The town of Gifford, soven Rantoul, Til, was swept away by flames, Two grain the [Illinois Central Depot and almost the entire business portion of the town is inashes, Incendinr- jes started three fires at Anoka, Minn, All the inhabitants turned out on guard, ——-A strike of free milling gold has been near Mosea, Col, Lizzie Daniels, aged fourteen years, shot and killed Miss Weaver, aged sixteen, at Scottdale, Pa, The had quarreled, Miss Hastings, of ville, Ky., killed hersell in a ( hicago She had quarreled with her miles east of nimost elevators, made girls Louis. hotel, Gi, « aswell Dennett, chief justice of the Court of flance, J. Appeals of Kentucky, died very suddenly at Hopkinsville, His death the result of rheumatism, Bamuel Hill, presi- dent of the Eastern Minneapolis Road, has announced that rates on wheat in the vd wractically cut the , trial Ky. was eleva tors of the Great Northern Ros at and West Superior would in two, much to the benefit farmors, for *hman in Hyde's —t flarles Miller, awaiting murder of August Leffler, wat candy factory, New York about three months ago, cut his throat in his eell in the Tom! and will probably die, At Perth Amboy, N. J., the mental briek works burned, The loss on that 8 Pardes oOrna- Yuilding and machinery is estimated at £200,- 000, —— A stranger giving the name ol Smith, elaiming to be a banker of St, Pr to san Diego, Merchant July 27. He disappeared at has not been heard from. He had greenbacks in his possession, —— William Evans, of Philadelphia, his Louis Hecht, fatally wounded his wife and then shot himsell.——Hon. Falix Geoflrion, AM. P.. for Vercheres, ex-minister of revenue under the Mackenzie administration, died at Montreal, aged sixty-two, He had been a member for thirty 8 YOurs, ——— Charles Doebler, a striking silk weaver, was for , CAMO al.. on the schooner and £2.500 in ones, killed uncle, inland sentenced to five years imprisonment placing a bomb under a citizen's residence, "The Socialistic plank in the state branch of the American of Labor was eliminated at the oc » 33. was debated for over thr Boston by a vote of 10t astrous prairie fire was sv of Hon. T. E. others, four miles Etlison, and destroyed hundre in shock and hundred The steamer Roanoke, of 1 Washburn line, burned « Superior. The crew escaped in | Roanoke was a wooden £50,000, insured for $4 A National Boy's League, whe work is a ¢ proposed tauqua and Christian Endeavor ideas, has been formed was mbination of the fa Denver,——John Sch An, is sre, brothers murdered in Pueblo BUS pected. ——John and Charles Me aged thirteen cen, were drowned in the Ohio River skig-riding girls, were out nto, Ohio, while with another boy and three The other four persons in the boat rescued, ~ Ira Perego & Co New York, as- The liabilities Alva H. Gossand, for the Gossand Investment Company, of Kansas City, of the Colors whivh began clared off, the mines « them, co switchmen a vote to carried by a d Keele bound over to the Federal grand juary in Cin- in men's furnishing goods, at signed without preferences, are about £55,000. © ah assignment. - i New Mexico C of May, has been de- he strike oal miners The miners will we rk as soon ag be in shape to receive meeting of the Chicago cisive majority, — and Goosback, -MeCue leading cinnati by Commissioner each for ting to wreck train at Hamilton July 4. Harry F. Jobneon was banged at Allen. town, Pa. ——The business portion of Frank- Yin, IIL, nearly destroyed fire, Oscar Flesh, a barber, killed George Weche- berger, a plumber in Chicago. Jealousy was the cause, — Mrs, Adelaide Stock committed suicide in New York because of the despond- atle ing an excursion was by the death of her two children, to hold up a Lake Shore train at Kessler, lod. engineer dashed through obstructions placed eneY over An unsuccessful attempt was made am the track, and thus escaped, —Braggio Tarko, an Italian banker doing business at Boston, has disappeared, The New Jersey Flint and Spar Company ans gone isto the hands of a receiver, The liabilities are placed #t $16.000, and the assets nominal, H. Dickerman, of Brooklyn, has been given into the custody of the officers from Peoria, Il. Dickerman is under indictment at the latter place for bigamy. The complaining witness is a Miss Price, family is wealihy and of the best social standing in Peoria. —— Edward Pardridge, the million- sire speculator of Chicago, was suspended from the Board of Trade for sixty days for disorderly coriduet on the floor. —— Thestrik- ing railroad employes of Cincinoatl, at a meeting decided to continue the strike, — A reeeat cxatennial celebration in honor of the wictory of Anthony Wayne took place at De- Ssmce, Ohio, ~——Miss May Livingston, an