THE NEWS. W. A Latimer, receiver of the First Na- tionnl Bank, of Sedalia, Mo., filed a suit for £358,000 against the directors, holding them responsible for the wrecking of the institu- tion. A dispute over a small account, Leon Black, twenty-two years old, meme ber of the police force, shot and killed Alex, Pred, a merchant, while in the latter’ in the suburbs. Father and son are charged with the erime, — The Grace Line t apac, Captain Thomas, which New York from Chiillan ane from total destruction son of a 8 store steamer arrived ports had # DRITOW i fire al Bi bys at sea n the voyage. -While partially of lquor, ther, wile « Uile ler the int! Eugene McCarthy laence his mo in Cleveland, O to merchant, juarreied with snd eat her throat almost from ear Ar, Adolph Marsili, a commission nmitted sui Advices from the Fiji 1s de Coe Lodge, of Yo withdrew from the Kuights of Harry Be Bouse of Farmer Funk, Pa., was fired upon Adams, twenty-two yi his residence ide at York. lands state the leade in the rebellion rs were executed worship town, 0, robbin Lid wser, while West thins, near and killed. old, hang Ky., for the murder Inst May, n in the jail yard was witn fifty people, The doomed 1 statement that the killing ident, ~John Kean striek ES Wis in Hog kineeitle Ott Campbell, another negro, exacutid essed by an reiterated bis | nn was suddenly en with Pennsylvania train in Lima, ed to m-house, He | ticketed from Chicago t« i nua the static excessive drinking trouble, Lhe were turned new waterworks i over bad a grand B. Rouss, the 000 t« many ot the oft wards the waterwor her r the eity of Winchs The Army ment elects ways sul love | Zens, Grand Roekiord, Y. Bare mander-in ander-in-ch surge Comm £3, gerty, of Bt. L oy ors Melk Sern o LE celebratic at MeKoees; Rogers, I Logan tis th dency iss ard Toker Co B., with 140 cord I'me K dianap for inte up its ini French were Jdrov ana vents cemetery Creorgee eal § nd fighting Dayton, thew Whaley Opeilka, Ohio, beaten Was wes assassinate shiners in Ala. - was killed in Chicago by Thon he tried for ITEAD, 8 bartender, whom the NN YX. YL severe attempting to cross the track abead of northbound express train at J Mr. and Mrs. Orson Higgins, were instantly killed, — storm, Elwood Ely, bler, Pa., was struck lightning, and in stantly killed, When sto up, Ely, who was working in one ol the flelds of his farm with his hired man, der a wagon. was horrified to find his employer dead un- der the wagon, with evidences thal he had Leen killed by lighting. Juage J, L. Snodgrass has been chosen by Ris associates on the bench as Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennesses, trade of Savanah Jast year was $123,000,000 Ex-Congressman Edmond Waddill de- elines to run for Congress from the Rich. mond, Va. distriet, The Middle George and Atlantic Railroad has been sold to a syn- dicate, — John H, laman says the Southern Railway Company will get control of the Cincinoati Southern Raliroad, —Fire in the Arch Fair Building, Chieago, caused a loss of 580.000, —Iu the Usited States Cireuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia the decision of the United States Circuit Court New Jersey in the Edison-Westinghouss infringe. ment eage, in favor of Edison, was reversed, and the enuse remanded with directions to enter a decree dismissing the bill on com piaint. The costs were put on Edison, The Mebrko! Brick Manulaeturing Company, of Little Ferry, N. J., has goneinto the hands of & receiver, James FP. Northrop; labilities $127,000, Captain Joseph CC. Parrett, superintendent of the Marioett Dargo Line Company, died at Chicago of heart disease, wee At Nashiville the doctors of the Nashville, Chattanooga and 88, Louis Railroad elected J. W. Thomas president and general man. ager of the road —— Isaac T, Wolcott, a wealthy man, killed his wife and himself near Chesinug, 11 At Alexandria, Ind, an explosion of natural gas caused the death of Samuel Meyers, Several were hurt, AI —————— Captain Encarnacion Payen, leader of the famous “Mexican Band,” has severed his connection with the band, which is a military organization, and as such under the orders of the Government, and Is organizing an