THE NEWS,
Dr. J. H. Helmer, vice presidento! the de
funet Merchants’ Bank, of Lockport, N. Y.,
and & prominent citizen, was indicted for
perjury in connection with the affairs of the
broken bank. He was arrested, arraigned
and admitted to bail. The casbier of the
bank, J. J. Arnold, is in jail, and will be
tried next week for perjury and embezzle-
ment. His shortage exceeds £100,000. The
tank is in the hands of a receiver.———The
Baltimore express, with three Pullman pas-
penger oars, was wrecked at Whiting, Ind.
by striking a load of briek. Several tralo-
men were injured, —-Fred. and John Batt-
cher, butchers, of Woodridge, N J., quar-
relled, and began slashing at each other with
gbarp knives, Charles Schmidt, twenty-one
years old, employed by the butchers, en-
deavored to separate them, The interfer.
ence apgered Jobn, and he slashed Schmidt
in a shocking manner, nearly severing one
of his arms, — Lucius R. Wilson, convicted
at Syracuse, New York, of murdering Deteo-
tive James Harvey, has teen sentenced to
death at Auburn prison some timeduring the
week of March 12th, —— Annie
Russian girl, who was tried at New York for
Goldberg, a
murder in the first degree, for throwing her
infant child from the roof of a house June
Oth last, was acquitted,
George Quackenboss, a carpenter, was
killed at Newark, N, J., by falling off a scaf-
folding. Peter 1. Nevins,
\
died at Flemington, N. J
nged seventy,
I'he proposed
memorial to the late Prank Bolles, secretary
of Harvard College, which
to subscription from students and graduat: s,
will take the form of a fund, the
which will be applied to
students at the university.
has been opened
income of
the aid of
Henry RK. Gib
sou has been expelled from the Ed Maynard
Post, A. R., of Knoxville, Tenn. -The
Foundrymen's Association at Cleveland, O,
have decided on a ten per cent, reduction in
moulders’ wages. —--The Dublin Cotton Com-
press Company's property at Dublin, Texas,
was burned ; loss $150.00), ——At Trenton,
N. J.. Mrs. Emily Bracegirdie, a widow, cut
ber throat. She was despondent because she
could pot make a living. —— At Harlan Court-
house, Ky., during a duel, John Turner and
Dr. William Nolin badly hurt.——At Jersey
City Thomas Cleary was arrested for forging
the name of J. F. Pideock to a check for $20,
drawn to the order of J. N. Pidcock, on the
Third National Bank, —— Several people were
dly injured in Indianapolis by an explosion
«<f natural gas.
ne edy
G.
Joseph Harpung, who represented himself
as U, H, Potter, of Honolulu,
Chicago on a charge of obtaining money
der false pretenses, —
sunow and ice near
was jailed in
Half-buried in
Edgemore, Ind,
membered body of a woman was for
fhe
the dis-
ind by a
party of Chicago hunters. Both of the lower
limbs t ad been severed from the body above
the knee joints, the arms were missiog from
the shoulders,and only a mere stump marked
where the bead bad been
neck.
severed from the
Br two accidental explosions of a
dynamite cartridge in a cut ou section 13 of
IL, two
¢
the drainage canal near
wen were killed and three
Koameo,
Jured,
borrilly
One «
the two men killed was
the other, Contractor
i Sunday night, —The Tarentum
mangled,
instaptly :
t e Pittsburg Plate Glass Company,
which bave been idle since early June, re.
sumed io all departments, giviog
went 10 430 men
W. H. Crane,
Senator” at the
the Tombs Police Ca
en ploy-
the actor, now playing “The
Star Theater,
appeared in
York,
complainant against his valet, Willian
srt, in New ns
barged with stealing £1,815 from tI
Judge Andrews,
I=,
actor, |
, in New 3}
the
his
f al
Margaret,
ling tO pay
} ACTORS | figuel Noreas
ted the
was the
mn
on the Pasco de Ia Ref
other
rma, and leaves many
ihe
rinakers in Denver inaugurated a joek-
monumenta to
+
st. in order to obtain concessions from the
* Erk Th : i
igarmakers’ Union, The three [actories
reductions in
but
will of
interested have tried 10 secure
th forts
Mra
sf Ab
with Prof,
e scale of 12} per cenl.,
i. The
Amanda Vail, of New Britain,
fred Vail, who
Samuel F. B
of telegraphy, distributes over
ai
have been resist x
widow «
wns associated
Morse in the early development
#100, 000
The notorious “Doctor” Frederick Meister,
feild. who was sentenced on January 17,1
by Judge Hare, in
803,
Philadelphia, to seven
years in the state prison for criminal
practice, committed suicide at that institu.
