The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, December 21, 1893, Image 6

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    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
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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