THE NEWS Yietor Askie, the clothing merchant of whe, on April 21, to East Broadway, New Yous, with two other premises for the $14,000 insurance, and whe men, conspired burn his was convicted of ayson in the second degree was sentenced to nine years and ten months at hard labor in the state prison, ———Louls FE. Matthews, who lost heavily in wheat deals, was found dead in Kilbourn Park, Miiwaa- kee, He had taken polson, ——«A young mun named Henry, at Cralton, awakened by burglars in his room, John ()., was Henry gave chase, and was shot and killed by one of the The tracked to Elyria, Ohlo district been of {io burglars have 1he thieves, miners to £0 the the Mussiion (Oblo) agreed work, leaving their grievances to of burned to board arbitration, Iwo men death, two otl girl were | d doliary’ in Nanaimo, B in what is thought MoeHug! partisi oli of both The « it La sue Lilt and tose residences i PraWitt Ge its at Cort to have went beer fessor 81 his wile, the the grout coasts, doing immer sonville a hotel was unre ings biown do Indinn River was ru the wind blew seventy. the island was su Tne hull of the docked at the Mare which wan nnington, i yard, was Islan anvy found to be in poor condition, — Mrs, Emma husband been dead two years, is in jail in Beverly Ya, charged Ware, on young widow, whose has . WW, with infanticide, It is all that a week aco she threw ber newly! fant from of hall a d¢ a second.st window into ry rv Bogs ry bogs, ne pen zen hungry Tae child was com pivtely devoured *he fron ship Glen- essiin is lying at the bottom of the East River at her pier, where she was sunk shortly alter midnight as a flosl resort to extinguish a fire that broke liege, a handsome brick and out on board, St. Mary's Col- stone structure in Oakdale, Cal, erected five years ago by the Christian Broth R, ws damaged to the extent of £100.00); by fire insuran The building was completely gutted, y $80 000, —- in the United States District Court in New York Judge Lacombe formally appointed A. F. Walker receiver for the affairs of the Atehi- son, Topeka and Santa Fo Raliroad at the behest of the organization committee, The resignation of J. W, Reinhart as receiver was also formerly accepted, — Mrs, Osborn, her four ehilidren and a boarder iiving in Meme phis were poisoned arsenle, which had been pinced in their coffee, ~The twenty. second anneal meeting of the American Pub Liz Health Association opened fn Montreal, wo Five laborers were badded under a mass of earth in an excavation on a crossing of the Reading Rabroad at Philadelphia, and one man was Killed and the other four were in. Jured, by BURIED IN A MINE Feariul Death of F ur Men Near Carbondale, Pennsylvania, Two miners snd two laborers were killed in the Northwest Colliery of Simpson & Wats kins, at Simpson, near Carbondale. Thedy mangled remains He beneath a fall of roek which is 10 feet wide, 6 foot high and 60 feet in the gangway off the third slope of the pine, Tug Wilts, a driver, was the only witness of the horror. He was sitting alongside fhe track waiting for a enr to be Jouded hy ihe i l-fa‘ed men, when without warning, the roof of the gangway fell within three feet of bim. Without halting be ran to the head of the slope and gave the alae, 1t is feared the Lodics of (he entombed men eanuot Le reached for several ditys, i FTY KILLED. Victims of the Tornado in Iowa and Minnesota. A PATH OF DESOLATION. The Storm Swept! Two Hundred Miles Through Both States, De- vastating Farms and Villages« Groves of Trees Moved as by a Scythe. Between 8 and 11 o'clock Darrow strip of by ountry 200 a bu t piaces develo] ©4 ) iald waste rricane the pe devastate Pe fore of the the bart was alr AL George went, leaving the whole family : Wire was on the whils away a beens I" fidron being Kille M. W, Ferguson's family was carried sor distance through the air and all | The bal landed 1n a wi urther and was pieces of rool, The w cut open in two of Swan Peterson had pinces and some parts of her bead were literally packed wit! The seene of desolntion was visited all day by great crowds every available conveyance being ¢harterad, The damage to will not be less than §100,000. Most to do, with snug prog erty of the bank bers of the victims, who were renters, everything. - I 15 AM SALT WATER GEYSER, A Brasge I1hencmna in West Virginia Which Kay Cause Law Suite A salt water geyser in Pleasant county, W, Va, is doing great damage, Sometime ago the Archer Fork Oil Company began to deill an oil well on the streatn of that naose, and a fow days ago they struck a great vein of salt water, which gushed up in a tall volamn over the top of the derricks, The flow is immense, and continuous, with the exception of brie! lapses in the height of the column, The water is strongly impregnated with salt, and Archer's Ford and French Creek beretofore noted for the great number of game fish found in thelr walers, are now po thoroughly impregnated that the fish have all boen