaugh, of
Jeflersonville, Ind., went with a candle to
the celler for gasoline,
was heard for blocks away,
was burned to death,
off its foundation, and the floors and weath-
erboarding blown in all directions.
Near Hazlehurst, Ga, an unknown white
tramp tried 10 commit a eriminal assault on
& white woman named Mrs. Crosby. Khe
drew a pistol and shot him in the head,
followed. Bhe
his tracks, James Dickson, about seveaty
years of age, one of the richest citizens of
Pennsylvania train and killed. Father
Philo P. Hubbell died at the age of ninety-
four in Winona, Minn, He was the oldest
living Mason in the United States, having
joined the Painted Pos: Lodge, No. 203, at
Painted Post, Steuben county, N. Y., in 1820,
He has held high offices in the lodge and un
der the government, ;
Gov. Dewitt Clinton, of New York. He has
been a resident of Winona since 1856, Five
children survive him.——The Rank of Beres.
ford, 8 D., a private institution controlled
by A. A Ames, has [alled. Gov. Flower,
of Rew York, who has had the cases of Mar-
tello and Osmond, the murderers, under con
gideration for some time, decided to let the
law take its course, and they will both be
killed by electricity. Martello is now in
the Dannemorra prison and will be killed
sometime during the first week in June, and
electrocuted the second week in June.
W. H. Miller & Co.'s hardware store and
an adjoining building in Bay City, Mich.
were destroyed by fire.——The Bank of
Puyallup, Washington, closed its doors,
Further details of the storm at Laddonia,
Mo., show that John W. Willis was killed Ly
& falling wall, and W. H. McCue was fatally
injured by a falling barn. Gideon J. Mallory
and Charles Ford were drowned in the ore:k
Just north of the city limits while trying to
reach stock. Fifteen or twenty farm-houses
were demolished east and north of Mexico,
wwwBdward Hoerner, who shot and killed
Phillips, the green goods man, in Brooklyn,
on May 6th last, with his brother Robert, who
was with him when the shooting oocured,
waived examination in the Police Court, and
both were leld for the grand jury on the
charge of murder, Dr, John Bhrady was
arrested, and released on $5,000 ball, In New
York, in the sction of Mr. Sarah J. Monroe,
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Orleans to Richmond.
———— id
The Funeral Train and the Escort-- Re-
interment at R'chmond.
to no event in the history of
South,” was the ceremonies attendant
gon Davis from New Orleans to Richmond
man was the first and only president.
In charge of an escort of ex-Confederate
ana. Miss Winnie Davis, the
the Confederacy,” Mr. Davis’ other
Richmond, and other
returned to Richmond on the funeral
train then proceeded to Montgomery, Ala,
visional government,
ville, 8. C., Greensborough, and Raleigh, N,
C., where similar exercises was held,
The Ceremonies at Richmond.
mond the casket was to eapitol
building, and the remains will lay in state in
the rotunda in front of the Houdan status of
Washington until the following noon. A
conveye i
them. The floral offerings on the occasion,
the scholars of the public schools was
marched passed the casket and strew flowers
upon it,
At noon the casket was placed upon a cals.
son draped with flags and ornamented with
shields and swords, drawn by eight caparis-
oned black horses, each led by a soldier, and
escorted to the famons Holywood cemetery
tions of Virginia, consisting of infantry,
cavalary and artillery. Abott 1,000 cavairy-
men were in line. Others in the procession
were the local and visiting camps of Con
federate veterans, members of the Jefferson
Davis Monument Association, members of
she Grand Camps of Confederats veterans,
the ladies of the Holiywood, Oakwood, and
Hebrew Memorial Associations, and d:stin-
guished visitors in carriages. Among the
latter were many Southern State dignitaries,
General Jobo B. Gordon, of Georgia, was
ehief marshal of the prooscsion.
The remains of the famous chieftain will
He in Hollywood, but a little removed from
those of two Presidents of the United Fates,
James Monroe and John Tyler.
John Randolph, of Roanoke J. A. Seadon,
who was the secretary of the Confederate
navy : ex-Governor Heary A. Wise; John
Thompson, the poet ; the Confederate cav-
alry commander, J. E. B. Stuart, and Gen.
eral Pickett, Pegrim, John B Cook and
William Smith, Here also lie 12,000 Confed-
erate soldiers who lost their lives fighting at
Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, the sen days
battie around Richmond and other conflicts
of the late war.
