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THE NEWS
The steamer Sausalito could not be stopped
when she reached her slip at Bau Francisco,
aud crashed into it, damaging both the doek
and the steamer, — Rev, M. Karl Stoetter,
the Jesuit missionary, died at Sterling, Hil «—
W. T. Goetz, of Delmont county, guard in
Ohio penitentinry, was stabbed in the neck
and groin by Conviet Wm. Moore, of Cinecin-
nati, aud is in the hospital, —— James Darcy,
a general merchandise dealer, of White Top
Mountaiia, Tenn., was assassinated by un-
known persons, who ealled him to his door
ate at night and riddled him with bullets. It
fs stated that Darcy was Killed by moonshin-
had
revenuo officers on his information, —
ers whose distilleries been, ralded by
- Win,
smith, of Allegheny, serving a twenty-three.
year sentence in the Western penitentiary, in
Pitsburg, was shot in the neck and probably
fatally wounded by Keeper George WwW. Dean.
Smith refused to obey orders.and when repri-
mandad, picked up a sharp knife used in the
mat department and rushed upon the keeper,
- Four hundred and flity employes of Alex,
Crow, the Philadelphia carpet manufacturer,
have gone on strike against a
cent. reduction in wages, —
lan, wife of Wm. J. Scanlan,
twenty per
-Margaret Sean-
the demented
actor, was appointed committee of the per.
son and estate of her busband by Judge Me-
Adam in the Supreme Court in New York,
fourteen years old, of
1536 East One Hundred and Thirteenth street,
New York, was found dead in
— (ieorge Harpham,
his bed, hav-
ng committed suicide by swallowing a quan-
| Mandeifield,
murderer of a Spanish sailor, bas been caught
tity of paris green. ——Joseph
in Pbiladeiphia,
George Schmous was hanged in Pittsburg
for k'liing his wile and two children. —-
Thomas Green, recorder of deeds of Philia
delphia, died at his home ia Frankford from
kidaey trouble, superinduced by cholera mor,
— Comptroller of the
delivered an address at
tion of the Ohio Bankers’
The Times,
morning newspapers
bus, - Currency Eckels
the annual conven.
Association, -
Saeranton ons of the leading
of Northern
Pennsyi-
the
vania, and only Democratic daily
Lackawanna county, has been purchased
Wiliam R. Bell and Samuel E. Hudson,
known Washington correspondents and
perienced newspaper )
McAleer, of the Third Peansylvar
was def
men, ——Longressman
a district,
ation, Joseph P. M.
— Mrs, El
whi
eated for renomis
Cuailen being the candidate, -
Hiles was stabbed by a burglar
surprised in her house in
Horoper Brothers’ big
has passed into the possession of Joh
Jegroy City,
Philadelphia
ley & Sons, the carpet
purchase price is said
The works will be ope
4 pevere.
} nen md
Casey, {wenty-one
red
yy the falling piatiorm at
t the Ex-
hi
Akron, O.
The transcontinen-
Club-rooms in .
died dari right,
tal lines managers at a meeting
4 hood oo
decided to abandon their efforts
transcontinental ssenger 4880
+
Two thousand makers in
went on strike,
Distillers outsid
applied to t
incorporation « i
: 1
KADY, ~ 2
Lom
i J
wreck o train on!
was
Bik OVE
caitura t
will be even le
is thought nov
ceed 12,000,000 gal
third in the crop.
wounded by
vonic paper in
Harris has une
a gang of
Cal, ~ . BR tle, g
Mo., who was arrested |
interieiters in Yreka,
stinaster Mayflower,
tered letter, stabbed him
butebher kaile,
etie Prince,
committed suicide,
Fort
to Fort Logan, ne
a farmer, k.ied his wile and then
Iie cavalry troops at
which have ordered
been
Bowie, Ariz,
r Deaver, will march the
entire distanee--1 niles, About forty days
wiil Le allowed for the march, It will be the
longest march made by cavalrymen since the
opening of raiiroads,
A band of youthful eolored burglars ana
safe-robbers, their ages ranging from nine to
Ziteen years, was arrested in Lamar, Mo.
