THE NEWS John Titsworth, a farmer, of Green Ridge, Mo., killed his wife and himself. ——Ehle Allen, who a few weeks ago killed John H. Clapp in a row over a woman, and who was indicted for manslaughter in the first degree, committed suicide at Lake Minnetonka, Minn, John Loury and Thomas Jenkins, two workmen, were instantly killed in Phila- delphia by the fall of a scaffold. —- The ferry- boat Westfleld, of the Staten Island line, was struck by lightning as she entered her New York dock. Her flagpole was shattdred, and in failing the pole struck, and severely, but not fatally, injured two persons, ——The Coxeyites now in Virginia have been or- dered to move on, They refuse to work, and will be treated as vagrants, — Edward Meyer a race track trout, was murdered in New York by a man he nad swindled, A freight wreck occurred on the Lehigh Valley Rail. road, near White Haven, in which Louis Schultz, a tramp cigarmaker, was killed, — Richard Lenox, alias Goodwin, alias Leon. ard, a notorious crook, wanted for swindling, was arrested near Absecon, N, J. During the prevalence of a heavy storm at Reading, Pa., Mrs, Jacob Boggs, aged years, was killed by being struck by light ning while in bed. Mrs, Amanda Shaw was terribly burned, and there is little hope for recovery, twenty-four The limited number of United States troops at Chicago only partially succeeded in keep- ing the rioters within bounds, The strikers booted and joerod at the soldiers, broke and scam pered when the blue coats leveled bayo- meds at them, and renewed their tricks at turning switches and throwing freight cars at some other point. A policeman shot a striker in the leg, and an official of the Lake Shore Road, who was trying to get out a train, became exasparated and fired into a erowd of strikers, wounding several, The strike continued to spread on the Western roads, and there was considerable trouble on the roads in California. The order for a special United States grand jury to investi. gate violations of the United States statutes by the strike leaders was entered on thecourt records in Chicago, President Egan, of the Railrcad Managers’ Association, declared that he would eatertain no proposition for a conference withthe A, R U. « Iowa state troops were stoned by a crowd of strikers on their arrival at ffleials, sSoux three soldiers were badly hurt, railroad bridge over the Floyd partly burned. ——Prof. Jones, an fell from his parachute at River was fataliy injured, ~-Enginesr Robert Paul became seized with hydrophobia while in bis cab on the Kansas City express, - City, and The Omaba River was faeronaut, view, Ill. and During a Erie, aud O' Muth man- aged to get his wifs and children on high gale a sailboat on the river near Pa, ¢ Frank O'Muth, three children, were capsized, taining wife the upturned boat, but Nellie, age nine, and Willie, age four, were swept off and drowned, ~ Perley Smith, of Ripon, Vi., bad his head blown off by the bursting of a cannon, was standing with several others seventy the ex. The displaying of an A, a Jutte ' feet away from the cannon when y pilosion oceurred, P. A. sign in bunting Mon, led saloon in at toa riot, In which several men insane, was arrested in Atlantic City Inlet, says he came to Atlantic City to raise to that he could earry his plan to termination, jent funds to carry 3 a Fred Salder, an aged miser living Bourdesyille, Ohio, was tortured by r anti he gave up $50. Salder will “Bat" Shea, who killed Robert Ross on Inst election day at Troy, N. Y., bas found guiity of murder in the first degree, —K. B_ Craum, a Norwegian farmer, killed his two children, and then committed Fire originating in an explosion of fireworks at die, mu bon suicide, em Honey Grove, Tex. Loss abous $200,000, — The Cuyahoga soldiers and sailors’ monu- ment was dedicated at Cleveland, Ohio, in the presence of thousands of people. Gov, McKinley was president of the day, and ex. Gov. Joseph B. Foraker and Hon. Virgil R Kline were the orators, The monument cost about £200,000, James Sullivan, political editor of the Chicago Tribune, is dead, — The United States troops took up their quar. ters in Chicago and