The Davis circle, as the pilot where the
body of Mr. Davie was interred is now known,
is a commanding site on a viufl overicoking
one of the mos: sightly siretches of the James
r.ver. Tothe north of it rises a swarded slope
ending in a plateau crowned with a number
of imposing monuments To the south the
make up a picture of myriad diminutive isi
ands, granite boulders, and leaping cascades
‘I he Davis circle is within sight of the little
Davis’ son, who was killed during the war
by falling from the rear balcony of the Con.
federate executive mansicn, The white s ab
and the
be re
his
children, buried elsewhere, will also
owa.
The gr.ve of Jefferson Davis will be marsed
eonter of the most fashionable residential
jon of Riebmond. No design forthis momonr-
i
mitted, Sentiment, however,
shrine stall be a Greek temple containing a
recumben figure, and with
and pediment.
AsOUT NOTED PEOPLE,
Hn
Bmith's homestead at Bewanes,
first portrait painter in the monarchy.
Bex Jraxs has been a passenger conductor
on the Great Western Railway of England for
years, has travoied in that time 3,494,452
wiles, and has never met with an accident,
Painter D. Axmots has been compelled by
diet, but as he preserves many of his farm-
boy habits he don’t mind the sacrifice much,
Rev, Tuoxas Sponosox will sail from Auck-
jand, my Zenland, for Ban, Francisco, ou
ay 20. He will pass several days in Chic
ang will nsaist Dwight L. Moody .n his ri.
gelical work in that city,
Isaac McLexwax is the oldest living Amer-
foenn poet. He was 87 last Sunday, and at
his home in Greenpoint, L. IL, goes fishing
with as much relish as evir, Howthorne,
Hol Webster and Longfellow were
Mong friends. His best known poem
was his “Trout Brook,” publshed mn a
volume of "Native American Poets,”
Gexsnar Groner OG. Greex, the oldest
uate of West Point, ocoiobrated hin $81
day Just Fray. He resigned from 3he
army take wp civil engineering,
Voluateared when the Rebellion ren oh
Tax Brazilian warship A'mirinte Barrosa
i has been wrecked in the Gulf of Buez,
Tue Irish National League of Groat Britain
held an enthusiastic demonsteation in Lou-
don,
i Awrox Vax Houmverring, one of the found-
ers of the Austrian constitution, Is danger
| ous y ili.
Tie members of the Miners’ Congress, in
session at Brussels, have been expelled from
Belgium,
A train on the Tralee and Dingle Railway,
sons were killed,
A taxpspLing n Norway has overwhelmed
It is feared, have perished,
tion from their own governor.
Bexaror Evie has accepted the ministry
of inavee, thus putting an end
present to the Liulian cabinet crisis,
religious monuments have Leen presented to
the Pop » in behalf of American Catholics.
Tux epidemic of pmall-pox in Gothenberg,
| vent its lurther extension,
Lonp Savmssuvny declared in Belfast that if
the Conservatives should ever be returned to
jones they would return to the lrish pode;
lore advocated by them,
Brasecuowirz Lescre, a village of about
750 Inhabitants, near Olmuts,
been totally destroyed by fire.
| lost their lives in the conflagration,
than ever bis views in favor of the trench
republic and of democratic institut.ons,
Czxnxowltz, a town of Austria, situated
near the river Pruth, has been visited by &
disastrous flood,
bave bon drowned and numbers are rendered
homeless by the calamity.
Wing the Brithish vessel of war Mersey
ing killed and several injured.
WILD ANIMALS AT LARGE.
| The Wreck of a Circus Train Kills Bix
Men and Injures Beven Others.
At 5 58 o'clock the other morning a train
carrying Walter I. Mains circus from Houta
dale. to Lewistown, Pa, was wrecked st Mo-
Cann's Crossing, one mile north of Vall Sta
tion, on the Tyrone and Clearfield branch
rafiroad. It is supposed that the train got
the better of the engineer by the brakes fall.
ing to work.
The train left the track on a sharp bend,
and nine fiat, one box, two stock and a lunch
car went over a high embankment, and were
smashed to pio es, Bix
and
seriously,
The wild
eagen, Two injured sacred oxen were killed
to put then out of thelr misery. A tiger
| kilied a cow of Alfred Thomas, a farmer,
His wite was milking the cow at the tne,
Thomas killed the tiger with a rifle, Three
i Hons escaped ; was captured immedi.
ately.
Another was lassooed and tied to a tree alter
biting the lassoer, James Chambers, severely
on the hand, The other Hon is still at large.