tion, Charles A. McDonald, aged fifty-two
years, paymaster in the United States Navy
for thirty years, died
stomach in Dayton, O
mai~
THE MARDI GRAS CARNIVAL.
A Magnificent C lebraticnat N.w Or-
leans.
strangers from the North, East and West
and from the surrounding States, and the
streets represented an appearance of un-
wonted animation, Capalstrest wasthronged
with sight-seers,
There wns a tremendous jam on the levee,
at the foot of Canal street, jong
revnl fleet landed, The river was alive with
aud crowded with visitors went
stream tu meet the King and bis party,
The military began to form shortly after
noon, the visiting commands being assigned
to points of honor in the line of march, and
the Continental Guards and the Doston Lan
corre serving as eseorts of hosorto his Majesty,
1o addition to theresular military covimands
there were companies of the Uniformed Rank
of Koights of Pythine and Koights of Honor
and a lull representation of the National
Guard, The Household Guard, the Heserve
Corps, the Mounted Armenia Cavalry, the
King's Own and other detachments in bright
colors helped to add lle to the scenes on
the streets,
His Majesty Rex arrived ot 2 o'clock aad
was received with salvos of artillery. He
proceeded fo state to the city hall, whers the
keys of the city were turned over to him,
; Tih paras of Proteus ut night was one of
: yot given Ly that society.
MR. CHILD'S
te———s
The Great Philantropist Suc
cumbs to Paralysis.
VERY REMARKABLE CAREER
Devoted to Fellow Countrymen-His
Riee to wealth
sonal Characteristics—Some
of His Good Deeds.
and Fame-Per-
George W. Childs, proprietor of the P'ub-
le Ledger, died Saturday morning at
at the
o'clock at bis residence,
Sth of
tained by him on the January.
Mr. Childs faint
ing spell, which seized him while he was in
his office in the
o'clock onthe afternoon of Tharsday,
last jiinees began will on
Ledeer building at live
ary J8, just as he was pulling on
cont preparatory to going to his h
alnut streets,
Twenty-second and Ww
nlone at the Lime, and wi
who heard him fall, reached b
totally upneonsCiOus
Dr. Da Costa, his
hastily summoned
+
applisd, with the resuil
patient was abie to walk, with 1D
strong men, to his carr
conveyed
stood nt the door. He was
city home, and Mre, Childs, who was
country plage in Wooton, was sumn
Dr. Da (
Morris and the
that Mr. Childe
than an attack of vertigo, af
osta calied in Dre
a6 three issued
illness was
f
from which
On the loliowing Bun
the
paralysis of the lower lif
reality,
physicians re
attack, which was, in
tack of apoplexy
From that
nat ug perio
daily bulletins sooouneced
time on there baw
is of hope and fear, 6s the semi
changes
better or the worse, until ai mian
nt that b
the announce
diseclution
There |
immediate can
death was overwork
ts 1
" a oft
upon his eflioris
$ ' 4
Lis fie. irienda, §
ong
was properly Lon
little over fourteen yenrs
penniless and ecotirely
He obtain
bookste
end of three
sated to 86
d emp oyment as erra
re nl 8 Weekly 58 bry :
years serYice
Ami 6 week
sum. eked it with forty
book buying on his OwD
managed 16
BAYH MOREY
early motto, lodustry, Ten
Fragaiity.
