THE NEWS The National Association of Life Tnsurance Underwriters protests against the proposition go tax life insurance, —-Fred Lewis Pattee, of Dartmouth College, has been appointed to the vacant chair of English, and George Tucker Sellow, of Cornell, instructor in pre. paratory department of the Pennsylvania atate College, ——F. F, Hall, secretary of the Rocky Mountain Water Company, and seore- tary and treasurer of the Denver Land and Ice Company, has been missing from Denver for three weeks, He suffered from insomnia, and his friends fear he has become lnsane, we Rev, Charies Warmkessle, of Bhamokin, Pa., committed suicide, ——Over ninty thous. and acres of land in Nebraska, are to be irri. gated, ——The Texas Populists have nomin- ated Judge I.. N. Nugent for governor, of Waco, Texas —W. J. Gillette, Populist sandidate for Congress in Oklahoma Terri. sory, was arrested on a charge of perjury, —- Sirs. Halliday was sentenced to be eleetro- suted during the week beginning August 6, (894, —At the La Joya mining camp, ia the state of Oaxaca,the Indian laborers employed .n one of the mines of that camp became en- :aged at the American superintendent named Frank Powell and killed him, The strike at Pana, IIL, was declared off scale committee, indicted by the grand jury in Ottawa, lil, —— terror of North Carolina for years, and kill ing a dozen men, has just been arrested Maryville, Rewards amounting to $2.60) had been offered for him, Stephen Kirk, a killed by coming in contact witha wire,——E. C, Knappe, Chicopee National dead or alive, linaman bookkeeper of the lank, of Mass., and one of its most trusted employes, is charged with emboz He is the not ~The twenty-sixth an- Spring ding 225,000, under bond of £5,000. and the bank wiil 20,000, reach that amount, aual © was held at Ithaca, loss to not excead & and may ymmencement of Cornell University Monsignor Satolli de. livered the diplomas to the graduates at the Catholie University, Advices at Auckland from Bamoa stated that an attempt was made by the rebels to kill Chief Malietoa, received A Georgia Central train from Savannah was wrecked two Millen, Crossties were placed on track open. 0 yh. bly fatally injured. from the miles Ga, and a switch left had a Eight pas ‘ireman Rahner leg broken and is otherwise hurt senger and freight cars left the employes are supposed to have been the per. petrators, lev. EK. H Rivers, D, D,, of the most prominent M the died Lot years, General Kell man, Col Baker, was arrested at Louisville as vegabonds, A large of in Southern Illinois resumed work, track. Ex, one thodist ministers in ¢ South, at sville, aged ily and his right-han« number mines The loss of the sealing schooner Unga, one of the seven vessels reported missing twe med, The Unga storm «ff the Her crew of ten men were all -A disastrous freight wreck oe. surred at Batesville, Ind. Ten shattered into kindling wood, and was torn up for x distance of dred yards, Michael Cunningham, of Ply mouth, Pa., and Thomas Heley, of Wheel ing, W. Va, who were stealing & ride, with three others, were buried beneath the debris weeks ago, has been co was « Japan const. drowned. werturned in a heavy ears the track fully one hun. were and killed, Rev, Samuel Plantz, of Detroit, was electad president of sity, CC, P, Leland, Shore Railroad, died at his home, in land. ——Dr, Homer T. Fuller presidency of the Worcester stitute, - of Brooklyn, who was spending the summer Univer. of the Lawrences Lake Cleve the Polytechnic In- -A young son of Charies 8B, BEmith auditor resigned near Doylestown, Pa. was instantly killed by being struck by an express train on the Phil. adeipbia and Reading Railroad. mencement exercises wero held at Lafayetde farmers of Bert and said to bwve been stealing horses ang sheep, Tw lived Gallipolis, - The patent enamel leather tannery of Blengel & Rothschilds, in Newark, N. J., de- stroyed by fire.——A wind, rain and hail storm did great damage in [owas —Bervices were held over the remains of Judge William Waiter Phelps at Englewood, N. Y., and the remains were taken to Simsburg, CL, for burial, we CO Me College, Easton, ——Seventy-five Mason county, Ky., hung Archie William Haines, negroes, who are of the Haines boys at was Pa. was crushed to death by being caught vania Plate Glass Works, at Irwin, Pa., were sold by the sheriff for of Pittaburg.