A tiger, water buffalo, hyena, Lear, alligators
and a large collection of soakes got away,
but were captured,
The elephants and camels were uninjured.
A black panther, silver tiger, a lot of monkeys
sud valuabde birds sre at large. Almost every
ring hors. was killed The total number of
borses killed is 49 with all the others cut and
bruised.
It is generally believed that the train was
too heavy for the engine, Engineer Cross
well is supposed to have disappears, as be
{ did not show up at the wreck, The engine
| and sleeping coaches did not leave the
track.
Mr. Main is unable to estimate his loss a
curately and cannot give the amount of in.
surance. He estimates the joss at $100,000,
The cars were 65 feet Jong and built ast year.
i The show was sald to be the third best three.
ring circus on the road. All the killed and
injured were helpers around the circus and
ook tenia,
The netghborhood is greatly alarmed about
the wild animals at large. but the show peo
ple say there is no nead Lo fear.
A -
SACASA STEPS OUT.
people were killed
many were injured, eight of them
animals all got out from the
Glue
Nicaragua's President Resigns the
Troublesome Reins to the Government
Secretary Gresham received the lollowing
! despatch from New York
“President Sacasa, of Nicaragua, resigned,
| Bigned terms of James A. Beryimn-
ser.”
Mr. Borymseer is President of the Central
i Be oh
is the first information that the State De-
partment bas had indeoati .g an end of the
war in Nicaragua, It had beens unofficially
stated that United states M nister Bakes
| had been using bis best efforts to Lring about
peace, and the uepartment is anxiously
| awaiting official corroboration by him of the
despat bh sent by Mr, Scrymser, although
Secrelary Gresham believes the atter to be
trustworthy.
Sacnss mgned a Ceaty of pedce with his
opponents, The membes of the Provisional
{| Governmen! have entered Managua and as
sumed control of affairs. The tras sler of the
reins of government was affected quietly and
there has been no disorder of any kind.
mnissstasn IIOSsis.
CUBA WANTS TO SELL
Ravolutionists Would Like to
Have Uncle Bam Acquire It.
Speaking of the situstion in Cuba Senor
Jose Martinez, n prominent member of the
flevo utionary party in New Orleans, said
that a movement wes on foot among his
sountrymen to induce the United States to
buy Cuba and that a good portion of the
money would be put up by the oppressed
Cubans,
“Let the United States offer to buy the
sland and the owners of land and the busi
ness people of Cuba would be willing to pay
one-half of the cost of the purchase of the
island by the United States themselves,” he
said,
The
LL oI
OPENED TO THE SEA,
——
Dallax, Tex., Celebrated an Important
Event of Her History,
Twenty-five thousand people celebrated
the opening of navigation of Trinity River
from Dallas to the sea, the occasion being the
arrival of the Harvey, a steambost of 500
bales of cotton capacity.
Hposchos were made by the leading men of
wat ever seen In Texan, It included a pro.
IN MEMORY OF THE DEAD.
Foreign Sallors and Others Parade
in New York, Brooklyn, Philadel-
phia and Washington<~Eulalia at
General Grant's Tomb,
Memorial Day of the Columbian year was
eccleprated in New York and other cities by
parades of Grand Army veterans and by the
parted soldiers,
In New York City the parade of the Grand
Army was witnessed by thousands upon
thousands of people, The line of march
from Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh street
to Washington Square wus through
streets lined with spectators and
rows of buildin the stoops,
and roofs of which
and decorated with bunting.
windows
by Governor Flower, David 8, Brown, the
form and attracted a great deal of attention,
They were kept busy constantly
ing their military hats
salutes given to them by the various officers
The Governor
There
It wus nearly
of the
own military staff, all in full uniform.
6000 men in line,
1134 o'clock when the last
The Old
in line, closed around
the Governor's carriage, and escorted him
back to the Windsor Hotel, The parade
Grand Marshal Barry reviewed it, It then
disbanded, and most of the Grand Army
Posts proceeded to the cemeteries to lay flow-
ers on the graves of their dead comrades,
The services st the tomb of General Grant in
The Grand Army ritual was
of Ohio,
itnelf
delivered
was
aration,
with
The
flowers,
AD
oovered
mid of red and yellow Immortelles in bars on
8s white background, with a border of roses
sud Hles of the valley. On the yellow bars
were the words, “China's Tribute to Gen.
Grant” in red. The plece was from the
Chinese Embassy, The Infants Eulalia also
placed & wreath on the tomb of General
Grant, The memorial exercises in Carnegie
Music Hall in the evening fo.med an appro.
prints ending to the observances of Decors.
tion Day.
