THE NEWS J. K. Armstrong. the embezzling treasurer of Tipton county, Ind., was convicted and pept up for one year.——A Chinese ware house in San Francisco, was destroyed by fire. Of the dozen inmates in the place at the time four were burned to death and one fetally burned. ——Sergennt F. Harris, Bat- tery A. Fifth Artillery, stationed at Alcatraz, Cal.. committed suleide by blowing out his brains with a rifle, He had been in the army twenty-four years, and came from the East three years ago ——Le Blane, who was con- demned to die for the murder of John Wil son, will not be hanged An order was re- ceived st Winnepeg from prisonment. — Mr. Cowin, of Boston, a cou- tractor, was robbed of 5,000. — Richard Robinson was hanged in Sedalia, Mo, the murder of Johanna Schollman, D. Hallen, a New York lawyer, is York, out of $3 300 by various means, Court, to recover that amount, and has ot tained an attachment against his property. The sheriff has seized ote, Union County Court, in having set fire to his store on November 5, escaped with thelr to fifteen Ann Huggins, the ccuvioled pension was sentenced in Norfolk to five years’ prisonment, and to pay a line of $2,000 Reuben Strickland, one of the band of rob- David Lenbor was convicted in the the families night when a dozen barely ives, Years imprisonment. Pear! J. Rodgers, colored, who was time for robbery, escaped from the tore down the poor-box from the wall decamped with it. The box is only opened about $50. —— The Anarchists are being shadowed ——Ex-Chiel Henry 8. Cockran, of the Philadelphia mint, Refinery, in South Williamsport, burned. Loss § 50.0. Miss fams wae pushed through the during revival services at the Auditorium in Detroit, and a panic was narrowly averted. — Masked men entered the Chicago and Great Western Depot at St. Charles IIL, and bound and gaged the night operator, Fos- ter, and then proceeded to blow open the safe. After securing what money and checks it contained, Pa., Grace W ator Foster of his gold wateh, and decamped, President Gompers of the Federation of Labor, in bis annual address, advocates eight-bLouf day as a remedy for the existing industrial depression. —— The plant of United States Iron and Steel Works at Keesport, Pa, closed down ——A gang masked burglars entered Blanch's Hotel, Fifth street and Jackson avenue, Woodside, IL. L, and beld up the family with revolvers, The burglars secured about $500 ix gold watches and several be bles, Charies Barner and Enoch walking the Susquehsona, Wilkesbarre, on the ice, broke were drowoed, Rev. Dr. W. H died at Lebanon, Pa lsanc Rice filed bis petition in the United States Court in Philadelphia asking for the removal Reading receivers. —— The cottage of Mary Ann Jackson, a professional Farmington, L. L., was found to 1 with the remains of the woman been murdered. ——The Dealers Company's plant at Hammond, Ind burned to the ground, The cause of was spontaneous combustion. Lose, 000 The mail train south on the Concord and Mootreal Railroad between Fabyans and Wing Road, thrown from the track and badly wrecked pear Bethlehem Hollow, N. H. Andrew F. Pike, of Woodaville was injured internally, aod, it is feared fatally. Miller was scalded. - the the of vpn wx Wn Sar cash two useboid valuae in Morgan, whil RCTO8S i through ao 1 As Mrs nurse st © on Hire, who bad Distilling Pe the fi * ye fire $150. - insurances, $80 000 Was Vice President § teven- visitors at the exposition in Augusta, Ga of his mother a little boy named Wilillams was burned to death in his home in Boston, ww The Canadian- Australian rived at Vancouver, B ( ment was still in power, bitterly arraigned. Troops are being drilled, and resistance to American {(rogps was urged. Rev. Michael Tierney, pastor of St. Mary's Choreh, in New Britain, CL., bas bees ap- pointed Bishop of Hartford, Ct.——Bernard Parmer, an old farmer of Bound Brook, N.J., bas mysteriously disappeared. It is feared he bas been murdered, —— Bix bridge carpen. tors were seriously injured at Bellaire, O,, while tearing down an leehouse.—-B IL Duke, of Durham, N. C., bas made an &s- signment, Liabilities, balf a million William Mason, of the Eastern Ehore, Va, was convicted in the United States Court at Noriolk, Va., of robbing the United States walls on the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad nearly a yesr ago. Ben tence was suspended until May.