THE NEWS
Willlam Sheppard, an iron moulder, of
Perth Amboy, assaulted his wife during a
Jealous quarrel, and struck her in the fore-
head with a machinist’s hammer, fracturing
her skull. ——An immense crowd attended
the funeral services over the remains of the
late Very Rov. Edward Soria, supreme gen
eral of the order of the Holy Cross, and
founder of Notre Dame University, at Notre
Dame, Ind. ——~The retrial of ex-Detective
Dan Coughlin for the murder of Dr, Cronin,
was begun in Chicago, ——At the Greenwood
Colliery, near Minooka, Luzerne county, Pa.,
John Dulinski was instantly killed and Peter
Slusky was terribly injured by a fall of roof
rock. The men had just fired a blast and
were preparing to load the coal when the
loosened roof crashed upon them Iajthe
Circuit Court in Willsburg, W. Va, the
of the county of Brooks vs, the bondsmen of
ex-Sherift J. L. Cartis was begun, The ac-~
tion is to recover the amount of the shortage
something in the neighborhood of $49,000,
The criminal cases against Curtis have been
continued until next term of court,
factory of the British Columbia Jute and
Cooperage Company, at Vancouver, was de-
gtroyed by fire. By the explosion
locomotive boiler on the Iron Mountain Road
three men were Killed. The foundry and
machine shops of E. C. Wehrifritz were deo-
stroyed by an incendiary fire in Little Hoek
Ark, His family residence,
also badly damaged, The loss is $40,000,
Col. Gilbert 8. Jenniogs, U. 8, A., died in
Detroit.— Hyman & Co. dealers in pictures,
fanicy cards and paper in New York, were
closed by the sheriff. Liabilities $40,000.
The eastbound passenger train on the Inter.
national and Great Northern Railway was
wrecked a mile and a half west of Hearne,
Texas, near the junction of the Hearne and
Brazos Valley Bailroad. It
the spreading at the switches of the Hearne
and Brazos Valley Railroad. All the coaches
and the baggage overturnad, the
engine alone keeping the track.——The large
Sawmill just east of Dixon, 0.,was destroyed
by fire. The fire spread to the lumber piles,
extending one-eighth of a mile, and the coa-
flagration followed. Loss $200,000. Beh.
lard Yawger, a prominent farmer of Lebanon,
N. J., while on his way from Stanton Station
was stopped by highwaymen. One man held
the horses, while another, at the polot of a
pistol, robbed Yawger of his money.—A
San Francisco lawyer and Tracey was struck
and instantly killed by a train on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Railway at
Bt. Anne's avenue, Morrisiania, -Samuel
Blaidell & Co.,
Chicopee, with various branches, failed.
The remains of Sir John Abbott were buried |
at the cemetery in Montreal. —— The meeting
was held in St. Paul, Mina, of the
committee of the Board of Church Extension
of the M. E. Church.—By a boiler explos-
jon in New York six persons were killed and
others more or less in jored, —— Arrangements
were completed for the transfer of the
trol of the Chesapeake, Ohlo and Southwest.
era from C. P. Huntingdon te the Louisville
and Nashville.
There was an explosion on the steamer
Ban Matteo, which was on her way from Last
Point to San Franciseo, She put in at Vie
toria, B, C.——A requisition from the gover-
nor of Massachusetts for Geo, B. White, a
prominent tanner of Bedford, has been hon-
ored by Governor Pattison. White is wanted
in Boston to answer a charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses, —— While Al
bert Sponenberg, and bis wife and child,
were driving across the Pennsylvania Rali-
road tracks at Hazelton, Pa, they were
struck by a freight engine, Mra. Sponenberg
was instantly killed, and the husband was
badly Injured, The child escaped, —
Francis B. Bannan, until recently an exten-
sive fron founder in Poitaville, Pa bas made
an assignment to the Schuylkill Real Estato
Title Insurapes and Trust Company, —
Isaac 8, Fisher, =a manufacturer,
Boston, was arrested on request of Buperin.
tendent Byrnes, of New York. Fisher is
charged with the larceny of #41000 from
Fred, E. Lynde & Co., of that city,
refused to make an explanation of the affair,
other than that be was innocent, — Mrs,
Theresa Kranz was burned to death in Attle.
cnso
was caused by
CAI were
con-
cloak ol
while she was singeing a chickon, —
Koseck, a miner, was
slightly burned, in
Wilkesbarre, Pa
by his side stood a Keg of powder. A
was fired in A gangway nearby,
and horribly mutilating him.
