THE NEW3
Ex-Congressman Joshua G, Hall, of Dover,
has been appointed administrator of the es.
tate of Denjamin F. of Btratham, N.
H., pending the result of an appeal of Miss
Ida G. Folsom, of Boston, from the probate
of her uncle's will, About £1,000,000 is in-
volved, Patrick Eugene Prendergast, who
murdered Mayor Carter H, Harrison, of Chi-
was hanged in that city, William
Fellers, a well-known young man, died at
Martinsburg, of cousumption, ——Charles
Poitrey, aged wus kiiled
Chicosa Station, Colorado, by the accidental
discharge of his rifle while out hunting with
two companions, The Louisiana Legisia-
tare adjourned, —— Robert A, Anderson, con-
vieted of the murder ol Emanuel Fleming,
was banged at Livingston, Montana, —The
Prohibition Convention of New Hampshire
nominated Rev. Dr. D, C, Knowles, treasurer
of Tilton Seminary, and Dr,
Edgar L. Carr,of Pittsileld, nnd David Heald
of Milford, Richard
Pierce was hanged at Cape May Conrt-
House, New Jersey, for killing his wife last
February, He onfessed that he
the Democrats
district n
Folsom,
Sago,
seventeen, near
for governor,
for congressmen,
killed her,
At Campton, Ky., of the
Tenth ominated J,
M. Kendal for Congress and endorsed Judge
W. M. Beekner for the
vacancy caused by the death of Congres
Lisle, —~—General John I,
coupin county,
gress by the Sixteenth
convention of Iliinols,
aflectio
killed Howell Rainwater,
George Fairbrother
Columbia St,
Ong gressional
short term, to fill the
san
Rinaker, of Ma-
district Repullican
ns of a girl, John Spears shot and
in Liberty, Ky, ec
the British
oejoty and the British
Columbia Pioneer Society, cut histhroat with
& bread carver, in V He had
been drinking heavily,
quite a sensation,
Lineoln Paper M , at Merriton, Ont,
followed, destroying the in portion of the
building, A want of stock and
machinery was also destroyed, The
probably £60,000——At Brighton Bs
Winifred E. Smith cut the throat
Thomas, a prominent
Anderson. Both men bad been drinking, ——
The British ship Senegal, it is reported at
San Diego, Cal. « Pt went t
with all bands, du
The Union Pac ttie
mittee issued a call to
holders of the ¢
Union Pacific
of securities ux
xd for the
. president of
George 8
fctoria, B, C.
The
Lightning
suicide
large an
loss is
sach, Ind,
of Weastor
’
business man of
robably © the bottom,
ring a storm,
reorganization
the stock and i
ym pani
system,
of Philade
New Y
and L
a sch
producing
return fi
ing money, were
for court in Philad
Jones, the inside super
sylvania Colliery, was ridin
Shamokin, Pa., his car jum;
and he was thrown beneath the
staatly killel.-——=Wa
iw the
Ew ard Back
eighteen years, was attem
away Mahonoy City,
by a wheel of the
team at
wagon and insta:
we (roorge Hodge, a bookkeepar of
'w York
wrinting £1,490 of the bank's
eraiser Minneapolis,
Boston harbor
satisfactory «
gtroyed the barn of
P. Stockton and
byterian Charch adj
church furniture aad the horses and carriages
were saved,
John Drage, a Kentuekian,
and himseell at And
Lause, AL 8
gillel Wm. Mit
fhree weeks ngo,
jem Savings Bank, in
ppre
The now arrive
mving acquitted herself
is her baliders’ trip, ——=Fire de
Attoruey General Johe
ing Lake, N. J., Pros
ning it. Much of the
the Spr
killed his wife
was acqul
of murder in the second d
showed that th
nee [HUE 804
Victoria, B. (
tha: the sealer Gegrande
4, with a crew of Indians in irons
mutinied, snd threatened
officers, They were landed at Sitka and
jatled, «At South Haven, Mich. ,
barge Myrtie M. Ross was partially burned
while lying in port. Frank Smith, aged
eighteen, son of the captain and owner, was
burned to death; Charles A Conuell, chief
engineer, fatally, and Will Smith and
Wm. Leroy seriously burned. — Two
hundred tons of coal loaded on a wharf in
Boston eaused it to give way. Michael Dris-
coll was killed, and five others, all laborers,
were badly hurt -At Trenton, N. J., Abram
Fardon, the Paterson Bank Teller, was found
guilty of certifying a check of #302 drawn by
a member of the Butler Bilk manufacturing
Company, in which Fardon was interested
when the amount certified was not on
posit. Ther: are several indictments against
Fardon,
IIIs cs
EDON NEARLY DESTROYED.
