THE NEWS,
At Quebec, H. Br2en, of Winnipeg, ana
MeCormick, of St. John, skated for a purse,
The distance was three miles and forty-three
Japs, and was covered in 11.00 by Breen, who
won with comparatively -At Brad-
ford, Pa. Lewis Bullis fatally stabbed Teddy
Burne. They were firemen and had
drinking, —— Frederick K. Guthoff and Wil-
jard Smith were accidentally shot pear Atl-
lantic City.——Ex State Senator EL. Me-
Donald died at his in Jacksonville,
3111. He had Leen ill for some time.
elected to the lower house of the
in 1884 and to the senate io - Win,
Pool & Sons, of Lansdale, Pa,, lost $1,000 in
goods taken from their store. — Samuel Hall
ease,
been
home
He wns
legislature
880,
a drug clerk, shot himself fataily at Seran-
ton. Pa. ——At Seranton, Pa. John Rolland
and his wife were found arson,
Their erime is alleged to
desire to defraud the
Company, of Pittsburg, of insurance on their
household effects, At Bt. Pat Mino,
Martin P. Erickson was assassipated by an
unkpown Iman, The aixteen
soldiers under indictment for
guilty of
have arisen over a
iron City Insurance
tl,
Tennessee
ie murder of
a miner named Drummond, at Creek,
{ by the Circuit
Tenn., last summer, was freed
Court at Clinton,
prossed. This endsthe Coal Creek war, Lieu
tenant J. H. Fyfle,
troops during the two days’ bombardment in
1892. was the on y officer indicted.
A Ulg fire was causad in Jeremie, Ha
the overturning of a Ia the town was
looted by the people who live in the sur-
their cases being nolle
who commandel
ti, by
mp, and
rounding hills, Restlesspnoss prevails among
the people, and only President Hippolyte's
stern measures have prevented a revoluticn.
—1In a railroad wreck on the Bluffs Line at
Curran. IIL, the work train was derailed, the
engineer killed and several men injured —
The wholesale leather house of Otlo Deters
& Co., in St. Louls, was destroyei by fire.
——Friends in Hamilton, Ohlo, say politics
and the desire to become President were the
causes of ex-Governor Campbell's financial
embarrassment, ——Four girls were killed by
a snowsiide in White Bird, Utah,—— Au or-
der was made by Judge Lurton, in the Un-
ited States Cireuit Court in Nashville, Tern. ,
which directs the receivers of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Raliroad to pay the interest on the
first mor Feb-
of the
Dol-
tgage bonds of the road, due
ruary 1st, out of the accrued earnings
road above running expenses, ——The
phin Silk Mill of Paterson, N.
operations with five bundred
Miss Hepsie Embrey, aged thirt
was found dead in her at i
Stafford county, Va. She bad fallen in
on the hearth, and whea found
room
a fit
her {ace was
purned and charred.
Judge
rt in Ph
3atier, in the Uni
fladelphi
L«
the Sugar Trus
W
government to have set aside as
taking of the Philadelpt
trust.
—haries Owens, ivi
Mo..
child and setting fire to
He wis captured at Dichst
under arrest, The
turned off, and the child
It seems that
in refineries int
The bill of complaint was dis
is charged with mu
f
wile hac
was
gamed. they were tl n
the bed, which was then saturated with co
oil and sot H.
hotel, iu Pearsalls, L. I
on [lre, haries
was
t
»
fire. The proprietor, his wile an
had a Darrow escape. Pp, C,
soupointed temporary receiver of
ompany, in Ch
The eo
ut ( attanooga,
8
mpany liabilities
rs
<
Judge Moon.
t ty-saven thousand dollar
hir
are much smaller, about nine
, and t
thous
~harles
Yani
himself, inflict.
and bee
jong due the failed savings
Drehr shot and killed Mrs,
Louis, and thea
Beriba he
in Bt
jug a serious wound.
wous in his attentions to
for some months, and, it is
Dire
th
has been assid-
oe Widow Vunioks
thought, became
desperate over his failure to win ber, and
resolved tofend both their All the
Central American republics are bec
invulved in the Honduras revolution.