Fire destroyed Emery's Hotel, in
Poin’, X. J., and was communicated to
wrgen
the
Telephone Exchange and
Parlors,
covered
The loss is about £25,000, mostiy
by Insurance, -
superintendent of the Dock Street Market, in
George Reilly,
Phiiadeiphia committed suicide, —— Police.
wan Mellon arrested a man, evidently insane
in Philadelphia, who was flourishing a re Voie
ver and claiming that fortune-teliers
pursuing him for his money, He bad a ro.
turn railroad ticket from New York to Chie
ago, and papers which lead the antborities to
Lelieve that he is Peter Peterson, of Chicago.
wee 'The eighth annual convention of the
Typothetas of American was begun in Phila
deiphia, ~The sailiog yacht Gull has been
wrecked on n reef where the Lake of the
Woods empties into the Winoipeg River,
John McDonald, a stonecutter of Perch Ont.
and Sanford Shipper, of Detroit, Mich,, were
drowned, The wind was blowing a gale and
the yacht was soon a total wreek. The erew
was taken off the reef, ——The rolling stock
of the Pennsylvania, Ponghkeepsie and DBos-
ton Railroad was sold at Trenton, XN. J., by
order of the United States Court, and was
bought in by the Central Oar Trust for $135,
500, ‘The sale of the raliroad was adjourned
until October 18,
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The Amalgamated Association of Traded
Unions of Fall River, Massachusetts, held a
mesting nod resolved to ask the manulacturs
rors for the restoration of 10 per cent, in
wages, to take effect as soon as the mille
resume,
were
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fSrenerany Grusuas is the prize smoker of
the Cabinet, His allowance of cigars fis
twenty a day, and it is rare for him to be
seen without one in his mouth,
I. nip.
fin A. P. Camow, Canadian
penny-postage system,
CREAT BATTLE
The Chinese Army Cut to
Pieces at Ping-Yang,
JAPAN'S GREAT VICTORY.
An Army of Twenty Thousand Men
Routed~-Thousands Were Slain~
The Contest is Now Virtually
Over and Japan Owns Corea.
Authentic news has been received in
thant the
won a completo victory over
don from Seoul
havi
eae
stating
army at Ping Yang, Northern Corea
Chineso were captured or put to
The
beginning
Japanese loss was small,
insted threo daye,
on
evening last by a reconnoisance in force,
1
r
ately determined their position, The Japan.
tse troops were gotten into position
Baturday there was a general
both sides, beginning at Doth
fa fire
GRYLrenax,
sides wore well sheltered and
ioss of men, although the Chinese def
' 8
were badly damaged, In the afltern
luma of Japanese infantry
ward in skirmish line keeping up a
eusketry fire until dusk Tuis ended the
fighting for the day, and
the Chinese retired
ined security
But the Japanese spent
rand
whelm the enemy.
mns of Japanese drew a co
binese troops, and at 3 o
y the Japanese attack was deliveredelmul-
I'te Chinese llues, which
front, were found to
» Chinese utleriy uns:
» Chinese
COIURGY
in the Chi
fsb 4
ai the Chine
n escaping and these g
ately after
the C1
upon
THE CHINESE
the « -
be Manchurian army, who
he last, and who «
vided when he was badly wounded,
The Japanese loss was trifling compared
with that of the Chinese, only 30 Ja
being killed and 270 wounded, Eleven J
nese officers are included in these numbers,
f anese was incurred,
The
i Jap
mainly, during the first day's fighting
ss of the Japanese during
was very small, due to
taken by surg
{hrew away |
wing into confusion he regiments
have been counted
The
Japanese,
Chinese, *neatly wh were without
armé As far as the activ
Chinese in Corea are c«
practically at an
the
be completely in the
end for a
ye, and mainland of
said to
BPC Aan
II
COMPULSORY INSURANCE.
How the Orman Law Frotreting Workmen in Fae
tories Has Been En'ores td
Consul Warner, of Cologne, has furnished
the State Department information regarding
the operation of the German iaw, which has
been in effect since 1885, for the compulsory
insurance against accidents of workmen
whose salaries do notexeoed 476 perannum,
Since the inauguration of compulsory in.
surance in Germany up to the end of 1888
Geran industries had paid io a capital and
reserve fund of about $88,000,000. At the
elcse of 1892 the number of persons insured
against accidents in operative works was
18,014,280. The total expenditures in 1802
amounted to $12.542,767, distributed as fol.
jows: #7,006,068 for indemnification, #246.
