THE NEWS Nellie Weaver, sixteen yoars old, confessed having put poison in the meal of the family of D. A. Walmer, of Montpelier, Ind, —The flour mill operated by Louis H. Hyde, in Joilet, Ill, was burned to the ground. The building was owned by the Economy Light and Power Company.——~The Bank of Tempe, Tempe, Ariz, has suspended and assigned to D. A. Abrams, of Phwnix. The Phoenix National Bank is the heaviest creditor, P. FP. Daggs, the president, says the assets will ex- ceed the labilities, and that depositors will be paid dollar for dollar, —Leoewis Fiehl, who was convicted of murder in the second de- groe in Bridgeton, N. J., for the killing of Christian Zaiss, was sentenced by Judge Reed to twenty years in the state prison. This is the full extent of the law, ——At the meeting of the American Baptist Misslonary Soclety, in Sarato of the work among the various races, —— Miss Agnes Irwin, of Philadelphia, has accepted the deanship of Radcliffe Cc -J. C, Neely, a prominent lawyer of Adams county, Pa., is dead. ——The twenty-first annual ses- sion of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections was opened at Nashville Tenn. ——A boller in the engine-house of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, at South Wilkesbarre, exploded. The house was demolished, and the supply of alr cut off from the workers in tho mines, but they all got out safely. Philadelphia Counc merce and Navigation repor appropriation of £10,000 survey of the Jersey Southern Methodist 3 ference will not meat attempted phia by shooting her in committed suicide. sided in the towns ali hanna, Delaware and estimates of | lege, — mittens on Come an preliminary ~The Episcopal General Con. Memphis, and Is Con favorably finally adjourned at again until 1808, to kill Annie Bronza in Ph the mouth, wods have Yeter Cruse fladel- and t } sub- ag the Juniata rivers, Upper Susque- and the millions, people of Marietta being SSCS run up nto here is suffering among the poor Willlamsport, Lock Haven, other towns, their littio | out and their furniture ruined. fallen to the depth of iv Deas ern New York were washed away at Avon, travel was stopped. been doae to milling proper roads along the banks of the Pottstown to Philadelphia. train No. 122 was ked at Wes on the Amb ¥ i rision of the Bailfoad. The wreck 1 oul. 4 angine ana and nes 1 see mountains, The tracks of Pennsylvania Raliro X-, nd al us damage and wroe was caused by a wash. a number of er Fine, of Cam demolished, Eagine Serious The floods In Pennsylvania and New York did imn rtunately, 1 srs das vy ens ianage but, {« w lives were Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers rose hig than lian suffered the m luring the g great freshet in 1889, sport and Lock Haven appea In the ( considerable damage was done ple of Jo ne os § gv the rising ater wi, hnst Wn were Reading Ralir looking to ek Reformed mer relat Seaton b bel tog men through out a permit. The ger presidential lead to the indie parading his rrisania with. B —— early all the jes Island to sh plants I RE region we Grace Ouderkirk, aged seventean years, ¢ Valparaiso, Ind., was ted for ing. and shot and fatally wounded obbers held up a coach th x One of Arre on the 3 Cal, Yin killed second robber gers, Two and a brick Akron, Ohio, £200,000. At Rhinehart, due shot and killed A fire to Rundlie’s house, The appeal of Dr. D. action of Bishop him for leaving his charge in a canvass for governor on the Prohibition ticket, was sustained by the Southern Metho- dist General Conference, The commission appointed by the New Jersey legislature to investigate the oyster troubles in the eXpress moss and the then shot two livery stables, mnger, of the a pl block of business were barr Total loss abou Mo., William W. Rundle, nd killed himself, BRIO 0- aning mill houses then set be extinguished, DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. Foun Harvard students were drowned by tha capsizing of a catboat in the harbor at Boston, by foul gas from a well West Virginia, Br a