THE NEWS.
Fire visited the town of Tolland, Conn,,
wausing a loss of $20,000, upon which there
was but #5000 insurance. The Johnson
block, with the two tenements, the post.
office, county house, and the hotel, G. F.
Kibbe, proprietor, was entirely destroyed,
~The business portion of Depauw, Ind.,
a village thirty miles west of New Albany,
Ind., was destroyed by fire. The loss Is es-
timated at $40,000 with small insurance, Only
one business house is left standing A
band of brigunds attacked the residence of
Jose Sanchez, a wealthy ranchman living
near Victoria, Mexico, their object being
robbery. A son of Sanchez and one of the
bandits were killed. The house was pil-
daged of all its valuables. ——Alonzo Clark,
a race horse owner, living in St. Louis, after
shooting and dangerously wounding his
wife, committed sulci. e.- I. G. Ham-
phrays, township treasurer of Mount Vie-
toria, O., is a defaulter to the tune of $25, -
000. A boiler In Probst & Son's furniture
factory, st Pomeroy, O., blew up, killing
James Starkey, the engineer, and wrecking
the building.
of the Reading was given by the receivers.
The Mechanicsville, 8, C., Alliance ap-
pealed to the governor to call an extra ses-
sion of the legislature to pass a stay law, ——
Fully 15,000 people attended the third annual
elation held in Belvidere, N. J.
was an orderly one and listened atteatively
to ex-Congressman Henry 8. Harris’ speech,
New Jersey Farmers' Alliance,
farmers why they were poor, —
hina, from Hong Kong, brought to San
era and famine in North China, —
bee, was driven ashore there during the
and is dismasted, She may be total loss
built at Bangor, Me, in 1853, and
in Norway. —
the United States Supreme Court,
Milwaukes before the Bar Association, —The
disease anthrax has appeared among horses
and cows near Delaware City, Del —W,
J. Bunter hanged himsel! at Chester, Pa.
per cent,
Dr. Arthur P. Olney, a prominent physfo-
fan, of Middletown, N. Y., shot himsely
through the head, dying instantly. He had
been in ill health for several years. ——The
Association was held
Howard Milligan, a Ind of six years, was
bitten by a mad dog, in Wilmington, ——The
Watertown, N. X., bas applied for a receiver.
-—-At New Orleans Nathan Priediander shot
hie wife fatally and then killed himself, ——
Mexico by Carios Best, a broker, —
met wore killed and several wounded
Philadelphia by a scaffold giving away. ———
T. A. MeCormiok, postmaster of Rexville, N.
X., was killed by an Erie train at Bath, N. Y.
~The Ford County (IIL) Bank of Thom p-
son, Blackstock & Co., has assigned for the
benefit of its creditors, being unable to real.
ize on notes and other outstanding paper,
The liabilities of the firm are $99,500 ; assets
$154,000,
The storm destroyed a great deal of prog
erty in Savannah, and many lives are
ported to be lost. — There was great
struction and some loss of life, also, at Ty-
bee, —-The Delaware River was bigh, and
great damage was done to the shipping.
Great damage was done 1o the erops in the
Sehuylkill region, — Hundreds of acres
corn and tomatoes were destroyed
Jersey, ——At Long Braneh,
res
de
of
A FATAL WRECK.
Manhattan and Rockaway Beach
Excaursionists Crushed.
s—
15 DEAD, 17 WOUNDED.
The Late Saturday Night Trains on
the Long Island Rallroad from the
Two Seaside Resorts Come To-
gether at Berlin with Awful
Results.
An accident that cost the lives of fifteen
the stle village of Berlin, pear Calvary
Cemetery, in the town of Newton, I. IL. The
Long Island Railroad train that left Man-
hattan Beach at 1.15 o'clock was overtaken
the two rear cars of the five that made
and the middle ear was overturned.
one of the score of the
The accident happened at balf an hour
After midnight. It was over an hour before
Ly news reached any outside point,
The railroad company Immediately
spatehed a relief train with ali the physicians
obtainable. The )
been standing in the block to allow
de.
of an-
The Rockaway Beach train came
crushed into the rear end of the Manhattan
Beach train. Both were crowded with ex.
their respective resorts,
There were five cars in the Manhattan
Beach train, all of them open cara. The
Rockaway train plunged in and plowed its
way completely through the two rear cars
and partly wrecked the third, Passengers
in the three cars were maimed and mangled
The Rockaway engine was wrecked,
bers of the wrecked cars sticking into it.