Mrs. Frances Adams died in Kingston, N.
¥., aged eighty-nine years, She was the
LI. P. Adams, U. 8. N,;
United States consul to Geneva, Switzerland,
and an aunt of ex-Governor John T. Hofl-
misconduct in church, -
jury promptly indieted Patrick Eugene Pren-
dergast for the murder of Mayor Harrison,
weeThe closing exercises of the greal
World's Fair were simple and sad. Thous
ands of people attended the meeting in Fes.
were present. Resolutions of respect to the
memory of Mayor Harrison were adopted,
and, after n short address by President Hig.
inbotham, President Palmer declared that,
in nocordance with the act of Congress, the
World's Columbian Exposition was at an
end, The Singer Bewing Machine works,
at Elizabeth, N. J., closed down for a week
on account of & break in the machinery, and
three thousand men are idle A crank
has shot Superintendent Frank Matthews, of
the new Postal Telegraph Building, in New
York city. ~Another crank walked into
Edwin Gould's office, in New York, and de-
manded $5,000 during a personal iaterview,
Heo was detained until a policeman arrived
and was arrested, His name is Andrews and
he wns once a telegrayh operator, a, J,
Gurney, the chief money clerk of the Amer-
ican Express Company, st New Orloans, was
arrested, charged with the theft of $22,000,
which mysteriously disappeared [some time
J. J, Vax Arum is to be well up in
IEE ST
SHOT BY A CRANK
a —————— A I
Carter Harrison, Chicago's Mayor,
Assassinated.
The news that the murderer nad been ap
prehended spread rapidly down town and
when the afficers emerged from the station
in the big county building they found a
sembled about the entrance to and the walk
from the station, The prisoner was instantly |
taken back to the station and a consultation
The officers, expecting violence to
the erowd without,
cs 2B HH
——
THE CITY MUCH ENRAGED.
A—— S——————————
Prendergast an Ex-Policeman Did |
the Deed-He Ran Several Blocks
and Finally Walked Into a
Police Station and Surren-
dered Himself,
five times
Carter Harrison, of Chi.
commis. |
Mayor
ex-county
Was as |
231 South
Ashland at 8
o'clock,
avenue, Saturday evening
Three bullets entered his body,
1 hour and 12 minutes after the!
fired The man
and within
irst shot was
who did the
locked up at the
There
Patrick
was at one time a
death ensued,
the man |
Prender. |
He member
Chicago police force
The Incidents tbat ied up
of the
to the
and
killing
daliber.
ately planned,
There is no question that his life would
compelled to
remain near the scene of y orime a few
minutes longer. The ber I
to attract at.
auner since Le
man's actions ro
t such a)
tention, but his talk and nm
was placed under arrest leave no doubt as to
his fnsanity.
At 7.30 o'clock os man ran up the front steps
of Mr. Harrison's residecce, at 231 Bouth
Ashland avenue, and rang the Mary
Fansen, the servant, answered the bell, and
for Mr. Harrison,
She sald he would have to walt a mo
Mr. a io the
parior, at the same time golog back thro
bell
the man outside asked
ment, as
Harrison was asleep on the so
sgh
leaving the door open,
ent } from
the parlor into the hall
Inamom fr. Harrison stepped
In an
man had drawn a revolver and fred,
instant the
theshot
entering the abdomen just above the navel
Two more shots rang out au instant
first of which entered t
der the |
ater. the
he mayor's body
heart. Mr.