Blue Island, Ili. and the Fourth was a quiet day comparatively, A number of trains were moved, and a number of disorderly strikers arrested. In $t Louis there were no trains on the Big Four, Wabash and Chicago and Alton, The Iron Mountain men returned to work, —At Terre Haute and Brazil Ind. , some passenger trains were run, but the Vaodalin was tied up, — The miners of Spring Valley, IIL, decided tc stay oul, ——The cruiser Montgomery Is now lying at Norfolk, During her trial she be haved admirably during the gun test, and the electrical apparatus was found fo be ex cellent, but while preparing for the epeed test her eviinder head was blown out, At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Hail road Company, held in Philadelphia, an in- crease of 3,700,000 in the capital stock of the company was authorized, The present capitalization is $2,300,000, and the author. ized capital is, therefore, sow $6,000,000, The line is seventy-five miles in length, run. ning from South Pittsburg to Uniontown, — William G. Green, a Hlelong associate of Lincoln and Yates and an old citizen of Yili Bois, died at his home, In Talulla, IL. He was a classmale of Richard Yatos, he helped to organize and complete the Jacksonville ial of the Chicago and Alton Railroad. br was was received In Columbus, ling of the murder at Antioch, Jacob Fillan. a lad of fourteen welho Pacific mail steamship Peru arrived 8 8an Fraveiseo, from Hong Kong, case of tha black plague baving developed daring the trip. Henry Volger shot sad killed Wm. Stratz, in Syracuse, and then committed suicide, ~—Jumes Johnson, col. ored, while in the custody of deputy sheriffs in Fulton, Mo., on the charge of eriminal ns. Sault was taken by a mob and lynched, Michael and James Bteine, aged eighteen and tweoty, and Marion Terian, aged twenty, of Chicago, were drowned while bathing fa Lake Calume’. One of the men was seized with cramps and dragged the other two down with him. Sad FF BILL Passes the Senate by Thirty- Nine to Thirty-Four LONG-DRAWN-0UT SESSION The Troublesome Measure Finally Disposed of on the Eve of the Glorious Fourth, — D. B. HII the Only Democrat Who Voted Against it. The tariff bill was finally passed by the Benate shortly before 11 o'clock PF. M., by a vote of 39 yeas to 34 nays, as follows: Yeas: Democrats Bate, Berry, Binekburn, Blanchard, Caffery, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Daniel, Faulkner, George, Gibs: n, Gorman, Gray, Harris, Hunton, Irby, Jarvis, Jones, of Arkansas; Lind » MeLaurin, Martin, Mills, Mitchell, of Wisconsin: Morgan, Murphy, Palmer, Pasco, wom, Roach, Smith, Ture pie. Vest, Vilas, Voorhees, Walsh and White 37. Populists— Allen, Kyle—2, Nays: Republicans Aldrich, Allison, Carey, Chandler, Cullom, Davis, Dixon, Dolph, Due bois. Frye, Gallinger, Hale. Hansbre ugh, Hawley, "Higgins, Jones, of Nevada: 1 odge, McMillan, Manderson, Mitchell, of Oregon: Patton, Perkins, Platt, Power, Proctor, Quay, Sherman, Bhoup, Bquire, Teller, and Wash- burn-—31, Popuiists Demoerat-- Hill--1, Paired: For the bill Brice, Butler, Cam- den, Gordon, McPherson, and Pugh, Demo- erats, Against the bill Camer n, Hoar, Morrill, Pettigrew, Wilson, and Wolcott, Re publicans, When the been in hours, Pefler, Stewart-—2, vote was taken the continuous Senate had session nearly eleven The day had been full of intense in- terest, not only on account of the importanes hour as to the probable fate of the much dis cussed measure, day Mr. Harris bad given notice adjourned, but it looked several times dt the afternoon as if this hope was doomed disappointment. This was espacially when several hours had been spent in bate upor i desire « sides o ually = ? Were Riso wiles Senator Palmer, the Dem. nn which forel evi the DA itself, }iratie Senator from 4 hk jae Lilinois, whi d barb wire | t uch to the dise Populists, led t nator Aller the dutiable lis parent disintegration Senat sugar and Caffe factors Sinte milsians, the On SUZAr, nor was wera § r striking Lounty the $444 a situ proved when all attempts to make the boun operative during year proved The discontent o futile, a » Populists and this dis- ly gave a dramatic