Indiana girl, sued Prof, George W. Christie, wi Holbart, that state, for breach of promise, acing damages at £10,000, ~The Demo- Cratic state ticket in Alabama was elected by 25,000 majority, and the legislature Is safely Democratic. George whose PETRIFYING A CORPSE. An Apparsntly Cuece ssful Experiment Boing Made in Pittsburg Superintendent of the Pittsburg Morgue, James A. Loughrey, Is engaged in petrilyiog the body of Ernest Schwab, who was killed by Pennsylvania Railroad train at Ben Venue July 26. He has succeded in hardening the hands and feet of the body, and hopes to ac- ecomplish the undertaking. A Urother of the dead man lives in Cala, The Coroner thought he would like to keep the body until word was received from the dead man's relatives in Cuba, He conferred with Mr. Loughrey, and the latter worked out some theories of his own on the hands and feet of the corpse, His experimonts seem to be suceesalul, and the only question now is whether the members mentioned will retain their hardness, They are said to be like stone, Tho body has been preserved by embalming process while undergoing the ex. A — Passed by the Second Session of the Fifty-Third Congress. MANY DEFICIENCY BILLS. Odds and Ends of Legislation Aside from the Long Struggle on the Tariff €Schedule— The Bridge Measures. A review of the legislation which has been session of nd the Fifry-third Congress shows that little has accomplished during the seo been done, aside from the tarifl engrossing struggle, One of the most important acts of » the session, was the act repea ail laws ' defining their powers, Utah to overnment The act to enable the people of form a Constitution and State g and to admitted into the Union on an be equal footing with the original States, pro- vides the machinery by which the Territory will be admitted probably in December, 1895, by adopting a Censtitution providing a re. publican form of government and of government ceding it much publie insuring against the supremacy any Church; the land educational and charitable institutions, An act making the first Monday in Se to be at the instance of ber a legal holiday called Labor was passed, largely labor organizations, while scientific societies urged the to electrical the units of Three bills the award of act define and establish measures law, give the Tribunal of Arbitration at were passed to Paris, which adjudieated the seal fisheries di:-putes; the acts prohibiting seal fishing from May 1 July31 of each year north of degree 85, north latitude, and vast of degree 1580 and establishing « be with carried penaities sOF the cusiom vice, § 0 for the pension ser 000 { census and $200,000 Io printiog Tho third deficiency 1804, carried £100,000 signed, partment, hall « the Chinese exclusion act, with £315.00 Treasury printing; $305,000 for y Depart. £0 000 fe improve wie ts Castine aud Machias 1. carried about 15.000 for the Treasury st of it for tl Jareau of Printing an nited States ( bill, approved June the Pubdic Printing Office and £185,000 the cust ns service, THE BR! DOE BILLS Foremost in importance of the numberous bridge bills which became laws was the act horizing the New York and New Jersey the Hudson, il ora Faire its first passage the Lill was vetoad by Presi. dent Cleveland becanse it permitted the sink Co} posad clared it would a great obstruction to navi gation, An amended bill flaally met the sanction of the President and signed, which provided that the bridge the length of span and elevation was shall be of which the Becretary of War shall approve and requires leaving the recommendations to a disinterested engineers by the President. This structure which will bo only second to the Brooklyn bridge, if com. pleted, must be built in ten years under the terms of the act, not lesa than $1,000,000 to be expended on it each year and $2,500,000 the first year, The other bridge bills are: for the Pennsyl- vania and New Jersey Railroad companies to bridge the Delaware at Philadelphia, above the foot of Boxborouga Street, for the city of Pittsburg to bridge the Monongahela River, near Twentysocond Stroet, and for the Belle Vernon Bridge Company neross the Monhonga- bela at Belle Vernon, Pa, for the Braddock & Homestend Bridge Company, across the Monongahela at Homestead, Pa., for the West Braddock Dridge Company, across the Monongahela aud for the Glenwood High. way Beidge Company, across the Mononga. b=ia at Glenwood, Pa. 40,000 DIE OF CHOLERA. board of to be appoiated Comsul Seymour Reports That the Disease Has Bo tome Epidemic in Canton Coosul Beymour, in reports to the Marine Hospital Bervice dated Canton, China, Jung 80, says that cholera has made its appenranco there in epldemie form. The plague, he writes is still raging among tho natives and does not seem to yield to medical treatment, the mortality being 90 per cont of the cases, Forty thousand deaths have oceurred from the disease since the 1st of March, The na. tives are trying to blame foreigners for the plague, and fn Canton and its vicinity they are ineiting riots ngaiost the foreign eles’ of this basis, : Tunex thousand insurgent troops are marching pou the Furto Alera, the pl al FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESJ [ENATE. 