THE NEWS. After two months of idleness the rolling mill of the Valentine Iron Company, of Belle fonte, Pa., has again been put in operation. The mill will be run as long as the company can sell their iron Captain] Brontz, of the schooner Glad Tidiuge, reported at Algonae, Mich., the sinking of a black steam yacht, near Southampton, with those on board, — The Congregational Church, the Crescent House and adjoining buildings, in Franklin, Mass, were destroyed by fire, -A despateh from the city of Mexico states that it is cal- culated that the silver crisis will involve an annual loss of revenue to Mexico of #10,000,- 000. ——The business section of Machiasport, Me. , was destroyed by fire, —Three convicts attempted te escape from the state prison in Arkansas City, The guards fired, fatally wounding one of the men, The others caped, The convicts were all Liveright, McCoy & Co., the most extensive solt coal operators in Clearfleld county, with main office in Philadelphia, falled. It is said that the cause of the late General Me- Coys suicide was a foresight of the crash of this firm, of which he was a member, A unique train robbery Santa Fe road, Of colored, Soon aftex a train tickets. Nearly everybody paid cash fare, every amount tendered them, change, and in several cases grabbing money from passengers and revolvers if they protested, Near the men jumped from the train, but they were afterward captured by deputy marshal® and locked up.——The Boston flyer Tehigh and Hadson Railroad ran into a freight train at Lake Grinnell, killing freight conductor Herrick, of Warwick, N. ¥. Two cars were burned up, and the two engines were derailed aad down the bankmeant. — Henry Poindexter, an escaped convict from the prison at Eddyvile, Ky., was arrested in Griffin, lad. He was sent up in 1886 for sixteen years forstealing worth of diamonds, and was in month. He had been living in Eddyville for five years, conducting a saloon ~In a jealous rage George Heobner shot and killed Harry West in front of th Philadelphia, — Mogg zie feeble-minded girl of thirteen years, was fatally scalded in a boiling water bath given her %y one of the older girls in an asylum in Delaware county, I thrown e latter's home in Missencrawi, a "a ison Howard, Ne wion out of the way of an Robert tsarr was killed by a endeavoring to get eomm tion train, he stepped an express on track Hollowell died in Oakland, 1 hundred and eight years, She was the white woman to emigrate the states, rm The flouring mill at of Philadelphia, In no train in , Mass, of EH one front Mrs, aged in another first to that section of Ponaylvania, Patterson, Hardin caught fire, and the flames over a third of the town ten She was bo in county, before could be checked, had burned, six the postofiice | ing and all the total $60,000, with but £6,000 1 is missing -Thirtesn co men were captured at Oyster Bay, Washing Almost every house in Dalton, Ohio, was visited by a desperate gang of robbers lobert Milli the master of Harford, Ky., bonds some time ago, has IIL It Is clade ruined his stepdaughter, and of her death, A reward of 835 his apprehension. It is sald that he will be iynched when taken back to Hartford blocks wild. belug been destroyed, business residences, its contents, loss surance, Onece nitraband China ton, — atsconding post. his been located in that Milligan was the cause gan, who skipped Sandwich, ned A CENTURY CLOSE ————— One Hundredth Anniversary Founding of the Capitol. MUSIC AND SPEECHES. net and the Diplomatic Corps Attend the Exercises—- A Par- ade of Soldiery and Civic Societies. The centennial anniversary of the laying of corner-stone of the National celebrated fittingly Monday. Cleveland and nearly all the officials of the Government were present Pennsylvania avenuo lined with otic Americans, and the troopers mare Capitol was wns patri, hed in their heads, Washington was in holiday dress, The day was a legal holiday, The departments were closed, general business was suspended and ceremonies at the Both and attend the east front of the Capitol Houses of marching In a jolned ators and Representatives chambers in the ceremonies, The celebration began with the ringing of All the old patriotie airs were rung on the bel # and 10 fore this the stree thronged with people. All the public wore decked