In Brooklyn business was entirely sus
pended, all the public bulldings were draped
with the National colors, and all over the city
there were decorations on club houses and
private dwellings. There was a parade, and
the rapidiydbinning ranks of the veterans,
who occupied the centre of the line, were led
and followed by United States troops and
marines, National Guard regiments, sons of
veterans, old firemen, and civie societion,
The perfect weather brought out an army of
spectators, and no preceding Decoration Day
parade in Brooklyn received such warm pop-
ular applause ayor Boody reviewed the
parade, and interest centred in the march.
ing bodies as they passed under the beau.
tiful memorial arch facing the main
entrance to Prospect Park, near which
the reviewing stand was erected. The pres.
ence of eighty girls, the daughters of vet.
erans, in the ranks with Mansfield Post 35,
was one of the most picturesque features in
the parade. They were all preity, and,
dressed in their red, white and blue coos
tumes and carrying little fags and marche
ing in a fauitiess manner, they made a
most attractive spectacle. The parade
was dismissed directly after the review.
ing stand was passed, and the various
Grand Army posts, after a brief! rest, started
by the nearest route for the cemeteries to
which they had been assigned It was esti-
mated that fifty thousand persons were pres.
ent in Woodlawn Cemetery whens Farragut
Post No, 87, and its guests, Naval Post No,
$00, of Philadelphia, beld memorial ser-
vices in the Farragut plot. Ex-Congressman
John Quinn delivered an oration. Every
member of the Philadelphia Naval Post is a
medal of bonor man.
In Philadelphia an unusual feature in the
Decoration Day ceremonies was the partic.
pation in the exercises of seventeen officers
from the Russian flagship Dimitri Denskol
and ber consort, the Rynda, and five officers
from the Austrian corvette Frundsberg.
The foreign naval contingent was met of
lace street wharf by the Citizens’ HReoep
tion Committee and Commander J. F. For
sythe, United States Navy, and was escorted
by Post 2, G. A. BK, and other organizations
to Monument Cemetery, After the decors
tion of graves at that place the foreign guests
were driven to the Lincoln Monument in
Fairmount Park, where ex-Postmaster-Gen-
eral Wanamaker delivered a eulogistic ad.
Hill Cemetery, where they wituessed the im
pressive services over the grave of General
George G. Meade by the Grand Army Pos
bearing his name,
At Washington the graves of the soldiers
procession
been fired by a light battery of the Fourth
United States Artillery and made the rounds
ecometerien, decorating first the
“Tomb of the Unkoown."
oration was afterwards deliv.
ered in the amphitheatre of the Arlington
by William E. Simonds. Rev. Dr.
and J, Madison Couts spoke at Battle Ceme-
tery, the scene of Jubal Early's attack on
Washington.
the decoration of the graves of Generals
Belknap by
time of his departure from the city, at the
White House, Secretaries Gresham and Her
bert went to Arlington Cemetery, Seeretary
Carlisle spent the day in Baltimore, Secretary
Morton in Nebraska, Attorney-General Olney
in Boston and Postmaster-General Bissell in
Buffalo. Secretary Smith remained in town.
The departments were closed,
In New Jersey Decoration Day was appro.
priately observed. One of the most
monument, built J
the late member © , Edward F. Mo
Da Tol Holy Ropul ie New
ote 0 ol Lepulohre .
- The shaft is P fourteen foot
-
suteeription to
i
g
53%
iz
Then the children of the public schools
showsred the graves with flowers,
At Rutland, Vi, Mayor Mead delivered the
Boldiers’ Memorial Hall to Post Roberts, G,
A. BR, Colonel George W, Doty, commander
of the department, assisted by members of
the post, dedicated the hall,
At Bridgeport, Conn., among the visiting
organizations which participated in
parade were the Ninth Ward Pioneer Corps
Post No. B62,
G. A. R,
At Northampton, Mass,, General Horatio
C. King, of Brooklyn, delivered the oration,
The graves of soldiers in all the cemeteries
were decorated,
Department of New
deliverad an Memorial
At Paris, Franes, about five hundred per
fiecoration of the tomb of
his
American Independence,
the Lafayette family arrived
honor of
Zi CRUSE of
and General Head,
Post, of the
lepublic, of
Grand
New
Army
5! the York.
referred to the sacrifices of
By the faliof a portion of a wallof &
hullding which was being torn down in Ch -
cago one workman was killed and
seriously injured,
and Oblo Kalirosd bridge, south of Johnson,
caused two ol oars to take fire
bridge was destroyed,
A battery of five bollers at Beafer Mills,
Keene, New Ha, pshire, exploded, killing
and wrecking the buliding.