104110 Day. The discussion of Senator Chandler's Dominion Coal Company resolu. tion, and of Beopator Hill's Auar¢hist exclu~ sion bill occupied the time of the Renate, and furnished the texts for two very interesting, and, at times, lively debates, The resolution went over whihout action by the expiration of the morning hour, and the Exclusion bill was passed, The conference report on the iver and Harbor bill was submitted and agreed to, 180i Dax. In the Benate a resolution was passed directing the President to take steps jor the release of American citizens confined in the Island of Cuba for participation in re. cent rebotlions, A substitute was passed for the House Lill to prevent interfere: collection of Biate, county and m taxes corporations, Mr. Hoar minority report on the bankruptey bill, Brice Introduced a bill Tor a publie ed mit } of threo architect invored by Natl | Association of 18. A reso- futic by Mr. Gray, whieh ordered to Ho over, instructs the cor tte on printing to report upon the advisability of baving all government printing and binding done by contract with private partie Gn as Are The Senate held a three hours’ session in which a number of minor bills the conference report on an Appropriation bill was agreed to, 18811 Dax were passed, and the ind Tri Day. After a session ore than an no business of any importance was transacted, the Senate adjourned. A House bill to revise the section of the revised sta tutes which requires prool of loyaity as a prerequisites in applications for bounty lands was considered, but such Op sition was do- veloped that no action was taken upon it, Hill tarifl 19811 Day. In the Senate Mr, duced a resolution directing n- ferees to report the difficulties in the way of agreement, It waticn, and ar being adopted. It fipally went alter a sharp discussion sused fn mine ne over BOUSE, 1941 Davy transacted some srtant routine sincess, but spent most ni gments till, providing unm of the day debating Sennte the Indian Appropriation the ratification of the treaties with and ) s Indians, bu , of Ohi ¢ Central Labor praying for the states DHstriet Judge to for Perce, Yakima vole wa net ad 1 ncn Of A ing Ricks, of Ohio, an sary ( pros eachment « was reierred to the Stat Day of Representa. Henatle an the 414 auld for the ad: to eitizenshi it Day. It was j ine, BD 0 make & Sj ublic of Ha stration a 1 the Speaker, holds DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES aged farmer, whilst at Oregonian, Ohio, was fines and William Arnett, {crest fire fghung a! the an surrounded Ly burned to death, The accidental explosion of 85 pounds Of in Golden Gate Mine at Sonora, Califoruia, caused the death giant powder the miners The main building Lutheran Collage, at Watertown, Wisconsin, was struck by lightning and badly damaged by fire. Loss, $40,000, One man was killed, two Intally and sey eral dangerously wounded by an explosion of of pard, at Hawthorne, lliinoia Mrs. Katharine Noland, of Hillsboro, Illi. nols, who is said to be 113 years of age fell believed she will survive the shock. While rowing on the near Warren, Arkansas, John RR Bradley, Fannie Koonos and H:en Ritchie were drowned by the capsizing of their boat, A wash boiler eontainiag the charred re mining of two infants, supposed to be twins, was found near Lima, Ohio, in the ashes of a piie of brushwood, which had been set on fire by sparks from a locomotive, By the explosion of a locomotive boiler on Saline tion, Manitoba, the engineer and fireman were killed, and a brakeman was fatally in. jured, While crossing the tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, at Chicago, Agnes Christopher, aged 16 years, was struck Hy a train and insiantly killed, and Lydia Hansen, aged 22 years, was fatally injured, Two large brick buildings in Dallas, Texas Craddoek’s grocery, collapsed, and it is feared a number of persons were buried In the ruins, The latest report states that one man was taken out dead, Nicholas Eanis; a tin roofer, while at work on & eornies of a building In New York ety, was terribly burned and shocked by an elec trio Hght wire, which he had accidentally cut helpless for several minutes, the wire burn. fag into his