out in a and some of the private 8, between o'clock, and even be 18 Wers build n of ays ngs profusi Hist ling ih va were as astistic as any made at s inaugur- Long before 1 o'clock, when the process was to move, the different military and civie county jail in Litehfleid, Ky., by gaining no- cess to the bathroom, ey entting through a brick wall and Jetting themselves down by means of Slankets tied tc wen i8 farm of the wether barn on the (Pa diary fire, Four head of cattie crop destroyed, — perished, and all the year's Mart, Ba- ford & Barwell, the carriage manufacturers of 8t. Paul, have failed. —8ir Alexander T, Galt, formeriy a Canadian cabinet official, died in Montreal, at the age of seventy six, At Gowanstown, in Canada, the dwelling of Mra. Martin, who was eighty-one years age, was burned, and the old lady perished f= the flames. Albert Thomas, an English youth emplc oyed on the place, is missing, and ioul play is suspected. — Fire destroyed much valuable business property in Owings. ville, Ky. The loss is estimated at $150.0 0, wee [low, Mr. Mossfalder, of Bpencerville, QO, and about the square directly White and when slum line, House, Gon rder for the ¢ {0 move As we over (rent to the and the n Aation was in Bis escort, re He escort the President bers of the Cabinet to the chimes began 10 suse to head the centennial the wailing cheer, When Presideat C by Beriah and thousands broke jeveland wilkins, of the Celeb to th ghty shout his bat soy fires pul mittee, rode oat paived with a m knowledged by raising Prosi lent's It was the 80 to speak, since the stories were oi about his sickness, and eve throng ruddy and his eye ry eye ia the was fixed up A was bright, saw this at a glance, and expre a deepening yell of # $ Tr faction in rumbled down Pennsylvania ave: the Capitol was reached. There the al became a roar. Thousands were gathered ut the stand, and bats and can thrown al of Wore ¢ the air and hasdkerchiols the Fr into parasols were waved when appeared, I'he pros In the first division were Ix Koights o T hie sey ‘ ession moved in four dies of oldest inhabitants, Nobile Red Men, fon comprised the Society of A. R and Mexican veterans Bons of the American third division comprised the District tional Guard, some regulars and some ing militia, The fourth division was composed « eran flremen and visiting fire Association At the head of the procession, immediately i Ordway staff rode the President of United States and his cabinet officars, lows, Elks and the Cin 1 nna Bevolution 18, and his the The President rode in an open barouche, w Deriah Wilkins Chairman of the rted by a squadron {eh made a glit- rith soeption Committee, and was esco from his injuries, —~The Fort Townsend Kational Bank, of Port Townsend, Washing- ton, closed, ——An action was begun in the United States Circuit Court to have a re ceiver appointed for the Union Trust Com- pany, of Sioux City, Ia. A Adlo)—s 100 PEOPLE DROWNED. Ficods in the Orient Ra:sult in a Loss of Lifs and Des ruction of Property. The steamship Pern arrived from Ching and Japan, bringing news up to Beptember 8rd. The Japan Gazette, under date of Au- gust 26th, gives an account of the great flood in Filu-Ken. The Nagara-Gawa River be. gan to rise aboul b P. M. on August Ziad, and at midnight it had risen ten foot, persons were diowned and there is great suffering among the survivors On the Bakai-Gawa, eighty yards of the bank was destroyed, flooding seven houses, while the bursting of the Funechara bank put the whole of the Matsuye under water. The Gunjo burst its banks and carried away eleven houses besides flooding 200 others. The Twaho earried away twenty-five houses, The result of inquiries juto damage done by floods is as follows ; Embankments burst in sixty places, over 200 houses carried away and over 100 per sons drowned. At Yawatka io Gunjo-Gua, a side of the mountain fell away on August 29nd, crushing over flity persons to death, At Nara the Totsu-Gara has burst its banks and caused a flood which is the groatost sinee 1889, One hundred and Rfty-four per sons were drowned in the Gifu-Ken flood and nearly 50,000 persons are receiviog re- Hel, ’ Advices from Saga states that dysentery is prevailing in that prefectuie more flercely than ever, the total number of cases being 2,856 and the number