Upon these timbers were human beings im-
Everything was spattered with the blood
of the dead and the wounded, and the cries
steam and the calls of the frantic trainmen,
As fast as the wounded were taken from
they were carried to the relief
train and cared for, The doctors on board
worked swiftly but well, Other doctors
out in the wree k, applying restoratives and
making harried dressiogs of the wounds as
the sufferers were taken oof, and then the
were
careful treatment
tracks at the scene of the accident.
fojured were carried in there. One
physicians was stationed
them as they were brought in
When ali the wounded had been found that
could be the relief train itarte! with them
for Loog Island City, They woers met there
Hospital owns, Two were placed in it and
The three-naster Three
doned off Cape Fear.
were washed overboard ——A woman,
to be suffering from Asiatic
Histers was aban-
botels and other buildings at Rockaway |
Beach, the flames being fanned by the high
wind, James Battin, a Newark, N. J.
millionaire, died in a faith-cure home at the
age of eighty-seven, — Marie Prescott, the
actress, died In New York, Joes Mitchell
was fatally shot in Fayelte county, W. Va,
by a constable, while resisting arrest,
SHOOTING AFFRAY.
A Promising Young Lawyer is Mur-
dered and Avenyed.
A horrible ense in the oounty court at
Stanton, Ky., cost the county attorney, W
H. Averitt, his life and caused Robert Hard.
wick to receive wounds from which he will
die. The shooting oceurred on the street,
Bobert Hardwick, who was under t= inl,
called to Averitt across the street and hot
words passed, when Hardwick informed the
Sttorney that he intended to kill him. Averitt
tan his hand fn his pocket, and ns he was in
the act of pulling his pistol Hardwick fired
8 charge of buckshot in the young man's
breast. The shot struck Averitt a litle to
the right of the breast plate and entersd his
chest, tearing his heart and lungs to pleces,
In falling Averitt reeled and landed at the
feet of hin friend, Asa Pettit, with whom he
was walking. Pettit ran into a store nearby
and securing a Wiuchester made for Har.
wick and fired twice at the slayer of his
friend. Hardwick fell with a bullet hole in
Ais side and his recovery is uncertain,
The affair has caused great excitoment and
may result in further trouble, Averitt waa
a promising young lawyer and had hundreds
of friends. Hardwick has several brothers
and relatives, who vow they will kill Pettit
on sight. Hardwick at a previous term of
court threatened Averitt's life.
Ir 1s noticed at Pittsburg that the hard
.
$
:
i
i
i
i
i
returned for more, Meanwhile express
every sort were pressed into service to
the wounded to the hospital quickly.
Beventeen of them were taken to the hos.
pital in all, of whom two died upon the way
thers,
The dead were taken by another sperial
get
to the scene of the accident, and placed in
Brandon.
——
Ii
WORK AND WORKERS,
Tux Findlay (Ohio) Rolling Mill Company
be paid partly in cheks,
Busixxss at Swift & Co.'s packing house
at Kansas City, was suspended because of
the strike of the butchers,
Tux blast furnaces at the central works of
down, throwing several hundred mea out of
work.
Tux Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad
Company paid its men in checks, and the
switchmen, being unable to discount their
checks, struck,
Yarnges and Moony's shoe shop, at Alton
N. H., which has a pay-roll of $80,600 yenrly,
closed indefinitely, because of inability to
make collections,
A Dexven, Colorado, relief committees has
offered two carioads of flour and two of pots’
toes to President Gompers for the unem.
ployed in New York city,
Tux unemployed in San Francisco have
organized the “United Brotherhood of
Lavoe.” A free employment agency and
soup kitchen are among the plans of the
Brotherhood,
A axxzmat strike on the Chicago, Mil
Waukee and 85¢ Paul Ballroad is said to be
likely to ocour {f the company insists on the
reduction of 10 per cent. in the wages of the
tralamen,
President Walters, of the Coal Miners’
Union, took a mob of about 850 men to
Frontenac, Kansas, aud preveuted most of
the men from going to Work in the Santa Fe
mines, under the agreement réached with
the company.