flesh, before he was dragged (0 a place of safety, It (a believed he will ro. saver. : ; « Orders were Ons Killed an! Many Injured at Mooting in Virginia & Bush A terrible eatnstrophe peeurred at the tem. perance bush meetitig catap “at Purcellville, Yu., in which one man was instantly killed, another so badly injured that he will probe ably die, and probably fifteen others serious. ly and possibly in some cases fatally hurt, The accident was caused by the great tent blowing down in a sudden windstorm, which struck the eap shortly the the Fully 5,000 people from and aftor closes of afternoon the from Washington had been in attendance most of the day. Many of the vices, shortly after 4 thing like sorvieos, surrounding country thes left after BOr- though some 200 persons remained in the tent to Buddenly thers was a roar, followed by a suapping and crashing that caused the faces of those in the Those who have what happened say it tent to blanch with fear, at all of any recollection the most terrible Almost before great tent came WHS sound they ever listened to. they realized it the crashing down, its poles pinning to earth many people, while others in their wild at escape became entangled in the ro were unable to extricate themselves, The big center pole struck John young Philmont, man twenty-five Va., ipstantly killing was crushed out of all semblance t The Phillips, of thinks, about thirty feet, years ol being. sane Pe iQ Washington Was not seriously inj nineteen years old, of No tent pole and so badly hurt tia do not think he can possibly live and the dead man were taken little side tents and laid on cols, Mrs, Bamuel Leslie, of Hillsboro, ting in ber carriage with her versing with od tent, wh ner nh who st uy the the of ne carringe jus “0 sirud great tree {ally two fect in diameter was i biown down on the CATTIRRY. was smashed into kindling wo ile was knoeked uneon burt that i Leslie and scigusand so x is ANARCHY IN COLORADO. Typ: Eoid Flourishing at Cripple Cresk Mines Bocietios of the Melly Maguirs te Be ims been a result o % ha i fils, the men SnYols fn the recent sirise, eter and bloods + feared, It is said that at least eighty-one oases of arms have gone in there {rom Denver, 'ueblo and Leadville, There exist on Ball Hili and 3 ership Are jad shinston by Jack Smith and ““Geperal” J both were 'n command during ate (ros A arrived, Hill at o worst charactor, and pelied from West Point for an but fled when the They are both én Ball present, was ex The societies on Dull HEI are peglarly or. Molly Maguires “Red Necks at that Several letters have been received by Anarchists known as miners who not in sympathy with them, con. sisting of a piece of red flannel and bearing the inscription in biack ink, “Death.” A note inclosed read: “Dear Sirsa] give you twenty-four hours to Jeave town, of, by ——, stand the consequences.” (Signed) YR. KH 8” The Grand Jury charges thatthe Executive execution of writs during the trouble, WORK AND WORRERS. A number of strikers formerly employed in the service of the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railroad applied for work, which tite officials of the road refused to give them, Fraxg Feroax, Richard Morrissey, Daniel Griffin, Ed. Reeder and Andy Reits, was ar rosied at St. Pagl, Mion, charged with the assaalt on the Milwaukee train a few nights ago. Bx a unanimous vote East Chicago Dranch No. 169 A. R. U, has decided {0 call the strike off on the Chicago and Cuumet Terminal Ballway, and there is every assurance thay ail the old men will be given their places by She company, ArSt. Paul, Mion, the Omaha shops open. ed for work with 85 men, and will soon have AJR 1, men Tuk wages of the meh entployed In the ham department of Armour's packing houses At Chicago was reduced 15 cepts per day. They asked for a returns of the old strike if they wanted to, It PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. leans! fron ef the Etats, Tritoms of News Varisas Party Two electric ears collided on the Fresland 3zanch of the North Side Flectrie Road and twenty-five pecple wore injured and both ears wrecked, A eave-in at Beranton caused by robbing conl pillars resiited in a loss of 200,000 to city prisoned, prfporty and two miners were the nceounts of Cashier Altoona Becond #5000) and The shortage in of the Jank is placed at £80. 