THE NEWS, A small cyclone did a great deal of damage in the town of Elmwood, Neb, —— Pauline Jordan, in Norfolk, cbarged with pension frauds, was sequitted, — The fourth anuual reunion ©f the Reformed Church in the United States was celebrated in Carlisle, Pa, Buck & Toan, bankers and dealers in bardware in Plymouth, Ind., closed their doors and assigned to R. B. Oglesbes, in Wyoming, Two more of in the West Shore Railroad Newbury, N. Y., died——The (Ind. } Manufacturing Company's burned to the ground. Loss, $50,000 ; insur. ance, $50,000. The institution was one the those injured collision, at of wood materials for wagons, ete, Secretary Hoke Smith Totten Indian Agency. He was met by bundred pupils of the school, led by an Indian band, made known their grievances, retary Smith with the pipe Governor Jones, has Indian altan presented Bec of peace. — of sg» i oners shot. ~-A carriage containi and Loan Association of New York was into by a train River Railroad Spring Hill, ginia, and Capt. E. M. was instantly killed special agent, town of Luckey, Ohio, ed by fire. , The run on the Kanawha West Vir- of Charleston, at Stone, and F, W. fel, was was par y destroy. siness section Almost compietely wiped out, The loss wil gate £100,000; ance abe Hostilities are reported to have broken ¢ in Samoa, - H. W. Peck, a Canadian minister who bas just to New Bruns. wick from Hawall says the justify annexation Dr. Henry C. W. Meyer was arrested it £40. 000, - Rev, Come iOus Lnere nai 1 by the United States, in De- gE people a triot on various to get their insuran party of Odd Fel Jamestown, N. ¥Y.. an installation of taining Frank Newhe ford was struck Ly warges of poisonii e, While large lows were where they had ¢ officers. the Arriage use and Dexter White an Erie in and both men were killed, A Lake, Utab, in the nster IDASS-U iations were ade pte spread distres Congress to Tata § . ute free « to gold, coinage He and implicated twelve of Albert Molitor at Rogers City William Repeke, who shore ir OLhers in lamage to sidewalks. As far as known, lost, Ym, 8. Btelnway ceived fr the Order class, from Japan tt batehery of a number children in a japanese village, At Philadelphia, Judge Butler, ited States District Court, port of James C. Sellers, audited the accou Thon gomery, the recely of Co-operation. The mem will recely thirty per cent. on and Olga Pressmann, bre came from Russia, and Patrick MeCaliin, wno arrived in New Yor days ago { land, were found in Philadelphia Archiba irowned st men, woman aod in thn Un. confirmed the master who ns H. Mont. ‘piversal Order @ Herman ther and sister. woo ng from #t of was phia in the Delaware River N.Y. fire field & Co, glass m surance, $45,000, Shelbyville, Ii. West Superior, Wis, typhus A Philadel. - At Lo roperty of A. J. Mans anufacturers, $40,000 .in. The Mills, for $50,000. fire destroyed the Lake Baperior Mineral Paint Company's loss, $100,000. —— Attacks on the Chinese Portland, Ore. are frequent. Australia, k port injured the Starr at failed factory; at Ia a famous Italy, a jury at Atetio, Texas, gave a verdict for Gen. Russ of $329 M7. —- At Milwaukee, the grand jury indicted F. A. Lappan, F. T. Day and William Plankington for methods in banking, The Duke of Schieswig- Holstein and Princes ilegal Johnsonbury, Pa., Engineer John Braddock was killed and two trainmen crushed to eaptured in North Idaho, —— Secretary lisle is personally investigating in Chicago the violations of the customs laws by foreign exhibitors in selling goods cute the offenders, —— Abert Bomberger, a farm band, muarderec Mr. Krieder, his wife Annie Krieder, at their home near Cando, N. DA platform at West Brighton Beach, Coney Island, on which a large crowd of dition to the great number of lives lost in the lows cyelone, the estimated damage to prop- erty exceeded $800,000, was killed at Brigastine Beach, N. J., by taking bold of a live wire. «At San Fran. embezzling $164,000 from by Judge Beawell. Bail was fixed at $20,000, weThe First National