EAL atten
Io bis sevenieent
the great sen
og
York and |
sales in New gle
many Iriendst ips among the publishers of
those cillos
At eighteen be bad saved Mcient of
ital t
count, apd set up 4 Very mods
The venture Was a véry unceriain
bis « He bad
: - bo ~ : “i oh F
side influence, bul be began t
ip so
y enter ilo business OD
st boc
apiial was very smail
nase
almost from the start,
EARLY BUSINESS CAREER
In 1849, before be had reached his
majority, he entered the pa
& Co, the BOrm
inged to Childs & Peter.
lishing
Peterson name bei
shertly afterward cb
son,
One of the first books which the firm pub.
lished was Dr. Kane's “Arctic Explorations.”
This was a very expensive
aud many handsome steel eugraviugs The
jnception of the work was dae to Mr. Childs,
who prevailed on Dr. Kane to make the book
essay he had at first intended to prict.
bis book all
this
tise Dr. Kane and
United States, but otilized first
tions of bis firm.
#f Childs & Peterson, and Mr. Childe
ued about & year. Mr. Childs then com-
menoed business for himself at Nos, 628 and
630 Chestnut street Here he was again very
successful, and in 186 1 he purchased the Pub-
lshers' Cirenlar, an advertising sheet, then
published in New York. He remo leled and
edited this paper, and issued the fist uim-
ber. under the title of the American Publish.
ers’ Cirenlar and Literary Gazette, on May
1. 1863. The Circular was & great success
from the start, and econtinusd under the
charge of Mr. Childs until 186), when he
sold it.
The American Almanac, which bad died
from wast of support, was likewise taken
bold of by Mr. Childs, and under the title of
the National Almanac reached in 1883 and
1864 un sale of 30,001 eopl wu, equal to the total
sale of any ten years of its predecessor,
THE PUBLIC LEDGER,
The Pablic Ledger was foundel in 1836 by
Messrs, Arauab 8 Abell, Willlam M. Swain
and Azariah H, Simmons, The mew paper
straggied for sometime, anl before the end
of the year the olitorial vigor of the paper
was recogn zed and the enterprise was on &
paying basis, Io the [ollowing year, Mr,
Abell went to Baltimore and founded The
Bun, Both prospored, attaining large elrev-
ation, wide influence and extonsive adver
tising patropage. In 1855 Mr. Bimmons
died. Mr, Abell and Mr. Swain formed a
pew partnership aad continued as before the
remain: In brumore
Philadelphin,
una swain In
The ill-health Mr. Sannin
prevented him from g ving the Ledger his
active personal supervision, Under these
circumstances Mr, Abell notified Mr. Bwain
mf,
of
in the Ledger, and in 1864 that paper was
sold to Mr. Childs and Mr. Anthony J,
QB the 20th of June, 1867, the present Led-
formally opened. The
event was marked by a gathering of news-
paper men from all parts of the country.
The friendship which existed between Mr.
Childs and the late A. J. Drexel was closer
Every joy and every
sorrow, every success and every failure was
shared between them, Mornlugund evening
dined 1to-
gether for more than a quarter of a century.
As a publisher and bookseller Mr, Childs
intimately with many
distinguished men in the world of letters, In
of
acquainted
he 1ecorls incicenis
with Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Trying, W. D. Tickpor, James
ex -Prosident Henry W.
it
friendship
Washington
Plercs
Inmes iver
John Lothrop Motley, W.
Bancroft, G. P. K
Buchanan Read, Paul Du Chailla,
Russell Lowell,
Wendell Holmes
H Prescott, Gesrze
mus Hughes, | auln Miller, Wilkie Col
bares Dickins
H.
