£ * THE NEWS, Mra. Caroline Tegan, a German woman aged forty-five, died in Bt. Louis of solf-im- posed starvation. For twenty-one days mothing but a glass of lemonade had passed ber lips. Brooding over domestic troubles ansettled her reason, Henry Weber, of Philadelphia, who has been stopping in Chicago for several days, reportod to the police that he had been robbed of $1,560 by two women. They enticed him into a dark hallway at 046 Clark street he said, and while one of them was talking to him, the other cut his wallet from the inside pooket of his coat. The police have not made any Near Fairview, Southwest Vir. ginia, Mrs, Wilson Berry was shot and fatally wounded by & neighbor woman, Mrs, John Beott, and young Berry was shot and killed by the Scott woman's son, Mrs, Scott is a dangerous woman. Several years ago she stabbed her brother to death with o pair of shears, —— Two sandbaggers robbed the $8,000 in Chicago.- Mrs Margaret Ander son was terribly cut by her husband lecause she would not support him. Mrs, James #f Chicago, was thrown from a earriage at Mont Cialr, N, J., and killed, ‘The six thousand employes of the Chicago, Milwau- kee and St. Paul Baiiroad will strike if the eompany insist on cutting wages. Another payment of ten per cent. on the bonded in- debtedness of the World's Fair Company has been ordered, and one-half the bounds will be retired September 22, William Knox, seventy years of age, fof twenty yoars custodian of the Safe Deposit vaults of the Harford Trust Company, died in Harford, Conn.——The slate manulfac- turers of Granville, Vi., and vicinity have agreed to shut down all the quarries Octo. ber ist for an indefinite there Is a demand for slate, — sealing steamer Alexander, Captain McLean, bas arrived at San Francisco from the Japan catch amounting to Captain Gur period, or —i he Hawaiian sealing ground with a a little over three thousand skins, McLean reports no unusual incidents ig the steamer’s cruise, and deales haviag been in the Bering Sea, ~The new crulser Olympia, on her unofficial trial trip to Found Bay, has developed speed exceeding twenty knots, and Captain Goodal, who commands her, expects her beat the [twenly-one knots’ record of the cruiser New York when ber official trial takes place —John H. O'Connor, of Chicago, shot and killed his partoer, P, Ford, aud also shot and killed a little girl-——Fred Johnson a school teacher of Clinton, IIL, went with a young lady. He asked her to marry him, and on her refusal he fired a bullet fanto his brain, dying almost justantly, Philip M. Boheig, paying teller of the bank ®f Minneapolis, has left Minneapolis with $15,000 of the bank's money, At Rocky Comlort, Ark., an old man named W. F. Crow and a neighbor named J. B. Burke had a difficulty concerning the owenership of a corn-cub pipe, which ended in Burke's shooting Crow through the body, killing him. Clint Crow, son of the old man, then shot Burke, fatally wounding him The iatter shot and killed Clint Crow, and died five minutes later —— Mrs. Fetting, aged eighty-one years, living in Seattle, Wash, | was murdered. ——At Buffalo, Mo. a Oghbt followed a dispute between William Frank. lin and his brother, Green over the payment of a note. William was knocked down and fatally shot by Green, who made his esoapo, Both are married, of good reputation, and sons of County Judge Franklin -Ad Wood. bridge N. J., the stables of Daniel Bruzi; were destroyed by fire, with their contents, 8even horses perished The loss is about $6,000. The fire is supposed tg have been started by tramps. to country riding in the flames H. Helman, general merchandise, of Kyle Texas, a small village near Austin, assigned. Liabilities, one hundred thousand dollars ; assets very small, exact amount pot known. ~The Commercial National Bank of Ogdea. Utah, which closed its doors July 7, on account of a defleit in the amounts of about seventy thousand dollars, alleged to have been embezzled by ex- Cashier Oscar E. Hill, resumed business, Emil Bauer and Wik Ham Joues, stockholders in the Gem Window Glass Works at Dunkirk, Indiana, have flied a suit asking for a receiver [or the company, There is no financial trouble, as the company is in a prosperous condition, but there is a disagreement among the stockbolders, aud a conspiracy is charged agaiost the men in eontrol.