in. dependent band, with which he proposes to make 8 tour of the Urlted States INIT. Vermont claims to have the oldest lawyer in New England. He is Daniel Hoberts, of Burlington, now in his 84th year and ty ginam, of Benson, During the a farmer, Jiving near Am by the m CRI" took shelter un. chist of COUNT OF PARIS, ——————————— Heir to the French Throne by Legitimate Descent Dead. A GRANDSON OF L. PHILIPPE. His Death Occurredat Stowe House Near London, Where He Had Re-~ sided of Late Years-During Our Civil War He Served as a Volunteer 1 + aris died a {¢ began to s IGLETVYAIS Was ie the counts ouis Phi {f the jate Du te King L lippe All "EL During by hi ¢onstruss TEXAS DESPERADO LYNCHED. Death Mivdin, Waggoier, a not sperado hot *_ it sail 1s Link Waggoner { wt Link North Lou shot Minden, was a perle of and was 6 his cell isiana Eastern Texna, to death § in the parish jail at by a mob I o'clock. W of Aaggoner and he past five years untry. Ie do | manly beauty na i ) brave as a Hon, he bad been & terror in that ¢ numer i y i { able murders are laid at his and his were most daring. He was cap Nace in Ui { tured about & year ago at Tex, and brought to He county, and t oft A prov the jail on other i ’ ’ i robberies i gdoches, ser ayborne ried ed nos urder, and keeping charge of" no The case was i ho i : on Against for safe him, to wag sent aud to await trial him, While at He mob to charges against mer an attempt was made ty a fod, manner oblained a pistol, he kept the whole singie-band suntable kill him, but in possession SOME UNAS uns of at bay until assistance arrived, jail at Minden was broken into by a mob of seventy-five, who shot him dead in and then dispersed. Waggoner has three brothers in Novogdoches, and it Is believed that they will make an attempt to aveage his death, The desperado had a good many {friends in this section of the country, and they may also join in a feud which would be a bloody one from the outset, mob his cell, tc — WRECKED BY A TORNADO. A Tealn Lifted From the Track by thy Wind-Te Persons Killed Two men were killed and a score of per. sons injured, hall of them fatally, in a tor. nado at Charleston, Mo., during which araii- road train was blown from the track, The names of the killed were Parmelia Dempsey, of Berteand, Mo, and Frederick McClellan, of Evdorado, TIL Those injured were: C. T. Coyle, John C, Davis, J. W, Dexter, W, IL Decamp, A.D, Temin, W. H. Hester, G, W. Humphrey, Geo, MeG endon, Mm, 3 W. MeCollom and CH, Miller. * The tenin and the tornado met and the wind lifted the entire line of coaches and | landed them at u distance of twenty feet from | the track, almost turning them o! CABLE SPARKS. — Ax Indian uprising is feared Jn the Cana dinn Northwest Territory. A monument to the memory of Emperor Willian 1 was unveiled at Konigsberg, Tue Peary rellet expedition reached God- baven, Greenland, on July 17th snd proceed- ed northwaurd, Mrs, is dead of Viee-Admiral Geor Tene Augusta Webster, novelist and she go Davis, has been desperate fighting Nigar territory over poet, in Loadon, wns the daughter the and in boundary disp ates, sixty men of the Royal Nigar Conspany been killed, Rusons have reached Anen of the Arab tribes in the Yeman « Arabs are reported to have bloy official Tus buildings troo iy route sunoont Nana's tribesmen at t R Africa, 1 DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. ran the H came away in Columbus, Sandasky and cking Valley 1 yard al Columbus, and in collision with a Baltimore and Ohio on the Big Four brid river, One spt i atid three of the coal ¢ down into the firetnan, slightly inj passenger over the was {rain Olentangy bre motive ge # an of the bridge Ken, ars and the joe Wm, Herbert, and several weut siream. was killed aired, mesmo. WORK AND WORKERS. Tar strike of the “lumping,” or contract system « was begu 1 New York, Tax Globe Yarn and the Sanford Spinning Mills nt Fall River, Mase, madean uy the to aecept the reduced wage schedule, Axe local bakers’ union of St. Louis has decided to build and operate a bakery to fight the American Biscuit Company, The new concern has $250,000 capital pledged al- ready, carpenters against f doing work HEU COPEt- ful