Topeka arrive
Alaska, and reporte
reached Sitka July
They had
the
the lives of
the steam
was
wore
de.
Fire Burns Seventy Two Buildings Causing a Loss of
$475,000,
Edon, a small town in Williams County,
Ohio, was visited by a most disastrous econ-
Bagration, resulting in a Joss of £175,000
worth of property, Seventy-two buildings
were destroyed, including nearly the entire
business section of the town, In many cases
there was no insurance,
The fire started at 11.45 o'clock, and at 2
o'clock the destruction was complete, ns a
brisk wind was blowing. The village fire
departmont consists of one hand engine, Re.
lief was sent for to Bryan and Montpelier, but
the fire had burned itself out by the time
they arrived,
a” mason
FOUGHT OVER A GIRL.
Two Prominent Yousg Min of Georgia Had a Das
and Ose War Killed,
In the woods near Wheeling John Sparks,
aged 17, shot and killed Howard Rainwater,
aged 19 in a dual, The two young men quars
reled as to who should be the escort of a
young girl at a ball, They agreed to settle
the affair with pistols,
| The first bullet from Sparks’ pistol struck
Rainwater in the heart, Sparks and his
second fled, but the former bas heen arrested
and jailed, ‘charged with murder, Bath ware
sons of prominent farmers,
RA, NA AI A AAI
Four More Lives Sacrificed in
the Railroad Strike,
BRIDGE COT IN CALIFORNIA.
The Victims Were Three Regular
Soldiers and the Engineer-Chi-
cago Roads All Open-strike
Declared to be Practically
at an End.
The Southern Pacific company broke
blockade at Sacramento, Cal,
that hauled the fiest train out les on its back
the
andthe engine
in a slough by the side of a
with tree of the ears that m
Under the wreck,
stagnant water, lie the bodies
who held the thr
broken brid
tho train,
and slime of
of the
ttle and three soldiers who
ade up
in the ooze
enginoeor
were guarding him,
them
ey Dugan,
the Fifth Ar-
wn the tender of the engine
y the
One of his arms was
Three men were injured, and one of
will almost surely die, This is Wes,
also a private in Battery L, of
Was «
and was thrown t shore of the slough,
orn from its sockets
broken in three places, and
broken,
The
his jaw wi
wreck of the train was
¢ t
ned rail,
and t
ft in place:
removed, spikes drawn,
The ruil was le ind there v
Dg to show the engineer, who
his train slowly an
ng with
When the wheels struc
engine «
followed, an :
bent 1
deal w
military
them,
ng at
stri
ing, there was no sign of
road peo
mee ves
breaking of the
were shaking
military deg
fleld |
dressing,
rough sidages
The dispat
vind Lif on
scene, to find, if he gulity
rt time these
parti
lowed, and in a very sh so
diers were back with their prisoners,
CHICAGO ROADS ALL OPEN.
The great railroad strike
an end in Chicago,
is practically at
Trains on all roads are
moving, passenger trains are almost withe
exception runniog on time, and a
js rapidly becoming regular,
“The back strike is not only
broken,” said Manager Egan, of the Gevera,
Association, *“t the backbone
has entirely disappeared. The blockade is
raised, and it will repulre but a short time to
got the railroad business of
its regular routine, ”’
On the Chicago and Grand Trunk passen_
ger service is regular and freight and suburs
ban service has resumed, The Wabash ran
loenl freights and part of Heauburban traing
in addition to the through passenger service
and the Michigan Central moved a mass of
merchandise which had aceumalated at Mich-
igan City. The Wisconsin Central reported
both freight and passenger trains running on
time and the Chicago and Northern Paciflie
announced that all daylight tralas were run
ning regularly, although night services has
not been resumed. The Santa Fe trains reg.