Tux engineer employed by the United
Blat 8 Government 10 Investigate the extent
oyster in-
21 re
ports that it will
Ey the fall of
ing an entrance
Art Institute at
amount
a section of fiooring form.
tc Washiogtcnu Hall, in the
the World's Fair, 76 women
Mav x Romzars, aged eight years, of
Nsugutuck, Connecticut, was burned to
death by her clothes taking fire from a stove,
Maury Moaroe, an aged bed-ridden woman,
to whom the child ran help, Was also
for
Exari- rox bas broken out at Carteret and
Port Beading, factory towns three miles
where a thou.
sand men are empl yod. People living
near the towns are Sockibg to Habhway to be
yaocin ted,
Tue steel steamship Craigside, of London,
from: Mstansus for Meutreal with suger,
struck some submerged object, “about nine
miles southwest of Whitehead, Xova Beotia,
and immedistaly Rlled and foundered in
deep water, The crew lunded {: thelr hosts
in safety. When the water reached the
boilers toey exploded, scattering the wreck-
ase lu alidirections,
A viorest hall storm occurred at Pitts
burg. Telephone and telegraph wices were
prosirated in every direction, electric and
cable cars were stopped, apd in the East End
iy every window faring south was shattered,
Twenty homes were killed, either by col.
son or by bee ming entangled iu broken
electric light wires. John Downey, a driver,
fatally hurt
res ———— cena
WORK AND WORKERS,
At the Eagle Hill Colliery, near Pottevilie,
Pa., miners working by contract suffered a
redaction of fifty cents a yard, while driver
boys were reduced from $10.20 & week to $8,
Tue strike of the conl miners in the Cher
okee district, in Kansas, is likely to extend to
every union miner in the State. The Mis
souri miners may also be called Upon 10 go
oul.
Tue entire force of stonecutiers on the
Government buliding st Charleston, South
refused 10 pay $2.50 for the redemption of a
anion employes tools, which bad been stolen
and pawoed
Coar miners at Weir City, Kansas, are on
& strike agninst the new schedule of prices
contend that the pay is the sane as belore of
slightly better
Tue Order of Railroad Telegraghers at
the following officers
Grand Telegrapher, D.G. Ramsey ; Assistant
Dperator, H. Gerhardt, Mauch
Pa ; Secretary and Treasurer, J.
Misrzp by a bogus order sil the telegraph
the Chicago and
Northwestern rond struck. They were or
Order of Railway Telegraphers, and in a few
ho ars everything was again moving slong
Erorxe V, Dens, of Terre Haute, Indiana,
bas b en in New York consuiting friends con.
cerning the details of the organization of the
Its ex-
se son are to be reduced to the minimum.
here will be no initistion fee, and as few
The organization will
not be secret or sath-bound, A daily news.
paper and a monthly magazine will be estad-
ished.
—————— O55.
Removals
snd Forced Resignations
The follow ng changes were announced ip
the Treasury Department :
Appointments—John D. Putman, Wis on.
sin. capiain © the watch Treasury Depart
ment: Anthony J. Cannery, Michigan,
special ‘inspector of custome: Stephen L.
Pardy, of New York, special inspector of
customs : William Bethel, Florida. immigrant
inspector ; Peter J. Donoliue, New York, as
sistant gor of boilers, New York city,
vice W, RK. Thomas, removed; Samuel 8
Baker, Delaware, nsistant keeper Brandy.
wine light sation, Del,
Removed John J. Holland, District of
Columbia, immigrant inspector,
Resignations called for--M. J. Bunoell,
New York, chief division Third Auditor's
office ; Chauncey G. Heath, Michigan, ch ef
division Second Auditor's office; Hiram
Smoke, Michigan, speciai inspector of cus.
BLOWN TO PIECES.
A Woman Killed and a House Wrecked
by a Gasoline Explosion.
Mra Cavanaugh, of Jeffersonville, Ind,
went with & candle to the celler jor gasoline.
lowed. ihe wos burned 0 desth
' d off is foundation
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
Sms
Epitome of News Gleaned from Various
Parts of the State.
Tus Delaware County Republican Execu-
tive Committe s was organized in the interest
resoone
of Cougressmnan Robinson.