——In the Ugited States Court in Covington, O,, a boy wearing short trousers and only thirteen years old, was put on irx. for robbing the Moorehead, Ky., postoffide. The young thief was sent to the Washington, D. C,, Reform Bebool for one year, —— A report has reached Heidelburg, Miss, that Marshal Winnie Robinson, who bas been hunting moonshin- ors io Saillivans Hollow, a place jn Smith county, Boted for its desperate and lawless people, was waylaid, killed snd burned by TO LYNCH THE MOTORMAN, An Elsctric=Car Tragedy in Augusta, Ga,, Creates a Mob. Houston Tennant, aged 5 years, and his mother, Mrs, Gilbert C, Tennant, were knocked down and run over by an electrio car at Augusta, Ga, The boy was killed outright sand the mother seriously injured. A much-excited crowd collected, and eries of “Lynch them I” were directed at the motorman and con- wuetor, a Wik # PARIS IS APPALLED. —————————————— MANY MEMBERS WOUNDED. Magnificent Self-Control of Presi- dent of the Chamber Dupuy~- Twenty-Persons Under Ar- i rest-An American Woman i Among Those Hurt, the Chamber of though A bomb was thrown in Deputies, Paris, and, one Was | i Bo killed, forty-eight persons were injured, in cluding about twenty deputies and thre 1 American, o'clock in the evening twenty-three persons Jaales, one of them an Before 7 had been arrested, of when no matter of great fmportanes Is to be The usual number members present considered were in their seats, aud the busi. nees of the House was proceeding sleepily The galleries contained a number of visitors, ipeluding some ladies, who watched the pro ry | ceedings with little interest, In the gall above the benches occupied by the members of the right were a number of attracted strangers none had nny atteption when aud bad sents as {the f the House, election of M. Mies In the course ¢ the cussion si ness ( for dis- nen M. Mierman had from the tribune and bad ju cnme up Leen speaking » af descended td resume bis sent whon a man in the galery threw a bomb toward the floor of the House, fuse nt ached Le it exploded The bomb must have bad atime 1 for as it passed the head of Frol, mige, deputy for with a terrific report, A dey it, Hazebiruck, se cloud « f smoke and dust ascended, shutting out from view for o time those sitting in the body of the House, instant the WAS per then, and others realizing what bad occ The officers guard the chamber were the first For a single House fectly quiet, and the members irred there wildest excitement, detailed tc to regain their senses, They at ouce shut * ¢ tO chambers wer people in the galleris ing that other bombs were in a state borde f ost Tell « var eact utile haste (0 get American indy by a piece of the oA f t 00 with indies sitll ¥ ure. Iwo other > ih Onn pposite the gallery was thrown is the gail of the foreign press repre wera they i ¥ first thought when that some one 0s f the port was $0 loud and the © Woon olver on the foor « vinced of their mistake { everybody in the Rehiy appearance On the fox was fully as great as that r of the Many of the members ras fearing every mw I MD nent t 6. uirages canne ber. We shall continue « we exhaust the order of do the jay the Chan ber’s officials will cuty in regard t the outrage The excitement among wid the members, though it was, did nol last wounded were taken 5¢ and medical ass to atte them, some of the rep. stance was bn fel While this was leitig done jie from the of the House bits of metal and a number of riers ke Boor borseshoe tails that had evidently of the contents of the bomb, urnished part Ap enormous crowd gathered Paisis Bourton creased They the Liteige the belore and steadily ae olamored anarchists, was invested with military and police, nightfall, ite the evening advanced, joudly The whole neighborhood The chamber this evening looks as il it bad been swept by a riot. Many desks and chairs lie where they fell alter baving been wrenched from the floor, and furniture are spattered with blood, mattresses in the committee rooms are spot. ted red and the with blood. from & battle fleld when he was carried from the chamber. His fase was binckened and streaked with red, and the blood flowed in streams from his left hand, Two of his fingers had been blown off and Lis arm bad been bad torn, door latches aro smenrod CAPIURE OF THE ROME THROWER, Auguste Vaillanty aliss Marchal, a resident of the suburb Cholsy-le-Rol, is the Anarchist who threw the bomb in the Chamber of Deputies, He made a confession, As the French police say, they “salted” him. Nothing was learned, however, until