Bank of Hot Springs, B. D., closed its doors. FIGHTING IN BRAZIL. Another Insurrection Reported to Hava Broken Out in Rio. The insurrection in Rio Grande do Sul has broken out again at Baga. The railway has been cut and the city of Rio Grande has been invested by the rebels. General Sarraiva, the insurgent leader, is marshaling his forces at Pelotas, A hundred armed passengers, led by the insurgent Admiral Wandelkolk, boarded the AF The Cold Stesoge Warehouse Com- pletely Destroyed. } AT THR FAIR C—O] Tower. The large cold storage warehouse erected by the Hercules Iron Co., of Chicago, just inside the World's Fair grounds, near destroyed by fire and the big paint shop ad- foining was partly burned while 35,000 per- sons looked on, As far as were injured. It was the most such loss of life at a fire has been known Chicago since 1871, The money Joss is esti- mated at $650,000, The full extent of the death wrought may never be known, as the building collapsed totally in so short a time after the fire started that many people who entered the buliding hoping to render aid before the peril under which they were placing themselves was roal- ized went unannounced to their doom. t is said that but four Columbian guards are missing, but thers are many vacancies lo the different companies scattered about the grounds and their captains, while refusing 10 commit themselves, fear that their men bave been cremated, THE BURNED BUILDING. The cold storage warehouse was 130 by JN foet foe t cost $250,000, and was built ofwo.d and was stored with mw Vogt to the and staff, tables, fruits and restaurants on the grounds, & vo tower 260 feet high, The was outfittad with complete the manofac of joe, wid was on the grounds as rtificial ice rink in the top wigeompieted, aad the piace brooged with sight seers, wines belonging It bad & establisbhme npp 1 refrige an exhibit slory Wis ure b THE FIRE BTARTED. y'elock P. M. Twenty-five it. I lames sud adsl § enRag: w then 1 ana y 100 feet to oss Of 80 many men Jepartment ored to keej thousan + us the heat wor the five I IMYRISGNELD fret intimation of when the wn wind bl aj 3X bowen ire Wer did have the se It nn taker means of ake. which se as if the Ruse they be that more w sale for the sn ire and bad it not t 10 envel hanged p« wi SAW, ihe {! the It sewned vuld soon flames had been devou framework whi i shaft that pierces ft a tapd of vich the square men molten gold, 8 ! i tower just underneath the Imprisoned nll sides The gold letters ‘Hercules Cold Storage Warehous the centre of the tower and around flames circulated and raised to md ire the poor wretches (0 whom of thousands were turned. In a few seconds the ia the scorching fire coming, and one im pulse of seil-preservation the moved quickly to where the ropes were attached at the northwest corner. They could not look down and see the flames because of the pro jecting cornices, but they knew where the ropes = ere, and they huddled together, some without their preparing to save themaeives if they The man nearest the rope grasped it and descended. But for a doven feet the fSames had no mercy, the rope was burned in two © Skating were in them the and f yoR WK Le prisoned ones felt with men eould, He turne bounded through the air to the main roof. partly over before he struck and up, lying as if Jdead, A great « ry of anguish nnd fear came ug from thousands gn the ground and at other points where the first of those awful leape and falls could be seen. Riron » Oo LEAVING TO DEATH. and live. One by one they dropped from the i the roof, bear without a shudder and a turning away faces. Human forms flames a hundred feet or more down, down left. He was a fireman and he grasped the remnant of burning rope just as the whole tower-structure parted towards the north, right over the prostrate bodies of the poor fellows who had leaped to escape the pitiless Names, The last man who went down to death with the tower kept foet down as far as the 10pe went and then the rush of Sames and alr was #0 