the first shot was fired
started toward the door, and
struck him when within a
sassio,
Mr, Harrison was so «
the revolver when the third shot fired
that tbe bullet shattered one of the Knueiies
of his leit hand and the powder
flesh,
Mayor Harrison,
fired, stepped into the parior an
ward the dining-roon
un-
oft arm, penetrating the
Harrison, when , had
the second shot
few leet of the as.
e murzls of
lose to tt!
was
burne
aft er the
Tie
of the house, His son Preston, wh
stairs at the t
and was at his father’s side In an instant,
Mr. Harriso “] am shot
Was u
time of the shooting, ran J
yi said : Prest
father’s
Mr, Harrison hasti
and rushed out up«
ily left bis
ya the street in pure
{he assassin,
w.J
3 orton!
pndd started
Mr. and Mrs
who live scross the street,
In the meantime Chal
mers,
for the Harrison residence, as they had
the shooting.
Ashland avenue and met the son,
pursuit. Young Mr.
enough to inform bis neighbor's of the terri
heard
They saw a man running v
Preston, is
Harrison stopped Ie
ble affair and then started in of the
Mr. and Mn Chalmers
entered the house, Mr. Chalmers at
making a pillow of his overcoat,
piased under Mr. Harrison's head.
“] have been shot and cannot live,”
the mayor as he grasped for breath,
“You wou't die.” sald Mr, Chalmers,
have only been shot in the abdomen.
“Xo! I have been shot In the heart,
know 1 cannot * was the reply.
These were the last words of the mayor,
He immediately became unconscious
died at 8.25,
The murderer, pursued by the coachman,
ran along Ashland avenue toward Monroe
street at a breakneck pace, Coming 10
Monroe street he turnel! to the east and
started for the city. The pursuer, who hal
been reinforced by an officer and several
citizens, gained rapidly on their man. On
they sped until Desplaines street was reach-
turned 10
pursuis
murderer, hastily
once
be
wi
ich
sald
4 you
and 1
live,
and
Hs |
walked in and approached the sergeant at
the desk. He was about to speak when the |
foremost of his pursuers rushed breathlessly |
“Lock that man up,” sald the eoanchman,
“he has killed Mayor Harrison.”
In an instant the sergeant was out from |
behind his desk, and catching hold of the
man's arm, pulled him within the wire en-
rapidity. Without waiting to register the
quickly taken back and |
the bars. The siation was |
then cleared of the excited people and the
sergeant went for a talk with the prisoner,
“My name is Eugene Patrick Pendergast.”
he sald in response to the frst inquiry.
Do you know that you have killed Mayor
Harrison?" sajd the sergeant.
“Yeo, and I am glad of I,” was the an.
swer, “He promised to give me the corpo.
ation counselship and hus not kept bis
word,"
“Where do you live?”
YALL 600 Jane street, with my mother.” sald
the prisoner,
This ended the interview, The sergeant
at once telephoned to the Central Station,
and in a few moments several ofMoeers from
that district were at the Desplaines.Street
Btation, A patrol wagon was called after a
fow minutes, and the prisoner was taken to
the Central Station down town. Here
another examination was held, and the re.
volver which had been taken from the mur
dorer at the Despiaines-Station was given
into the kerning of the officer fu cha
shortly after 11 o'clock the or
sgaln brought into requisition for the pur.
pose of c@iveying the prisoner to the eouaty
; ss 4
PR rion rtm BS om IR Gi in
foreements,
A detall of six officers was summoned, and
taken out of the station,
wiy to the street and hustled
into the wagon in a jifly.