A trait. on the Tioga
snowdrift five feet deep, at Millerton,
lives,
Railroad struc
The snow packed so hard against 1
the filremen's side that it was
the firemun, George Cass, was
weThe works of the Lakeside
pany. Ham lod., ewmployi
men and boys, will resume operation
-AL Camden, XN.
Mary O. Davis
Wait Whitman, the
at
end of the present week,
d.,
’
against the estate of
the jury in the case of
:
urt fo
The suit was for £5 000 for mone
Five hune
Ala., who went out
returned a verdict in the Supreme Co
£5 0,
vanced acd services rendered,
dred miners at Corona,
on a strike two weeks ago on account of a
and the company,
relative to the price for house rents, material
differe nce betwee n them
eto., have returned to work, the differences
adjusted, —— At
Ballston, N.Y. Waiter Brown shot and killed
Hiram Osborne. The men were rival hotel
keepers, 81. Rosa Catholic
burned at Cincionati,
ance 320,00 \,——Near Clio, Alabama, a train
on the Georgia Central Railroad was wrecked,
Two coaches and the express car turned over
and fell down a twenty-foct embankment,
Isaac Stevenson, of New York, was badly cut
in the head and back. RB. A. Koeber, ex-
press messenger bad his leg severely
mashed, James Melntyre, of Dadevills, Ala,
was burt in the back, aad several others
elightly injured.
haviog teen satisfactorily
Church was
Loss &30.000 : insur-
THE MIDWINTER FAIR.
Over 70,000 Passed Through the Gates
on the First Day.
The official figures from the Midwinter
Pair Headquerters show that 72,248 people
passed through the turnstiles on Saturday,
the opening day. Of this number, 6,00) paid
the regular admission fee of 5) cents,
80 far there has been little or no agitation
to ¢lose the fair on Sunday, aad everything
on the grounds was wide open. In the man
agement of concessionaires and the general
conduct of the exhibition there was nothing
to distinguish Bunday from the opening day,
snd though chaos still reigns in the Machin-
ery Hall, and all exhibits in the other build.
ings are still in a state of disorder, thous.
anda of people took advantage of the beauti-
ful Sunday afternoon and visited the
VOTEOF 20470 1
The Tariff Bill Passes the House
Amid Applause.
&
STORY OF AN EVENTFUL DAY
Orations to Speaker Crisp and Ex~
Speaker Reed, while Chalrman
wilson Causes the Enthusiasm
| to Overleap All Bounds-A
Great Crowd.
With the iccowe 8X
to”
added to it by a vole
lof18 passed the House
1), the 8 Li
‘
| With the large majority oi Gi,
!
i
! ached
4
y door. the nisivs
presented the
pyramids, and back of
i
us
the Speaker
made an effort to : Few Speakers in
the House have evei had a grander audiences
eir words, There was not
banging upon 8
a vacant space to be scen in the H and
the
r indienting the presence
ae,
here and there ughout the hall were
asen bi of
indies, mong the members of the Senate
who vor to witness the scones in the
seen Senator Wash.
Hoar
jower housa were to be
burn of
Lodge, f
bridge, of M
Minnesota ; Senators and
Massachusetts ;
gan and others,
seat made but little attempt 10 answer the
speech of the ex-Spaaker,
listeners once more gave vent to their feel.
fogs, and continued their applacse with in.
creasing vigor as Mr. Wilson rose to close
the speech-making.
been agreed
of the bill, and it was agreed to,
Mr. Covert (Dem. N. X.,) offered a reso
lution of recommittal and on this demanded
the previous question. This was ordered
without division, but Covert demanded yeas
and nays, but this demand was voted down
the demand, The motion {0 recommit was
then defeated by a vote of 108 to 177, the an-
aouncement of the vote being greeted with
loud applause,
The Speaker then put the question, “Shall
the bill pass?” and, the yeas and nays being
demanded on this, the roll was called,
amid the most intense interest on the floor
aud in the galleries,
The vote wis announced at 5.55 o'clock as
follows: Yeas, 208; nays, 140, so the bill
was deciared passed, with a wild shout from
the floor and the galleries. A lator and more
earefu! examination of the vote showed that
204 had voted for the bill, including the
Speaker, The onouncement was greeted
i with cheering and applause in the galleries
and on tha floor, which continued until the
| House adjourned,
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MERICAN PAPERS BURNED.