——A sweeping reduction in wages has been ordered at the Jones and Laughlin fron and steel works, at Pittsburg, Pa. ~The eonneil of bituminous coal mine operators in Philadelphia decided to stick by the old price and not give any advavee, — The miners of the West Virginia side Pan Handle district, resumed work, ——Corporal Bherman, of an Ohio militia company, nar- rowly eseaped being shot by a striker, near Beach City, Ohio, the bullet striking a brass batten on the soldier's coat. Sulsequently the troops fired upon and wounded two men who they thought had been shooting at them. we pood win and Bmith, railroad contractors in New York falled, A passenger train ran ato an electric ear in Paterson, N. J., injur- ing a number of presengoers, Alfred Jones, twenty-eight years old, formerly of Melbourne, Australia, made a bold attempt to rob the jewelry store of W, Taylor, at Fulten and Duffield streets, in Brooklyn, Diver James Olser nearly lost bis life while at work in the New York harhor,——In the Massillon mining district not a man went to work, ———A swars of locusts stung a horse to death near Jack- souvilie, Pa, cm — FOUND DEAD ON THE TRACK pot Master Alderman Murdered Supposably by a Garg of Robbers An atrocious murder was committed at Mandeville, 8. C. The body of J, P, Alder man, depot and express agent at that town, was found lying on the track with the skull erushied in and badly mutilated, The theory is that he heard robbers breaking into the depot, and they murdered him when he came out. Mr. Alderman was originally from North Carolina, and was to have boon married next month, es SASTER AT SEA Fishing Schooner and Ferry- boat Go Down. 51 PEOPLE DROWNED. lcm corer wane Twelve Sink with the Schooner Rose Off the Coast of Newfound- land, and Forty-five are Drowned in Samara, Russia. Tho schooner Rose, bound from Labrador for Conception Bay, collided with an iceberg and went down almost immediately, carry- ing twelve persons with her, The disaster occurred when was about eight miles off N. FP, At the time of the collision there was a thick fog, and it was impossible for the look- out to see a ship's length ahead, the Partridge schooner Point, The Rose bad a crew of fifty-five persons, who were bound to Conception Bay to carry The forty-three survivors jumped aboard the berg as soon us for several hours, suffering great hardship, Alter they had almost abandoned hope an. the after con- in same direction, hove in sight, and, siderable trouble, they aboard and landed, were gotten safely to take them to their destination, The sur vivors of the {ll-fated craft are entirely desti- tute, and an appeal in their behalf for charity has been made, Nearly all the drowned wo relatives of several fostances wh each other, and in amilies were lost, and ju others the ones that { is found a watery grave were the bread winners, upon whom large families depended for their support. his calamity is the worst that has been i T experienced by the fishing fleet a long time, Burin l aster is reported SNLINATR. A Hn samara, the t, says that a the River iI was oar » water was leaky and ove ity people being armed at tl could swim, «i in their efi water, drow PEACH CROP'S BAD YEAR. Oficial Figures Show Itto Be a Failure —Ni States Apples Poor Alss The report of th ment of Ariy sO As fruit does not recov tion as carly in its hist 8 sale to practionl I'he condition | producing the « win mmercial or : with 18593, as fo makes a poor showing | HOWS New Jersey, 1803, 104 ; 1804. 65. Delaw I=, 15. Maryland, 21. Yirginia, 1893, .63 ; 1303, .81; 1804, 07. Michi bigan, 1533,. 