attempt to resume, earders Cuaiesax Huarncors and other represen fatives of the Central Strike ( ommittes and loeal unions at Chicago, fssued a elrcular In whieh they formally declared the Pullman strike off, Thereare still a number who re- fuse to give up the fight, Tur Orests window glass factory, at Andere son, Indiana, employing 200 hands, was put in operation for the first time this season, This is the fist window glass plant in the gas belt to resume under the 221 per cent, cut in Inbor made in the recent settlement at Pitts. burg. Tur strike of the union carpenters in New York city, against the present system of “lumping,” Is rapidly spreading. Already 1200 men are on strike, and it is asserted that before the end of the week, there will not be A union earpenivt at work in the city, Bewe eral contractors bave agreed to the terms of the men, Toe New York cont-makers bave practic. ally won their fight against the sweating sys- tem, the contractors agreeing to pay by the week, and the scale bs said to be more (han double what could have been earned under the sweating system, About 7000 of the strike ad lo Wotlk, aad the other TREATY WITH COREA. 1 Japan's Important Diplomatic Bt:p in ths ve! with China, i i was received at the Japanese legation in Washington to the effect that important treaty has been negotiated between A telegram an Coren and Japan which authoritatively de. relations of the two untirics to- ward each other aud toward China, The object of {to be fines the the treaty is stated in the pre amble the mutual desire on the part of | King of Corea | attitude of | h a view | fix nnd determine the wird the other wil didating the Japan and Corea, which the request which the the » definitely untry { clearly eluc existing relations bet created by ween hinve been | Corenn gov- t has made of tho iY WAS f August by Mr Jugu ment 10 compel Coren, The tre We 0th « LO, ninisiar Chinn CHINA'S ARMY CORNERED. Unable to Get I's Organization it is asseriad will comn the J No confidence, h ity to h i] Japanese fi waver, is felt in Tieg's abi jd even the Guill o and coped 14 against the quently many steamors elonging jo Chinese irws are being transferred to the British fag. iI ws ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. A — Teresit Garibaldd, a Caungio, the daughter of ry of General is writing the si its most intimate details, Mr. Jose Ferrel, of an editor the City of term for eriticising the Government, trying to resurrect his paper, The English admirers of Gilbert White, SBelbourne, and fe of have erected a to him in that village, If ie « hydraulic ram that forees water into a reservoir which sup plies the village with water, of the University of Berlin, is one of the most versatile of Jiving savanis takes three specialists In solence Professor Virchow, to do him Justice when proposing his health at a bane quot, Colonel North, the Nitrate King, started life as a boyin a small machine shop in Leeds, He was advanced to the post of fitter, and was sent out by his employer to set up machinery in America, When he had finished bis job there he set to work to look after "No. 1," and succeeded in bullding up e magnificent fortune A recent issue of a newspaper of Mononga- hela City, this State, announced that Bide: J. M. Bpringer, of Delle Vernon, would preach on Sunday at Duquesne, marry a couple at Fayette City on Monday and con duct a funeral at Belle Vernon on Wednes. day. Mr, Springer Js a preacher, a justios of the pease, an undertaker and a furniture dealer, James Falebalrn, of Edinburgh, recently deceased, was one of the most energetic and enthusiastio of Christian workers in that city, He was superintendent of the undenomin ational mission in the Grassmatket, and twenty years ago had solved the problem of getting the poorest and worst to attend re Higlous services, Ho was vssentinlly the slum missionary of the city, and went by the name of the Bishop of the Grammuriut The THE FIRES RAGE. ' People of Mora and Groundhouse Take Refuge on an Island. SAVED BY ACHANGEIN WIND. led Qut to F the Euburbs That City. Duluth Fi the Flames roamen Cal ight in of * RPPORTEROS sins wi the West past week further than charge of setting fire to th causing the kk ridge. He sd in jail bitter against him, a8 of eight was bound over for The feeling is intensely La—— FALL OFF ON COTTON. Ss Ecptimber Condition Flows » be The September report of the statistician of the Department of Agricultare makes cotton show a decline of 5.9 points from the August condition, which was 918, | this month, | The condition of the plant in the month : | Decline of | The eins against 85. 