| Unkaown Vandals Sack ths Unitad
The safe of the United States Cousul Gen-
the
| eral was broken open and a portion ol
; records taken out and burned,
The affair is attracting considerable atten-
{ tion in the city, ns the more light is shed
upon it the more certain it bee
bject of the person or persons who entered
the United the nbstrac-
tion or the destruction of bwmportant doca-
omes that the
1 ©
States Legation was
ments, The work of investigatio
| hindered by the systematic manner in which
the burgiara worked
archiv
n is greatly
while the
s and little hope is expressed that the
authors «
Tbe bu
lestroying
! the outrage will Le discovered,
rginrs, appenrs, did not notice n
rich collection of ancient meda ss, which was
kept in the sam 3 he safe, which
the Ls
fur-
was brok
fe
Eatio
, broken
actunl
is con
14 R00
y
ibe
peiderable suse
the
burglars,
rm: the fnctthat
furniture
Were 3 pletely
thers re, is {hat
y Or persons who
gation was not
certain papars
{ the Unimed
abstracti
certain important contained
among the archives egation. The
wi 8 of every
wmbout
being ascertnined and
eapec]
! festinatic
being paid to the d
A
Minister Potter is quoted
ol two Americans who left
no valuat
Se ——————
WORK AND WORKE
"ne
Docs
a is
fin
Masi,
o
on the $1.0
ABE e EB
are belay
: Philip Mills
o Yarn Mill No
nparatively ne
ir Jays & Wrek
L. BETWEEN BROTHERS:
ne
The Wounded Man May Die—Fought
Over Cards.
A shooting affray ocourred at
Ey., between Clay and Eates
brothers, jn which the
wounded,
On Wednesday night Bates Shackleford,
gave a swell euchre party st
the of Richmond
His father, Col J. E. is
posed playing, and on Thursdey
on Bates and vead him
Hot words passed between father and son,
it exchanged,
shackisford, learning of the trouble,
yk sides with his father, Friday evening
| be armed himself and went to his brother's
store. Bites was in front of the store, and
The
Richmond,
Shackleford,
latter was seriously
bis residence,
elite society attending.
Shackleford, op-
to card
enlled a lecture,
and, is sald, threats were
Liny
Oo
Clay, drawing his pistol, fired at him,
ball hit Bates in the chest,
sternum acd glancing off into his side,
Clay Shackleford was arrested and pinced
under bonds, The wonuded man is in a
| bad way.
DISASTERS AND CASULA
1. N. O'Deir., an neronaut, was killed
| at Washington, North Carolina, by the cole
lapse of a baloon,
Satatrrrox has broken out in the Now York
| efty insane asylum on Wood's Island, where
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| 2000 lunatics are confined,
| A wagon containing six persons Was
struck by a train near Findlay, O. Wm
Rodecker, Mrs. Henry Rodecker and Henry
Russell were killed and Mrs Wm. Herbey
wge fatally injured,
Tux French Line steamer La Bretagne,
which arrived at New York, brought the Cap-
tuin and crew of 13 men of the Gloucester
fishing schooner Susan K. Hodge, who was
rescued at sea on Friday last,
A stick of dynamite, which some unknown
person pisced in the stove in a smoking car
on thé Missouri, Kansas aod Texas Rall
road, at Marcos, Texas, exploded, killing ER.
Binding and J. ©. Heldelman, Bx other
passengers were seriously injured,
As a result of a mine cave-in a part of the
publie highway at Beranton Pa, and a por-
tion ofa lot, 3) feet in diameter, without
warning, gave way and dropped down 50 feet.
The sidewalk went with it, the las of the
enve-in extending to within a few fest ofo
dwelling house,
OUR NAVY NEEDED
Admiral Benham Protects Ameri-
can Shipping at Rio.
FIRED AT THE INSURGENTS.