interest As eYery one i or two votes might deles cams when, at ¢ amendments had been of. ir the Senat« In the sal and shamber was gnlieries a patient had awaiting the final throng gweltered for hours scene, The waved men their straw hats industriously in the hope of creating a Ureeze in the heavily laden atmos. phere, while the parti-cclored fans of the la. Hott arent sutierea dies flies, Like a flock of brilliant butter. Senators sought some relief by the agi- tation of huge palm leaf fans, but the heavy air bung with suffocating weight, Seventy. seven Senators out of the eighty five were in the | the the House thelr seats, the vice-president occupied chair, aod the sofas and chairs around wall were filled with members of of the Ways and Means Committee, and Representative Springer, his and subordinate officials the Senate, Chairman Wilson, of predecessor in that position were conspicuous, ee el GR END OF THE WHITE CITY. the Main World's Fair. All the main buildings of the World's Fair, axcept the Horticultural, Woman's Dallding, the Art Palace, the Machinery aud the United States Government Ballding, werealmost en- tirely burned. They were the property of the Columbian Exposition Salvage Company, and had been purchased from the Exposition Company for about $00,000, The fire was discovered by several boys in the southwestern corner of the first floor of the Terminal Station, When first seen it was Lut an incipient blaze, and the boys endeav. ored to stamp it out for several minutes, They were unsuccessful, however, as the flerce gnle which was then blowing from the southwest fanned the fire, and before an alarm could be turned in the fire had reached the second story of the ballding, Owing to the distance which separated most of the engine companies from the scons of the fire there was considerable delay in getting a stream upon the blazing structure, I'he first alarm was immediately followed by a 3-<11 call, and this by a special call for 10 engines, By the time the first detachment of sngines was fully at work, the Terminal Sta- tion was a mass of flames and the fire had leaped across to the Administration Bulld- ing. In 20 minutes the dome of this beautiful structure fell with a terrible roar, and spurks and blazing brands were carried by the wind north and northeast of the Mines, Eleetrisity and Agricultural bulldings, ; The Electricity Bailding was the first to take fire, In a fow minutes it was enveloped in Aameo and at 7.10 o'clock the glass root collapsed and the iron frame work of the stracture fell In, At 7.15 o'clock the east end of the Mines and Minlog Bailding fell in and the flames became so flerce that the engine companies stationed between the Electricity utd Mines and Mining bulldiags had to fly for thelr lives, | Eagine Company No, 8 wers compelled to abandon its sogine and had to cut the horses from the tences, One of the animals suo eoeded in getting but the other was Flames Destroy Buildings of the Away, FIFTY.-THIRD CONGRESS EENATE 1641 Day, ~The consideration of the Tariff bill, which wus begun by the Senate in the committee of the whole on April 2, was at last completed, and the bill was favorably re- ported to the Senate as amended, The Serato then adjourned, 16511 Day—The United States Senate was Lot in session to-day, 1661 Day, The United States Senate be- gan the formal consideration of the Tariff bill as amended in committes of the whole, and when a recess was had at night, much progress had been made, 167i Day, The United States Senate was not in session to-day, 1687 Day, —In the Benate several bills were Introduced looking to arbitration, so as to prevent strikes, Senator Call made a per- sonal explanation, in which he denied plant- ing his shoelegs feet before Benators, EOUSE 1641 Day With the exception of a short time, the day in the House was consumed by a filibuster over the contested election case of Watson against Black, of the Tenth Georgia district, The fMllibuster was led by Representative Pence, who contested every inch of ground, even after the ald of the Committee on Rules had been invoked, The tangle was finally straightened out, andthe