254 for examinations of mecidents, $127,161
for courts of arbitration, £110,627 for protec
tion against necidents, $1,343,962 for general
administration and #3,002,072 laid aside as
reserve fund. The capital at the end of the
year 1892 amounted to $20,456,791, so that
the cost of administration amounts to 11 per
cert, of the total expenditures
Tue Chinese Minister, Yang Yu, who ne.
gotinted the recently approved treaty is a
very eareful diplomat, In his official corres.
pondence ho Is so anxious to avoid all mis.
takes that he insists on having every word
thoroughly defined before he will give a doo
mont his approval,
CABLE SPARKS.
Mir orany intervention in Madagnsear ie
considered inevitable unless the Hova gov
arnment submits to France's terms,
Tar chief leaders of the insurgent south
African Eaflirs, continued fighting,
have surrended to the Boer commanders,
A treaty
Japun and Cores defining
after
conciuded between
the relations of
the two countries during the war with China,
was been
Tur Sultan of Turkey has given threes hun-
dred Turkish pounds for the benefit of the
forest fires in Minnesota and
Wisconsin,
the
Russian during
Reronrs of cholera
pust three
aud
progress of
the
weeks show that there wore 5,013
throughotu
CRYCs
2,781 deaths from the disease,
from the Salvation Army
from all parts of London assembled at Eus-
ton Railroad Station to bid farewell
eral Booth, who started for America,
that the Em-
trying 10 organize n
with a
Detachments
to Gens
A FrExcH newspaper says
peror of Germany Is
conference of the powers view of
bringing abo at a general disarmament,
I'ue Baron Erlanger, whose death was ane
pounced. was Baron Victor Erlanger, and
head of
of London
not Barons Emile Erlanger, the the
house and
well-known bapk:ng
Paris,
Tur Peruvian government announces that
it has again defeated the
1
Ger
revolutionists un-
The and
to the rebels were cap.
Pacheco Gespodos, baggage
on belonging
Tue Italian police have discovered the ex-
vast Asso
, having b
en arrests bave already been
THE CROP REPORT.
ths Prot and Improved by Mueo
Wet Weather
and
evate
reports
rthern [ilinois, Mianesota
Montana and Wyoming au
and Moutanas.
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
rasa
i
in Ida
Baws: and wife were suffocate
ating gas in thelr bedroom at Ravens
ite in a sewer ex-
Tenn, one man
ne fatally injured,
wesons were fatally injured at Alex.
andris, Indiana, by an explosion of natural
i fatally
i and
O=p man was killed two wore
3
injured by being struck by a train in the
yards of the Wabash Hoad at Deentur, 1H
foie,
Ix a race at the Fair Grounds, at Somer
Hulse, a
crushed to death under his horse, which bad
iallen,
Two persons were killed and about 20 in-
jured one [atally, on » train which was blown
from the track by a tornado, at( barieston,
Missouri,
By the fall of a seaffold at Minneapolis,
two workmen were hurled from the eighth
floor to the basement of the Tribune building
which is being reconstructed, Both men are
believed to be fatally injured,
Despatonye from Emen Sidnaw, Trout
Creek snd other lumbering hamlets fu Mich.
ignn, report that high winds have fanned the
forest fires again into fury, and that mang
homesteaders have been burned out,
A tornado swept over the north end ol
Memphis, Tenn., demolishing about a dozen
dwellings, everturning a bridge and badly
damaging the shops of the Louisville and
Nashville Rajlrond. One man was killed and
one fatally injured,
Ix the collision between he steamer Portis
and the schooner Dora M, French, of Bangor,
Maine, off Vineyard Haven Sound, « aptain
French and three of the crew of the schoonet
were drowned, The mate, Jeremiah Murphy,
was saved,
Ir is feared that Cyrus Wicker, aged 18
years, a grandson of ex-Governor French, of
Hilinols, was drowned, He went rowing in a
small boat at Swampscott, Mass, and has not
wines been seen of heard of, The boat has
been found floating bottom upward a con.
siderable distance from where he had em-
barked.
ville, NX. J Bolter jockey, was
"
Five People Burned to Death in
a Washington Factory.
N— ——
2 MEN LEAP FROM THE ROOF.
Breaks Out in a Mattreen Factory,
and the Entire Bullding Is Envel~
oped Beforethe Workmen Can
Escape.-The Charred Re-
mains of Five of the Un-~
fortunates Found In
the Debris.