ularly io and out of Chicago and the Erie re.
sumed freight traffic, with its passenger and
express trajns running on tims, The Louis-
ville, Now York and Chicago run all trains
on time, ths burnasd bridge at Hammond hav.
ing been repaired. On the Chicago Great
Westarn, all passenger and freight trafMe as
well as yard work was handled regularly and
the Chicago and Alton reported all traing on
the entire road running without Intereuption,
The Chicago and Eastern Llinols experienced
no trouble with the exception of a demonstra.
tive rrowd at Brazil, Ind, The Illinois Cen
tral rond had 190 cars of in-bound freight
and its through passenger service was regu
lar, The Chieago, Burlington and Quincy
handled several freight and stock trains and
Is passenger and suburban trains wore all on
time,
On the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chieago,
all passenger tratus ran regalarly and freights
were moved more freely, The Pan Handle
moved freight freely nod reported its passen.
ger sorvies uninterrupted, and the Chicago,
Milwaukee and 81, Paul handled the regular
number of freight, passenger and suburban
trains, The Lake Shore, and Michigan South.
bone of the
at
Managers’
the city baek into
it bad suspended the rezeption from Western
conusetions of mtb froight and live
TWO MARSHALS KILLED.
A report from Whiting, Ind., states that
two United States deputy marshals were kill-
ed and 4 number Wodtiued fight with
rioters,
Adjutant-General Nobhins immoadiately de-
tailed three companies of Btate militia,
A. F. Lee, to the
one company to Roby,
Pilot Nicholas and the crew of the tug Kit-
tie was fired on by the militia at Blue Island
but theshooting was wild and no ons was in-
ured,
under
command of Col scene, and
Two companies of regulars have been
sent from Chicago to reinforce the militia,
The strikers at Whiting are
and They eaptured
cannon from the Standard Oil Works,
nd it
determined
a tank
which
are well armed,
is used for firing oll stills, a
ready for action,
and revolversand 5,000 rounds of ammunition
been procured.
have
A CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY
The H: mitten
oreign commerce
spirited
les grow
uss committees
decided,
session to Investigate
of the Pu
on interstate and
after a long and
the labor
man sirike
opinion re.
ing out
wide diffe
warsued and several
il of which we
which was di-
un for an investi-
MR. DEBS INDICTED.
od States grand
ne VY. Dela
vice.president: W
atid k W. Bogers, a
¥
Loon
$
t the Uni
iry at Chi
president ;
I
ailway
mira
Martin was als
BE A sWieh
Bailw
bstiob
wench
Tian
ore arrested 4] Ware
issued by Judge
Grosseup, and
anced on bail in $10,000 each,
were
orts from p
ad trafic
srike sho
ints where railr
i by wed a
i, and there was
The
the Chi
fH DOL
abies.
ship
RRO
on Mon
{ syery
day resulted in a complete tieap of
road so far as freight was concerned,
the way from
ramento, Cal The
threnten to resist the
United States troops are on
Fran
strikers are armed and
of the troops into the city,
United Btates sopulinrs fired into a mod at
Spring Valley, IIL, killing man and
The mob attacked the
Nan sis to Bae
entrance
one
The Big Four Railroad jssued an order
General Master Workmaa Bovereign tssaed
a cali to the Kaights of Labor of America to
sa ——-— in a
CANNIBALISM AT UNMAK
Further Details of the Terrible Esperiencs of the
Allen's Crew,
The full report of Captain Healy,
revenue caller Boar, giving details
1,
of th
ol the
wrook of thy whaler James Allen, in Dering
Hea, and the reascuns of Mout of a crew o
forty-nine, makes a shoeking tale of suffering
ou the part of the boat's erew who wore nally
resound on Unmak Island, Captain Healy
says: “The mea were found in a terrible cons
dition. Oda man, Gidson, hal died a week
betors, Masssls wore searee, and the birds
wild, #0 the mea said, They had given up ail
hope of ever being resenod and were come
pletely demoralized. The body of the man
Gideon, had been eaten entirely. They had
even dag up the body of one of those who
had died two weeks previously and had par.