93 ; 1504 1863, .03 ; : 1894, 15. Georgia, Ohio, 1893, 74 ; 1804, 43 1894, 76. California The best prospects east #2 i893, 86; 1803, 83 ; 1804, 85, ¢ of the Roeky Mountains are in New Jersey and Michigan, that of in secti New England, where the season is far enough a ivanced for the fact to be datermined, pros. pects are usually promising. In New York trees have than peaches, ns report damage from frost and cold rains, A sudden decline in the conditions begine wit! New Jersey and Pennsylvania, doe 10 the causes just stated, and the increased damage fom the freezing weather of March, further south 1 clearly indicated, The stadsticia has, at the request of many growers and dealers, added rice to the list of produets mentioned in the monthly crop re. ports, The present report shows that the breadth seeded in 1804 is but 76.4 per cent, of took place in Louisiana, where 60 per cent. of the area of last year was sown, South Caro lina, next in importance fa production, shows a decrease in acreage of 17 per cent. ; then foliows Georgia with a decrease of 28 per cent, The principal cause assigned for the decrease in acreage of the produet is the rul- ing low price. EE — a — HOTEL FIRE. a ———— Congressmen Have to Flee for Their Lives frm the Eoking:m, The Congressional and other guests of the Eckington Hotel in the suburbs of Washing ton, were roused from thelr slumbers about midnight by the ery of fire, and had to make a hasty oxit to escape from the flames. The fire started in the kitehen, and within two hours the building was practically a total loss, The hotel was built on the colonial style, the wings being modern structures, while the main building was formerly the Gale mansion, the country sent of one of the proprietors of the old National Intelligencer, The hotel, which was owned by Distriet Com. missioner Truesdell, was valued st £50,000, and was well insured, The lesseo, W. A. MeRellip, loses about #18,000 on farniture, with an insurances of only #8000, Among the guests wore Representatives Dann, of New Jersey; Funk, of Hlinols; MeClonry, of Minnesota; Outhwaite, of Ohio, and Wright, of Nebraska, with thelr familics, a a IN A FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS EENATE. 154i Day. —In the United States Senate the two sehedules belore the free list, “M,, pulp, paper books “N, sundries,” were disposed of, They covered 59 paragraphs, comprising twelve pages of the bill, This leaves only the free list, the income tax, internal revenue and administrative features of the bill un- acted upon, 166i Day. ~The progress with the free list was very rapid, 245 paragraphs (about 24 pages of the bill) being disposed of, Para. graph 608, salt, had been reached when the Senate adjourned, Nine pages of the free list are yet to be disposed of before the ad. ministrative features of the bill are reached. 166 tr Day. Very rapid propress was made on the Tariff bill in the United States Senate, The income tax on page 170 had been renched when the Beuate adjourned. Oaly sixty-one pages of the bill, the Income tax and internal revenue features remain undis- posed of and the end of the long debate seems close at hand, 167 Day, The debate on the income tax was opened in the United States Benate by senator Hill, in a three-hour speech in oppo- sition to this feature of the bill, Despite the excessive Laat, he was listened to with close attention, Only two votes were taken—one on Mr. Allen's motion to limit the operation of the tax to June 1, 1898, aad the other, by Mr. Peffer, to establish a gradusted incomes tax, Doth were defeated. Just before ad- Jjournment the reports of the Bugar Trust In. vestigating Committee were presented but Mr, Hill objected to their reception, and the ques- tion as to whether they would be received was left hanging at adjournment, 1581 Day. ~The debate on the income tax SENSE. was very interesting and Only « wot 36 speech by Mr remainder of the time being consumed in ex- ‘ tem poraneous debate, EOUSE. 