000, Gardner National may reach Lizzie Daniels, aged 14 years, shot and killed Mary Wenver, aged 16 years, at Bridge- VY + By 4 pon, The contract has been awarded for bulld. ing and furnishing bathrooms in the Bale Capit £12,000, wiil cost péuutors, They 1he report of [nsf of the 1 ector General McKibbin, National Guard has been submittied Adjutant Genera! Greenland, 1 of Willinmsr 1 he West rt as taken stops 10 the many millions of feet of logs and Iamber swepl away du ring freshet, i +} Lhe 24 KILLED. Awfal Work of Train-Wreckers in Nebraska. | FIENDS REMOVED THE RAILS The Train Plunged Through a Trestle into Salt Creek and the Wreck Quickly Caught Fire and was Consumed With the Bodies of the Victims. A despateh from Lincoln, Neb, res the frightful ravine where the I ERYSE | was nearly dark bels IRE ! debris coe { { Island EX Press Was wre ing the 3 15% ps ihe arned a ked and uth of thi y had 000 enabie | miles » stafficiently ! to the Lig crowd gathered at the place ¥ in the hope of leas : Ha ‘ nds ret Mi irig sf neliing f the FIELRG io Joh Haus, & track walker on the vania Bail ty oy in i west-boun nuried 25 feet, His leg was snd tereibl He is also and may die, A seident he found a jared short time bel man Iving across the track or just official rep ads of Nes aver inst Wor i $0, Carle Br . gl Ag Hiv } ijured dowmil with, as excitement Dero workmen nes near Uo man paid young men locked up for Beading. x Two men were drowned in the Monongs ¢ Fayette City, Oue of thom upset the hela at i boat for a joke, from ke lef Pittsburg for Arkansas solonization society has purch etred control of 50,000 acres of Filton HiAvTs the ¢ region where the asced and land. ® Frank the Rovnianek, of Pitieburg, is president. the party, which is an advance guard for severa coke workers and thel Pucher, secretary, accompatied striking families, They propose to the West, as they expect it to be more profit untry The land is at Hazen, Prairie county, Ark from New York and handred other the colony. A large number of Western Peon ayivania Slave will go in September, bery in the Beranton postofliee bave thus far wid 10 flod a clew (o the thieves, Beturus of alectors in the Twelfth District Congressional delegate indicate that he Leisenring wii be nominated over Williams, An official of the Carnegie a lieves the charges of fraud in armor plates were the result of a conspiracy bat~held in ol the Homeatond Company revenge for the failure strike, Superintendent Loughrey, of the Pittsburg Morgue, is experimenting in peirifyiog a corpse, It is believed his attompt will be suo. ecosslul, Charles Fox was arrested at Wilkes-Barre for forgery as be was about to leave with Mrs. Fox on a honeymoon irip, Representatives of 15,000 Central Penneyl- vanin miners decided by a vote of 1876 to WW to declare the strike ended, SENATOR'S SON KILLED. Thrown From His Horse and Dragged About the Yard. William Patton Daniel, the eight-yearold pon of United Sates Senstor John W, Danls', met with a fatal accident at Lynch pure, Va. He war on a horse in the yard of the Senator's resilescs, when the animal turned suddenly aad loa second the boy was hanging with his head on the ground, The horse dashed of and dragged the iit tle fellow around for sixty fest, The Senator san into the yard and bore the frighttuily bralsed boy into the houss. Although all that medical skill eonld suggest was doe he died at 11.10 that night, after LILAD the He was on wreck BULLETS FOR FOUR. A Rorrible Tragedy in an Dwi Towa, Thera dors ania Buivide, The little Des village « Moines, was the soens tragedy. At sock W gageman of the Burlington road at that place entered the house of his betrothed, Murphy, : revolver and shol her, | ‘He then turned | Towns, and fired a bullet into her, killing ber i almost instantly, Mrs, Murphy, mother of the girls, rushad into the room, only to meet with a bullet from the revoiver held by the apparently in- sare man, Her injury is such that the pliyss | clans have little hope of herlife D. Jeckins, night bag. Miss Julia and alter a bitter quarrel, drew a on her sister, Mrs. Josie Jenkine then turned the weapon on him. | self and fired a ballet into bis brain. He died an bour later, Jenkins kad been drinking beavily for several days, and it is believed the murder and suleide were the oteome ofl a quay between himself and Miss Murphy over his fatoxicnied condition. The women were highly respected and in good circumstances SANTO'S LETTER. His Farewsll to Ria Mother ~She for Wim. The mother of Caserio Banto Geronimo, the sasassin of President Carnot, bas written to Mme. Carnot asking her to intercede with Prosident Casimir-Perior for the life of her son, 4 The mother bas received a letter from Caserio, in which ho says: “hear Mother: 1 write a few lines in order to inform you that I have been con. demned to death, What must you think of me? You cannot think that I am an assassin and malefactor. You know my good heart and my tenderness was always shown to you, Well, my benrt is the same to day, If I have Intercedss
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