tially consumed it, The trunk lay jast out
side the hat with arms and logs out off and
poridons of thy moat were in the pot outsid »
the doors, No attempt has been made to
hunt or to attract attention from seaward,
Not even a mark had been set up on a bluff
behind them, They had not ambition enough
to go down to the beach to gather driftwood
to keop their fire going, but had begun to tear
down the hut over their head 5. When found
thay lay around the fire in the hut doing
nothing, looking at each other, with the blood
of their late shipmates on thelr hands snd
faces, and human bones strewa about them
on the floor,
“The men ware brought on board the Bear
and carol for, Boma of them were sent to
Ban Fransisco, soms of he then remaining
in Unis,
CABLE SPARKS.
Crovrena has reappeared in 8t, Petersburg
and Blockholm,
Bir Avenin H, Lavanp, formerly British
ambassador to Constantinople, is dead,
Itary has entered an energetic protest
against the trestmeont of Italians at Rio Ja-
neiro,
By the capsizing of a ferry-boat in Hun.
gary nearly 100 persons are believed to have
been drowned,
upon the government at Tokio that Russia
will not permit Japan to occupy Corea.
Tae plague still maintains its hold in
Hong Kong, Although the cases are fower,
the violence of the disease remains un.
changed,
Tux Rev. Mr. Fischer, pastor of the Amer
ican Methodist Episcopal Church in Home,
has become a Catholic been duly
baptized in that faith,
Ax unfinished pavilion at
in Bus
burying twenty-three
them were fatally Injured,
in Bt
, and has
the
Roumania,
exhibition
grounds sharest, collapsed,
workmen, Four of
Petersburg for
cotton
A coMpaxy is forming
the purpose of establishing extensive
plantations on the Dokbara
Amoo-Darya, the great river «
M. Baroeav elected President
French Chamber of Deputi to succeed
Casimir-Perier, elected @ ro
lie, The latter has
pris INeTs,
yEXT Moxrr, of
of th
banks of the
of Central Asia,
WH
Prosident
put pardons
Puresn Chill,
the conversion
at the rato of 24 pen
JOBE, Aapan
foros in OC
RETURNS OF GRAIN
4.000 000
72.000 000
Missouri,
Annes 110: Keb 3 + Ten eRe
BREBDinug
Texas, 106
Missouri,
n, 87: W
Spring wheat
rand 74.1 in 1893.
The fal] since last regu
July,
mis nearly 20 points,
State averages are finnesota, 74:
Kansas, 69
Dakota, 68
Wisoon-
*
sin, 95;
Routh
ith
Town, 74
a, 44;
Oregon, 08,
Nebraska, 40,
Dakot North
ington, 86 The
tion of both Winter and Spring wheat, or
wheat for the country, is 70.8 per cent,
The condition of oats has declined a little
belong 77.7
87.0 last month and 58 8Yor this
month, The condition of Winter rye as
stated July 1 was 83.9; of Spriag rye, BLT
and of all rye, 87. July 1, 1883 the condi
Winter rye, 88 8. Sprig 89, and
Condition has fallen” 6 points
The average condition of bar-
Wash.
average ©
port, stand ing July 1 at 76.8
the same date the condition was 88.8,
WORK AND WORKERS
Tae shop carpenters of the Cleveland
Hocking Valley and Toledo Railroad, at
Upper Sandusky, Onlo, straek for higher
wagos,
Frpenay troops from Port Sheridan were
ordered to Chicago to enforce observance of
the laws by the strikers, Governor Altgeld
ordere State troops to Cairo Yo preserve the
peace,
A State Conference of Labor and Farmers’
Alliance was to have been beld at Spring.