freight wreck on the Big Four Bail road, at Springfield, Ohio, Brakeman C, L Bolen and two tramps were probably fatally injured, Tue dam ot Lima, Montana, broke, and a large amount of farm property was swept away. The raliroad track between Lima and Dillon was badly washed, Tue Dritish steamer Clandeboye, from Cardiff for Vera Crus, was reported at Bavan- nah to be anchored off Little Bahama Island, with her shaft broken, A taaix on the Lehigh Valley Railroad was wrecked three miles north of OQawego, New York. One boy, five years old, Willie Mahr, of Newark Valley, was killed outright, and eight or nine passengers were badly injured, Disastrous floods ocsurred lu the Diack River and Chippewa River Valleys, in Wis. consin. Dams aud bridges wore swept away and railroad tracks washed out at many points, Bearnax Conrix, 10 years old, died in Washington, DD. O., from the effects of burns received while tied to a stake playing “Wild West"! Indian tortures with a number of other childen, Heo was inonsed in a sack, which wus accidentally set on fire. The | chilfiren ran away. Curtin could not free if and was literally consted. at Martinsburg, CABLE SPARKS. ——— Uxirep Staves Covnsvr-Gexenil Epwanns died at Derlin from brain fever, Louis Crovis BoNAPARTE, a grand nephew of tho first Napolecn, died fu London, DBrazitiax insurgents gained a victory ove the government troops near Rio Grande no A German named Mueller has been arrested at Liege, Belgium, and od that he caused the recent dynamite explosions in that olty. Tux Bervian ( nounced null and void a CON Tons ‘ourt of Cassation bas pro ukase reinstating snarchist, who was con- has attempted to ers, with the hope of being able Esrnx Hesay, the Cuaxos io Mexican export duties are as Coffee, 3 50 per 100 kilogrammes; vanilla, 40 cents per kilo, Tue Manchester Steam i= Navigation Ce Moditer- and America, A resolution to prohibit female labor, both in the interior of mines and on the surface, was unanimously adopted by the Iuterna- tional Miners’ Conference. The resolutions applies to all countries, A circular jotter from the sunclo $ to the law di- papal uniformly called forth a protest frou The nuncio made an ap It is reported in Condon that Amb ment the deslre of America from its treaty obligations report is discredited in to bo Washington ho inal in Egy tian notables charging Count de Lesseps and the early directors of the Com pany with misappropriation of money Is dis- erodited in Paris em ORI COXEY AND PALS IN JAIL Tux st erim ry from Calro that a behalf of Suez Canal Days Imprisonment Jones languish in the District and the “Industrial Army" ler. Judge Miller senten: twonty days in jall cach for ito the Capitol grounds we polio, Browne and imbia jatl, is witho ut a lea wd nner ir nnd : De i Bo { the law and of th rae were further fine fir ton dave & wn lb dng Ae for ten days for walking on the grass, Many person ¥ ia of might regar for what ag the sentes Wast rather hard sentet v kno w that they had sad been warned that he nake speech. jut they Iaws, in the w gL inws and dee A ne riared that theywore that w ad thie . and { Washington t plain In his Tha Judg: bringing an xey Kn comes a danger knew the phe BETOSS nited States, ofl hroe of these men perfectly well that they w law an of the ere disobeying tt was to show the pe wintry that they would defy Oc and the Goy f the U There are a large number of IT men thelr way t6 Wash and the Judg evidently Intonded this punishment as warning as as a just punishment to Coxey, Brown and Jones, The plea set up in Hudson and Pence, ment « rn nngton well court by Cong spoke in behall of caso any. Hudson “The the gregsmen who not help his Metropolitan newspapers,” “money power." and on Jrown and Coxey made the speeches in the samo order. Effort was made to get the Judge to impose a fine try and Dut Judge did not propose that they should escape fu that way, and he sent them in along with other prisoners, They propose now to issue manifestos daily the jail, but the Washington people to