TEE NEWS. i J. H. Sullivan, an upholsterer, over. | come by smoke during a fire in and died soon after, Charles Wisdom, colored, wis hanged at St, Louis, for the April 24, 1882, of Edward A. Drexler, whose eigar store Wisdom entered to rob, prepared to kill the proprietor, who slept there, ~The schooner Jennie M, Carter drifted ashore at Newburyport without a soul aboard. Her was Boston, murder erew of six are believed to have perished. The funeral of Mary Medany Grant, widow of the lute Orville L. Grant, brother of gral U. 8, Grant, took residence in East Orange, Edward Hurlburt, of Utica, N. indicted for taking money from a widow for invest. ment while insolvent, ~The eral Council of United Mine Workers bama, has ordered a general strike. Hefner, a Sioux City Merchant, has a verdict for 27000 damages National Bank of Sioux City, monson, of Brooks county, his nephew, Yates Edmondson, Gene place from her late N. J. Y.. has been Gene in Ala Henry | he was secured the Ed-~ | killed | the | David Dudley | New York. He | was eighty-nine years of age, | A conference of the committees on the pro- | position for the federation of the various ! Presbyterian churches in this country was held | in Philadelphia. against B. PF Georgia, because wife, latter assaulted his Field died of pneumonia in The immense plant of the | American Glucose Company, in Buffalo, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. ——* ‘General Kelly's | Commonweal Army captured a Union Pacific freight train near Ogden, Utah, the crew of { the train having been instructed by the road | superintendent to make no resistance, so that the gang could get out of the territory. The lockout in the Chicago+ building trades proved a failure, as the principal contractors and builders refused to follow the decision of | the Central Building League, and, as a con- | sequence, but a few hundred men were thrown out of work. Mobs of strikers continued to | attack the men at work in the coke regions. Hungarian women drove off the workmen at Lemont. .- The schooner Susan H. Ritohie i was driven ashore at Point Pleasant, N. J.. but the crew were all saved by means of the Mr. Wickham Taylor was | found dead in the bathroom of his residence | in Norfolk, Va. | A fire occurred in the Young Ladies’ Semi- nary, on Brighton Heights, N. ¥. The young ladies rushed from their rooms and started down stairs when the alarm was given, Dr. and breeches-bud Y. Cook, the principal, reassured them, they returned for more elothing., The was confined to the upper part of the main building. Henry Winnell, who is alleged Tren fire to have been brutally tortured and barned by masked robbers, died in Sharon, Pa., from the effects of his injuries, At the coroner's inquest one witness swore that Winnell, on his deathbed, certified that Nellie Morrill, his housekeeper, was responsible for the deed. At a meeting of the board of directors the Erie Canal Traction New York, Capt. B. 8B. Hayes was ele president and Charleton T. Company, held Lewis secretary and treasurer, This company will construet, maintain and operate an electric towing sy tem upon the canals of the state, and is sub sidiary to the Cataract General Electrie O pany, which controls all of the electri generated at Niagara Falls outside counties of Niagara and Erie.—The suit of James W, Fox against Frank 0. W. Mathei- son, of the Sugar Trust, to recover $250,000 for commissions in conducting negotiations in regard to the formation of the trust. was begun before Judge Dykman and a jury the Supreme Court in White Plains, Mrs, Ballie E. Fulk died at Shepherdstown, W. Va, ~—Hemariah Presbyterian Church of Staun- ton, Va., was yed Re Dinkle, who lived near Jennings Gap. Va., dropped dead, me ity of the dest by fire, sheert Express Messenger Harmon defeated a gang | of train robbers near Pond Creek, Oklahoma ! Territory, killing one and wounding ! —james H. Hudson, aged prominent English capitalist, owning mining property in Mexico, was in Denver while bicycle with a hack, ~The Glamorgan Works, the others, fifty-four, a | large fatally ‘hurt riding, by colliding | He leaves a family in England. largest manu- facturing iron works in Lynchburg, Va., was i burned. Loss one hundred thousand insurance on building, ma sixty-five thousand dollars, and unfinished work is thousand dollars, Three hundred men are thrown out of work.