1541 Day. —On ace fe the speaker, unt of the slight Mr. Bailey discharge: the duties of speaker pro tem, in the House of Representatives, 1 bills were passed, a then the Anti-og bill was taken up, ritho } tterness formerniy ¥ easure, Mr, Hateh in favor of it. He r, of New York, in $ if Nebraska, I, after which the House 8 of ad f the House the extrom BE Si 1g speec passed in it ed v the Li ¥ the Lill Was pin WORK AND WORKERS. nieronoe between the leaders i Labor, American id oiher labor organizations us, XORED ship on by the Carond Louis, stra rs Gave lagen no iP six ciween the M yroexd that any me organizations would meetings of ognized labor Ax |Bny re ES IRDIRG (0 8 Sespalich from New Haven, pany has be, gun to order Nova Se tia Coal by eargo [rom wr its engines, discardiag the hard According to a telegram from Steubenville, Ohio, there wiil be a general tie-up of the Wheeling and Any Lake Erie Railroad at E Acconpixae to a Toledo, Ohio, despatch Poles in that city, On the streets demand upon the Mayor for For a time a serious riot seemed im- A despatch from Pittsburg, Kansag, says “ant the miners of the Black Diamond Conl Company are on strike, The company vol- sntly contented before, derganded three cents more, and, pending a reply, quit work. Tur convention of the American Railway Union adopted resolutions strongly favoring a coalition with the Knights of Labor, and tendering to that Order the alliance of the Union. General Master Workman Sovereign of the Knights, addressed the convention, A despatch from Clyde, N. Y., says that, on account of the searity of solt coal, the Gallen mills, the largest flouring mills jn Wayne eounty, shut down. Last week an effort was made to bura wood, but it proved uusuccess- ful, The Clyde Water Bupply Company is using wood, The Cato Plow Works have been closed {or Inck of coal. —— assis. CYCLONE IN NEBRASKA. sn, Great Damage Done In Omaha, Council Bluffs, Lin. coin, and Other Cities Omaha, Neb, was struck by a tremendous twister, Many houses were unroofod, trees uprooted, and treet cars lifted from the tracks, Dennis O'Brien was capsized and drowned, and many others injured, At Council Biufls and other places near by great damage was done, Trees in Baylis Park fell like a line of bricks, The pavilion was ulterly demolished, and many roofs were blown off, At Manawat, the wind blew up a wall of water twenty foot high aud carried it across the lake, Reports from Lincoln, Syracuse, Hastings, and othor points are to a similar effect, : : i MAGNATES PASS IT. Action on the Hungarian Civil Marriage Bill. ENTHUSIASTIC ~~ SCENES About the Parliamant Houses In Buda Pesth~The Bishops Agreed to the Bill With a View to Improving It. The House of Magnites passed the long. discussed Civil Marriage bill, by a majority of four, The Magnates will now proceed to discuss the various clauses of this measure, The result of the vote in the House of Mag- Dates was received with loud eries of “Eljin."”’ Cardinal Vaszary said that the agreed to the bishops bad bill discussion Civi: Marriage that in the of its clauses, the mensure might be improved, became The erowds assembled in the streets Parliament Houses wh n the result of the ubout were enthusiastic vote was made known, Not a single maguate voted differently n the bill from the previous o ion, Fifteen opponents of the bill alstained from voting BE, and ten magnates voted for the Lill who were absent in May when the bill was rejected, The fLAarriage, wi the Pro lissolution of me nw, An prein tern Greeks and 1 PEror was re afl extreme mens. May 31st resig: part) that | also ill has now passed the that #4 precisely number Tia triug , Wekerle's liberal EX-MINISTER PHELPS’ DEATH. The Bed Was Paci] sad Calm Prostrated Ex-Minlster W n Walter Ph at his home in Tea Neek, N. J. ne, ili for a long ti lis Wife irs died t and quite recently fouth in the hope that his condition would w improved, He benefit from suthern (rip, however, and but a short tire derived but little his i sl was 80 prostrated thai Lis physicinn rdered atwolute quiet and rest ie grew weaker, and for Gradaally fow I been looked for almost at ary the past lass his death ha ioment. His physicians paid their last visit ied P.M surroundad by his wife and daughter and us two sons, John J. and Sheffield of Mr. Phelps’ ailment stated, but his line s was primarily from typhoid fever, whica wi 8 He died a few hours later, The oxiet nature was never definitely followed by meningitis and other complios. ‘fons, le was not uaturaily of a ropust cone stitution and he inherited pulmonary troubles, Mr. Phelps’ end was peaceful and oaim, as though failing into a