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.
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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,