——John Snyder, of Clearfield, Pa, seventy years old, was burned to a crisp while sleeping on a lounge, a lamp ! falling from the windowsill above him and | setting fire to his clothing. Snyder's wife | was #0 badly burnt in trying to put out the | fire that she will die, ~The silk mill owned by "Squire Hendervelt, at Midland Park, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire. The build- | ing was no doubt fired by tramps, as the structure was used by tramps to sleep in, —— While workmen were rebuilding the shed of Cressman’s coal yard at Bath, Pa. the strue- ture was blown down by the high wind which prevailed. A number of men were caught un- der the falling timbers, and Peter F. Snyder, the contractor who had charge of the work was instantly killed. At Cameron, O., Bertihard Martin fatally shot John Bolen, whom he caught leg ving his mother-in-law’'s barn after disfiguring her horses by cutting off their tails, The ex- tensive paper mills of Alex, Balfour & Sons, at Port Richmond, Pa., will soon be running night and day, —The big woolen mill at Baltz & Brothers, on Mill Creek, a short dis- tance from Ardmore, Montgomery county, Pa., have been destroyed by fire, Toss, £85, 000; partly covered by insurance, ——A team of Irish cricketers will soon come to Ameren. ~The severs weather in Iowa has damaged the grain and fruit crops, Sarah Juk. an aged widow, was found dead in her room, at Kokomo, Ind. She had been dead five days wan The daughter of T. Buckish, a Bohemisg of Cresco, Town, was buried alive-..A eon. viet doing time in the Anamosa penitentiary, in Town, says he Is Col. Heath, who com. manded Heath's division at Gettysburg, J. H. Ferguson shot and seriously wounded Jack Glover in a fight in a saloon at Newport Rews, Vi, ~—Goorge E. Root, chancellor of a Knights of Pythine Lodge, In Kansas City, Mo., was shot and serfously wounded by H, W. Keeling, a member of the same lodge, just outside the lodgeroom, wens IIIs corm. M. Knaxtz, who was the French commis ploner at the World's Fair, Chicago, is is be decorated with the cross of the Legion of ~ Honor for services which he rendered upon that occasion, 1 aoilars hinery and stock, The machinery worth seventy-five | 6 FIREMEN KILLED. Roof of a Milwaukee Theater Fell in With Them. DEATH IN THE FLAMES. Precipitated Eighty Feet in a Seeth- ing Furnace-Five of the Unfor- tunates Miraculously Rescued, but Some ofthem ina Dying Condition. At 4,20 wore Monday breaking i" . LHAINOR f the i, Milwaukee, at F300 000, ‘elock moruing “een from the rear o Davi I Wis, a An not mediately on the arrival nt stra to, but intil the roof firemen, lad- rushed ders wore the roof, run up and the men up on In do- sli} ped the SIX stories from the Allie Res the ground, Lg 8 we, one of the men, and fell to ground, being killed by fail, All the directed over the stage men from Eng house No * rear portion of the roof, r 4 were where the fire was the worst, These firemen and others took thelr work, when without station and begun warni roof of the n inder them gav én BO feet bel large stage of the either killed by th cated to death, Or was utilize the Hote to the n 1 Davidson, with an annex extending rth, which was not The hotel px but they ali we damaged by Ar ~ % 1 flames, rion was well With guests, re warned in time and made their escape without injury, though prevailed, many of them ese aping ir made tollets, or scarcely he Sehlity Hotel, ne uring great streasn where the Wiss wF i ” With warning York, will Tron that the irer Rodriguez, of the Davidson, say oss to the Liliputians Con hele ed in smoke, pany, fall Brown, as be ste hose go up wt of the entire st ra told, eannot w B50.000, the “The ¢ and to Jghn and Alexander Davidson was between £350,000 and $400 000, watching sald fire play nal od onitents The chief loss is, of course, on the interior, and will probably be FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, SENATE. from the opening to the closing of the ses sion, were full of interest. The first in point of time was the swearing in of i senator from Georgia, to serve of the late Beoastor Colquitt, tions, intended to facilitate debate tariff bill, were introduced, one Mills, providing for an amendment to the rules 80 as to permit