Washington was ths scene
marked by the
and thousands of dolinrs in money,
of another dis
astrous of human
The
before twelve
five, loss
life
fire broke out »
few minutes
o'clock A. M.. io the mattress manufactory of
& DBro., at 631-635
1 in an hour had spread over the
Massa
1usetis
', ANG
+k, destroying nearly every bulld-
ng in the
Vive of unates who were In the
building are « , four of them lying atthe
norgue, charred and crashed beyond recog-
the
jured, There may
fn, while thres others are at Emer
y Hospital seri
be others still i
sly in
irded, us some of
mien Are UnAc
Buildin
nors that there were other bodies fo
" ’
and the firemen began the work «
ing and intensely hot
r
in the fear that some un
other p
fortunate had been caught beneath the fail
ing walis, It was known that two men
in the crushed t
siding just before i fell
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AGAINST STATE
ROADS.
Brilways Prove a Foor
and Ire.
Pera, Hpain,
{ Bates and Uruguay
Great Britian
wowit
quits own and
Arzentine, Au
DPrazii
operate
stralia,
nmark
Japan, Norway,
The
ate practical fi id | { and
Nicaragaa
own and oper.
governments
which « of their railroads bul do not
operate any, leasing ali to private companies
wn pant
are Greece, Holland and Daly,
The relative rates charged for freight and
passenger service on the gov ernment.owned
railroads and other facts cited In connection
with such roads are ealeulated to afford lit.
tie encouragemant (o the advocates of gov
srnment ownership, A comparison of pas
senger charges por mile shows an average
in Grea: Britian of 4.42 cent. per frst
olass, 8.20 cents for second claes and 1.94 for
third class, In Fraoce the average is 3.20
cents for first class, 4.00 for second class, 1.86
for second class and 208 for third class, In
Germany the rate is 3.10 cents first class, 2.53
cents second class and 1.54 cents third class
In the United States the average charge is
92.12 cents, The average charges per ton per
mile are as follows: In Great Britian, 2.80
sents; in France, 2.20 cents; in Germany: L64
cents, and in the United States 1 cent,
Italy has tried both State and private rails
ways and has come to the conclusion that it
is not advantageous for the State to own and
operate the Hallways Under the present
system private companies operate the State
roads under contrast with the government,
It in stated that in the, United States several
of the States bave tried ownership in a limit
od way. Illinois constructed a road at the
cont of $1,000,000 but disposed of it for #109,
000; Indiana had a similar experience; Geor-
gia owns a railroad, but found it expedient
to lease it to u private company; Pennsy.-
vanin constructed a milroad from Philadel:
phia to Columbia but subsequently sold it
Massachusetts, Michigan and several other
States have tried the experiment without sue-
SUNK WITH ALL ON BOARD
Over Alter
Behind,
One of the most pee aliar stories of the loss
Sixty Lives Lost Help Was Left
of & vessel that has been received In Ban
Francisco for many months is
brought in
advices via the steamer Oceanle from
Thi
MInEA.
pore, vin Hong Kong. Namyong, u
ton stenmer, is said to have gone down, with
all bands on board in the Carminata Straits,
while on a passage from Sours Daya to Siug-
apore,
Ou the evening of the British
steamer Ingraban noticed signals of
August 7,
distress
in the direction of Berutu Island apd bore
down upon them, The Ingraban lay 100 near
the island during the aight and at daybreak
the next morning discoversd the Namyong
with her head on a coral reef, Thelngraban
then approached closer to the roe! and
HC.
eseded in getting six
off her,
een ofthe
wrecked crew
Then the attempt made to tow the
Namyong into deep wi Several useless
attempts were made ly she began tc
slide
anyone
from the je
cn Isso
ORTS AND IMPORTS.
40 148 were
¥ Aug jet Ww
august, 1808, £849 502
Augustweredd 4831 TiRlorAugust exp
572.031 During the eight months end
i for
3a F071
August the gold esporis were 1
the imports, $16,516 4%, as comy
ex ris of 854 451.052.
for
August, 1803
and
21 687 the
eight mon
Silver exports
of 1554 were £3
129,
( 5 aE Aagninst « Xx ports
and imports of $13 001,45
44
:
ing period of 1833,
HIS HAIR ON FIRE.
n
Bes Jellow Uses a Bun Gloss on Jim Earper with
Earprising Besuite
Jim Harper and others were
ol Simpson's grocery, Trimble, Tenn
; his poe
focused fis lens on Harper's uno
The glass did more than expected, The
concontrated rays did not reach Harper's
scalp, but suddenly his bead was a mses of
fumes, caused by the ignition of the bay rum
on the hair, be baving just came from “he
ho started
ts run, but Frank Gordon caugh’ him and
held him while others exilinguisbe like Giare,
Harper would doubtless have killed the
joker on the spot had he not been restrained
by friends. He brought suit against Jellow
or $15,000. Physicians say Harper's bend
will never be adorned with anoiher sult of
baie Jellow is guite wealthy,
IWENTY-ONE WERE POISONED.