——J. A. Jenkins, the defaulting sreasurer of Clark county, Ind., was arrested in Louisville, Ky., and taken across the river to Jeflersounvilie, amounts to $23,000, —— The business portion DECKS RUN BLO Pirates Capture a Ship OFF the Island Of Sumatra. a ———— isin MASSACRE OF THE CREW Twenty-Four Persons Killed, Fif- teen Wounded and $20,000 in Money Stolen -18 Drowned in a Scramble to Cat Away In a Boat. The coast of Achen, a duteh province, on been infested for nonths by native pirates, who, in frequent have shown themselves to possess nerve ns well Their operations reached a elimax on A ug. Twonty- fell into the According to the report brought by the the Consul's Bemawe, July 31, at 5 steamer left Tolok, had enbarked as if Re. wheel destroyed by fire, €70,L00, with insurance for probably one- third.-——Hon, Hamilton Fish, secretary of stato under General Grant, is dead, — Joseph Novack and Adam Smith, young men living former, necidently discharged the weapon while Smith was in front of him. shrough Smith's heart, causing instant death, Wiss sss IIIc ssa FATAL RAILROAD WRECK. It Was Caused by Carelessness—Two are Dead; Two Will Die, A Cinclnoatl, Portsmouth & Virginia freight tralu ran into a construction train standing on & switch at the Harden siding, tweniy-six miles from Portsmouth, 0., wrecking both Stains, Fireman Hobert Little was instantly killed and Engineer George Glasgow wus Intally injured. Marion Weaver, who had entered the cab of the construction train to get Was, has since died of bis injuries. Watoh- man Kuntze, who also was ln the sonstrus- tion cab, and to whose negligence, it is said, She accident was due, was slightly injured. The cars of the construction train wrecked she residence of Mrs. Brown, 200 yards dis. tant, erippling a young man named Forsythe, and so sbocking Mrs. Brown that she died soon afterward, Kuntze bad taken the engine on to the main track to coal when he pulled In and instead of closing the switeh himeelf he gave the keys to Bert MeCann, a young boy, and told him to close and lock it, The boy locked it, but bad failed Set to close it, with a klewang, instantly a Mr. Alexan- the The Achenese than took the helm and A general massacre along tho ship's indisoriminately slaughtered. Captain Wood, who had been lying down and He seems fo disturbance reached him, was attacked to regain have had just sufllcient strength cabin and lock the door, Chief Engineer Anchant, him, was in the Achenesa called for him to come of fortunately for and the up. Hav- “Orang amok I" *agine-room, ing beard their cries be removed the englae-room ladder and extin- guished the lights Becond Daptist sleeping when the massacre began , aud awoke to see He put out the his cabin, ¢pened the do Eungineer was bis servant killed, Hght in ir, and, by keeping quiet in the dark, saved his life The pirates afterwards rushed throagh the saloon, killing as they and he themsalves to cash, securing sbout $20 (00 went, ping two of the ship's boats, taking with them some of the Passengers, among them a Javanese Amacao They then quit the vessel in two Chinese and two American women, inding the ship deserted Engineer An- chant eame out of the engine room and fired He then proposed that be and some others should proceed in the ship's re. get No sooner, two rockets maining boats to the assistance of a man-of-war, the boat loaded than eighteen passengers, who of however, was bad escaped the pirates and were afraid behind, into the boat, causing i to sink, with result that ail were drowned, Next 1 ants Eis rushed the being Madura, of distress norniag the Dutch gunboat which had sighted the raised by the engineer, came men Lo take charge of the after the gunboat steamed away, having rescued the persons aboard. The Achenest returned drunk to renew the work of plunder, but met with A re. ception from the blue-jackets that they re treated in haste, with the loss of ten of their number, At noon the following day the steamship Graase Van Bylandt, bound from Edis to Telok, stood by aod received a part of the vessel's cargo, the remainder of which discharged on lighters, The Dutch warship started in pursuit of the pirates, latending to inflict SUnAry punishment. The Acheness were regarded with sus. picion when they went aboard and were searched for weapons, but in wain It i, understood now that their weapons