resolution of the Committees on Elections do- claring Mr, Black elected was agreed to, 165tu Day—-The House of Representatives cleared the calendar of all the and desertion cases which have beon agreed to in committees of the whole at the Friday night sessions, and which bave been accumulating for many weeks, It alsoagreed to the Senate amendments to the bill fixing units of electrical measures, 1661w Day. The House of Representatives held a brief session Monday, and, on account of the difficulty of holding a quorum, nothing of importance wes accomplished bevond the passage of a resolution directing the Com- missioner of Labor to investigate the ques. tion of the work and wages of women and children, 167tn Day.—The events of interest in the House of Representatives was a cablegram of congratulations from the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies to the Hous: of Representatives on the one hundred and eighteenth anniver- sary of American indepen and the re. ception of the TarllY bill int resolution to authorize the Becretary Navy to con. tinue the emg mechanies and la borers in navy yards who been dis. harged on account of the failure to pass the necessary appropriation bills was passed after some tart remarks from Messrs, Cannon and Reed, 168rs Das. The wnsion ne bevy »" ’ woyment of have bill for the state taxation e aftent { nd it was pas the seo] 618 saint of PRENDERGAST DECLARED SANE. He Himself Agroms wits Decision but Will His Casr the Appeal | i YD insane ible for If no ty intervenes, the assassin will of Carter Harel other haieal be hanged Ju Shortly alter his return porter ¢ sii] to “I bave nothing to say : who was pale and tremb- talk or, he stated a ul “1 don’t Later, b tare fo {0 the press " ? ae yer. da fet of the jury finds ne sane is entirely correct, and [am siiisfled with it. Bear in mind that the question of guilt nd OF inn enon was not in this case, a the verdict bas That | i the nothing to do with that, am sane | have always maintained, an dict 1 jury's ver. As to the carelosay any- Fay, is entirely satisfactory, of that verdict 1 do not our attorneys do in the matier?” “You will excuse me from answering that question. I do not know what and In they will do, ist decline discussing it,” When Prendergast returned to his cell, Mr Price at onee set 3 John F of Prendergas, death watch and placed Devine and Charles Wirth in charge Prendergast said to Wirth, 88 he returned from the court room, that this that his attor. to the Supreme omni maser ness would carry the thing Prendergast's counse! will move for a new trial, and if this be not granted they intend Wo curry the matter to the Supreme Court, U. 8. RAILWAY STATISTICS. Commeres Commission for 1899, The sixth statistical report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, prepared by the sta. tistician, being the complete report for 1803, for which a preliminary income account was fssued in December, 1893, has just been sub. mitted, of which the following is an abstract The total mileage of railways in the United Biates on June 30, 1893, was 176,461.07, being an increase during the year of 4 870.55 miles, The corresponding increase during the pre. vious year was 3,160.78, from which It ap pears that there was some revival in railway construction during the year covered by the report, The state of Washington leads fo construction with 0556.32 miles; Montana shows an increase of 400.66 miles; Minnesota of 406.69 miles and West Virginia of 385.01 miles, The other states which show an Increase in mileags in excess of 100 miles are California, Fiorida, Indiasn, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The states of Kansas, Oregon, the territory of New Mexico aud the Distriot of Columbia show a slight decrease in mile. age, due to remeasurement of main lines or abandonment of small, unimportant lines The number of roads abandoned during the yoar was 10, The total length of line, includ. jug all tracks, was 230,137.27, which includes 10,051.96 miles of second track and 42,043.48 miles of yard track and siding, The total number ofemployes in tho service of railways on June 30, 1803, was 