Benham Remonstrates and Da Gama
very Curtly Refuses to Cease
Troubling Merchant Vessels
Admiral Da Cama wants to
Surrender,
The American bark Julian Rollins
Captain
Kiehne, from Baltimore, aud the American
H., Captain Suttle, from
Now York, were fired on by the jusurgents
Admiral
during a night foray
Saldanha da Gama, the ander of the
, visited Rear |
Admiral Benham, commander of the Amer
told
enbandon the
insurgent
hatically
ne
iden that punity fire upon
Amer can M
that
his fleet, 1
pham asserted
ner
bor they m
Admiral «
decision, 1
gave noties 3
Baudre piers,
this, and potifi
the three vesss
he
Admiral Beaba
Vesses
referred to,
t
would sees
" ,
nerionan Cee,
the Amer
What the Gon
taeen the fic
there is On
body,
chant voss
asd that
the bay
The situat
Good
bad
loaded and aimed on ail the Ameri
insurgent
the Detroit was be News, The
their guns
wo
tugs
Guanabara and Trajano
Vive
| gals, "while two heavy
ready to ram the Detroit,
The Guanabara and Trajano together have
| eight splendid rifles ; the Detroit
fired a six-pound shell into the Guanabara,
ut when
another gun was fired, even by accident, he
| would sink them, and advieed that they take
| the men from their guns, they weakened,
| Admiral Denham bad the Newark ready to
ald the Detroit, while the New York, Charles.
ton and San Francisco were alert 10 receive
under steam,
Admiral Besbam said: “If Admiral da
Gama was contending for aay principle or
position in which any civilizad nation would
sustain him, be ought to make a fight, but
he is wrong in law everywhere in opposing
us"
Benham now has two propositions regard.
ing arbitration, but be will not reveal them,
A seitibment by such means, however, is at
present improbable. While angry at his de-
clston, the insurgents comment upon Ben.
Bam's great courtesy and tact in the negotia-
tions, The day before the conflict Benham
notified the city authorities that the water
front would likely be endangered.
FARMERS IN BATTLE.
In a Fighton the Tennessee North Caro-
lina Border-8ix Were Killed.
A terrible fight took place on the Madison
County line nextio Tennessee between North
Carolina and Teonessed farmers who were
working a road.
Eight men were wounded and six were
killed. The cause of the trouble is not
known, The scene of the battle is iwenty
miles from Greenvil'e, Tenn,
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS,
Benate,
8711 Day. The wn'tention of the Sennte
wis held (or two hours by nn very luteresting
speech from Mr, Teller, on the Hawaiian
resolution, alter which the resolution was
pinced on the calendar. Mr. Telier took
very advanced ground vorof the annex
ation of the Hawaiian Islands, nod altimate.
ly of Cubs aud « anada. Toes Hou
repeal the federal elaction In Wik
and speeches against IL were 1
ators « handler and Higgins,
a8 Dax. ~The leading fentu
ceedings of the §
herman, who ade
the authority of the 8
ury to issue the bon
notice, and
{ the pro.
of Mr.
nee of
I reqs.
given
solemply declared tha
wis Bot only unwise, cut ung
Turpie, made a spoce vor the r
of the lederal election ¢
particuinr attention to
jaw in the state of
dusion of his
er got
1 Mr. Turpie
» that Mr. Hoar fet ¢
sennior to order
general
uro
Mr,
pend
s paid
Lhe
gpoech
into
retorted in
IRL
fillis
aloe
The
Mr. Blewrat
FORO
jenving the
for th
and Mr
ter
A fist rat
Hitt against it
frapsmitliing another
pndenice was read
se referred to the }
iltes
END OF A STRANGE
Commission
r in the case
trial at Gainsvitle, Ga,
fa & verdict
#"
i
nding his
mansinughter in the com
act,
from Gainsville last fall 10 arres:
murderer
Paimour is one ¢ went out
a supposad
named Daughdiel, from
There wa« s
Alabama,
X in the party, it
stood that there was a large reward
ey
fugitive, and they were informed that he was
hiding at the
several miles away.
residence of
They surrounded the
posse covered him with
him to surrender
guns and
Ho started
the members of the pariy save
them with a pistol, They fired
killed him, It turned out lster
to
he
nt
fired
that he was
from Texas. Daugbdiel was afterwards oap-
tured on the Pacifie Slope and taken to Als.
bama,
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RATS INJURE FAIR EXHIBITS
Swarms of Rodents on the Exposition
G ounds Doing Much Damage.