well in the moroing. At 0 o'clock the pro- curer of the republic and AM. Lepine, prefect of police, arrived at the Hotel Dien. After conferring with the detectives, they went to Vaillant's bedside, The procurer sald posi tively: “You are mot Marchal; you are Auguste Vaillant.” Vaillant started, hesitated a moment, then blurted out pettishiy : “So lam. Yes, I am August Vaillant, and I threw the bomb bee enuse 1 bave bad enough of this blood-suck- ing bourgeois society.” He then told his story with an air of bravado, He attended the ehamber, bo sid, for the purposes of throwing the bomb at M. Dupuy, president of the house, A woman who sat next to him, seeing bim prepare to throw the bomb, tried to seize his arm. She failed in the attempt, but spoiled bie nim. The bomb struck the cornies of the public gal lery snd exploded. Vailiant's injuries were #0 severe that he foil to the floor, When the panic started in the chamber ho tried, as did maby others to eseape, but was prevented by the janitors. Tn concluding Lis confession - “f am sorry 1 failed, I hope others wlio | follow me will be more fortunate, Anarchy.” A CHICAGO OUIRAGE. o——— Long live ! The Postcffice Cashier Assaunl:ied and the Office Robbed, The Chicago PostofMice, in the benrt of the city, was the scene of a bold robbery, the perpetrator of whieh has not, located of the Andrew J. Robertson, cashier the wholesale stamp department Post. office. wus found by KR Zimmerman aod | Miss Marie Jones, two clerks, lying on the fioor of bis office in a pool of blood, about 10 o'clock P.M. Medical ald was of nt once summoned, and statement, he sald that about 7 while he was engaged in balancing up fii i gecounts, someone appeared at his window make n 80 | and ssked him bow he was coming out, Hiobertson replied thot he thought he was be. had sent bis boy for stamps durlag the day, and thant He bat nll right. The stranger replied that yJertson had given him too many, them Hf Id the cierks od he wo return shierison When by the : the door wus opened, open the door, man pave used in the rap As soon as the robber was inside the office be attacked Robertson and ns terribie co i, Money was scattered ail office, one package of §300, one of 8500 us one of #800 being found on the Boor, redugeed 10 Robertson was finally the wns unReon usness and thief decampexi, Inking in ihe exact sight known, that what money but the is sald by Sup es sum wii reach #7.000. Robertson's wounds are dau FARMER'S 00] R'S CONGR ESS. Auncual Bavanoah, The Nationa! Body's Bagsicu in e National Farmers’ Cougress heid ils riventh spuusl meeting in Savauoal, Ga address of behalf of the X A i. Wade, of win welcome in Riate Agricultural Boclely was made Ly in lbealsepoe dent Waddel £¢ Danie Nesdham, president gy |! New England Agricultural Rocietly, res pot we ofae by the agricut t hwas the edu Need ba Lie sllers one fwhi The great underiyiog pr 3 th is Enowiedge The great uaderiying pric siversal od We sre lu i Tet iensew nt 1% ss 4 vd West Virginia as Baye the World Will This Yesr and says ceive relevatlions 5 the Holy Spirit, enabling her 10 predict just whon the Ww Mrs tarRns rid will end. the ruey General, Williams is wile of President the who a fie and iender 1d of religious fanatics profess to believe that the world is sbout to end. She preaches that 10 secure a i TE the Rurough purification ody it all to go the which oonsiis of an almost atesclute inst lor forty days and forty nigths, To Mrs ‘through the wilderness,’ Wn necessary or wilderness,” 8 Was Willinms' and of second (rip belore she begin it she sald the emd the world was that this wouter would be a contest betwosn Inbor and capital Hho said these i Calamity alter calamity would belall us MANY FOREIGN AWARDS. They Got the Largest Per Cent of World's Fair Prizss, The World's Fair Board of Awards have struck a balance on the awards they have made, disclosing for the first time that the foreign exhibitors will receive 63 per caut. of | the prizes, while the American exhibitors | will receive only #7 per cent. Chalrmas | Thatcher, of the board, says that this & i ing will put an end to the criticisms that the | foreign exhibitors were not reeeiving full consideration, He anticipates that the American exhibi- tors will now be heard from, snd that they will feel that the board has not been suffi clently patriotic to home exhibite, But Mr. Thatcher saye that he and his associates bave been governed by the findings of the