873,602, be ing an increase of 52,187. Of this total of em: ployes, 35 884 are assigned to the work of general administration; 256,212 to mainten ance of way aud structures, 175,464 to main tenance of equipmant and 899,918 to conduet. ing transportation, the remainder, 8,627, be ing unclassified by the carriers making re port, If the employes be assigned to mileage it appears that 515 man found employment in the rallway industry In the United States por 100 miles of line, 31 being askigned to genera) Funeral of the Murdered Presi- dent Held in Paris, The Hearts of the Entire People Went Out InSympathy for the Bereaved Family. The remains of the late President Carnot, chief of France, wore deposited in the Paotheon Sunday by the side of the remains of his grandfather, Lazare Carnot, the “organizer of easion and magistrate victory." for one of the most remarkable clvie y of Fm began to gather about the streets on military Crowds the Ie stands, displays in the histor nee, de la Cite, upon which Notre Dame from early Baturday evening. Many of them eamped all night, ndows f The housetops, wi along the line of march and every other point of every house Yauniage was occupied, fabulous sum» of money LAav- long been paid for the use of houses, windows and balconies from which to view the funeral procession, The neighborhood of the British embassy who wished to get away la order food and drink were unable to do lady Dufferin, the wife of the liritish ambassador, them many ie so, and ottaln felt 80 much compassion for that she instructed her servants to distribute sll the refreshments possible to lhe throng outside The wed by the doors of the embassy, folle a tito k f a » » 3 & number Of adjoining mansions, example of the ocefy. Lady Dufferin was pants of y ul great | ot uneral of resident Carno Or § ut Paris Is a cit ABeTRIS, has eclipsed all others, i the in the irreverent eighteenth and in it a manifesta . iy . gt revts nnd & in Lhe streets and at "SRW nal fee] fn, a secuiarized Pagan, At Not treated death with airy levity re D were church leat all eeremonial their t Fifteen Carnot bad w siale visits to the epise A Was 1 the olive | 00k the hint The ceremonial at the Pantheon was Pagan merely to It was the ag § and Laie, and appealed the eyes | af the i and inteliont, oot 0 Camot, the most of Fret virtues and sensibilities of , accessible and affable 10% Citi. ad 1 The of his death ¥ the pa giversal heart ih out during the © dass of deep sorrow was more than France cariain degrees, a Loli could bear, and, toa 3 day feeling prevailed at the funeral, DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. Tax City Hall, ot " and by & Brazil, Indiana, wrecked A despateh from O'Neill, Neb. states that information has been received of the de Ar Torvato, Onl, W. A Passons and Frank Bheeles were drowned in the lake by the cap- Falter Bulliver : CORNELIUS ANDRLYVELDE was instantly killed the Lake Shore road, near Dunkirk, New York. Tunez tramps were killed and three fatally injured in a freight wreek on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern at Walnut creek, O, A train parted and came together on a high trestle, two cars {alling 50 leet. * Two daughters, aged 10 and 12 FOArs. ree spectively, of a farmer near Fredonia, New York, sought shelter under a troe and were struck and killed by lightning. A farm lab- orer was badiy shocked by the current, Bovriens Mixsesora and Easthern South Dakota were visited by & series of terrifle windstorms, which, #0 lar as known, caused the death of 10 persons aad injury to more than 30 others, four of whom will die, Great damage was done to buildings and crops, inssisnsiimsmirns III ssi rnin EARTHQUAKE AND FLAMES. Great Loss of Life and Property at Tekia and Yokohama, The steamship Empress of China just ar. rived at Vancouver, B, C., from Yokohama with the following Oriental advices: Asevere earthquake occurred in Tokio and Yoko- hama, on the 20th ultimo, causing destruc tion of life and propenty. The ground eracked and sunk in eighty-six places, the cracks Le ing seven and eight inches wide and from three to four feet deep. One huadred and seventy - dx