Norio was given in the mills of the Grest
Falis Manufacturing Co., st Homersworth
N. H., that » cut-down in all departments o'
10 per cent. will go inw effect this week, In
No. 8 mill, which makes course goods, there
will be two-thirds reduction in foros,
A teLzomax from Fort Wayne, Indiana,
says that freight business on the Psnosyl
vanis Company # ines has boen 80 slack for
Yat iia on indefinitely.
dismissed between Fort
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Extra Session.
BENATE,
18rn Dav.—-In the Benate the question of
the right of the governor of a stute to ap-
point a senator to lll a vacancy caused by
the expiration of a regular term, and not
happening by resignation or otherwise, wis
decided in the pegative, The final votes in
the two cuses from Montana and Washington,
declaring Mr, Mantie and Mr. Allen not en-
titled to seats. were 32 to 20. There was no
vote necessary to be taken In the third of
these cases, that from Wyoming, Mr. Beck-
with having resigned his appointment more
than a month ago.
19 Day.—-In the Senate Mr. Voorhees
reported the House bill repealing part of the
Bherman act, with an amendment isthe nas
ture of un gubstitute, Mr, Teller objgoeted to
ite consideration, snd it went over, Mr.
Btewart's resolution directing the Necretary
of the Treasury to inform the Senate if there
Is danger of a deflelency fu the revenues of
the government during the current year, and
if so, the probable amount, and what legisia-
tion will be necessary to supply the defl-
elency,
Finunce Committee yeas 40, nays 16 Mr,
Gordon spoke in favor of repealing the pur-
20rn Day. —In the Benste Mr. Sherman
made a speech two hours in length on
silver question. It was an exhaustive and
He fav
of the
Mr.
silver,
Wole tt
Mr.
Benate
fre
21st Dav.-~In the
the Sherman law,
that the position
although he ad-
#0 taken by him
and
bar to his further political
The resolution offered last week by
, of Kansas, in reference to
aational banks refusing to pay checks of
their depositors ju currency was taken up,
and that of a
was referred to the
Finance Committee by & vote of 85 to 21.
21st Day.--The House bill to repeal the
purchasing clause of the Bherman act got
fairly under way in the Benate, It was taken
up early in the morning hour in order to
Mr. Vance, of North
Carolina, to make a speech agafust it. When
be got through, an effort was made to sim-
pilfy the further parliamentary line of pro
ceeding In the consideration of the bill by
having the committes’s substitute pro forma,
2; that all amendments to be offer. d might
be amendments in the first degree, instead
Mf in the second, which would tend to
wih and simplify matters. That propo-
ws falled to be adoj ded,
other senators,
HOUSE,
Day.—In the House
on the Wilson bilL
ment, free coinage at a ratio
defeated --yons 134, nays 226. The vote on
the amendment for a ratio 17 to | was de-
yeas 100, nays 240, he amendment
neking for the ratio of 15 to | was defeated
yeas 102, nays 238. The 18 10 1 mtio wos
defeated -yons 05, nays 237. The 20 to }
ratio was beaten yeas 119, nays 220 The
the vole was
Biand's amend
i6 to 1, was
18rm
taken
of
the Bland-Allison act of 1878 was lost yous
136, nays 218. The Wilson bill repealing the
Shermah act was then passed--yoas, 240,
nays 110; a majority of 1380,
191 Dav. 1 he feature of the House pro-
ceodings was the debut of Mr. Crisp as
a speaker on the foor. He was lad to leave
his chair by some caustic criticisms made by
of rules
The discussion between the two leaders was
No
the rules,
20re Dav.~In the House the proposed
code of rules wa. debated pro and con, both
under the hour rule and the five-minote
rule. Liltle attention was paid to the
speeches, Without disposing of the rules
the House at 5: 5 adjourned,
2isr Day. 1s the House the rules were
discussed, but little or no progress was
made. The Banking and Currency and the
Coinage Weights and Measures Committe
report at any time
and these were the only noteworthy changes
made in the pew code jut there = an
snendmeot still pending that, if sdopted,
may be found to be far reaching in its ef.
fects, It was offered by Mr. Boatner. of
Louisiana, awd provides for s practical
cloture whenever a member, in charge of a
measure on the foor, sees 01 to ask for it
No action was taken on this amendment be-
Zier Dav.—The rules, which will govern
the procestiings of the present House, were
again discussed without astiracting much
on the verge of a partisan debate,
TURKEY'S PROTECTION.