judges, and that the latter are responsible for giving the foreigners the bulk of the Mr. Thatoher sald the result was no reflec tion on American enterprises and ingenuity, an the foreigners had unusual facilities for making super.or eXtibits. Most of the foreign countries bad commissions which selected the best out of numerous exhibits, Asa result, the foreigners exhibited the pick of their goods, while the Americans not having to go #0 far or to pass preliminary inetructions, © ~ FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Eenate. rn Dav. on resolution to ask the President if any per and consent of the Bepale to investigate Ha- 1eRoiution went over. Federal Eledon lnws was referred to the Committees on Privileges and Elections, Senator McMillan, of Michigan, Introduced a bill that will opernte as 6 bar against strik- ors interfering with mall trajos, but with a provision that prohibits raliroads from tak- ing advantage of the net Ly endeavoring to enrry on passenger traffic by attaching such ears to regular mall trains, 71a Dav-1n the Senate a bill providing for the estabifshment of a pational park ino the state of Washington was referred. Mr, Culs lom mude an address in oppoeition to the bill to repeal the Federal Election laws, Nepntor Stewart declared himsoll in favor of repeal, fru D ried on on Mr President AY A very spirited debate was cur in the United States Senate, Hoar's rescliution, requesting ihe of the 1 Biutes furnish in regard to Blount as Commis debate was opened based united to information the appointment of Mr. sioner to Hawail, The by a speech from Mr. Frye. Mr. Vest made One HE pelucus speeches ridie retention f Mr. Bteyens nnd Hawailal INL At the close of the debate the referred to the Commit tious, and Mr, Morrill on the subje of this Day the oried % ai A Joauent t ' ii B® the of his iin fi revosn Hoar 1e¢ On reso iutlion Foreign the re repeal Whe reg Chairman Yoorhs mites, Introdug x : 3 : BHYEr dOLIRrE 8G 3 the proper sufferers Diay Foss ion ire Bot in House, In the HH Gru Dax hood Wi wes made fhe Tuesday and Wednesday. Ihe Cd ot Commerce reporiad with reference io the regulation of lean Ihe joint commission appointed 10 Jpvestigale , government Cepnrimnel 1s port. A number of District Lille were passed Day In the ist for end 1 he jee th pe tien Laid Yehpe on : font sii ¥ Hi 1 ou sled TT retired referred, gate the departmen Mr. Balley's Bankrupte The House went Ibi ot the concurtent res: ent of Wen med oint con is salanit 6 Eps personnel of f 1 the in { in ABLE SPARKS, Ring Hun tL ga a Hon yersation private sud nericat minister Wa oot 1 {he mos OOraia ter (1ernany against ete ix ine fatation in apn Chance Willi Ts EEaAr tis the comet irealion 5a Le or Laprivi ne # 1.9% wi, GO iG. sis whe - ia Cin the Brun g Chinese « were sont decuss ae-l Binuese frottier dim 1 question home aller joss eon, have returned [wo arrests have been made in Dublin wined io the bor nen Supposed 14 have Duvlh COWA at the Ald u,b recent dynamile oulrages Burrucks, the dinass found tan Whose Catboi Marguis de Rays, trous attempt 1 a Joy alist at Port Breton “Port Tarsscon,” Je dead at Paris, to cotp pulsory ability bhi, and 10 Lring sbout the House ol colony sugested Daudet's Watss miners object ike feature 0! the eR piOyers bave asked Lond Salmbury the rejection of this clause in Lords, Iafluenza js incressing in London, ty-lour deaths during the past week bave been ntiributed to that disease. The deaths been 35) above the Reven. from all enuses bave weekly average fr is stated in London that Professor Tyn- daii's death was caused by sn overdose of eblorsl. which be bad been scoustomed 10 gestion, rhenmatiem aud losomnia, Tux second apniversity ‘of the death of Don Pedro, the disposed Emperor of Brazil, bed in Bt, Augustine's Church, Two hub dred persons attended, including the Count sud Countess d'Ea. ss So KILLED BY DYNAMITE. A Frightfal Explosion in » Tuonel Half a Dozen Viotimy, By an explosion of dysamite in the new tunnel now building at Armopuk, N. Y., to divert the water of Briau Lake into the Ken» sioo reservoir, one man vas blown into frag. ments and another also killed. Al Jonst five wore received serious, and two perhaps fatal jo juries. Suelo McQuade is the contractor, and bas for several months bad over 1wWo hundred men employed upon the works. The scene of the accident is seven miles from & tele: graph office, snd po particulars are sbtain- able ANIA ITEMS. { - ‘ Epitome of News Cleaned from Varions Parte of the Btate Tue Stats i burg adopted resciotions del tary Morton | demanding uo retraction, KR Parson & C« the vite banking houses in Pittsburg (range in se 8 Chiengo for ni , gue of | doors with Habllities ol of #700, ARGELO Helmstetter Pittsburg ul murdered ZArys GVer oa your ago, who Frank was banged sl By a clerical « gener appr joses $7.000, Karen Cu thier io smethport. Farmers Valivy, were ners were James | “enter were accu kill Mra oe Ja mes Carpenter, of P. VWeraw, of as begun a suit Laviga Haven, Conn, , ¥ to recover §.95.0 worth of property in OU yphant Jopx Cevnrsey, of Gouldsbor ex ited the pecple of Scranton by claiming 10 be the Almighty Toe report of Auditor Dewiti in the case iF. V failed inst Fedruary, was filed f« Hockaleliow, the private Lanker whe He finds the tal indebtoess to general creditors is $440,» $13 The fund wii, be d stributed in the propor. tion of =ix cents, two mills and twenty-four 70, and the pesets $27 508 18, therelore, bandredibe of a mill on the dollar, Eowanp Brexxas, inspector of the seventh anthracite mine district, apd Lewis Evans, juside superintendent of the Union Coal Company's Hickory Swamp Mine, Shamokin, gas while + xamin ing the inside workings of The injuries are coafined Jostam Berry, proprietor of “‘Mapie Judge Looguecker gave bim the minimum penalty, three months in jail, $53) asd all oosts of prosecution. Derkly is a rich and bighly respected farmer and his offense con- sisted of selling at retnil wines of bis own manuinitare J. Hague Graven, of Litite, who attempt. ed 10 kill himself by stabbing himsel! in the peck and abdomen, reposted the attempt at the County Hospital. While the attendant was absent Graver tore the bandages from bis wounds and when discovered the insane man was tearing out bis vitals Prompt medionl attention was given, but there ls lit. tie hope of bis recovery. Cuazep with pain, Mrs, Bosan Lewis, a patient at the Norristown Hospital, jumped from & window in the institution. She was parefooted and clothed only in her night dress, She ran a mile over the fromen gr ound the snow, When found on a door. step and was nearly desd from exposures Bu feet waa frozen and her lie is despaired ern. BEkg Meay : | Setwriiayd CEE he - Ww wiailaz in HET 161920 2 ANZ» hi x i why e202 2X 520670 Bh er 14 when grea northern 1 IV. At visible WPA it A tran pring begins 1%54 Mar er begins 18 Jun 1x54. J n begins ny Tris Corpas Chri #t, Joho the Baptist Mi: as Day Advent Sunday Christmas Day haet WOEK AND WORKERS, Tue large Pittsburg tanneries bern dle since which bare eutly summer, are resuming operations, of Lake Company, at Ishpeming, Michigan, work with a fall | Tex Sswyer Woollen Millis Two of the shale the Superior resumed foree. nt at rover, New 10 per Hampshire, bave given notice of a cent, eduction in wages Lascs ginss factories Bridgeport asd M .nin's Ferry, on the © river, opposite Wheellog, resumed work alter being idle since Jaly, giving work to 80 bands Tue Americas Lace Works at Putchogus, | Long Island, employiog 8 0 bands, resuroed | operations, after throe months’ idleness, Oaly two-thirds of the whole number of em- | ployee sent 10 work. A Trenton, Nea Jersey, despatch says {| that within the past few days pearly 1006 | operatives in the potteries of that city have been discharged and work in many of the potteries bas come almost to a standetiil | The operators say that since the publication 1 | of the pottery tariff schedule, orders for | goods have censad to come in, snd that the | outlook for the winter is, therelore, very | baa, Ar a meeting of the coal miners in Des Moines, Iowa, over 1000 miners, employed ia 11 mines, wore present. It was decidsd 10 order a general strike sniess the operators rescind thelr decision to keep back two weeks’ pay, instead of one, and demanding pay every two weeks ibstead of monthly, Tux employes of the Miller Bros, Cutlery Company, st Meriden, Connecticut, received notice from the frm that the reduction in the duty on pocket cutlery of 0 per cent would necessitate a reduction of wages from 40 10 50 per cent. ; that po reduction be made ov work on band, but (hat after January 1 cut In wages of 35 per cent. would probably be made. The notice added: “We make this statement early, that any of our opera. tives who desire way bave ample opportus- ity for seeking work for next your in better os
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