great that his body was turned round and round in the within sight of all and the blazing tower fell over his form, making a funeral pyre and ending his agony, if he wns not dead before striking the roof. One victim remained on the tower until the flames 3, | 3 i CABLE SPARK w——— A 10,000-ton steamship for the American Line wus lnunched in Glasgow, Tue Spanish steamer Don Juan was burned at sea near the Philippine Islands, Tue Pope bas given 500,000 france for; spreading the Iuith 13 loreigt countrice, i Guy DeMaupassant, the distinguished French romancist, died aged joty-three | yours, i Tux boiler of a steambost on the Volgs river, in Russin, exploded, killiug twenty-sis | persons, ! Tur Spanish steamer Trillo has been burned dear Jutin Key, Bagua. Oue person Jumped overboard and was drowned BeveLLE, Spain, was in a state of excite ment over the activity of anarchists, who placed bombs in various parts of the city. Tur British steamships Elba and Willian Ball collided off the cust const of Eugl aud, and both were sunk, Toner crews were saved, A rrEATY between China and nearly coucludea by the terms of Chinvse emigration to Drazll will be ulated. Rescvixo parties have entered the Thorn. hill golliery, in Yorkshire, aud taken out the bodies of eighty-eight victims of the recent explosion. Wags the Camperdown was placed in dry dock nt Malta it was found that ber stem had been vroken and serious injury inflicted the bow-plates, Exveror Wirriax has conferred upon Johannes Mique Prussian finance, the aecoration of Grand Cross of Order of Red Eagle, Tux Reichstag wae opened in person by the German Emperor, who in his speech rom the throne urged upon the members the Beoessity of passing a new army bill at once. JUSTICE ELATCBFORD DEAD. | Brazil is which slits up 2k Dr. minister Oi The 8upreme Court of the United States Loses a Member, Rn A despatch from Newport, Ly says Amociate St ice Samuel] quietly and peacelully fr M or two before his death He retaioed consciousness until an hour . There was no sudden bange in his « Bimply the grad Gun: slipping aw ¥ whi for the last week ft Le any sense taker Washingt ti The body will ns he Das bool § interment, quiet vieitor in the City Curing the season, residing Plaos ety To Greenough given 10 so iy entertained in Eamuel B atchfor New York Mareh Richard M. Bis Bamuel was edacs the Pittedl emy io Massachusetts, and st the pehool of Col ai which college grad private secretary 10 Wi i Imiiiary the He was a nolod la fuliv Uege, sated ju 153 1X39 wu stall 1248. He and was made a ! Court of the 3 1840 of the same year went joiced Mr. Seward and Christ &% A law partner, for a judgeship was not ele Tork city appointed a | the State for the fire in 1867 he was nj pe x the United States for k ther of New York. In uted an ’ Jute justice of the me C1 of te fs Stats ted ww ia Tultod States, WINDSTORM IN CHICAGO, Considerable Damage Done to the Ex- hibits on the Fair Grounds. A w nd storm of te a heavy de White City a low minut wp wanpour oF the eveninye, doing the different bulidings stored therein, The afternoon was sultry, and Fern {0 8 close the atmosphere sively heavy. Not a breath of ait and heavy black ids banked north and east About 5 AS the storm suddenly over the park Pep thousand peo. ple were grouped atout the pavil cn the east of Manufacturer's BEuildingenjoyiog the music being given by the Cincinnati Band. The wind, sweeping dense clouds of blinding dust before it, caught them as it did every body, totally unawares, They hastily rushed for the shelter of the big Luildings and en- tered the doors in much disorder, The guards after admitting the crowds, en- deavored to close the doors, but the foros of the wind shut the doors with such violence that the glass in throes eniranoes Was shattered ‘nto fragments There was much ecnfusion, but as the blow insted ten minutes the people soon became calm, The same soene occurred at on the ground. READY FOR HER DAY, burst 3 € vig . other buildings Virginia Prepared to Make