M, Grant
Edward Everett Hale,
Gen, Winfield
At his home
tajoned at different times the
LOGS
Benton,
and others,
Beott,
Emperor and
, the Duke of Bue
other foreign visitors,
press of Dias
Childs babitually treated his «
and consideration,
{f Phila-
cemetery, with a It
ypograpical socially «
era
interest on which was 1«
Mr. Ch
1886, gave §5,0.0 each
Uni
the build
Home for i
8G
sy, the
grounds In good order,
. Drexel in
ternatiot
ini ypographioal
roned the nucleus of
bilcs Drexel
sl ¢
he en
kespeare in the poet's native town
Mr
window 10 Million
on-Avon, in Eogland
memonal
Margaret Church, Westmisster ;
window to Herbert and Cowper in Westmin
ster Abbey, and monuments and
tablets
mem
Edgar Allen Poe, 1
astronomer Richard Proctor, and a “Prayer
i k Cross” pear Sap Francisco, 10 mark
spot where cis Drakes janded
i where the religious services in the §
ne
ADGUAKE Were western
res of Ameri
Fhe Drexel Institute, of which be was Ors
ihe
f the b
iis 3
e-presicent a since
presiden
death f
er card of
constant
ch was
jeveinnd
irvived by his
wo children,
nn III a
NIHILISTs FIGHT.
Tive Thousand Riot:rs Battles With the
Gear's Troopy,
A despatch from Perm, Russia, says that a
riot took place on January 26 at the iarge
ria situated at Ni «hb, in
Taghil
fron w
the Ural Mountains, and that 0 © we
hoe
took part in the disturbances which
rit
paganda
Affairs became 80
t B Y .
ited 10 Gg the Nibils
jow wages an
serious thal the
sathorities were utterly unable to cope with
the disturbance and sent for a strong force
of troops to queil the rioting fhe arrival
of the troog does not seem to have bad much
¥
effect upon the rioting iron workers until the
soidiers were orderad to fre upon the ri
ers
AD
many of the rioters were
ber of the soldiers were either shot or
to death. The
flerce attack upon the trod
n
sree couflict then followed during
killed and
ric
ters floally mace
pe that the intter
wes repulsed aod driven to seek shelter in a
position which they fortified white awsaitog
Eventually an additional
of troops were summoned and the combined
forces of military moved upon the rioters and
succeeded in driving them from the works
and in quelling the disturbance, though
many more were killed and wounded on both
cogagement The
troops and the police made a number
prisoners who will be dealt with in the most
gevere manner,
In conclusion it issaid that the Nihilists
are spreading their propaganda in & similar
manner in many parts of Russia, and tbat
the author ties have been called upon to
take the most energetic steps to arrest the
Nihilist agents,
assistance, force
inst
$520,000 FIRE AT SAVANNAH.
8:veral Large Businsss Places De-
stroyed by Flames,
Fire broke out on Bay Street, Savanoah,
which will result in a loss of nearly #500, 0°,
1t started in the guano warehouse of Wik
cox, (3ibbs & Co. It soon burned through
the iron shed into the rooms of the Savannah
Grocery Company, whose six-story briek
building was soon wrapped lo flames, The
store of the latter was worth £180.00) and in-
sured for $130.00, It was consumed,
The fire next extended to Ferst's wholesale
grocery, a thres.story bulldieg. The stock
is valued at €15),000, losarance $125,000,
The building belongs to Wilcox, Gibls &
Co, and is valued at $100,000; insurance,
#4 000. The value of the guano warehouse
wos $10,000, The weather was very cold
ad the fire bard to got at, as the buildings
stand hall way on a high bluff, William
Fulton was run over and badly injured by a
truck.
C—O —
Tae Pall-Mall Guzotio announces that Me,
Gladstone is to retire from office, but this is
denied by the Premier. ne
Joux 8, Banonxr, the painter, who has
been made an Associate of the British Royal
Academy, is a cosmopolitan in more senses
than one, He is of American Was
born in Italy, soured in France an
115. $ KEARSARGE,
The 01d Warship Strikes a Reef
Off Central America.
OFFICERS AND CREW SAVED
A Relief Steamer Sent to the Res~
cue from Colon—-A Vessel with
a Remarkable History.