Vast swarms of rate have taken possession
of the deserted buildings at the World's Fair
grounds. There are whole regiments of
rodents, and so serious bas the pest become
in buildings which still contain exbibits that
active measures have been found necessary
to keep it in check,
While the Fair lasted the rats fed on the
remnants of lunch which were scattered all
about the grounds, With the end of the Fair
and the advent of oid weather they took to
the buildings. It hae been found that con-
siderable injury has been wrought in the
Fine Arts Building, which is filled with ex-
hibits for the new museum,
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Mrs. Charles AveryDoremus, whose play
“The Full Hand” was given at the Madison
Square Theatre, is the wife of a New York
physician, She is a descendant of Presi
dent Jefferson, was educated in Paris, and is
Whe author of a numer of novels.
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PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS
Epitome of ¥ews Cleaned from Various
Parts of the Btate
[xv y
Aunnrchists’ PFoOviety bBendquariers
Bower Hill, : Ly
Vieas (
psTiGATION at Pittsburg shows thal the
will
Low md
ourt ¥ t¢ bad re
{ fy # #
used 10 grant ¢
By a dec fs
girs
anc ran
returped, the de
cision being based on the law of 177, which
who was indentured
until of! age
i ber master was
is still operative
Tur dead body of Btephen we was
found bauging 10 a oo shamokin,
¢ $f » MA i TT
and murder is suspected,
Cupsree and Delaware County Conlerrees
agreed upon arrangement st Chester by
which each « ill have eq
JUsi represen.
Congressional Convention,
ARBAUGH Was comin 0 jail at
LW.
oo
den
were
a pum
se, apna 21
» Leen spread.
it he at once
the
warned ib
{ Kittanning 100%
This has
has mot
2 papers.
refu urts, but
been passed ted States Suprete
Court, and Gee cass will be made a
test one
arrested at
g Eddie
iis bas deter
Seran-
irother-
Bey FLER
delivered an
pupils of the Wil-
Trades at
Mechanical
instructive sort
Hamson =
Media
Mantix J
rabisn, who
pal of
pring a school near
= successiuliy |
3 yedd Possession
wing
3 +a » Fi 2 2
discharged as teacher, has surrendered and
was held in ball jo
of the buiidiug 1
or several weeks alter
r ure.
ine Fourth Distriet Convention of the
Atsiinenos Union of Seranton
Diocese, was held at Harleigh,
J.
tractor Jobsson
quarry, a bearing
aud was beld jor court.
Catholic Total
Witeres, secused of murdering Con-
in aSouth Wilkes-Barre
waved at Wilkes-Barre
Tamry-roun of the striking Mansfield sonal
rioters Lave been lodged in jail, and war.
rants are out for 158 more Sheriff Rich.
ards is of the opinion that backbone of
the riot has been broken,
Arronsey Gexesan Hexsen rendered an
opinion that the payment of a consty theat.
tical tax coverad a yoar,
Oncasonixpes Hoooo, of Hazleton, wae
given a hearing at Wilkes Barre on the
charge of abducting Eddie Brotherton, of
Ashley, Considerable damaging testimony
was adduced and he and his daughter were
beild for further developments,
Crrizaxe of Rappo Township have asked
the Laceasier County court to remove their
Sahoo! Directors, the iatter belug charged
with neglect of duty, squandering funds and
accepting bribes,
Wain driving along the new Danville
turnpike Harry Gainer was beld up and jelt
bound by the wayside by higbwavmen who
drove off in his team.
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Fasmion requires that ple should
be eaten with a fork; but Bass says
he always eats it with cheese, which
is quite good enough for him. —Bose
ton Transcript. :
Lo nen II ES
Tax Dominion immigration department
bas determined to pursue a ey
the coming year. Agents will be sent futo
the Western States to induce farmers and
the