shimaeys wore thrown down, thirty-nine houses demolished, and over 3,000 damaged. Twenty porsons were killed and 277 were wounded, Fortunately the catastrophe oc. curred during the day, or fire would have added to its horrors, as is usually the case when severe earthquakes take place at night, The greatest damage was in the suburban section of Tokio, In addition to the above damage, 505 stone lanterns, tombs, and tori have falion. A disastrous fire occurred at Yokohama on the 17th ultimo, The fire broke out at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and was not extin. guished until 7 o'clock. One thousand snd ninety-four houses were destroyed, and Afty The Owner of the Natural Bridge Slain at Clifton Forgs, Va. famous Natural Bridge and president and chief promoter of the Richmond and Alle. ghany Rallirond, wus shot and killed in the lobby of the Gladys Inn at West Clifton Forge by Thomns A. Goodwin, a conductor of the Chesapeaks and Ohio Halirond, Col, Parsons had just arrived at Clifton Forge, coming from Washington, via Lich. mond, to meet 8 party of ladies, who were en route to Natural Bridge to be the guests of his wife an« Clerk Martin, of the hotel, was the only witness to the tragedy, daughters, Conductor Goodman was seated in breakfast, hotel, Goodman immediately aross proached Col, Parsons, A few words were exchanged, and the shooting ensued, at a4 table the dining-room, having just ordered his when ( Parsons entered the 04, and np- Bome days ago a letter sent to the general superintendent of the Richmond and the was Chesapeake and toward some m he nduet notorious eole wh carried on his train, uot yed where ladies and was i“ der his care, The jetter was shown to Goodman by his that unless | id be ’ © letter, which was an- it with pie along the line and Tying to identify the handwriting, Some one had told it ie could tim, showing it to p him that was Col colonel en. nied with he had it, The colonel sald yes, and Goodman, after aim writlen both with the road and with his Parsons what he was going to it, Before the colonel could reply y's The revolver used was a 38%-calibre Smith & Wesson, One ball entered the front of the it eve and ranged backward Anoth weirs ad Lhe chest ast © beneath f the head, WORK AND WORKERS. rers of Readis of 40 « Ril TLe mines will the rate ents a t resume, Thomson Fteel mpany, at Draddo The Edgar Carnegie | sutned en in 3 i, Riving emp weeks on account of After 15 Massiilion YEAS ¢ of Oalo from 1 He n ie Preside: Assoc headquarters will pr Massiilic All the miners In the Palmyra (Ohi : to we at the oo ota, 1 oy Glassworkers all nations bably be removed {rom in Lo Pittsburg, ef went re mPprom ise, Ail er points, the mines also resus nxenlawny and ed opera- Hunt.ng- ai Doon struck again, demanding scmi-monthly pay- Ivania, at The men went | in the Broad Top region, but $0 don and JAB, BOK ments, the Cok Eailway the refused A committees Hocking Valley and Toledo of the President of the employes of umbus, demanded a restoration wages 1 seae of last year, Waite the demand uniil > and all danger of a strike is over, last 10 per Lelleved that the men will ors b oenl. be restored not terms aud a strike will resuil, eut will KILLED LIKE CARNOT. £n Italian Editor Assassinated by an Anarchist in Leghorn A crime somewhat resembling the murder of President Carnot was committed in Leg horn, Italy. As Bighor Bandi, director of the Goetta Livormeser, was entering his car riage at 8 o'clock he was set upon by a man, whom it was suleequently learned was an Anarchist, who drew a knife and stabbed him in the abdomen, Signor Bandi was at once attended by physicians, who decided that the only hope of saving his life was to perform the operation of laparotomy. This was done, but Signor Bandl died a short time afterward, Prime Minister Crispi was questioned in the Chamber of Deputies in regard to the murder, He stated that Signor Bandi bad been stabbed and killed by an Anarchist, owing to the articles that had appeared in his paper against Asrchism. Signor Bandi was a veteran solder. He fought at Marsale and Calatifimi, Several deputies followed the prime minister