jail the Black Maria from Coxey’s Army is liable to soon break up. Ons of Coxey's valuable horses has beon stolen and the belief is general that some member of the army has taken it, The camp was moved from Bladensburg to a fleld some distance away. LOST HIS sO 550.1 LIFE TO SAVE HERS. Heroic Conduct of a Fredericksburg Boy. Sad Death of Two Playmates, Lizzie Errickson, aged about fifteen years, daughter of Mr. Gus Errickson, and Alex. ander Humphreys, son of Mrs, William Humphreys, both of Fredericksburg, Va, were drowned in the Rappahannock River just below the dam, Together with Tom Humphreys, a younger brother of Alexander, they wore playing on a -scow, when the girl foll into the river, Alexander Humphreys quickly throw off his coat, and, jumping into the river, resched Lizzie when she rose the second time and bravely seized hor, He succooded in floating her some distance, but when within a few feet of the shore the girl became exalted, threw hor arms around the boy's neck, and they sank together, Tom Humphreys ran home and informed his parents. The news spread rapidly and a large crowd ‘gathered at the seene of the sad accident, The river, which is quite swollen 6 DROWNED. ———————— A Furious Storm Sweeps Over Lake Michigan. Into the Surging Waves In Full View of the Chicago Lake Front Hotels-Snow in Wis~ consin and Michigan. ‘he storm which swept Lake Michigan was ost disastrous of recont yoars, Eight driven ashore within the Chicago, Out of thelr crows yw to be drowned, aud {n every Hmits of a half gx side the government pier, within of Michigan Boulevard and ont down to death in men plain 11 ¥ bie boule Crow w he hundreds of pe ine rd hed the awful storm is which overlook ple whol wails or wate s win 1 harbor, The orth, where the L douth wi of the big hot wrecks extended from Gile on the 1 1541 dis of woes, 10 Lance fe-savis ag | mm of the allied here, jegroos, FIGHTING THE DALTONS Two Officers Fatally Biot and Twe Outlaws Badly Wounded Two supposed members of the Dalton gang of outlaws passad Beno, 0. T., going eastward, The y wore mounted and were hoavily armed with shooters and Winshesters strapped to saddiers. It was on last Saturday that two members of the band of outlaws who two months ago held up and robbed a Rock Island passenger train at Pond Crook were captured in El Reno ang the officers have sinoe been on the alert believing others were in this viein. ity. When these two suspicious looking eharno tors passed through town notorious through EI fx. thoir twelve miles east of El Reno, to form a poss The two armed men on them in the meantime, horses two Samuel Ferris and James | mediately hogan fiiing at them with six The officers returned the shots promptly and an exciting fusiliade was kept Both the deputy sheriffs were fatally wounded, Ferris being shot soveral times through the body, Each of the outlaws was also Jan. gerously and probably fatally wounded, one of them being unable to mount his horse as his companion did #0 and rapidly rode away, The citizens bad gathered ina great throng and sent volley after volley of shots at the fleeing desperado, shooting off his hat and perforating his clothing, It is certain that he i goriously wounded, as his pursuers readily followed bim by a trail of blowd., The eaptured outlaw was bound down with ropes and immediately hurried to the county jall in Ei Reno to avold the vengeance of an Inturiated mob, It required the united efforts of five mon with drawn guns to do this, In the event of the death of the wounded officers the outiaw will undoubtedly be lynched un. loss the civil offeors enlist the military at Fort Reno to protect the jail. The prisoner fainted when he was locked up and implored Sh oiouns to eal fo saiiney wld: Misa Henny Govnp has sent a large num- ber of flowers and shrubs for in Tarrotown, N. Y., to Roxbury, Delaware eounty, whe-s they will be replanted in the FIFTY- THIRD CONGRESS. EENATE. 