were smuggied aboard by a woman, who earried some bedd'ng which was not overhauled. Mate Alexander, while going to his eap- talu's rescue, was stabbed, and died on the the spot, signals up voesanl and sent Shortly such was His body and that of his mate were taken to land and buried by the officers of the Ma. ura DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES, Bou Bent on Murder and Suicide, August Fiego, 420 North Park street Elizabethport, N. J., attempted to kill his wife by cutting her in the head with a cleaver. He then cut his own throat with & butcher's knife, The woman will recover, but Fiego will probably die. The couple had quarreled and the woman had made a compiaint against ber husband for none support, Warznroo, Ixp, —Samuel Deotors, a bachelor, living just east of town, who lost considerable money in the Davis Bank failure at Auburn, went violently (nsane and used his gun with fearfulfeffect. Heo went to his mother’s house near here to borrow some money, On being refused he shot her, producing a severe wound, He then set fire to her barn, burning it with its contents, Amos Bachtel and Mra. Lowe, a married daughter, wont to the rescue, and Deeters shot several times at them, Bachtel was shot through the abdomen, and died threo hours later. Mrs. Lowe wae severely and perhaps fatally wounded, Deeters tried to take his own life, but was frustrated. Br. Lous, Mo. Alonso Clark, a racehorse owner Hving at No, 3515 Kossuth avevuoe, After shooting and dangerously wounding mm —— i Chaneellor yon Caprvi will sscompany Emperor Willlam to Mets whan the Intter goes 10 that city to direct the army manou- vars, FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, Extra Session. BENATE. 23np Dav. In the Senate a Joint resolution to amend the legislation relating to the election of Senators by the people was intro- duced by Mr. Palmer, and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. The bill to repeal the Sherman act was ‘nformal- iy Inid aside, as there were no Senators pre- pared or inclined to proceed with the discus. salon. Benator Yoorhees gave notices that he would take the sense of the Benate on the Exclusion Alter discussion by several Senators 241i Day.In the Renate Mr Gallinger pensioner ninety | impartial hearing before sus- | Mr, Dutier offered an | an viding for the repeal of the ten-per-cent. tax i circulation. The Senate de- | the Bllver | Repeal bill silver to the amendment Hpeaches on coinage v : fixing a standard for gold and silver coins, 25rn Dav.—In the Benate Mr, Stewart dee livered an exhaustive speech on the sliver question. Mr. Stewart occupled the floor a-hall hours, delivering hia type-written sheets, and not the Bonate went into exscutive session by su vote of 35 to 28, The resolution changing the me eting from the from of Indians. A coneurrcut resolution for a joint select committees on finance (seven senators and seven represon- tatives) was jotroduced by Mr Morgan tDem. }, of Alabama. Mr. Peffer introduced a bill for the department of education. and for an appropriation (in aluminum coin) of re Day In the the first two hours were occupied by Mr. Morgan (Dem. of Alabama, in advocacy of the res provide for a joint select commu foance, and which, be avowed, to supersede the ia the Senate and the Hq minutes to spare after } the Hepeal bill would o finished bu 5 weeupled nas ! MA wean senators in Rg yes motion 10 ak ’ Was taken up by a vote Morgan's resoluti from which and by the day was of Nebraska, on which he terday 8 dusaion, Mr. hall, bimetsnll Low Bpoeech against the bili 3 man law, Mr address the Pints chosen by Mr. D have a ve day. Renate ition Hilew fie 1 f usinoss £ i * * up the 27 Day to Mr. Wait of Stewart yielded ie 6 speech in : Ari BiinL the HO min 44 : SUR rwt le 2%1rm Day. In the Senate { West Virginia, spe of the erman sliver foliowed Ly . Turple, of Ia of Mane, sidering the bill, Bich siictad » Jjoinder from Mr, Voorhees, of Indians, Paulkner, o ¢ { the Mr. ke in repeal iavor s 3 purchase sot He Was favor of fiaua, In Mr. Hale, { the waste of time the prin. bys wy Biiarp ¥ HOUSE, 2380 Day, In the House ¢ on of the new code of rules was resumed. When the House adjourned it was until W ednesday next, nsiderat 241m Dav. ~The House of Heprosentatives wis not in session today, 2m Day. The H Was not in session 1 