———
Will Hereafter By Given to Mis-
sionaries.
the assault on
has borne
Under instructions from the State De.
outrage and the punishment of the guilty
10 see that the promises 80 freely given are
carried out to the letter,
Heroalter the vizier of Mosul will given
vizerial letter to missionaries traveling
through bis provines recommending the
bearer to the protection of the authorities,
and a military escort will be furnished all
inissionaries who desire it. Furthermore,
the v zier has sent an offloer and troops to
the scene of the outrage with Instructions to
investigate and make arrests, bul owing to
the remote situation of the place no repors
bas yet been received
A PROTEST FROM CHINA.
The Prosbyteri in mn “Synod Dissatiefiod
With the Geary Law.
The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis
sione recoived from the Synod of China
resolutions concerning the effect of the
Chinese exclusion law upon the cause of
Christianity in the Empire, This report fs
the first ofMelal action taken by any religious
body in China upon that subject since the
act was declared constitutional,
The document states that the synod rep.
resents five Prosbyterios, with mearly 6000
native Ohristisos, scattered from Pekin to
Canton and indirectly the whole Christian
Church in Chine. It states its dissatistao.
tion with the Geary law and concludes: If
the American people dusire to restrict
immigration
SCORES LOST.
Life and Property Destroyed on
the Southern Coast.
BIG LOSSES AT SAVANNA
The Cotton and Tobacco Crops
Heavily Damaged -New Jersey
Seaside Resorts Again Swept
By Breakers- The Storm
Has Cone to Canada.
The hurricane which swept over the
Bouthern Coast caused greater damage fo
life and property in its path from Florida
to New York than any similar storm for
years,
The storm which was In Bouth.
through Central
New York, and
crossing into Canada
The effects of the storm in Baltimore and
Al
centre,
Virginia, moved
Peunsylvania, Central
rie number of ves.
with the
steamers broug
The wind played havoe
bt re.
experiences’ and of various
jer John E.
albot ecunty.
was done
Incoming bay
ugh
The
sank at Trappe Landing, 7
casunities, stean
Ome considerable damage
-
of Maryland emptying into it,
waters of Chinese wos driven by a
bay , the
submerged
The
the
done
steague bay
southern wind up into Sinepuxent
of
and the ralliroad bridge was
gale caused
Potomae
in the
iow ground Ocean City wus
damaged,
an uousually bigh tide in
river and some damage
¢ highest-tide
the Basque
and Port De.
at Have de
against
Rome
Was
southern counties, 1
ever known was experienced in
de Graces
Grace
the
in-
posit Several vessels
were damaged
raliroad bri
dustrial estat
by being driven
ige across the river
damaged
The lower part
lishments were on
Elk River, in Cecil
of Annapol
Hep
Va.
been greatly damaged, probably to
tent of onethird, Th» in Ace
and Northamption counties was very severs
boats were driv
ousiderable dam.
county
is was Dooded,
to Danville,
orop
the ex.
sets from sections ad jacent
represent that the tobacco has
storm Oa
and many small an ashore, In
other sections of Virginia
ail:
The wind on the
resched a velocity
to the corn crop is reported,
North Caroline Coast
of 78 miles an hour. The
ner Three Sisters, bound
from Savasnahb to Philadelphia with lumber,
three masted soho
was wrocked and abandoned off
the and Capt Isase
, were drowned, At Ker.
uses were wrecked
Caps Fear,
Johpson Heads, mate,
the master
bundred b
man killed,
No material damage was done at Philadel.
phils beyond the fic of the strects along
the Delaware river froal. Th ocughout Pean.
the fruit and corn crop were greatly
Rimpson,
nerdvile a
and a wo
wling
S¥ivania
injured,
New York caught
The bay was
wind, and th
ished in Brookiyn
the storm.