burely seated the wagon
motion and, mutterings of the
to the North Side,
before
amid the
was
When the news of Mayor Harrison's
hed the
mensge crowds gathered around the newspaper
8 ABBAEE.
ination reac down-town streets
buildings reading the bulletins posted from
time to time
The building occupied
which Mr,
the Kg
throng, and murmurs against the
with eager interest,
by the Times, of
proprietor, is at this
ited
of the
Harrison was
hour
athering place of the most exe
ile
assassin are heard on every hand,
Carter Harrison's Career
born in §
He
CRE
Harrison was
February
i at Yule in 1845,
in farming, traveled
“Carter Henry
tte od
ay-
” iB x
unty, Ky., 15, 1835, wae
graduate read law, agrod
for two years in foreign
untries and after receiving his degree [1
Transylvania Law School,
sottied in Ch
Lexingt
cago, where hie en
estate operations,
After the
Oly Gon
great fire
3 i ra
jmassioner jo!
ruling from
¥74 he was elec
t by so ¢l
had defeated hi
lection, gave notice of
and when his second ters
Mayor of
, frit «1 £
continued i
Wie
wr
terms,
In
nd
Independent,
1890 for
against Dewi
he ran Mayor of Chicago
. Cregler, the
regular Democratio nomine
Washburn, Fey abl
fight resulted in the ele
oan Again, in 1880 notwit?
standing the fact that he was generally hei
responsible for the Democratio
in this strongly Demo
t
the
and Hampstead
can. The threo-corns
on of the
Reg $0
candidate,
fone 1
eleat |
regular nomination party
mayor after a memorable fight, backed
Wh personality
npAalgn was one
Gite
nL
Bis
avian, Itnlias and Britis
President Grifflo marche
rom the Type
nt Waterloo bel
ip of nearly two
of the Press Club
at
Ta ne $
grin Dra
s 9 a a
geld and the Sinte off}
in the third
Governor
upied
ials oc arria
division,
It was one of the most imposing foneral
in Ubleag . Filty
people lof
processions ever witnessed
thousand mourners proceeded or i the
ensket and a m lion ! aod
from sidewalk, win lows
and housetops along the route of over six
miles,
the at ti
hoir and the
Upon the arrival of casket SL
offici
Morrison, ene
tered from the vestry, and the minister, with
two acolytes, proceeded up the
to meet the body.
As the casket wax borne into the edifice
within rose to their feet, and in solemn
tones the preacher com 1
mend
funeral ofMice,
centre aisle
intoning the
When
the chancel was reached the casket was
placed on a bier before the rail and the ofMeid.
of the Peale, at the end of each of which
portion of the fifteenth chapter of the
Thee,” was rendered
touhing effect.
Dr. Morrison, in a brief but eloquent ser.
mon, paid tribute to the lifts and public ser.
vices of the dead man, who bad been a mem-
ber of the congregation for many years, and
deplored his assassination. The choir sang
the anthems, “Who Are These That Are
Arrayed in White Robes?” and “Lead, Kind.
ly Light.”
Then the sasket was again borne from the
church and the march to the tomb was re-
sumed, There, about 4 o'clock, amid the
solemn rendering of the commitial service,
the remains wero placed in the recelving
vauit.
by the choir with
fpain has decided upon a plan of eam paigs
that involves sendliig 12,000 regular troop
against the rebellious tribesmen. It Bb
thought that the country around Melilla will
boannexed, oo ————
Lorp Buassry is cruising on bis yack
Sunbeam on his way to Caleutta, He hat
with him, in addition to many other proper
IVER DEFEAT.
Repeal Carried By a Vote of
4 to 92.
CLOSING ~~ SCENES.
the Supporters of Repsal Actu~
ally dad Forty-Eight of the
Eighty-Four Sitting Sena~
tors on their Side.
The Lill for the unconditional repeal of the
sliver-p Bherman law
passed the Benate al hall-past 7 o'clock MM
archase clause of the
ithe
40 ayes 10 37 noes,
bad
10 the ex
It hind
aver
Ais
months the bill
the
other i
occupied the
of
dee
before
uttention of » Benale dusion
aimost oli UEINess, been
bated as perhaps no single bill
the Amer
The House of
At § i Wr 13 {ri1 4 ¥
Aoncay, August 08,
bean cussed,
ntatives passed LC
jean Hepnate has
Hepre e bill
weeks alter the
the
hires
baiting nf the
beginning of the
bad Leen
session, and although
bPennte disctiss ractic
ns u
from the
sor hoes iment
RIM OL ent,
ried from the «
wh ihe
Repeal Bil
At 3
Wedoesday
aflixed
Bver pad
veland
fig the
of the Sherman law
the law of the land
e Ho Repro.
the session, and
and it became a part of
The Lill was laid before th use of
sentatives at the opening of
t= of its
ici the Senate
in spite of the effor ppouents to de.