13187 DAY, The session of the Senate was dull and extremely uninteresting, Dut little progress was made on the Tarif bill, only two hours being spent up won it. Two hours was then spent passing bills on the eslendar to which there was no ils ction, 1520 DAY. - ~The Senate on-~~from ten in the veaing, The entir bating the proposed cents per ton on iron are, 138n0 Dax. — The Senate disposed of seven pA aragro phe 4 of the metal schedule after eight urs’ of debate, which was marked by quite a number of interesting clashes be Republicans and Democrats, ul teaturs of the day was caused by tho unex- pected presentation by Mr. Jones of an amendment, substituting the McKinley bill classification and specific rates on round iron fo ecolls, blooms a: sharcon! fron, what higher than those already propose 131rn Dav. Senator Gorman's spece the (eature of to-d v'w session of the § Mr, Gorman 8 speech furnished texts | Wwpablicans for the remainder of the The Senate proccedis enlivened by a short debate on Hawaii, sarcastic spe Mr, Hale on Mr Gorman’s speech of yesterday, wis after three o'aloek when Ot “ Wn io actual work « r UTeBs wis graph 121-1 161d an sight-hour had we until six in : Line was Senate duty spent da. of forty tween the The sensation. po BOL 135ti Dax, hi from Marin f senaie noUsE. ar Day, The U UE Wak not in a Dax The « # in the had bee nenam overral ames 133ap Dax form giv wis nd Mis risks and i Dax ner IIIs ss ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. 11% Davy had two | Duke and Duchess of ¥¢ of Teck the of “"Twellth Theatre, London, Lavy Anzu: has made an appeal for sympathy and support in thework of a » ty formed in Winnipeg to send magazines, weokly papers, and books to tho Northwest who makes application tk and gE at no-hundredth Night” 4 5 sothiors in Rav. J. P. Jaxsz has just o Bociety, He Is over 70 years of age, has bean forty-one years in Java, and is proba.y the best living Javanese scholar, Dr. J. A. Gilbert of the Yale psychological garding the mental and physical develop. showing that boys are move sensitive disorimination, that girls oan tell the differs ys, and that boys think quicker thau the other sex. isa — so —— AD VALOREM RATES. A &n "Bquivalest Estimate of the Differences Among the Three Bills, The treasury experts have completed thelr work of enleulating the equivalent ad valorem rates of the compromise tariff bill as compared with the equivalent ad valorem ratot of the McKinley nw and those of the House bill which show the following averages on each of the schedules and for each of the two hills and the existing law: Pres, Law, Sen. Bill H. Bill, Chemicals. .......... 81.65 24.41 28. Earth, earthenware 87.83 un and glassware, .... 51.25 Metals and manufac. 54.96 aso 22.82 22.6 tures of. ........... BA Wood and manufac 80.59 ma 105.95 91a MIB Of... 23.62 21.5¢ Bugar...... To BARD 00.61 ss4l 00 factures of... . .. 40.92 2.4 Agricultural and prov Spirits, wines and other boveragoes, Cotton manufactures, 55,25 Flax, hemp and jute and manufactures of 45.00 Wool und manufue. 9562 4113 45.90 20.38 01g fares of.....o. 0. 62 and 20.51 80.7 Silk and silk Tul ks ory ie 2 tHE sa nanny Bly Serw—— WORK AND WORKERS. Taz strike at Soott's Mil Lowell, Mass, have beau eompromised and the operators havo gone back to work. Tur Pittsburg Puel Company has contracts ed for mining wl 0s 8 result of the machines to mine its o« strike, Iris believed nt Paterson, N. J. sirike of the woek in the defoat Tue David cloned its fa conl famine minors’ that the ribbon wepvers will end this of the weavers. uring Co, has to the Manulnct Chien Bradle tary in nud , owing : 350 hands are | Oyyu Union £1 car an Ball at Ful Paollman up. ors at Bellaire, ers to quit work. dowe of the Mam. BB i and Nall Works Als of the Ameri who are managing the strike an, gay that, as a last resort, in the United Tue striking conl mix i the non-union min 3 Lhd CLOS every States will be tied Oni, , il fore ing moth Bteel 200 ma Tuimry-voun operators repr road in he Sry detern ines, mosting in sd that the them ng con, A Tin plate fact hing box view, Tex 8 onli IRV FATAL Beven