in speeches culo gizing the deceased, The murder has caused a great sensation throughout Italy, and thefeeling against the Anarchists has boen greaty intensified, The blow delivered by the ssassin eaured the dagger to penetrate the Iver, and the simil arity of the wound to tist which killed M. Carnot was remarked upon by the victim shortly before his death, As yot the murderer basnot been captured, jumped into the lashed Into a gallop eaped before any attem pho the three men os be made to in Log 3 | PENNSYLVANIA ITEM mss Clesnsd from Various of the Plate Epitome of News Party Dr. Szulpos and several others def lants i of Shenandoah were arraigned in Pottsviile i Court for defaming the e¢ity officials, The her and stud } Doctor declared he was a second Lei made other statements on the witness that caused a seosation, Teachers’ Wiumeris Judge Clayton's His remarks were ap the Biate Prolessor At the final session of Association in Media, | took oceasion to denounce | naturaliz plauded, mn aiid, Attachments for contempt of eouri have been issued against the eighty-four membors of the Board of Controls sre of the Alle, wu Ly sehiools, hhed IRVIN, John MeAndrews, 17 yeart wid, was r Tit frau firebug at rdered near his home in John G, Bmedley, the Media was sentenced to five years in the Eastern P nt Mrs, Mary H, Cooke, of 1 Ary. oeived news ., Wax ret t t lie Ww Ww whiking al fell backward over the oa car on the trae nN und he was dead: The veterans in ( nmi burg, attended ths “Lams amp fire, gave 4 sham battle ot of fireworks, the day's jubllee Le oyed Ly a large crowd of visitors, The Carnegia Steel Company received 1 1008 £5 ¥ Mecial communication from Washington he effect that the ballistic test of the wr upper halves of rain arm which had wigs od sud wer Potts u who dropped pipe Farmer Martin Milliski, of Ix bars and grain through while storing Minority = ATH Vesa in 7, encamped at dedication of the Batteryand enjoyed a ieanvass in Delaware ( arm and Judge Clayton ipporters are somewhat worried, the attacked ve off the workmen with clul i » 3 zu 1 we 3 Ee] esspess broke out afresh in of 400 strikers ss 8. Romig, ¢f Reading, was struck and killed by lightaing whiie standing under a tree near Dern Charch, ’ The receipts of flector in © $450,322.88 the past those of the year revenue ”w Bhearer’s district fe a © i with Year as compareq previ Williams Prendergast, traveling engineer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, was overcome by the heat and diel at his South Easton home, Us, Beading Raiiroad employees met at Bead. ing to make a eonceried {ort to have the old wage scale restored, and decided “le The Delaware County Commissioners have paid to the Riddle heirs £15,000 for damages sustained in the building over Chester Creek, Williamsport Baptists ofl a bridge dedicated their new £35.000 « hapel annex. iilip Rasseil, a laborer at Swedes Pure s below Bridgeport, met with a terrible accident. While working ina pit beneath the cupola the bottom of the cupola fell out, scaldiag water and red In trying to escape he had to ae filling the pit with cinder, budling water. His body is completely burned with the exception of his face, and in addition be George Dolton, a carpenter, employed ay Ha» when he rite death shortly before quitting time, The slope at this point pitches 65 degrees and His nook was broken and several bones were crushed, Central Peansyivania miners have lssood a eall for a convention, to be held at Philips. burg, Centre County, to consider the mining situation, A settlement of the differences bee tween the Rochester & Pittsburg Coal & Coke Company and their employees was affected, Tea thousand school children of Allegheny city assembled In the North Bids Park and colebrated the beginuing of their Bummes vacation, Sixty men employed as fnlshors in the hat factories of John B. Miller and Henry RB. Headel, st Roading, struck against a reduce tion of 10 cents per dozen in hats, The Congressional conferrees of the Twenty-fourth District talied at Uniontown to nominate a candidate, The Senatorial conferrees of Cumberland and Adams Counties met at Mount Holly and