I
lay ac amendment was con.
%
t
arred in a few minutes balore 3 o'clock by
a vote of 193 to 84, over two-thirds voting to
Ten minutes later the consurrence
to and the
Bpenker Crisp and Viee-Presi-
on were affixed without
¢sentative Pearson,
coneqar.
was communicated the Senate
signatures of
dent Stevens delay.
Ohio, the
chairman of the House Commities on en
rolled bills, carried it to the White House,
where the President lost no time in affixisg
his signature, Secretary Carlisle and Attor-
ney-General Olney were present,
immediately upon the passage of the tli
Speaker Crisp received a request from Presi.
dent Cleveland by special messenger for »
list of an aye and nay vote on the question
1
Then Repr of
the White House in a short time with it,
Tieng were two deaths 3 and 21 new
yvellow fever at Branswiek, Georgia
Br the explosion of a digestor in the pulp
mill at Ashiand, Wiscousin,
terribly bursed-~two brobably fatally.
A fire occurred inthe workshop ofthe State
Peniteniiary in Omaha, Neb, There was no
loss of life, but the property loss was heavy.
A bead-end collision on the Iron Mountain
chases
of
killed,
A passenger train on the Indiana and Iii
pols Bouthern Ratirond was derailed near
EfMngham, IIL Thirteen persons were io.
jared, Benjamin Jewel fatally.
fSeves persons were injured, one a woman,
perhaps mortally, by a collision between a
street oar and electric car in Chicago. Its
sald the motor car was running too fast at
the time,
Tue Pacific Mall steamship City of New
York, which salled from San Francisco, went
on the rooks at Point Bonita, at the entrance
ol the Golden Gate, during » fog. Bhe will
probably be a total wreek,
A freight train on the Toledo, Ann Arbor
and North Michigan Railroad ran into a sink
hole three miles south of Hamburg Junction,
Mich, Engineer Beaulieu, Fireman George
Alberts and Brakeman Thomas Milligan were
killed,
Tue
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS,
Extra Bomion.
SENATE,
The B-nate
adjourn
788 Day.
did not
met at noon and
till an quarter before five,
as the New York Eridge bill
bill, with
the Benate Committee on Commerce, A |
theses amendments wore agreed to by the
Senute, and the discussions which took
place were over amendments proposed by
Mr. MePherson (Dem, |, of New Jersey, The
bill passed without any other amendment
those reported by the Committee on
Commerce,
In the Sennte Mr, Hill intro-
the ob
present any
10 apswer on the roll
featriating the number of
wy of “no quoram”’ might be
nate then (00k up
dru Dax
Bison
and
The Be the discus.
nna d i ire » |
Palmer. Perkins, 1
five o'clock, when It
ridwind,
iinese Lill
Messrs, Gray,
juire and Frye, until
mirned without setion on the BiL
Day Fhe Booate spent
alter the worniog | rin
the House bill
ithe of May
Giang
Hintos
iffered
its entire
she dis
on Odor
OH, 1802, prohibit
the
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
Mus, Wax Monnis has
being the most beautiful w
Eviron McCirome, of
Times, still prostrated
and his recovery is doubtful,
Loup of h
tives a goodly po
the pro
Amerion,
Tom
the reputation of
woman in London,
the Philadelphia
in ty theumatiem
Dusnaves, :
yrtion of his
his farming
de
from
operations
{ane
ineowme
opeds of in
Evrssinry, Russian
. Peters.