a Splendid Showing at the Fair, The committee on ceremonies on Virginia Day at the World's Fair have completed rangemeonts for the exercises of that ocension, Virginia Day will be Aogust 8, the anniver- unry of the meeting of the first colons! as Be The use of the massive ball on the Exposi. tion grounds having been tendered by Vice President Higgmbotham, of the World's Fair that spacious s‘ructure at 2 p. m., with an introductory address by Col. A. & Buford, presiunt of the Virginia board, Col, Bu ord’s address will be followed by the recita- tion of an ode by Rev, Beverly D, Tucker, of Norfolk, and an oration from Senator John W. Daniel at 8 o'clock p. m. Gov, McKinney, who will attend with his staff, will hold a reception in the Virginia building. The committees decided to fssie invitations to the President of the United States and members of his Cabinet the mayor of Chieago, the commissioners of the other Btates, the national commissioners, and the chief officials of the Exposition, as well as to bundreds of prominent Virginiaas, TEN THOUSAND IDLE. ——— Every Plate-Glass Factory in the Coun- try Closed. For the first time in the history of the trade every plate-glass factory in the United Btates le closed, and that indefinitely. Fully 10,000 men are idle ns a result. The depres sion fs attributed to three slements-—over production, a tight money market, and the arbitrary methods of the plate-glass trust, Every plant in the country Is now stocked with a large surplus, with no orders. It isthe impression that the factories will resume on CRASH IN A DZPOT YARD. Women the Victims of a Railroad Disaster, A Fast Moving Passenger Tran Runs Into a Freight. West Shore day express No, 1, due at News burg, N. Y., at 12.04 PF. M., was wrecked in the West Bhore freight-yard, Newburg, Five women were killed and many more wounded, locomotive Na, 200, baggage and express ear, a smoking-car, two The train consisted of day couches und The the parlor-car “Lurline,’ ductor Richard Anderson, The train was a few late ut Cornwall, four miles south of Newburg, and When it connects the main minutes was reached the ine with freight-vard, a mile south of the station, the running very fast, switch which engine picked up, it is which caused it to and leave the track sup osed, a loose ob- ject, jump a frog It ran upon the ties upon fn gistance egual to the length of the train, and it then crusted into a freight train standing in the yard, The er 3 terrific, I'he freight train was being made up to start southward, and was waiting for the express 10 pass, The freight train bad No. 304, in charge of Fred Holland, The ex. press engine wae evidently farther off the K than the remainder of the tralo, and When It struck the freight engine It was thrown ide, and the tender torn fre feeling the fT th Was irom i ! ra engl Was fireinan # Seam and the filis, ruptured a bicod rulsed, He was The engineer escaped with vessel, and was badly » the hospital, very slight inju of the freight. had base, and was cut ¢ that he will er. No freight was hurt There persons in the smoking- escaped injury. Day With passehgers, every seat Nearly all the It swayed to « Mat I ' ries Fred Holland, engineer nis sRuUll ver ths actured at the eve, It is thought reso one else on were about a dozen nearly all Upieg } v it CRr, "BHEGAIties « in this fe side a ih 11 was ripped the stnoker was } Were Kiied were en II TO BE REVISED. if the entire aoun- GHs Gh in act the Dependent their pensions das Gaye jer the * . a Gurng which time they are required id Vise why they should iraw pensions, ihe teslimony ue i iit re thr Di. i or 8 iE 1 foun ing dropped from ©! a reputable phys ate aa, al F Iwo wit posses to the effect that ti ciuded from active le or disability sol balits, n case be ment notifleation sixty sioner will be dr the ro other band, should the necessary certificate, propetly drawn up and signed, bo forwarded to the Pension Baresu, the pensioner will be requested to appear before the Local Board of sledical