of deaths 477. At Wakayama dysentery also prevails, Fare having been 9,409 suses aud 419 Souths, following the President day, William Wi Henry, of Virginia, a grandson of Patrick , attended by Lawrence Gardaer, Chair- mao of the General Committee, The ( rode in order of rank as named in the Presl dential Succession bill, Each Cabinet ¢ was attended by two members of the Come In the carriage Cabinet After the Cabinet officers came Bishop then cameo Associate Judges Brown and Field, represonting the the Joint Committes of Congress, the Com- the District, the Society of Cincinnati and the General Committes, The procession oo. cupied a little more than an hour in passing a given point, When the procession arrived at the Capitol the entire space in front of the Capitol al most over to the new library building was filled fwith people, and out of this mass of umbrella-covered heads the statue of Wash- ing the scene. The President ana Vice. President, Cabinet officers, the Hpeaker, the Supreme (Court, the diplomats sad other dis. tinguished persons occupied the central stand erected in front of the main entrance, To the left of this was a stand provided for the members of Congress and their friends, On the right of the President sat 1,50) sing era. The front of these stands, which covered several hundred feet, were covered with the various flags of the nation, and the army and navy ensigns and signal banners. Mingling with these hues were the solors of the gowns of ladies and the uniforms of the Diplomatie Corps heightened the effect of this symphony of colors. On the right of the marble laad- {ng at the top of the main stairense appeared in brass the inscription, “1708, Washington,” and on the opposiwe side, 1893, Cleveland,” indicative of the span of the one hundred yenrs eovered by the eslebration. At night thess letters wore illuminated. The upper balustrades were decorated with flags and banners, anfl up near the top of the great dome appeared four large garrison flags, their stall directed towards the four points of the con pass, Promptly at 3 oslosk the Sugats 0d Honey of Representatives filed from the rotunas on to the platform and at 2.06 the exercises bo uno, The programme was not followed literally, The Marine Band failed to appear on time and the overture from ““Tanuhauser” omitted, the nu recitation of prayers from Episcopal Bishop of Maryland, Paret, The Bishop by the William the oeeasion, Hight Rev, he bas bestowed upon William: Wirt Henry, TRAIN ROBBER's GUILT, Myers and Marion Hedge Are D Nathaniel Myers, path ubles. pling Charles Leakman, Fexus, charged Miss Mo., ROTI nz implicated in the iri Facifle train robbery Lamar, which took place two years ago, m near siartiing disclosures as to the guilt of Marion He jail In Bt. 1 leader of the Glendale ured $40,000, who is in Aus oe being the who sed My r's d the latter was the Hedgepath claims 10 be jead robbers and not he, My joided Hedgepath but 1 will fo trout I know y Glendale 1 r Witness rs in re ply to this says: *'1 have sh along in the matter, now tel He got me in now trying to Hedg bers and all 1 know, and is ie put it on me epnt’y is oue 0 1 I ean produces enn prove the what I know about ing usipness met 10 tell upon roblery my statement will the most prox Mo, “it woul Hedgopath § Hedgepath City, secured, her presen share Mis * Un path, vod 8 a — REVOLT IN ARGENTINE. The Badie: Imitate T » Situs iin in the Bouthern Repul ‘heir Brazilian Bret WM remains of 3d his Ministers overment H arrested, ise, he nat Province of 1 fat fistu nies b AVE gone over { insurgents, no gunt Republion, have joined the anti President nal country ACC IDENT AT THE FAIR, nati the Movable Sidewalk Bever:ly Injured. A Numboar of Pecpie on A serious accident occurred on the mov. extends the f A plank esme in part of the ma able sidewalk which length « 5 the Casino steamboat pier, contact with the under ti ita fastenings shinery and a large section of the sidewalk was torn from The seats became do railed and slipped over, throwiog passengers violently on the pier, The small elevation of the a safeguard against any fife, buy many of the passengers, men, women and children, were severely bruised and cut. A few were removed to the hospital by ambulance corps, Employees on and sidewalk kept the people