field, 1, but only about 40 delegates were
present. The others were unable to reach
the conference, owing to the railway strikes,
AccoRpiNg to 8 telegram from Victoria,
British Columbia, the fishermes's #rike in
the North has been terminated by the salmon
cunuers' agreement to retain last year's rate
of wages, from which it was this year pro-
posed to make a cut of one cent per lish,
Tux miners’ strike at Ironwood, Michigan,
was complicated by a strike of switchmen
and brakemen of the Chieago and North
western, in sympathy with the American
Ealiway Union. In consequence of this strike
the companies were compelled to abandon
Attempts to load ore for shipment, ax It was
impossible to get car,
lt III
Helen Gould is entertaluing at ber home,
Woody Crest, st Tarrytown, thirty homeless
girls from the Five Points Mission. The
children are at liberty to romm over the
broad mores of LE and o wjoy
AS ARPA, an 3000 asso
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS
FENATZ
1701 Day Reference
opening prayer in the United States Senate
to the lawlesancss now prevalent in the
country and the neo ansity for the ascendeney
of inw and order, Severs) bills of minor fm.
portance were passed, and a resolution,
offered by Mr. Pefler (Pop, ), of Kansas, look-
ing to the government ¢ ontrol of radiwoys
and the adop tion of single tax doctrine, went
over. The XNuval Approprintion bill was
passed, with fovernl amendments, after 4
lively debnte over the clause in the bill re
Inting to the appointment of naval eadeots-ut-
large, Mr, Blunchard made a personal ex
planation of his action on the flual vole on
the passage of the Tarif! bill,
17101 DAY, 10 the Bennte Mr. Peffer's Pop.
ulistic resolution providing for Government
control of railways and con! mines apd the
adoption of the singletax system precipitated
# warm discussion, Mr. Peffer opened the dis-
cussion with a defense of the Chicago rioters,
an arrnigument of the President for sending
troops there, and a protest against on Lrows-
ing militarism of the country in general, Mr.
Davis, of Minnesota, bitterly denounesd
Inwlessness of the Chicago and the Lad
policy of he * Benator from Kansas in inflam.
ing th wmsgions by the introduction of such
0 ros tthe mm. Mr. Gordon, of Georgia,
condemned the action of the Kansas
1
Wir,
was made in
the
x i
mob,
4
Riso
ena.
121 Day.
The Unite
Diploma: 1
the
Per
aid
extent on
terming
BR were
that
In the Bis
nln
i
WAS GisC
er with
ws ed
United States dnting by the
er Watts, whi vill be hung in
of the Whi use, A num
$ ¢
en
ent oO
Mle
{ {oveign aflairs
—
The House agreed to
mlerend Pension Appro
ot The remainder of the day was
ted to the consideration of private bills
one wore passed, The eve ning Session was
devoted to the consideration of private pen
sion bills,
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
the re
t of the o«
3 badii,
¢ of the
Ax anvil burst at Harrod, Ohio, killing
Henry Smith and mortally wounding Frank
Atkins,
Tue steamer Queen blew up near Kam,
loops, British Columbia, and five persons out
of eight ou board are missing.
“Frorussor’ Joxps, an acronaut, fell 40
fect from a balloon at River View Park, near
Joliet, Illinois, and was tally injured.
Tux house of Mra. Abell, near Killaloe, On.