of the Previous (quess tion, and the other by Senator Allen, provid. ing for the taking of the final vote on the bill on June 7th, allowing three days for debate under the five-minute rule, Both went over without action, The the day ocontered in Senator Hill's speech, The speech was mainly directed against the income tax, #7tn Dar, Inthe Senate the snarl in which it adjourned late Monday ening straightened out by an amicable settlement between Benators Harris and Aldrich, It wus sd between them that for the balance of the ild meet at noon, taken up at one k and discussed until el with- dilatory tactics, while Mr. Harris with 'w his request for the reading of the bill in r,s iu wo on the {af ehiel this week Renate sho five o clock 981i Day, — From one o'clo Fariff bill was under dis Maine, and Pe I'he time m live It went into executive sessio in a consideration of the Urge Us spoke acainst it, 000, will take a year to do it." EE .c—— DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. Or the eight injured in the bridge disaster at Badiord, Vt, six have died and the others are not likely to recover, Tue Whiteside block, ut Alexandria. diana, was demolished by an explosion of patural gus, Two charred bodies taken from the ruins could not be identified, Tyruoin fever is epidemic at Mont Clair, N. J., and two milk dairies in the vicinity, to which eases have been traced, have been quarantined by the health authorities, Josey Kovtas, bis wife and three chile dren were killed in Pitsburg by an explosion which wrecked Kollas's home, It is not known whether the explosion was that of a partly empty can of nitro-glycerine or of a dynamite oap. Mun. Wa, Ravstosp and her three children were drowned in the Battahatohie river, pear Cherokes, Miss, They were seated ina buggy and were crossing the iver on a ferry-boat, when the horse became frightened and jumped into the river, Tax dead bodies of sichael McLaughlin, aged BO yours, and of an unknown man, the Iatter burned to a orlep, were found in a lime kiln on Wost Fifty-fifth street, N. Y. It is thought the men went into the building when drunk and were overcome by gas, Tun barks Josephine and Julia Rolling ar- rived at Baltimore from Rio de Janeiro, and were sent to quarantine, During the voyage there were two deaths on each vessel from yollow fever, At present there is no sickness among the crews, Senator Peffer during ue o'clock to five continued { fatigue to MeRkind v bill ri Day, & of the Renate m #8 Lhe jer rit ixn rita) the Wils indiserniminst Day, idered In the without any action bwis t one o'clock the i Mr, Peffer fin RAP He Wins FATAL PREMATURE BLAST Three Men Killed and a Nember Injured by Flying Rocks. nite, had x of 1 n pu the men began work. fi explode, and Dungan began wavs set o v battery, The ne would drilling in fresh wder on t put in a quantity of Whilst he P his three men we at this, the charge went off. Ten the gang working, and the expl n buried them under the tons of rock and sarth and TE Working feet below was loosened by the charge, The Austrians and Americans about the were panicstricken he works came hurrying up, and immediatels : | i i +hour thre The Injured of the explosion in Malone had the seeking for other dead, Malone was begun, and in an were hurt by the force their faces, Foreman all tI is BULLET-PROOF COAT TEST. The German Government Anxious to Clothe Its Army in Qualified Armor. Experts in military affairs throughout Eu. rope are discussing the experiments made with the bullet-proof coat invented by Horr Dowe, the Mannheim tailor. There seema tO be no longer any doubt that Dowe's invention isa valuable one, The Russian Ambassador, Count Von Schouvaloff. at the Russian Embassy on Sunday last fired two shots at the tailor while the latter was en. cased in his bullet-proof cont, and as Dowe sustained absolutely no injury the Russian Ambassador pronounced himself satisfied with the experiment, Representatives of several foreign govern. ments have been making strong efforts to ob tain Heer Dowe's secret, but it is said that these efforts have falled. It is said that 8,000,000 marks have been offered to Horr Dowe by the German Government for his in. vention; or as an alternative 100 years guar antee of the monopoly of supplying the Ger man Government, Bexaros Maxoessox, of