avoided a panic. WORK AND WORKERS 3 over 20 sidewalk proved loss of the the pier oool and of the Wonk was resumed in ments of riviie, somo de Mills 4 ital be Union and Sis at Bur R11 carpenters, biscksmiths, a the Lo ut Now Orieans, Tus pprentions naville and Nashville are on five woeks and helg shops, ers in strike, Arren a shut-down of one-half of the Washington Mills, at Lawrence, the Mass, olen mil oouutry, Wages were reduced 10 per “the largest wie in was re-opened, cent, Tne Acushinet of the Mass, | sffers™ iloed, and *'d New B “tack boys” Mills, at corporation shut down the entire plant, Tue mouiders strike at the Birmingham Works the Company's at is ended, Ansonia, men accepting a ALL the large woolen mills in Rockville, Coun., nine in number, have closed for the The A avs yarn mills and the Fisk The situa tion is nnprecedentod in Rockville A Prrrenvno despateh says that the coke have voluntarily reduced the This action factories to re Notiogs of 8 reduction of 10 per cont. in the Social, Nourse and Globe Cotton Mills at Woonsocket, the Loasdale and Ashton Mills of Providence, R 1, and the Grovoers- dale (Conn. Mills, Tux Dominion Labor Congress at Mont. roal adopted a resolution asking the Gov. ernment to submit to popular vote the ques. tions of imperial federation and politica union with the United States. An amend. ment declaring for Canadian independence was afterwards onrriod by a large majority. Tur American Wire Nall Company, of An. derson, Indiana, gave notion that its mills would resume operations before October 1st on a non-union basis, and that the names of employees who did not apply for work before Beptember 80th would be stricken from the rolls, Other fron-works threaten to become non-union concerns, About 1,500 men will be affected. There is great excite. ment and a mesting of nine lodges of the Amalgamated Association will be held at FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Extra Session, SE. NATE. 85ru Dav.—A second effort on the part of the time for closing delmte on the repeal amendments had no better resulis than previous one, exeept thers was a sort of in- timation by Benator Teller that no had been made for delay, none would be, closing debate might be over for the present at least, Senator Alli- son, of Iowa, nfade a three-hour speech prove that the true way to rehabilitate io thus fores England and the nations rope to come to an international The remainder of the was given to enlogios on the life and scter of the late Bepastor Stanford, fornia, day char- 861u Day. — Almost the the Bepnte was doevolad entire fess IOoN to Senntor Peffor's state Commeres to inquire into the recent train robberies. Benators Cullom and Hoar took the position that the matter should be eft in the hands of the Judiciary Commitias end Benator Hawley, Vest and Dolph op- posed the proposition on constitutd grounds, But tne resolution was not dis posed of when the according to agreement, took a recess in order atte nd the cantvnnial coremonivs, t thei oon clusion adjourned, 37rn Dax In made an appeal agree on on date closed and a vote sliver-pur Beanie, ang Nn rl oes Yo tory repi the Menate order {o « mae nek ate A slr a1 Renate Mr DBRELLY poe siiver-purcha an uct, and Mr. Gray, ant for rep. of the sess in made B8ru Day Missinuig pi, the ol the bill to repeal Rhern 3 ware, made a slrooR argun The Beut § HIE N¢ S9rn Day. the benate intt's resolut red by Mr Massel and Mr. Hill, of New ) oz i Hon want ov i wii ueetls, row ylor thn argue against it bie tepenl bill was agen uj msde t introdua lnws repeal b an which at disment H EE wu 23 tos gas § al HOD, in in ihe use the republicans vel fllibustering wi agninst them, ithe t ntinue it the GOrals ss five, 1 jos auen repeal reported, Speaker ru ured & q the i nn Day f yesterday's pro. g¢ was pol approved in the House the hour pent, Mr. Reed Hscoverad some in it. and ealled Speakers attention them. The question of approving the urnal was posi i when the sespion opencd, bat later in the day was agreed §« In the meantime the Committee on Rules reported a resolution providing f.r the consideration of the Fed- eral Election bill on the 26th of September the debate to continue until October 10th, when a vote should be taken, After a Uriel discussion the sescion was adjourned, $01 Dav.