The old United States
is on wreck on Koneador
where
steamer Kenrsarge
Reef, off Central
struck February 2
in some way
message from
bim announced to the Navy Department the
fact that the was wrecked
that officers and crew were all saved,
America, she
Lieutensnt Braloard managed
to reach Colon, and an csble
Kearsarge
The
Kearsarge sailed from Port au Prince, Haytl
on January 30, for Blueflelds, Nicaragua,
protect American interests there in view
kod
duras » WHE wre
s went
oundered,
ave got aboard a» small
to
reach
in getting Colon in
can the ship
in less time than that
fisonly a
from the Mosquito
tral America, Between the coast an
of les old Providence Island, only seventy.
the
Department that
leeward roe
or eighty miles t
belleved
atl the
Navy
cers apd crow would be able to reach
videnece withou difficulty in He
; danger of thelr lives on the reel
¥
Jieved that they would be safe ou the
it in the event of rough wealber,
A RESCUE STEAMEN CHARTERED,
Immediately upon the receipt of the news
Navy
Lieut
& sUari*r a
of the wreck the Department sent a
le dispatch « ensnt Brainard, ot
ordering hin slenimner
ye relief of the ship-
{ the burs
ures
He
Or secure
was instructed 10 either charter a
pe of the reguine steam
New lors, or il oug
tart immediately on ber reguiar
ers of the iatter was
tri
Hes! Is well known
Walls O8 B
Ve
rere 3 pade sere Lhe
iangerous
pediment to pavigaticn ris have been
araction O38
tauntlon was on the Kears
New York and Detroit
Hi
411s
on. alter the Secretary of the Kavyhad
of Mello in
to Port au
neted on his report of the salute
proceed
fiag to the Kearsage
{ the station,
THE KEARSARGE.
The Kearsarge, for the services which she
bad rendered
was exempted by special aot
» operation of the inw
oid wooden vessels
gdemns the
cost.
and wooden ship,
H.. aod was 198.6
438 feet Lenin, 3
the limit of 10 per cent of their origina
She wae a
at FP
feet long,
bark rigged
rismout? 5
feet draught
displacement, 1.50)
borse-
The
tk
onding rifle, one
us. indionted
speed, 11.1 knots per hour
M.dn. four
RB. inch muir
power #43
batteries %.inech smo
bores,
were
Le
rifle
breech. joading soon
ineh breech-loading
Her coal capacity
Her comple mes
battery, one
howiizer, one sting
anthracite
WORK AND WORKERS,
———
Ovefiarioss bave been resumed in three
the Middletown, (Pa)
works, giving employment to 5% men.
Tue works of the Lakeside Nail Company,
ut
closed for an indefinite period in December,
throwing about 250 operatives out of em-
ployment, siarte l up again,
Tux Spang Steel and jron Company of
Pittsburg started up with a full force and
sufficient orders for a steady run of several
weexs, Two hundred and fifty men are
employed.
Tur shops of Orr, Painter & Co., stove
manufacturers, Reading, Pa, resumed falls
banded, after an idleness of several weeks
and working on partial time for some time,
Over 400 men went to work.
Five hundred miners at Corona, Ala, who
went out on a strike two weeks ago on ao
count of a difference between them and the
company relative to the jrice for house.
rents, material, &3, returned to work, the
differences having been adjusted.
Five of the 12 bat manufacturers at Dan-
bury, Conn,, who are endeavoring to eon-
duet their shops independentiywer: running
with about 20 per cent. of their old help.
The other seven have not a sufficient num-
ber with which to start up their shops,
Arter a number of months of idleness,
eaused by the condition of business, some of
the operatives of the Bigelow Carpet Com-
pany, Clinton, Mass, returned to work.
The department in which work was resumed
is that devoted to the weaving of Brussels
carpets,
Tae Curtis Masufacturing Company, of
New Worcester, Mass, which closed both
its woolen and satinette mills jnst Auzust,
started up the iatter mill on full time, The
mills were closed because there was no mar.
ket for the output. The sat nette mill was
not started.