Nebraska, is men tioned us the next commander-in-chief of the rovent I | | APRIL BLIZZARD on the Jersey Coot. Eighteen Inches bow to the Peach Crop In Maryland and Delaware~ Many Rallroads Blocked, The April New England, a Deep~Death- blizzard which swept through the coast and through New York, Pennsylvania, Dela did mers were wrecked near nd raged along Jersey Maryiand and Wire incalculable damage, Tw Long Bra tremendous seas ren. ie-8Aving crews almost powe riess, both Long the highest known in many did mck of Atlantic City idl threes and nearly every man on board vessels At Atlantic Cape May, and ‘Oust, the perished City, Branch, other resorts on Ji recy s was the years, and rer Ker great ware flooded and rail with, At Sey the New Jersey washed out, interfered feet of track was travel tho ithern Railroad snd arge hotel and a church were nearly unds iby the waves, Off Long Island, sever vessels were SRILNR Wrecked, At son its along the const the sen made great s beach, Thr Pennsyivania the fot to OW Was BO wet crushed in the broke down om es and hundreds of f accidents ¥ Lhe wires 0 mon are pench belt state that iossoms from th mpletely killed fothet al CABLE SPARKS, By the burning of the old Britannia Hote!, Sin Groner Bapus-Powsiri, British Bering says he thinks the new A coomntirree of Panama Canal Company appointed to ostablish a new company for the purpose of completing the canal, YerLvow reven is increasing on board the Portuguese warship Mindello, Admiral Da was Tue King of Denmark has invited the Em- peror of Russia and the Emperor of Germany to meet at Copenhagen upon the ocoasion of the silver wedding of the Crown Prince of Denmark in July next Tue accident to the steamship Ems hap pened during a gale on March 24, The steamship Rappahannock offered help, but, owing to the hurricane then prevailing, the offer could not be accepted, Axpassapon Bavanp, in an interview in regard to the Behring sea question, said that both governments were apparently acting in good faith to secure legislation in execution of the award, and there was somo hope that it would be accomplished within ten days, Tur German Colonial Society urge the government to negotiate with England and Amorios for the immediate revision of the Samoan treaty and to form an agreement re- specting the settlement of property quostions on all the groups of islands in the Pacifio, Ax the conver’ion of Parneilites at Dublin, John Redmond spoke in strong terms of cone demnation of the attitude of Lord Rosebery toward bome rule. The members of the House of Commons were instructed to use every effort to seou.e an satly dissolution of Parliament, Tun cownedl of the Russian Bmpiro Jie conclusion of the Russo-German come pose. PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, Epitome of News Gleaned Various Parts of the Btate. from A number of people at Wilkes-Parre beliey that they are heirs to 4 fortune in New property of an ancestor, in land York City, bh was Democratic men still The Republican and sheers imittes ure of Heading’s Sewer Con ing over the appointment of a city engineer, and all sewer work has been stopped, The gang of boy burglars tured at Head. ing had a complete system of a show Counts, ing what they stole and money received for their plunder, John Wolf und August Bombay were fatal. v 4 # men were working in aft in Rantieoke, had the the ly injured at the numbe The prepared to fire un shot, breast and hting squib they ran to a place of safety, but d RBenching the did not go off an ignited g caring it would and perhaps kill a 1 SLM As they w d and both were Whe He died two lu CArs, The Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Asso- ORG with violist. ing the law and thre on the battlefield, tion will be heard next nr Bleeping struction Derks county treasurer action to | Berks county Vollsts pay sehayikii i be isons EVILS The Conne coke strikers | OF an attack on several works which sumed operations and the strike is virtually over, fo Eight prisoners eseaped and County jail after disabling th Four of the irnkey i his assistant, fugitives were caught and put in chains, The report of Adjutant General shows that there are 790.451 men in the Greenland Stats subject to military duty. The aggregate Nae the strength of the division composing the again of 201 