tario, was strack by lightuing, and Amelia
Brisk, aged 29, and Lena Zumach, aged 4,
were kiliad,
Micnans SBrrixg, aged 18 years, James
Steine, aged 20, and Marion Terrian, aged
20, were drowned while swimming in Lake
Calumet, at Chicago,
Joux Macner, aged 32; Charles Maurer,
New York city, were drowned near East
Rockaway, by the capaizing of a sloop,
A prata from the plague occurred on the
steamship Peru, which arrived at San Fran
eiseo from Hong Kong and Yokohama, She
was quarantined at Nagasaki for a week,
Ropenr Oaroony, 30 years, sexton of St
Paul's Episcopal Church at Paterson, New
Jersoy, was drowned in Passale river at Sine
gae, in an unsuccessful sffort to rescue Dane
fol Hall, aged 17, from a similar fate,
Tur Montréal express on the Canadian
Pacifico Raliroad went through a trestio be
tween Askwith and Moosehead, Maine, Fou
of the tralnmen were killed and four were in
Jured,
A wnrok on the Canadian Pacifie, at the
west outlet to Moosehead Lake, Maine
caused the death of five men and fatal injur
fon to two others, It is believed the accident
which oocurred on a trestle, was the result
of a deliberate plan to wreck the train
A coronep ehurch at Baine Landing, north
of Greenville, » lsissippl, was demolished by
a storm on Bunday night, and Martha Win
field was killed and six others seriously in
Jured. Another church at Glenallin, wa
‘struck by and Edward Wilson,
PENNSYLVANIA ITE}
of News Gleans! fran
of the Btats,
Tyitems Varios: Pasig
vers, 06 years, of
Mrs, Aanie De
was attacked in her home and nearly
Chester
benitong
to death by a white man, who demanded ane
fatled to find
tate
Her money,
and
Girvdna,
at Bugs
charged with kill
with thy
Chautauquan lectures SOL
wers large ly attended st Mt
Michael
Noteh,
ing Thomas
Bucholiz was arrested
near Wilkes-Barre,
Matsako,
was about to elope
whose wile
accused man
Following the Boapreme Court's deo
uting ¥. V, Boo Ley
ex-baunkor was taken into custody ai
ion
nyninst gra knifeliow un
the
Wilkes-Barre and will be bro
tentd
The Btate
burg and b
triad,
ught to the Peng
ary Lo serve o
Board of Health
enrd reports on small-p
it his sentence,
met at Harris
OX and val
Ince Dart, the murderer of the
leys
body from
The conferees of
2! District m
} BEres on
Bas appeaie to the
the dissector's
the Twenty
el at Charierol aud azain
candidate,
ye
or the ¢
Bes
were in 1
and dr
vere n attempting
McDonald b BATTOW escape
Matthew MoT fins Ir. MM. Murdaun
an Indian medi
» sidewall
He
1}
ui.
wr Januscewises was mol
for
The
Polanders in his congregation at Beading
church
jo was stricken
Mill Creek and
before help
with ¢ near
arrived
by Seottdale’'s
nently #
Six freight cars were burned
coke strikers, it is believed because Uainmen
relused to strike in sympathy,
Mutual concession and an agreement
reed Wages
Tor
ifthe
+a law resulted in an
agreement on the sheel steel scale at Pi
burg.
another conferen
Wilson bill beco
se with red:
Chautanqua classes at Mt. Grewna listened
to discussions upon a great variety of
jocta,
Louis Shultz, a Philadelphia cigar maker
stealing a ride, was orushed to death
wroek near Wilkes-Barre,
The Sheriff of Centre County
swear in a number
a be
ina
refused to
{ imported coal and fron
police as depaties at the Philipsburg mines
The Scottdale strikers by a small majority
decided to continue the strike,
A umber of employees of the Reading
Road, at Reading, have been Gischarw 2 be.
cause they belong to beaeflcial sociotion
Unknown miscreants burned the big ten
near Wilkes-Barre in which an evangelist has
been holding Gospel meetings,
At mass meetings of miners held at Pail.
ipsburg and Houtzdnle it was decided to roe
main on strike until the sole issigned by the
operators,
Another savage attack was made on the
parsonage of SL Mary's Polish Oatholie
Church, in Reading, by members opposad to
the priest and one man was badly besten
Several arrosts wore made, The mayor has
directed that no more services shail be held
in the church,
Frank A. Hoopes, of the Governor's Troop,
died at Harrisburg after living fifteen months
with his spinal cord broken,
Ina fight at Palo Alto botwoen two 15.55
old boye Frank Condos was probably aly
stabbed by Thomas Golden,
A woman has been appointed Garbage In.
#peotor of Chioago. The newspapers do not
give hor name, but her reputation for untir.
Ing attention to business Is already establish,
ed. Sho walks explores overy
ailey and wotually makes oritioal examine
tion of refaws on the “dump, *
Samuel B. Arnold, who was implicated wn
the project to abduct Presideat Lincoln, in
1885, and sentenced to the Dry Tortugas for
life, boing afterwards pardoned by President
Johnson, Is now keeping a meat stall In ha
roadway Market, Baitimore, :