bigh
houses were
the edge of
inshed into fury by the
irteen usnfinishiod
dem
Along the New Jersey coast much
was dons to bulldings on the beach at the
Ya: lous resorts,
in Bavannah,
Adm anniversary of great
hurricane « Bavanuah was by
ofie 0 the severest storms it has ever knows,
Havoc
mi of the the
I iss] swept
The storm began early in the afterooon and
it
O clock
inervased from then anti
betwoon 11 and 12 at night,
in a terrific
early ia the
After the first
Inax,
It began raining
morning, bot only in gusts,
fail ot on
did afternoon.
not begia
of
again until
destraction
miduight., All the wharves aloag the river
frost, the ocean steamship companies and
Florida and Western Rallroad
wharves were under wa.er and the tide was
A view of the city at
that surpassed tha: of the great hurricane of
Ins.
The ruin at quarantine is immeasurable,
Nothing is standing where one of the fAnest
stations on the South Atlantic was twenty.
four hours ago except the doctor's house,
The wharves are gone ; the new fumigation
is in the bottom of the sea,
The list of fatalities are gradually growing
vad it is iposs ible 10 tell to what extent it
will grow. Several bodies of drowned per
sons have been picied up and search is now
being made for others who are missing
Every bour seems 10 bring some new story
of a death as a result of the storm.
Twenty-seven lives are reported Jost and
forty or filly persons are reported missing.
Twelve barks and barkentines which were
anchored at quarmutine station were hiown
high and dry upon the marsh, and some of
them were carried by the storm acruss the
marshes on an island two miles distant from
the station. One of the vessels at Tybee was
completely capsized and three clubhouses on
the island were blown entirely down. Others
were flooded and the people sought shelter
wherever they could find it,
It is reported that sight of the crew of a
terrapin sloop, which went ashore on the
south end, were drowned,
The Hotel Tybee is considerably damaged
in front, Its verandss and tathbouses are
gone,
The Knights ol Pythiss clubbouse was
washod away. Two of the collages of the
Cottage Ciub are gone, The water swept
with tremendous foree over this part of the
teland, railroad tracks being carried from
200 to 500 feet. The church steeples were
demolished, and at least 500 large treos were
blown down.
se, III...
Oxuy one Columbian souvenir ootn has
been received at the United States Treasury
for redemption. It is therefore argued that
the coins ure 1
romainer of the 5,000,000 will yet go ot a
high premium.
PENNSYLVANIA By EMS,
Epitome of News Gleaned from Various
Parts of the Btate
Twesry-vive thousand people attended
the grangers’ pienie and exhibition at Will
ins Grove, Woman suffragists were the
principal speakers,
D. Bamsey Parrensox, of Philadelphia, as-
signee of the Keystone Standard Watch Com-
pany, hus brought suit at Lancaster against
Hugh M. North to recover $300,000,
Mivvran O, Graves,of Kleckersville, worth
#150,000, committed suicide by hanging him-
self to a tree,
Davio Hessmivorn, 8 prominent
man of Alburtis, has disappeared,
Bacurros Houace Reivexypss, a farmer,
living near Pottstown was found dead on his
premises with a bullet hole in his heart ani
& revolver, not his own, in his hand.
Coroner Mauger, of Douglassville,
gating,
Gronox E. WiLLians, at ove time an influ.
ential citizenof Mesuch Chunk, fell gead on
but it was no doubt
Last Spriog he
business
Deputy
is investi
Four weeks
I'he deceased was 54
soldier of the late war with a |
brilliant army record,
Wire sitting on the porch
Louella Fridy, of Mou
stung on the middie
of her home |
near
Anger of her
Bhe instantly |
could not hear !
utville, Colum-
right hand by a yeilow
became partly paraly
or speak. Her whole
and she suffered great
Lane
might die
jacket,
and
ody began to
zed
swell,
pals, Physicians from
Weler were «
were
wmiled in and fears that she |
entertained,
were applied and her oo
Tre 4-year-old dsu
Sradenvilie, fell
Bestorativeg |
ndition improved,
ghter of Michael Bansky |
of ba sixty-foot well and |
was drowned,
Mus. Many Wartess, of Easton, is visiting |
ber danghter, Mrs. Frank Peters, Ie thiehem,
Mrs. Walters is 103 years oid,
and enjoys
IssTaveoron Cmantes 1. Wrres, of L high
University, has scoepted the professorsiip of
mechavicsl engineering at the
of Lansing, Mich
Tux Hotel Barker hack while orc msing the
Peuosylvania Rallro at Havsover, was |
struck by a freight engine, injuring E. P.