wise of Representatives 5 % day he H r will warn it during 4 y the decision Mow % T 21 Das : the code a the i, under the ower (0 direst The rules vary controlled the When frst reported one radical « ause which p ¥ oustitate a gu ae af the wh “» against it on the Demo powerful, and yislding, surrendered was ihe rales the H satariay. the business « but iittle from Ff cond Congress the rR lO « The pressure rate side the commitiae, thelr point Bout, Aller agree at 3.50, ad} THR ee #irioks Ge, aren itm Day was not The House of Representatives in # ssion to-day. Bru Dav. ~The House of Fas not io session to day. ois I—— CABLE SPARKS, Prinses Bismarck complains of the rheuma- tam Sxveae forest fires are raging in various parts of France, Tue Cear of Russia is upon a visit to the King of Denmark, Tun faneral of Duke Ernst was largely attended by German royalty, : Vu Austrian estimate of the world's grain Production was issued yesterday. Representatives Poisoxous fungi eaten jor food bas re, | sulted in the death of ten persons in Lichten, | slegn, : Mone than 200 persons have been poisoned | by eating koumirs at 4 summer resort village : in the Caucasus, Tux mulinous Arabs at Kismayoo have | been subdued by marines from the British warship Blanche, A rin: on Euston road, London, burned several bull ings, and destroyed property valued at $400,000, Cronana cases in Derliu and Vienna have | been traced to the use of water from the | rivers Spree aod Danube Lisutenant Axt stormed the fortified onmp of Sultan Mell, at Kilima-Wjaro. Four o! his men wore killed and #4 wounded, Two hundred people were made homeless by & fire in Marseliles, which caused damage to the amount of 2,000,000 francs. Ir is reported from Buds Pest that a change is linminent in the Bavarian consti- tution which will involve the proclaiming of Prince Luitpold as King of Bavaria, A mom of ignorant Houmanians attacked the meu who were carrying cholera patient, to the howpitals, believing that the doctors killed the patients. Lord George Hamilton sald in the House of Commons that English supromacy of the seas would vanish in throe years unless mor, new warships should be built. Tur French snvoy has threatened to order the gunboats to return to Bangkok unless the new demands made upon the Siamese government shall be complied with imme. diately. The foreign residents are indignant that France should ignore the ultimatum, The Freach troops at Chantaboon sre now AS SR Seki PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. a e—— Parts of the Btate H. F. Ashton finished bis testimony in the Cans of the Westinghouse Electric Company, against the General Electrie Compnny on trial at Pittsburg. mitted suicide ut thie Elwin Race Track, near Media, Mra. Mary Strawhacker and her two daughters, Anca and Emma, of New Castle, are accused of causing the death of Harry Masonheimor, 18 years old. John Happ, of Pottsville, was found dead in his room with a bullet hole in his head, The family of Jacob Btewart, of Minocaco, Berks couuty, were all taken violently ill and exhibited symptoms of polsoning. Though the condition of none of them was danger They are all much prostrated and nervous, This is the fourth time within a few months Bo fenriul ure thay of a recurrence that they are almost afraid to eat and drink. The Pastoral Assoiation met at the College lor Women in There was a good sttendane F. Delong, of West Bethlehem read a paper on' Ancient Liturgies,” which was fully discussed by those prescut, Lehigh Valley Relormed lev, J. The third annual re-union of Lutherans, irrespective of syuodical relations, was held ut Heights, delivered by David A, Day, D. D., of Monro. via, Africa: L. B. Wolf, of India: W. C. Gilmore, Erq., of Wihliamsport, and C, 8 Albert, D. D., of Baltimore Md. Busquebanna Addresses wus Lev Congressman Bibley, of Pennsylvania, and Bryan, of Nebrasks, addressed the Patrons of Husbandry at Williams Grove on fluancs and tariff questions, Twenty people attended, The police at Pittsburg refuse to re urn £2800 to John W. Riley, of Phila leiphia, Biley had the money sewed in his coat when the police $4500 oltalned from New York banks by forgery. 