A
Tue burning of archives in the American
logation at Rome is attributed to thieves,
who became furious at not finding sny valu.
ables, i
Renate,
Fhe House bill to repeal the
federal election Inws was debated In the
Beuate during most of the session. Mr,
Chandler, leading off with a speech against
the bill, and Mr, Frye, illustrated the neces.
sity for such laws by what be called the
‘twice-told tale” of the Tammany election
frauds in the presidential election of 1868,
The discussion was participated in by sev-
ernl senators, and then the vill went over,
4411 Day. The Benate did not come to a |
vote ou the FederalElection Bill, ne was antie- |
pated Beveral Senators who had not hitherto |
430 Day
a ——————————— ————
spoken, desired an opportunity to be heard i
on the measure, and by unanimous consent,
the time of general debate was extended un-
til three o'clock to-morrow. The chief |
event of the day was the speech by Benator
Frye defending the official course and char- |
acter of Chief Bupervisor Davenport, of New |
York city. Bpeeches wers also made by Sen
ators Harris, Dunlel, Turple snd Perkins,
45ti Day. In the Beonte speeches were
made on the bill to repeal the federal elec
tion lawe, by Messrs. Hoar, Gray, Daunlel
and Bate, after which the bill was passed
yens 39, pays 28, All the amendments to the
bill were voted down, The bill was passed
by the House on October 10, 1882, and is a
simple repeal of all the statutes relating
supervisors of elections and
marshals,
4611 Day. ~The only n 1
that occupied the Senat
heretofore offered by
the right of the Secret
rth
i
to
special deputy
interest
sition,
geil bonds except |
ing legul United B
with at
Messrs, Qt
tion,
the SBenste and ai
roing be
lay,
rit Day. The
in session to
-
House.
43p Day entire day
wis given to a discus
resolution The only
I'he
Liren
Bj Cnt
which be was sharpiy cried
Outhwaite, for neserting 1
{ House
Lat the
and Benate
their ma
These words were taker
were
stroll of fer, the
by the Epeaker 10 be
Morse thereupon with
447m Day
resolution was
addresses were :
Outhwaite, Culberson
5
Kies Of
wing
Sickles
Mr. Bi
Uy ave
furner
Hooker.
sensation
resolutio
sipaits
inration ialer
pe began vot
ons, and th
claring I
foated
the actio
t fi governs
was
on to recom
this was
MeCreary ut
the Republi
Heed,
he House tied 1
eaves
me sent
j journed,
451m Dav
"as spent
Hawniinn resol
says 75. Mr |}
sped resol
in
Wn
before the Christ
and-pay vole as
called up his sliver seig
bis motion to go int
for its consideration
some Eastern Don
and sucosaded int
seven 0 clock an
Lill, Al seven 0 ok
$6rm Dar
in the House was «
against the Bland After
spending nearly four hours pitiless en
deavor, & qUOTHIN WAS secure ai a 45, with
the Speaker's vole, and ibe H went into
a committees of the whole 1 cousider the
Seigniorage bill, Mr. Bland sddressed the
committee for less than an bour, aud
commitiee arose on his own motion
The grealer
psumed
filitustenog
seignl i
ine
the
the H 5 £3 Bland
first
47rn Dav.—In
Reigniorage bill wa-« die
speech was made by Mr
sprakers were Charis WB
bill, McKeighan in Me fas
sition and Kidgure in ads
committee
journed,
ae
The
The
ne against
Harter i
other
the
the tose, and
CABLE SPARKS.
a
NA
Tes widow of the painter et is dead,
at Paris,
Taree was a riotous demonstration by stu.
igium,
Puysiciaxs of the ( zar say that he is mak
fog good progress toward recovery.
At a meeting of the Currency Association
at Calcutta, the President dec jared in favor
of taxing importe of sliver,
Nrooriarioss for arbitration in Brazil have
been temporarily suspended because of the
killing of Admiral Da Gama's nephew.
Tay custom committer of the French
Chamber of Deputies has decided to Increase
the corn tax to eight france, with a sliding
scale.
Tux Irish Appeal Court has granted to Mr,
Michael Davitt a certificate in bankrupley,
thus rendering him again eigible to sit in |
Parliament. ’
It is thought that the mails by the White |
Star steamer Majestic willreach London four |
bours ahead of those from the American Line i
steamer New York, |
17 is semi-officinlly denied that Timbuetoo i
tha capital of the Western Soudan, willbe |
evacuated by the French foree, which re.
cently took possession of that piace |
Tus counsel for Princess Colonna, who |
bas disappeared (rom Parle with ber chile |
dren, was ordered by the court to ascertain i
bis client's address that the Prince may see |
the children.