Kittinger, Wil Frank Hofer,
Thomas Waltz and demo ishing the vehicle
Faasxx Cosumax, McKeesport,
drowned in Monongabela River,
Port Marion. He was in a skiff al
the steamer Adam Jiecolw The
the sles striking
to the
the officers ©
Siate Coliege,
Bam ue mer,
was |
the near |
ngside i
wheels of
the skift |
bottom, A
{ the
mer was
and sending
slarted
Cushman
etintired
Coroner's jury
ttenmbont
4 men Patterson
1
The men struc
Eran bundr
esi ry. t
ment
Firgek at
rowing men out
ecause they d
ol! employ- |
id not
receive their pay
A torna io at Eagle's Mera,
through the
eut a swath
iarter of a mile wide, i
and did
cottages,
the |
injured,
bave been idle for
forest a q
deste ved Judge Wiis & house
some damage to the sure
vanding
contusion of
y wers
bioad
Neanry 15 000 men who
bat none of bis fam il
$overal weeks went to work in the Phitaburg |
district and the indisutions are that the bard
& sare Is over there
A great gutbering of muilroad men,
firemen. conductors,
switehmen, telegraph operators, was
at Hazleton which the subject of
the varions beneficial organisa.
ombining «il
inciud.
ing euginesr. brake |
at
foderat ng
ihe orders under one bead,
Ex Susaror A. D. Haniax bas announced |
i bis candidacy lor Biate
Pressurer, because of the probability of the |
somination of Judge Fell for the Supreme
Judgesnip, sud with the idea that the State |
1 romrurer nomination should come from the
steru part of the State,
Jog Moone, an Italian shoemaker, of Bris.
|
tween 1he vwo men,
Owax Campi. of Norristown, aged 22, feil
from a twelvedoot scaffold and sustained in-
Juries which may prove fatal,
Lev: Knvarniox, aged 25, was killed om
the Reading Raliroad at Valley Forge while
AX uns nown man, about 85 years old, sup-
posed to be a Greek, wae instantly killed on
the Philadelphia and Beading Railroad sear
Norristown,
Joux McKesen, a farmer employee of
Theodore Lond, of Gradyville, who stole a
borse and wagon and then fred the Bond
barn, was captored
Tax conlectionnry store of ¥,. W. Polte, on
Main street, Norristown, wanes robbed under
the glare of an electric light. A sliver watch
and $2.10 were secured, A large sum of
money in the store was overlooked by the
thief,
A shooting affray cocurred at the Metho-
dist enmp me. ting at Rawlinsvilla, Twenty
thousand people were on the grounds, the
number of people assembled being the largest
ever seen in that seotion and intense excite.
ment prevailed, Joba Patton, a well-known
farmer, met his hired man in the camp and
the pair became involved in a quarrel, The
hired man drew a pistol and aimed at Pat
ton's head. He pulled the trigger, but a by-
stander struck his arm and the muzzie was
knocked downward. The bullet struck
Patton's lag, passed clear through it. The
wounhi-be murderer was arrested.
farmers’ pilonic and exhibition at
Willisms Grove was well attended and
temperance addresses were made by leading
Prohibitionists under the ausploes of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Michael Sehall, of York, wes mysteriously
shot while gunning. He is a leading citizen
and the inhabitants of York un excited over
the occurrence,
Near Contesville nn attempt was made io
~wreok the Western express on the Penosyl.
vania Railroad. Hpikes had beon drawn and
hes fish plates removed from two lengths of
51.10 ———
THE WILSON BILL
Passed By a Majority of One
Hundred and Thirty.
AGAINST FREE COINAGE.