Examiners for examinations as to bis condition, This action Is pursuant to the recent ing of Secretary Stuith to the effect that a pensioner under act of June 27, 1890, draw- ing a pension for total disability must be shown to be physically incapable of manual labor, The Board of Review appointed to- carry into effect that decision, is now polng over all of the cases of June 2°, 1880, prob. ably 100.000 in number, and selecting those caves which show in the record that the pen- sioner may nut be incapacitated for manusl lavor, attention within pred fron £ iA is ral = pala ru’. —————— tir on— AR INSTANT DEATH James Carlin Never Knew What Strack Him. James Carlin was instantly killed by a» troke of lightning at bis residence in | Jamaloa, I. 1. Death could not have been more instantaneous had Mr. Carlin sat in an i electrical chair, The lightning struck st the i rool, followed a leader down to a spot where it touches the building, ran through the body { from feet to head, eavorted around the room | found egress into the kitchen by an open | doorway, and from thence passed through | another doorway to the yard, where It buried | itself in the ground, after leaving 8 burned track as though a flery serpent had swept sn the instant through the house, Cariin’s wife saw the lightniog strike and that her husband remained immovable, but supposed that he was simply stunned, She and her little boys put out the flames and then went over io her husband and tried to awaken him, but without success, She ohafed his hands, but they remained inanimate, She could pot bring him to consciousness, and sent one of the boys for the doctor, But before the doctor arrived she was eatis- fled of the horrible truth. His clottes were burned and torn and 1t was found that the akin of his broast adhered to his red woolen shirt. His body wae black. The woodwork of the lounge was splintered near the head, the hole in the wall that the bolt made Is no bigger than a 10-cent piece, A FAMILY POISONED. A The Fatberand Daughter Are Dead and the Others Are Critically IIL about the middle of Beptember. Many of the : elrcumstas cos | i 1. D. Bivens was drowned at Ballivan's Is. land, Both Island, while trying to savg two women who were in bathing and had got be youd their depth, Tux body of one of the two men drowed off the wrecked schooner Thomas Havens, on June 26, was recovered at North Loug Branch, New Jers yy, Curisrisa BoueisLen, aged 18 years, aoc dentally svot and killed her sweetoeart, Henry Gohl. at ber bome, in New York. They were firing revolvers to usher io the Fourth, iv the upsetting of a wagon at Oregon City, Oregon, M. V. Bradley, his wile and tour ehildren, were thrown over a precipice 40 feet high, Mrs, Bradiey was kilied and two children fatally injured. Carrais Aspenrsox, of the Viking ship. on its way to Chicago, 1} fi DAFTOW eBCRpe from drowning st Uly New York. He i ship Ly the current, but was saved by some f the students on board. News reached Ottawn of a eollision on the Canadian Pacific Rallway, ay HRosgport, 100 Ontario, between % ballast train and a bandear, The train was were badly ipjured, died, War Department d Bitates Civil Ber- erks in the Wur Des ut ler of the the Unite i the death of 22 Office of the Tue Chief ( 14 Vice ommasE Becord an i Pension pariment, in cousequen Ford's Theatre building « A Montreal, Cans a letter from one « Nurthwest, statis secident 3 Gitlin, fie - newspaper published of tourists to the 20 Fin- Pacific ie nour 1. June 200 h, Canadis Haliway were killed by a lands] schreiber, at th of Lake B Fire Department or, Mich,, a cannon One of them, aper burst, injuring named Kapp, who Enee while Charies the « rae hh } harg L Rrroll Ket Did Will Representative J, Be Conti nis. is the pr re Uo CULAR PREACHER, d Him AM y A 3veuia Who Abuse ¢ of the Church. i ak ow WAR IMMINENT IN SAMOA. Tie Factions of Mataafa and Malle. toa May Come to Blows vd from the Samoan ing 1h a clion sup- A stesuner whi Islands brings despatches indicat al » + ¥ * . war is imminent "between the ia d the adherents of and the sdberents of porting King Malietoa Chief Mataala ' A British warship has been or pre oeed to Apis, the capital of the sian » she will joie the German and Ameri. | can warships in preserviog ate ’ tecting loreigners \ gered 1 Oraer LnbQ PEOPL Warren Camr will oR college sports, Cuanves Nonpuory, the New York Herald man, who bas returged from Honolulu, says Minter Boount wouldn't stay iu the islands | for $60,000 n year. Tux {crty-second meeting of the American Assocation for the Advancement of Science will be held in August at Madison, Wis, The | loaal secretary is Professor C. KR Barnes, of soon bring out a book Averix Dossox does not Jook like a writer ie the type of the common-scusibie, middie. clase Englishman, He is stout, and of me pair of shrewd, kindly, bluish-gray eyes, an aquiline nose, & moderate guantity of dark- brown bair, and a thick Lusnay mustache, Bosrox acte on the rapid trausit question popular election. In the fail it will decide whether it will accept the rapid transit scheme pfepared for it by the Legisiature. The plan, in briel, is lor tne city to acquire the private propery necessary for the open ing of an avenue wo ne five miles in length in which au elevated rairoad shall be operated by the person or corporation offering the oity the best tetios. The road, “ts branches and extensions, lands, structures, raile and other property connected wilh the realty and situated in said city of Boston,” shail revert to the city at the expiration of the period for which the contract ws made which oan be at the longest fifty years, Tux Mollie Gitwon, the most famous silver producer in Colorada, would not have been closed down had the silver market exhibited PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. Epitome of News Cleaned from Various Parts of the Btate. Ar Pettibone shaft, near Wilkes-Barre, two miners were killed, two (atally injured sod and two others badly brujsed buraed Bua iguited from a baked bY an sxplosion of gas, mp, Yirveex thousand Krs IGABY eX attended K hil murderer Eomberger, told peop © attended the fo- der family Lancaster in Hing wscelivs nie cider, on of toe fn tory of the 1 ihe t Wiliisustown the borin of bed ween is teipg ut Pitts. I nprovement ust the er waler w He Wik i woman of Catasas & the Lehigh Qua, Mus LOSE. BI Ap was struck by an engine « Yul ley Balirond at Osta Hamil organ ¢ A chureh book GhgTe fue old Longswamp Church, tack to 1748 yours oid tains the hist gation sinoe 1764. A Priavsirs:a, Wilmington and Balti- struck and killed W, H. Fox, who was » eross the track dates ver 160 is Sil An usa Oli f ald progress of the 78 years of age ahead of the train, Hesny Jacows from bis bome in Avondale ten days ago and He a distressed family, who are unable to account for bie sudden disappearance, A morse driven by Dr. Thomas ID. Young took fright at the cars at Wallingford Station and ran away. Charles Muthues, of Modia, who was riding with Dr, Young, was strock in the head Ly & tree and seriously injured AT an anniversary picnic at Homestead a movement was begun 10 erect a monument mysteriously disappeared bas not been beard {rom sinoe Irae Ixa wreck in the Penmeyivania freight crude Joux Canvexres, station agent st Carpen- tereville near Easton, asd his wife were ehioroformed by burglars and narrowly es cnped with their lives, Painick Fraxioax, of Wilkes-Barre, ro. was found drowned, Lemon's Coroner is still investigating the mysterious murder of Mrs, Fritz at Allen. town, and is in possession of a clew, Monoax Bosrow, of Sersuton was found dead on a railroad, where his body had been placed after he had been murderad, Guo, Rese, aged 12, while on a hay wagon in a Bela was killed by lightning. MURDERS IN JAPAN. —— Wholesale Slaughter of Women by Three Villagers. The Japanese mail brings word of an awe ful wholesale murder in the village of Asahe on May 28. Kido Kemkatoha, Tani Goyanio,
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