Persons Killed is a Cellisien § Rock Tunnel Seven persons were instantly the Newport Ne {twelve on Ba ’ mies east of Princeton The « By. disastor the Standing t west. occurred in wek tunnel between an bound and the bridge train in ot ductor Nick Hill. Hill extra {reigt Con. the took the hend tO expectod He of sending a flagman a other train Asay saad conduct or any which might come up. The dead backing up, with a boarding-car in front had followed the flagman too cl as his train had entered the tunnel Jones, with the extra freight, entered the other end of the tunnel, at the rate of thirty miles an hour. The fire man and Jones saw their danger in time to jomp and save their lives, The engine crashed into the boarding car, in which the doomed men were imprisoned. The ear was smashed into kindling wood, the engine of the freight train plowing al most through it and filling the tunnel with WT Was , but Just engineer sely, “ PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS Epitome of News Cleaned from Various Paris of the Etats Colonel Herman Osthouse, general inspes. makes publio notes with t advancement made ¢ nesumned the duties of the offices, h, st one time in of and kitled him. which he his annual report, in satisfaction the greg sitice 1 Captain John B, M s United States Navy, #l it Pit Lozzor, 0 1 aI { Hazleton, has ents 1 Beraars iiRi Ad TLT% red sult Cabidas, s Of mare frre The fourth reunion dred and Fifty-eighth Voluntears, wes held Moses Strickler, aged at the Dernville erean very little of the his 4 + IgE Coal « perats at Pittsbu to the wre of and Ohio met re ad strikers a 695- for baby as rato and a 6D.cent rate Ohi 1h Le { daughter of at Hazlet Wiliam kilied by 5 the hand of Mer, ye defeated candids gies at the Delaware CO will contest the seats « for State wanty Ox dele vention { the successful candi- dates at the Harrisburg Convention Vide-President Davenport, of the hem Steel Company said the failure test of the Indiana armor plate at Head was due to the Harvey process, Capt. Richard H, Morris was buried in 8t. James Episcopal Church Cemetery, Rristol, ARMOR PLATE FRAUDS. Dethle- of the indian A House Investigation Soon to Be Under Way. Another important Congressional investi. gation was started in the House Ly the pas. stillness of death which followed, piteonsly appaling for help, but no man could reach him, and soon his cries ceased, A wrecking train and large crew were put to work at both ends of the tunnel, two of the victims were almost uninjured ex. crushed, sso III sisson THE BULLET-PROOF COAT. Baptid Rifamen Shevt at the Toler ia Hi Armor, The Duke of Cambridge and a large num- ber of military and naval experts, together with the military and nsval attaches of the foreign embassios and legations, including Lieutenant Cowles, the United States naval attache, wore present in London at the Al hambra Theatre to witness a special test of the bullet-proof coat invented by Herr Dows, the Manheim tailor, A number of shots were fired at Herr Dow when encased in his cont, but the cont was not pierced. The shots wore fired at different ranges. A committee frauds in connection with the fur nishing of naval plate armor by Carnegle, Phipps & Co., or by the Carnegie Steel Come pany Limited, These concerns have Government contracts 000 and the Investigation is to go over the entire amount beginning with the first con i i i Chairman © mmings of the Naval Come It is probable that & sulvcommittes consisting of Represestatives Cummings, Money and Doiliver, will do the active work of investigation, Representative Cummings sald: “We hope to make the investigation thorough snd will begin at once, There is a large amount of material already In possession of the coms mittos concerning the extent of armor oon. tracts, amounts delivorad, and yo! due, ate the appropriation Wl, We will now supple. ment this by getting at the alleged frauds Sl hie Raval In strong whoa bu let us 80 to the bottom of the hatter."
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