— In the House the report of the Comm ities Accounts, assigning clerks to committers was adopted. A resolution calling for information reistive to the forcement of the Geary Exclusion law, was agreed to, and the House adjourned without A UOT A FAMII LY { MURDERED. - 1 Owen ro unt oped Of ef am Bobb ry Sepsoned to Have Ben Motive of The Crim, Ind., the in Wralton was murdered. A neighbor went to the Weal in Harrison family of Lens township, residence fon The the iront door back been fil for several weeks, went fo Yoor, Ho hur. them accompanied him to the house, In the room adjoining that In which Mrs, Ia the same the two of them TOD Was dead and dead, The children killed were a liftle boy, cloven years In a front room, Mr. Warlton's mothe aged sixty three, was fouud lying on the floor dead, Her left band was cut off and the left broken. All of the murdered people had deep, ugly wounds on the foreheads with the exception of the girl, who had been struck on the back of the head. Toe old lady is sald to bave had considerable money in the house, hav. ing drawn it from the bank during the recent money stringency, and this, it is thought, was the motive of the murders, There is not the slightest clew to the murderer Bloodhounds arrived from Seymour and will be put on the trail. cs nen IIs WENT THROUGH A BRIDGE. i — A Train Was Passing When The Biruoture Gave Way. The fron bridge across Harvey's Canal, Now Orleans gave way while a train of the Southern Pacific was passing over and the locomotive and tender went through. One of tho conches was piled on top of wreck; Hour paagie wre injured, { NE LIVES Lost People Crushed to Death ina Railroad Wreck. The Second Section of an Passenger Trainonthe lllinois Central Tele~ scopes the First Section-No Warning Given -Some of the Injured Wiil Die. A de PM. train No. 4 ¢ section, that unexpectedly at a point ten the Hlinols Central road, telescoplag one sleeper ple The Unio spnteh Manteno, Ii of from At nger s BOYS; 9.20 the second section prisms the rear of the first rashed inte pp ing had st miles north of Kankakee, on and two coaches, killing nine peo and se rlously njuring a inrge the Esippil #0 ronr ears of first smectic Miss fnirly per ane wail filled with passengers, Another story of the accident An lopped EAYS : iinois Central passenger train had y lake rth of 45 witler at a tank a quarier « Manteno, The first s {train ename to a st in said that no Russia 9 per cent of the lan a +d by peasant Sih oOmMUn es During the las! Paraguayan war it was policed enit { wounded, Ld hat the men who had been without had been their r three months, however inde because they w Max Sey I Mo t LE, B Waii-l« ige, owned the ng ied, ik then. The farmer, therelk han But the cow Bele himself in bis barn 3 iscourage pod vagrancy and to drive away the anticipated winter swarm of tram the we Common pe Riso 10 prevent pestile ng pris oners in the crow led ity jail, ti Counce re airing vagrants to baths twice n xs ii of Tacoma has enncted an ordinance be subjected to show day of the dee pest regrets ! he does not that nad or Awerioa, citiafos me’ Iieon is that epoak English, it Is useless for bh visit Eng- “What interests and fas he sald recentis the heart To get at that one ne. derstand the language of the country.” He thinks Norway the pieasantest place in the world to live in, Ex-Sexaron Taos, aud, therefore, feel no soja ol the people, must Paruzn has pre- sented to the city of Detriot for park pur. posce, a farm of one bhunered acres, which was entered by his grandfather in 182, and has been owned ty his famile ever since, There is a log eabin upon it, and the ex-Sea- ator says that the woods and the lake has cost him twen' y-seven thousand dollars, and that he and his wife wished to retain the lake and ihe home while they live, Henn Envens, the German traveler, was received the other day by the German Em- peror, when his Majosty particuly desired to soe the servant he had brougot home with hima black boy fourteen yents old. On his Majesty asking him bow he liked Derlin, the little fellow-—ball African, ball Asiatic replied. It Is said, without any shyness: “The town is fine, but the people are not intelligent, or they would not laugh at me and pepatunly make fun of we in the streets.” Evwano F, Bpanpes, who married