Hannispvno's new high building
school
Joux T. Lae, treasurer of the American
Car.
rying off the order's funds, amounting to
#5000, was arrest-d at Beranton,
Ovenartions at the Potts Colliery,
dale, have suspended indefinitely, owing to
the fire burning in it
Ax inquisition in
Locust-
junancy was held ab
claimed, is
The
heard
Henry,
unable to take care of his property.
Master, Hon Robert EE, Monaghan,
eslate,
bank
ers, physicians and attorneys, stated that, in
their opinion, Daniel Meredith is not able to
take care of himself,
Howarp W, Haiunr,
father's
a printer, azed 20
the West Chester
He committed the set in almost
Nathan T. Hayes, the
} OUBg
Harry has been worrying over his health,
Tre amendment to the Berate’s electric
reservoir,
the same way that
the House, supposed to be in the interest og
the Gettysburg battlefield, does not protect
leaves it open to the mercies of the raflways,
Farner Gurkz, of Mount Carmel, Pa., at-
tempted to enter his church aided by police
officers, He was repulsed by his parishoners
and finally sanounced that no services
would be held. Bishop McGovern refuses
to remove him at the re Gest of the church
members, and & Jong and bitter fight is ex-
pected,
Twe rail converting and depart-
ments and all the branches of the merchant
mill except the puddling department of the
Bethlehem Irom Company have shut down.
Hexny Kvuxe, an aged man in Lancaster,
who was not awakened in time for his din
ker committed suicide in a rage.
Tax four bishops of the Morsvain Chureh
in , Bethieherr ordained
blooming
twelve presbyters
from the ministry, from whom the Bishops
may be chosen when a vacancy oocurs, Rer-
vices in connection with the session of
the synod were also beld in various
churches
Tux dead body of David W, Sherlock, of
Media, was found on the banks of the Brady-
wine near Wilmington, and be is believed to
have sommitted suicide,
Chief of Police John D. MeDonald of Map-
ston, was shot and fatally wounded by his
brother Henry, { while the latter was in a
rage.
Tur ministers in attendance on the General
Eynod of the Reformed Church in the United
Btates in ssssion in Reading filled the
drunken
jocal
puipits
Momrmax eiders have been working in the
coal fields of Schuylkill county and
having secured
owe
twenty converts will leave
for Salt Lake City
Tux Senate bilis, one amending the Bullitt
bill and known as the Haddock buliding law,
the other abolishing certain fees allowed the
City Treasurer, finally passed the House at
Harrisburg and go to the Governor. The
Senate refusad to concur in the House amend.
ments 10 the Baker ballot law. The Gov.
ernor signed the bill providing for increases
in the salaries of various State officials.
Ix all the towns and cities of the State the
day was obwerved by parades, the decoration
of soldiers’ graves and the delivering of ora
tions,
A svxsen of the independent pipe line
companies have drawn up a protest against
the repeal of the law preventing the con-
competing lines,
Tur Supreme Court decided to hear argu-
ment in the case of the Public Building Com-
mission against the City of Philadelphia.
Tug Moravian 8yood of Bethlehem decided
in faver of retaining the present standard of
representation. It was decided to appoint a
Tue new Pottstown Hospital was formally
Tux carth caved in at Patterson at the end
The ground affected by the oaving
is 50 feet long and 6 wide, the depth being
5 feet. William Clough's residence
The
cave in occurred early in the morning while
The shanty
was turned cotapivtely upside down, the in’
mates flying about in every direction. For.
tunately none received severe injuries,
A max named Reese, a lineman on the cleo.
death. Whil: changing wires they became
around his hands and they were badly burned
before his companions sucoseded in pulling
off the wire.
As ax excarsion boast, Mason, landed at
Greensboro from Morgantown, Ben Downey,
of Mapletown, who had trouble on the boat
was put ashore. He began firing into the
crowd on the bost and wounded five men,
some of them severely, Dr. J. F, Williams,
Harry Roberts and Edward Ewing, of Greens
boro, are worst injured. Mr. Axton, of
Brownsville, was shot in the thigh severely,
and an unknown man in the leg. Alter a
hard struggle he was arrested.
Invonraxy tests of armor Tor the Govern.
ment were made at Bethlohem in the pros
ence of officers of the Russian and Austrian
war vessels now lying off Philadelphia.
Ix nocord with a policy of economy, the
Reading Railroad management has directed
a lange reduction in the foros of employees
along the line,
fixed at a point 3 per cent. below the $3.50