over previous yoar, The body of Foreman Thomas Picton was where thirteen men were erushed to death nea uths The finding of Picton's body accounts IV iwo m GEO, Supervisor John Doyle, of Poster Township, Schuylkill County, was held in $1,000 bail at Pottsville to answer in court the of fraudulent disposal of the funds of the towne ship, Frank McGill, of Shamokin, found dead in bed in a Pottsville hotel, having bees sephy ciated by luminating gas, Commanders of the First, charge was Second and svivania review the work of the entertaining way, L. Shulsky, a peddier, beaten into insensibility at Lancaster unknown footpads, Union Veterans and Grand Army men of Reading colobrated the twenty-ninth and versary of the surrender of General Loe, The Carlisie Presbytery met Falling Spring Presbyterian Church, Ww. K Foster, of Mechanicsburg, elected moderator, A snow storm of unusual severity for April prevailed throughout the State the fall being reported at from three to twelve inches, Councilman P. F. Snyder was crushed to death at Bath by a heavy trestle beam, The Frothingham Arcade at Boranton was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of 850,000, Charles and Jacob Scheibly were urrested at Pittsburg charged with robbing Annie Holman, a nurse, of £300, a FOUR MEN FATALLY BURNED your in an sd and by two was ro al Bev, was White Hot Metal Was Scattered Among Stes] Work: ore at Pomervy, A hydraulic plunger on a converter at the Middleport steel plant, Pomeroy, Oblo, breks precipitating 8.600 pounds of white hot metal among sixty workmen from a distance of fil toon feet. Ton wero burned, four fatally, The hot metal ssatterad for fifty feet in all directions, The clothes were burned from all within reach. All the fatally injured are sin- BERING SEA. President Cieveland Issues 8 Proclamation of Warning. Foon, Foe Bering WArning persons aguinet President Cleveland lssued a ation Vie ut send fisheries net of Congress, clamation ix as follows entitied 5 rendeted arbitration at Parle, unde: the United Btates ang concluded at Washington, Fe “Whereas an act of Congress at 10 give effect to the award the tribunal of ‘A b treaty between he 1892, for the purpose of submitting to certain questions concerning preservation of the fur seals,” was asyupr April 6, 1804, and reads as {ollows, «1 f i full] therefore, be it known that 1, Groves f the United States President « ¢ fied Wana Amerion, have caused the sald act spe i med to the end that its provi rved, Hor § si # therein their 4 n sudd ac dies the provisions and the findings of the arbitration the modus vivendl ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. James Gorpox Brxxerr, with tie liberalits offered three £1,000, for the Nice regretts, of Tux Cour from India lend the Wexprrr Hox from his recent Owiven MNEs has practi indisposition, a carriage ride oyving a pion fifty mem! raves “aia VE t Be —— i SAMOANS GROW WEARY. Do Net Like the Tripartite Govermmest-— Natives Won't Disarm wetter ir are wei dents are equs with ansel ves dissatish with the government, and wish be annex of the Australian oo njos, The of-war ti not arrived, The only may of land comn Year, The writer says that allow the as Chief Justice Ide attempts to enforee order sanguinary fighting will result, CHILEAN CLAIMS COMMISSION. a , German and American men. 1t were ordered to the Islands had a standstill, Business was at hope was the news that the ission bad been extended for a the natives will not sjves to be disarmed, and as soon his Out of Si5.006168 Claimed Only $960 661 Was Allowed. The record of the Chilean Clatms Commis sion, which just expired by limitation, shows 8 fair degree of achievement in the month's work, but it is not edmforting in any sense to Citizens of the United States jresented forty-two claims against Chile, Twenty-four of these were passed upon by the commission, leaving eighteen unacted upon. These twenty-four claims aggregated $15,506,108, and but six of them were allowed oven in dered was only $340,661. Tha largest single award was $155.99, made in the Dubois ease, in which the full claim was $2,461,185, The largest claim was the Landreau claim of $5,000,000, but this was dismissed altogether, and is therefore barrel for all time, CL ——————— SEVEN MEN KILLED. As Engine Plunges Over an Embankment.