9 for of June was 88.3, rising to 84.6 in July fo G18 and Inst month, As stated, the August condition for 1804 was 80.4 and the Reptem- ber condition for the same year was 73.4, & falling off of seven pointe condition for this than that of 1803, The State averages were: Virginia, 100; North Carolina, 88: South Carolina, 86; Georgia, 84; Florida, 82: Alabama, 88: Mise. issippl, 85; Louisiana, 91; Texas, $4: Arkan. sas, BY; Tennessee, 84; Missouri, 98. The principal cause of the decided decline in condition since the last report was excessive rainfall throughout the larger part of the cotton belt, producing too great a growth of weed aud checking development of the fruit, also causing shedding, rotten and rust, The general tenor of reports is: “Too much rain and beat, causing too great growth of weed and 100 little of fruit.” csi sar cs sins BURNED HALF A TOWN. Eundreds Mode Homeless by the Reverge of o Criminal Luspret, To “get even" even for having been charged with erime as is now supposed, a person whose name is for the present with. held fired the village of Dalton, Ohlo, Bee fore doing so he digjoined the fire hose, threw away the wrenches and stopped the reservoir supply-pipe with a piece of carpet, The town burned like tinder; twenty sores wore lald bare and thirty-three structures, including every business block, were de stroyed. The total loss oun to $3000 The September year 12.5 points higher PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS Epitome of Bews Gieaned From Various Tong ti the Etats The GG. A nm pment close 94 5 burg after theses offic Ot. of P Vick 00 te HER ‘ wd ongrd § 03 cr electing mander in Chisel, Col. Thomas G. Lawler, > ¥ # 4 a Eis commander, anor A. Pitts Iilinoks: senior vice Burchfield, of burg: junior mander, C1 Bhugps, New Orie BUrReo! Weeks H Marion, Haggerty urg was irand Ms lent Bryden w= a 4 gg worm ser HILvna 8 rep Tis as killed in N wenr Wilkes-Barre by an explosion Ly-Congressman Amerman, sialed an Be and Jones idate ose Congress itn Lackawanoas the Democrati anion County h Bailey, withdrawn, Lounty rents cand for sheriff, have ibe suditors ol Sehuyikill a sensation in Pottsville by reporting to the court extravagance in the management of the aimsh £5 Re Clara Johnson, 4 years old, was instantly kilied by a train in attempting to cross ihe railroad tracks at Sunbury. Motrie Yan Sickles, of Beading, started to Tuckerton to make arrangements to bury a caughter and was killed by a train while re- furning home, John M. Powman, president of thedelunet iuncy Bank was convicted at Williamsport of intent to deceive the Comptroller of the Currency by swearing to false statements, sss ono onset. SKELETONS FOUND IN A CAVE a — Bupposed to Be the Rmmuive of Persons Madera) Tor Their Xeoney, Chaties Rector and a boy named Morris in exploring a cave near Seven Mile Ford, Va. , discovered two skeletons Torty lool below the surface, The cave had long been knows, but no one bad ever veatured to explore it, because of its great depth, The Morris boy wus let down by A n rope, When the find was reported a party of eit zons went to the cave to lavostigate furthes In all, ten skeletons were taken out, aad were adjudged tobe the bones of men, women and children, One skeleton was fousd in o sitting position, with the skull reclining on the arms, which were folded noross the Kiros, Thus far there is but one way to ascpunt sar the charael-house, Old citizens say that many years ago there was an lon kept nome this conve by a man named Allen, and that oconsionally people who stopped there bad mysteriously disappesred and were never again heard of, The supposition is that they wero killed alter being robbed of thelr valu.
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