All the Sliver Amendments De-~
feated In Detall-Average Major~
ity Against the White Metal
Measures 131.28,
The Wilson bill for the repeal of the pur
chase
cinuse of the Bherman law passed the
More than two-thirds
of the members of the House recorded them
ssives in favor of the repeal of the
purchase law and the establishment
currency of the United States on a
The passage of the bill was not & sur-
sliver.
of
sound
1a
basis,
prise to any ove, but the overwhelming vote
152 most
The loteuss interest that was taken in the
that two bours before the time forthe session
owded to
crowd
nthe galleries were or their
ulinost re.
capacity, and the
for three hours and a half lis-
sll after roll-¢
vas
mained seated
nil wit
upon
tr. Boed,
has much
attention as w
quences of Mr, (
us Legtowed the elo.
Nek
the
ockran and M
ieries fill up
an
bour before the Bpeaker called the bt ouse to
order, The advocates of the § t Wore
kpew bad
: They they
won their ght,
Messrs, Rayner
Tracey, Cockran, Harter
prominent
on the sound money
been
in
the leadership side were
groups of
Leartily ngratulated
of
their
ywers and were
n their admirable management the
eam
sured the
paign. Even when their victory
A
the 0
"w
for each one}
had taken upon
of
Was
managers of
work,
bimsell the task
bt had »
ceased 10
¥
seeing that & cert
ain
number of members were present to vot,
ity should not
atsenoce of
“ir
id also Mr,
The consequence
80
that their 18a jor be reduced in
any
opel her
ny way by the of
their
forces. They held th men re-
markably well, as d his
WES an unusus ly
349 members out of a total of 254
rded on the Bret and last two
leaving but five alsentess. Two of
Grabam, of New York, and
Sheil, of uth Carolina, were paired, and
one, Mr. Cooper, of Wisconsin, was
away after reaching the A by atelegram
announcing that his wife was dying
Bland on
side,
large vote
being reco
roles,
Roy
onlled
capi
cnn IIs
CABLE SPARKS,
Tex striking cabmen
the po Hee,
ol Naples attacked
Tux Arab soldiers st Kismayoo, near
bave risen in revoll,
Tux House of L
bome-rule bill on September §.
Tur government report for the past week
shows cholera @ be on the inc in
sia.
Ir is said the demands of
Zan~
rds expect to take up the
a Hus.
the French en
sod the terms of the uitima-
tum.
Tax Duke of Edinburg has
the fleet
resigned his
of the British
navy.
Tonkey has established five
tine agaist vessels arriving
ports,
Ax alleged
ered in South Russia
days’
from
guaran.
Kassiag
discov-
conspiracy has been
to separate Ukrain
Puixce Hxsxny of Prussia represented the
the Jtalinn navy,
i7 is said that Russia is making an effort
Biax has deposited the guarantee of three
willion fraues required to insure the payment
of Freneh indemnity.
Faaxce will pot send military attaches to
German maneuvers this fall because the
sham battle-fleid is to be around Metz.
Hossrr Ixaris, marine eugineer for the
Cusard Steamship Company, was drowned
by the upsetting of a sailboat,
Tux police officials st Bome who are held
reeponsible for not suppressiog the anti
French ricting have boen dismissed from
office,
Tuzne are indications that the strike of
English coal miners will soon end by the
wen resuming work without insisting upon
an advance.
Foun thousand striking Welsh miners
stanied 10 march over the mountains to the
Ebbw Vale mines 0 induce their comrades
to quit work, vut all «ft the ranks before
reaching their destination.
Lord Dunraven's yacht Valkyrie sailea
for New York to compete for the America’s
cup. Dunraven's horse won at the York Au-
gust meoting, and the coincidence was voted
by sporting men.
Pastor Sropcien, formerly German court
chaplain, who is celebrate. forthe animosity
he eatertaing for the Hebrews, sailed {rom
Hamburg for New York on the steamer Au-
gusta Victoria. He is to make a lecturing
tour of the United States,
ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN
The Pennsylvania Western Express
Narrowly Escapes Demolition.
An attempt was made to wreck the western
express on the Pensayivania Raliroad, a
short distance east of Coatesville, Pa, and
18 i remarkable that the two sections of the
train were not hurled down a twenty foot
embankment.
The spikes bad been drawn snd the fish
plates removed from two lengths of rails, but
one bolt being left to hold them in pince.
Fortunately the two sections of the train ran
over the loose mils in safety. The western
express is the most valuable train run over
he oasyivatia toed. The work of 3 :