lumber. Mee, Phelps is prostrated, the result of her long watching by ber husband's bedside, FIGHT TO THE DEATH. Tws Prominent Georgians Attack Eack Other ine Bavage Manner, News was received in Macon, Ga., of » double tragedy in Crawilord county, Wert Dent, a merchant, and O, I’, Wright, a law. yer, buth of Roberts, had a difficulty in Dent's store, Wright ont Dent soross the abdomen, Friends interfered, and Wright went across die street and was followed by Dent, who, with entrials protruding, plunged a pitohfork nto Wright's breast and broke the fork to pieces over bis head, Both of the men will dia ; Be ——— Kivo Humnenr of Italy is nover publicly soon on state occasions in other than a mili. tary costume, He is described as a generous, good-natured, easy-going gentlaman, who Aesires to live and led live, Hoy looks well whon arrayed in grand military costume sar. rounded by his brilliant staf, and ie a gure weil, worth noticing when, seatold in one of the gala carriages, accompanied by the tall, steel-olad royal gaards, ho goes to open a now sossiod of parliament. Buscosseor of the Richmond and Danville Elects Of. ficsrs and Begins Operations, The organization of the Southern Ballway Compuny (the successor of the Blehmoud and Danville Rallrond Company) was affected at Richmond by the execution and delivery of | the special masters’ and receivers’ doads to i the pew corporation, and by the execution of the articles of association by Messrs, Coster und Thomas, the purchasers of the ralirosd, and Messrs, drews, Bletson and Ewen, The incorporators constituted Mossrs, Bpencer, Coster, Andrews thelr associates, Bpencer, An Stetson and Ewen to be directors and Bamuel Spencer to be president of the new company. At the first meeting of the board of diree- tors of the new company officers were elected who will asume their duties on the morning | of July 1, when the properties of the Rich. mond and Danville Railroad Company will to the Railway be turned over by (ke receivers new :ompany, The Southern Company the Atlanta and Char- Western North assumes the leases of lotte Air Line, road, Washington, Ohio Carolina Hall- and Western Rail. road, Pledmon! Railroad and North Carolins Baiirond, Under the plan of reorganization Rich. will be Peompanies embraced in the old il wystiem, the WIT Out, bought io later as several I formal. fies aro of the pew 1 spencer ident seecnd viee-presid third vice-presiae Capt, Green will Hpany ce ———_ KILLED TWO AMERICANS. ean Indians in the Gulf of Cal tile Manser Act firnia ims and states that he is acting them DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. Mire Beatsicn, a bitten by a liom daris apod with hers Amos asp Mn 12 years respectiully, and aged 17, were drowned boat in Lake E 5 Tax Grady On residence near ighining. Oklahoma, a Mitehell, killed, badiy thas | LOT i Canandaigua, Y.., and The lake has returned to high vicinity doing much damage, walter mars, wong the | ut and the vines leveled, i from Margqustte, Michigan, fires wderated, | no additional damage had A report that the village of Sidnaw | dis- A DEsPFATCR foros have that been : had been credited, sisters, Biaaey, and Thomas Seanion Ciuskey, all of Brewasters, \, wiped out of exislence was named Maggie and Bessie and John Me- 1... went boat. ing on Southeast Lake, about two miles from thers, The boat and the four were drowned, Ax cast-bound express train on the Van- Two upset dalia line was wrecked on a sharp curve one mile east of Pocahontas, lilinois, The fire. man, 8, A. Poulton. was killed, Six postal elerks ware injured, as were also several of the passengers and trainmen, A Mivtaxp freight train encountered a mudslide west of Leadville, Colorado, and trainmen assisiod the section bands in clears ing the track. While this work was going ou another slide came down, Kilding two won and seriously injuring two others, FIRE IN AN ALABAMA MINE. Four Lives Lowt and Many Narrow Escapes from Bulfeoation, Fire was discovered in the coal mines of | the Mary Loe Coal and Railway Company at Lewisburg, Ala. One handred men were at work in the mine at the time, fifty of them being beyond the