the well-known
expiorer, is
burg for the Soudan,
holy city of ElLOeid,
Mabdi's dominions,
Fa-Presien Crise: is ta king a great deal
about peace these days, as are other Eu-
ropean statesmen, snd the more that is said
on the subject the Jarger grow the armies
and navies across the water,
Tart De Cassiaxac is pearly
oid but does not Jook his age
odd duels have left no on the tall,
squarely built figure, and dark imperious
iace.” But, theo, these wore Freach duels,
Prixox Hexay or Ostzaxs, aephew of
the Count of Paris, js soon to be a Knight
of the Legion of Honor by the French Gov.
start from
He hopes to reach the
the
about to ot
capital of the
fifty years
“Some 20
frace
Gro,
88th He
neighborhood of
which he began his ministry 63 years ago.
Bgxavon Gaviaxorn, of New Hamsbhire,
year,
Senate, It is perfect in its outlines, full,
even and systemmetrioal,
a well-developed eranium,
Prixce Knarorkise, the very lord high
fering to meet him in jo'nt public debate to
discuss the rights of capital and labor,
—————— ft AAA
TRIED TO WRECK THE TRAIN,
Narrow Escape of a Fast Mail on
8ou'h Carolina Railroad.
An attempt to wreck the fast mall train
CLOSE OF THE FAI
Mayor Harrison's Death,
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The Official
Admissions
Figures for the Paid
to the Fair up to
Date are, 21,458,876.-Pan-
demonium Re gned on the
Midway.
The
Elunset
World's 1
of the
and the
cod with the firing wm
Guly-One
guns
bu
Grate
iding .,
ry, tn
ranged for
the dead may
A meet
afternoon u
was a me
of tin Lor
tment which
by the visitors, :
pushers, by the cont
employes without &
pas]
gurd { for
ny re
preierred
way. Iroc us of n
of signs marched “
to the seroeching n + of tia ©
» BOY (themselves in juieter
oun] { Kinds
mrryving ail
he Midway
own
ri in var
bad
placed
which
No-
Ous sages until
br
upon
it seemed as if sd lam
ken loosn, There was bo restraint
the conduct of the muititude,
passed up and down the thoroughfare,
body cared {«
upon a res
the World's Pair
) RO home early ; all were bent
kiess enjoyment of the last day of
WORK AND WORKERS.
Tax Mingo Steel and Iron Mill, at Miasgo
Junetion, W, Va., ciosed down indefinitely.
No agreement was reached at the «onfer.
ence in Bethishem of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road officials and the Grievance Commiltes
of the employees
Ture Indians Midland Railroad, running
from Anderson to Haviland, 68 miles, is erip-
pled by reason of a sirike of ils employees
for back pay.
Tus brewers of 8. Louis have notified
their drivers, 400 in number, thst uniess
they removed the boycott gn the Home and
Gert breweries, they would all be discharg-
ed. They refused to submit,
Tur street rallway oars of St. Paul, Minn,
were tied up, “the employees baving Leen
locked out beenuse of their request that the
company discontisue the hiring of non-union
men and outside Jabor.”
G. G, Ransxy, Grand Chie! of the Order
of Rallway Telographers, has been indicted
#t Marion, lows, by the Grand Jury of Linn
county, He is charged with obstructing the
telegraphic system of the Burlington, Ceder
Hapids and Northern Railway during the
telegraphers’ strike in September, 1692,
A prrseariox of officials of the American
Federation of Labor had aa jaterview with
Asgisant Secretary Custis, at the Treasury
Department, and urged the extension of the
provisions of the Eight-hour Labor law to
the preparation of material for public bullde
ings,
Oven 500 laborers employed in construct.
ing the big offes building of the Mutual Re-
serve Fund Life Association and of the Pose
tal Telegraph Company, in Now York, went
out on strike as a result of the strike or.
dered by Walking Delegate Quinn, of the
Plasterers’ Union to resist an attempted out
$a wages by Caliuran, Bron, suntractory, whe
employ 57 men wa the two bulldings,