Mrs, Mark Hopkins, widow of the California millionaire, Is putting an organ in Grace Church, Ban Fiancisco, as a memorial to his wife. Bhe was for many yours a mem ber of this church, which stands two blocks from her turreted mansion, which has been given to the State of Calilornin as the Hop kins College of Art, Mr. Soarles is personally supervising the construction of the memor. ial organ. He is quite familiar with the re. quikites of such Instrument, being an amateur of ability, and having a fine organ at hin house in Great Barrington, Mass, Trs Lippiocott Glass Works at Loulsville will reopen on October Ist and ite ome PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, Epitome ¢f News Gleaned from Various Part of the State, ninth aonunl Medical of the Btate was held at Tue BOnEION ONG Pitist Mr Axp Canty: Soni pyy are jail at Easton charged with setting patie Hociety ury. Mus, in fire 10 a big barn pear Nazareth, MoNeese, who » wetting fire to Jous Media t pleaded guilty ay # barn, Enstern to Farmer Bond errs d on nn ton yomrs in the ntiar Wuine io a Buck Mounialn saloon William kicked d« a wt injuries which enused his death, on Mat wn airway and weighing several tons fell Biair crushed to ier while he was al work fa ie nl in Brott mine, wns Mus Brist it was entering that town and w killed, Bhe Jemima Lew, aged 77 years, of in, ran in front of a passenger train as is instantly was deaf and did not koow the It there are gute § ree as been discovered by the banks that number of « Ha ounterfelg It siters have Ging. Heidel} has Phil ips, of the for defamn- rg, nes } WOIan Was a ser. and was the present sitted of the Peter nization in train in his train is held 1 By an explc Hery ho, 11, kK iliex AT Hime Lance Col- 1 iners were i and Ha Wil Kennedy nstable i ARG sen ns §iOver, Ken- Glover was trying He was dan i%) unded bh meelf, pedy was | soner and to aid Jums Hox Yours bin oe YER, Who was kidnapped has ten returned to ago at Andover, ther at Shamokin Jim QO. his md named Beck, about 16 years of age, excite mit suicide in the » the baak of » the water a shiver, Hentown, caused considerable ment by attempting to con Jordon Creek. Bhe would go t dip her feet Ix ilinr antics stiracted a 1h Za he Her pect erowd and goceral men sei She then be girl, bold the roots, came violent, grasping of weeds and ing them up by After being weed she partiall y disrobed and repeated The girls mother, who was notified, after spanking took her ho to inded and has made several attempts ending her life, resides who her, me. Thegirliis sad be wonk-n Uxe of the schools of Upper Providence gan owing to the failure of the Schoo! Board to appoint a teacher, and a petition of citi. pens, patrons of the school, was presented dissolved and a new board appointed. In a bigamy esse which was tried at the Criminal Sessions in Toronto, the judge ex. presssd a very pronounced opinion that an American divorce could pot be aceepted in Canadian courts us binding or as dissolving the marriage the Mrs. David Dowden, living six miles from West Elizabeth, NX. J, attempted to light the fire with kerosene, Ap explosion. resaited, and Mrs, Dowden and her child were burned to death. The house and contents were destroyed, <The Has kell and Barker Car Works st Michigan City, Ind. , emplo. ing about one thousand men, has resumed operations. There is a general awakening in masuincturing circles in Northern Indiana, —— There was a rear ond collision on the Pittsburg and Western, The conductor of the freight was killed, but nous of the passengers of the express were hurt, «Henry D. Cochran, the gold bullion embenzier, wos committe 1 to jadl in default ol §17.56 6 mil —Joha D. Lings, of Roches. ter, put his head on the track of the Central Raliroad, and allowed a train to ran over it, we The general synod of the Church ol Engiand, in Caonda, has adopted a resolu. tion declaring religious teaching in public schools absolutely necessary, fa order te either Talfill the trae purpose of education, or to vonserve (he highest interest of the vation at large -—.. A ... .m————— La Tux idea that the earth fs slowly drying up has quite a set-back by the recent ane nouncement of the hydrogrmphio engineers that the Gulf of Mexico bs one foot ———
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