——
School Chilirin Ate Oreen Candy and Drank OW
Well Walen
Tremendous excitement prevails in the Hite
tie village of Hazleton, la, on account of the
poisoning of *wenty-one small school chile
dren,
The first to show signs of poisoning was
soon after recess, At recess one of the schol
ard bought ome or two pounds of mixed
candy, part of which was colored green, This
was given to the children asa treat, Some
of the scholars think the candy poisoned the
children while others think it was eaunsed by
drinking water, which was taken from a well
that had not been used for about nine
months,
1t is the opinion of the attending physicians
that most of the children will recover,
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J. McSwrxey, an American citizen, and the
commercial agent in Oaxaca, Mexico, forthe
Interoceanie Ballrond, and a friend named
flaps, was ambushed by Todinne forty mies
south of Oaxaca and bith wed hot dead,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS
Gleanel From Various
of the Btatin
Epitome tf Hews Parts
Officers were « Binte Couticil
ofthe Jr. O. 1
busy routine session
cio] by the
A. M at Laneaster. Anoiher
was held,
The quo warranto procsedinzs aginst
Allen
settled by the payment of costs at Pottsville,
County Commissioner Charles
wers
The Democratic Congressional Conferences
Bediord nomin-
Barke, of Altoona,
recently
of the Twentieth District at
ated Hon,
WwW. XM.
frauds in
Thomas J
Granger, charged with
Pittat or : wr
ittsburg, is nos
yt
Bow :
aeoused
forgery and misapprehension by the
Herd.
The Brotherhood of Viremen's Co
nas IL
riven
ended in Harrisburg after declaring again
sympathetic strikes snd denouncing the
methods of Debs nnd Hannahan
Judge Yerkes fssued a rule on
pators
fzation, speci!
Baek 5
One
yiig qualifications necessary in
county
hundred
against a cut in i at Bristol,
several Phil iphians express their views
r jaw und as
Leflore
they
in the In.is
United American
nun session at
v
f
Koni
hh at Nini
stale sojal % sud
TALC CeeDIRIOG,
As & result of a « idburst, a
f Middletown was washed
woman was drowned. Mr
in a CRrriage on
when the downpour «
joree fo
that
wed away, he
rill was drowned,
iren were saved
Frank Morris, the l6-year-old boy w!
attempted 10K
Mr. Holfi
was caught at Alice mines by a detective and
oKer,
I'he president and eashier of
arrested at Middie
charged with misapplying funds,
The Gettysburg condemnation jury finishe
hearing testimony in the eicctrie railway con-
will meet 0
demnation proceedings and
The Republican primary elections hold in
Chester County to settie a tie vole in ths
western district resulted in favor of T. J.
Philips,
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
in session at Harrisburg, may decide 10 levy
an assessment for Lehigh Valley strikers,
The Board of Managers of the Penusyl
vania Chautauqua, elected Rev, T. I
Schmank chancellor, to sucored Dr, T. Mad
Hark.
The strike at the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal Company's mines Is over, the mea
going to work at the company’s terms,
General Hastings and General Latta spoke
in Bradlord, McKean county, to euthusiastic
and demonstrative audiences,
The thirty-filth annual session of the State
Council, Junior Order of American Mochane
ies, opened at Lancaster,
The annual convention of the State Fire
men’s Association, was begen in Norristown,
with a large attendance of delegates and vise
iting companies,
Republicans in the Eighth Congressional
District nominated Hon, W, 8 Kirkpatrick
for Congress,
The Grace Lodge of the Knights of America
at Seranton elected officers,
Anthony P. Shimer, charged with mortally
shooting James Bradley at West Chester was
releassd on £5,000 bail,
for the murder of Tilmano Tamas at Port