0 the slatement Morrison, Penosyivania's LOW on deposit in the several banks amo to shin banks he thousand arrested for intoxication, and { t allege that it is part of Asoonding of Btate Treasurer cash ints $R.2I837L28. O! this amount Philadel i i $4,792,806, 50, ’ Pittsburg glass masualas phe rnmiliee of will appear before the ways and npmitiess In Washington and re- quest that no changes be made in the tarifl Un giass ware, Officers are searching for John Fiteh, who i inoving a farmer named wlich, of Taylorsville, out of $1000. Fick #aid to be and shrewdest to Farmer Bolick ti £2 nr one of the wm is kind, int he wanied to purchase — ost slippery He re presented his m and offered him $4000, He showed him a box which he said sontaisied $5000 in used Bolich to which borrowed 3 and ind pay him Secur iion $1000 in among cash, was irom the larmer's nelght dr ileh opaned the box he foun ha it con but rs. 1 then gave him the box and ve When tained nothing bark Boil have to mortgage back the w Ores, and will io pay is D. hh is well borrowed also nied for stealing a horse BA Maurer, of Ashland, Ar Pittsbarg IL. PF. Ashton testimony for the plaintiffs in oantinusd his the suit of the Westinghouse Flectric Company against the He Mr, company, fur, Geueral octric Con said Mend, of pany. + General Elootrie ( by eorresponded with him & § - A » | code means of which they Tue De rads of Lackawanna county, Gh. adopted resoiution § &h Es Sach i ty ¢ the enactment © bated Tur started two un bean extinguished Tax trial of Blastris « spiracy nthe ago Ly fire the a the offloers of the General mpany the charze of con and preferred by the Westinghonss ( ompany, began at Pittsbura. KH. F. Ashton against the accused Huxopnevs of worimen were gives em- the in Pitts“ urg aad There was bait little trouble at the on larceny, evidenoe gave damagiag ployment in mills vicinity. EVEN KI A Terrible Railroad Collision in Indiana, MANY BADLY INJURED | Express and AccommodationT rains | Crash Together-~The Baggage and Smoking Cars Ground to Pieces~-~A Dispute as to the Cause. I A head-on collision setween the Valparaiso necommodation train on the Chicago, Pitts. birg and Fort Wa ne Rallway and an eust. bound pes-enger train on the Pan Handle, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and 2 vi or St, Louis Hway, killed deven persons and in. jured as many more. The eolilsion cecurrad | 8t 9.50 A. M. in the “L? running from the Just south «f Colshour to East Hammond, Ind. at the point of & curve and The the cast-bound muin laoe, | in the sparsely settled locality, of passenger traln was ground irom the bag- gage snd smoking care to pieces, and Hn most of the injured and killed were taken, Tha from removal of of the wreck and surgical aid made the calamily a nost distressing one in Your nained and the wene immediate police and it was more than before the first of thiose rescued, blesding could be carried 10 houses In Colehour and Bouth Chicago for treatment Physicians were summoned from the latter place and engines were bastily prepared and rushed to the soene of the wreek DISPUTE ABOLY ORDERS Thers is a d'spute between the operator at Colehour no he general office of the road in the orders wast the train were, each sien the Llame upon at Coleh at the other. ur is A, scope of Rail the wroek say that } RK Kennedy, nen the ily 's orders were to ad train No. 12, 1k wrecked Louisville i milk train, had wats ’ 8d, he brakeman on ¢ Pan ity om fers Or or sud { started agaia without BEEMAN 8B BTA EMENT ol the accommodation with Engineer Hart by COLE 5, 2 passenger train Hart and | aped without injury, I —— MARKETS. 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Wittiax Seaslan, of Yobiuson's Mavasnus Sacks, an aged and well-known froin un house which he was having torn down and was fatally injured. Bunorans entered the offices of the Selg- fried’s Manulacturing Company, at Sieg. fried's Boidge, and blew open the safe with dynamite, but sseured nothing of value Wirsow Hanivo, the post-master at Upper Blacks Eddy, who was bitten by a mad dog has gone to the Pasteur Institute, New York, to have the wound treated, Orvicens raided the spesk-onsy kept by John F. Gallagher, Mra. Thomas Moran and Charies Moran, of the Delaware Cass Town. ship, and arrested the proprietors. They ware held fn $500 bail each for court. AWARDED A FORTUNE. An Almshouse Inmate Wins a $70,000 Buit at Norfolk. FROVISIONS. HOGEPRODUCTS-shida$ Clear ribebdes, oo 0onue. Hams..... “ans Mess Pork, per bar..... LARD