Ix the ecurse of the debate on the French
navy in the Chamber of Deputies Mr. Lock-
roy declared that the French ships were in-
ferior “in speed, numbers and everything
oles,” and that there was waste and disorder
in every department of the naval adminis
tration,
Tux riots at Oporto, Portugal, were due to
the disaffection growing out of new and vex.
ations taxation and the action of the govern
ment in forbidding the meetings caled by
the Chamber of Commerce, societies, shop.
keepers and the varivus industries 10 protest
against the taxes,
—— A ————
I. 2. Lxrres, of Chicago, the millionaire
merchant prince, who has been for many
goasons un prominent social figure in Wash
ington society, will, it is polieved, be a can:
didate for United States Senator from Tile
pols next term. Such wn position woud]
enhance Me. Lolter's social prestige to a
0 0 a
FEINNKSYLVANIA ITEMS,
Epitome of News Gleaned from Varioas
Parts of the Btate
Tug trial of Janes Carpentier, Mifflin.
town, for the murder of his bilnd father Grew
Beveral
at
a great throng to the court nouse,
women fajoted,
Two ireight trains collided at Bugar Noteh
Kaster, oa brakeman was
burned to death,
ALL the men employed in the Scalle Foun.
good defective castings,
Tur Board of Pardons lieteped for six
hours at Harrisburg to arguments for snd
life imprison
Haale
10
against the commutation
ment of the death sentence of Cherries
Tur extensive bennery of Harry L. Heyd at
of
making a
Out
of 215 high. bred ows they 100K R3 but five
concluded the
r work Ly setting fire to
the bennery, which with two lncubaiors con-
taining 154 chicks 4 week Ol us desirojyed.
Mr. Heyd's
Btate ©
the Lat
in whiek
JOBE Wii react
enntor Landis read a paper belore
faster f on t
he effectually
farmer” mytl
1
wi
of Easton, ru red od 4
Agricultural Boclety,
itsposed of the “poor
ile ¢
Weidi
iss Leone E.
y . # § A
vegsel snc Lieq
decision =!
Margaret
iy &
His
tot tT
top 1
Wie
taken 1
Mrs
lane and specih-
which wii be
neyvivania Ba
iwo
near
and
nome
whose atien-
resented.
mite
along
done their
oe PE
escaped an
from a
Lg
irty miles an
a not:=d
at Lan-
Naser,
civil engineer, died of apoplexy
WwW. H
siabbing
radford lor
Bullls was beid st I
Burns in a
Fireman
drunken Oglt
“Teddy
Mead-
mother was
badly burned iu nn effort to save them
Tae trial of James Carpenter, at Mifflin.
town, for the murder of his blind father, at
Port Royal, developed strong circumstantial
evidence against the accused.
Jos Hans, charged with robbing the Min
Creek post office, escaped from the Dauphin
County jail, but was rearrested alter a ively
chase,
Jrpos Srxoxtox, at Harrisburg, granted a
temporary injunction restraining the Sole
dier's Orphan School Commission from pur
chasing the site at Scotland, Frankiin county
for an industrial school, and Pension Agent
skinner was restrained from serving as a
member of the commission,
Tug board of trustees of State College
voted to abolish the second year preparatory
sourse and decided in favor of a resolution
offered by the faculty requiring engineering
students to attend a Summer school continu-
fog two weeks after commencement,
Ir is said that Frank Nasta, of Yatesville,
who married Annie Supur, at Seranton, paid
he girl's father 8630 before he consented 10
the tying of the nuptial kaot.
A DUEL TO 1HE DEATH.
Miseierippi Farmers Bettle an 0d
Feud.
Two Iarmers, who live near Brookbaven,
Mise,, met on the street,
A duel with pistols took place, and when
the smoke cleared way it was found that
James A. England was shot three times
through the bowels, from the effects of
which he died, and Leonard Smith was
shot through the stomach and cannot re-
cover, ;
It is stated thet an old feud existed be
Two children of James Scanian, of
their
¥ nak a)
po iW
tween the men.