fire, their only way of es. cape boing through the Rames and smoke, Four dead bodies have been recovered, and many of those taken out alive were prostra- ted from suffoeation, When it became known that the mine was on fire the fifty men who were imprisoned began making efforis to escape. The greater part of them were loaded into the tram oars, which were drawn through the flames and smoke by means of wire cables as rapidly as poosible. Others took their chances in making a dash through the smoke, Some got out alive, while others wore Joss fortunate and fell victims to the smoke and fire. Among the Jatier was PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS Tiltemwe of News Cleaned from Various the Etats. Parts of The Delaware County Democratic conven. tion at Media nominated O, B, Dickinson, of Chester, to contest for judicial honors with Judge Clayton, A government nlong the river with a view to reporting some means of engineer will soon be sent west branch of the Busquebanna preventing disastrous floods, Farmers of Blair county have discovered paying qualities of ofl which will be develop, ed by Johnstown and Pittsburgh capitalists, The Btute Board of Pardons granted & re. hearing in the cage of Hugh ¥, Dempsey, the nj Homestead polsoner, The Carpenter Beadin will, it Is believed, soon begin Steel Works, of the for the ranulas. United ture of steel armor plate o% Government, At Dryland Station, on the Lehigh and Sos. quehanns Hallrond thirty cars were wrecked and a boy was killed, Justice of the Pence J, E Bheams and Cone of Millvale, were held the stable George W, Beek, for court trial at Pittsburg on charge of extortion, Nineteen youn men were gradusied at of Ant, v { Gettysburg ( Muhlenburg lege us Bachelors ithe gradunting class o bere nite yo graluating of Reading asurer Lyons {dress was fssued at Harrisba mers of Pennsyivania, by the lez of the Siale Grange of the of 58 sat, Mrs. Daniel Ritter of starved herself to death, Bell. of rand Jury the hallucination Hollidaysburg, indict outbreak against Italians at ast March, Haskell multi-charge cannon built at Beading bas been completed at a cost of £120.000, The Sheriff of instructed all persons cons in the ste] Jucks county has Jevied on the property of the River Foundry Company for executions amounting to nearly £10,000, Attorney General Hensel in an interview at Lancaster said he was not a eandidate for Governor and that his name would mot go before the State convention for that or any other State office, ring warned in a dream that his wife =a thiunl, John 8 assorted that unia nitheon, of Georgetown be would kill bimeels aad has disappeared, Baccalaureate sermows were delivered to . Muhbl. enburg, Ursibus and Franklin and Marshall Colleges, Oil refiners in Western Pennsylvania are planning to retaliate against the Standard Gi) monopoly by combdaing their pipe lines, Rev. T. A. Dory, a Methodist clergyman, was arrested at Scranton, charged with perjury, Congressman Mutchier bad a walkover in Northampton County and his delegates wild eontrol the convention, Plymouth, Pittston and Nanticoke citizens are ap in arms against a Jemsoy City company, wause agents are accused of swindling them, A leak in a gas main caused an explosion in a Scranton Store that resulted in a loss of $50,000, the students of Gettysburg, Lalayeits A ————————— FLORIDA MOUND BUILDERS The Remain of a Prehistoric Race Discovered Near Chariotts Harber, Not far from Charlotte Harbor, Fla. a ser fer ol mounds covering some forty acres have been Jong looked upon as natural formation, ' Bunning along by them is a creck along whose sliores for a lung distanos appear heaps of n quartzite rock of an entirely f= ¢ign nature, Recently some unsystematic researches inve been made and indication of prehistoric man has been secured in the shape of pottery, brics.a-brae, tools of strange shapes and many other evidenovs of #0 unknown civilization, There have recontly boon unoarthed from the mounds portions of the remains of a man who is said to be of glgantie proportions, The attention of scientists is boing ealled
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