killed or driven off. The water is so salty that neither man or caitle ean drink it, The salty stream has spread over a great amount of cultivated territory, rendering it utterly useless, Springs, wells and streams are rendered unfit for ue, and the farmers believe that the geyser will cause much damage They threatened to bring sults for dumages against the oll company for not plugging the well and shutting the streams off. lost CABLE SPARKS. Tnx anniversary of Italian unite wns coles brated with great Italy, ceremony throughout ir is announced that the Braziling govern. ment 3,000,000 pounds sterling, Du. Rarary Nuxgz, president of the Repub- le of Columbia, is critically ill. It is reported in Colon that he is dead, Tue English apple crop isthe poorest it has been in twenty years, and a good market for Amorican apples is expected, proposes to raise a loan of Tux health of Grand Duke George, second son of the Czar, has again taken a very ser- ious turn, The Czar's health 18 also again causing much apprehension, A petition Swiss of citizens has been presented to the Fed. bearing the names eral Council demanding the adoption of vig- orous repressive measuras against nunrchists, went! mania athy Amerk y London, is i iron reported an turer, said that tha sto in the United States 10 have i wen formed 10 begin AFFAIRS IN HAWAIL ot or the isto be Restore! The Republic Fr piting Rumors That Queen Lil aling cations there made yet f ade ii BGviser iv spoken of fe One of the is to th lanses of the new constitution y affect that all Government officials who have not taken the aliegiance to Republic by the 1st of September will be dis. charged, This rule will be carried out even to the exclusion of few of whom would not give up their allcgi A majority of the ol. oatk the presen; ances to Liluoakalind, flco-bolders bave taken and stand pledged to support Government, One American, threa German and three English men.of-war have been in Honolulu Harbor for the past week. The Germans joft n few days ago and the Charleston de parted yesterday for the scene of the Corean war, The Hyacinth, an English warship, leaves today for a short eruise, This has given birth to the usunl Royalists rumors of the Queen's restoration, but no belief is ex- pressed by the Government in any attempt toward rebellion, the required EDUCATORS IN A DUEL Preaiivnl Bryant Shoots Trofessor Ellis of » Rival Echeol, At an early hour in the morning at Texar kann, Ark, OG. Lo Bryant, president of the Texarknoa Interstate Normal and Business College, shot and mortally wounded Prof, George I’, Eills, » former teacher in the eck loge, aud at present the principal of a private school. The trouble grew out of a rivalry between the two schools. The men went on the outskirts of the eity to fight it out, when Bryant pulled pv pistol and shot Ellis through the body. Ells was unarmed, as the men had agreed to fett with their fiste, Bryant was placed In jadi Ia default of ball, which was fixed at £8,000. Public sentiment i voanimoupy pyainst Bryant LIL WANTS DAMAGES. The Ex-Queen May Fus ‘he $200,000, Unitcd Bt tes For It is stated on what appears to be good au- thority that the errand of H, A. Widemann, of Honolulu, 10 this eocuntry, is 1or the pur- poss of commencing a Jamnge sult against ex-jaeen & al damage asked the United States on behalf of the of Hawaii. The amount of is £200,000 and the friends of the declure that this Government her 1« the provisional lished fhe ex-Queen in~ that has been leting y fully strumental in m Her government ¢« and bersell de ‘ amount, claim is that iid pot have been ental d had it action of a recognized agent not been for of the States, the captain of tae warship Doston, 3 y Fey § x i which netion was subsequently formally dis. avowed bry the President, Whateser ur Widemann’ secret until alin suddenly when hiv secured Hh RAO GAIN 18 were geri ABOUT A NOTED PEOZLE. the Emy ber ol Peregrine in New Eopgilan the NH wer, } he first white chi Dorn witiin Mash she having been i Cape Cod, on board the rer 30th, 1620 He jsf generation ret still engages activ have a long leases family Ture Royal ave a taste for br the Greene nurse, who bas been attending the infant Prince, 1 rom them. The Queen gave her a dikmond and roby bros and Duchess of York a diamond and sapphire one, the Duke piaining a Jock of the baby's hair. The Dake and Duchess Teck, however, gave her a piteher and a sugar howl, Tug death of “The blind Mansarares'' bas attracted wile attention in lately received a number of presents i, the Duke alone a gold one ¢ silver cream Woman the country to the other. Bho was a poet and had a remarkable talent for writing beg. ging verses, describing her misery, Many of the poems are beautiful, and the author en- joyed a large income, She was said to be ona of the best reciters in Spain, and many of the most famous men in the country made pilgrimages to her house to hear her, Queen Isabella gave her a pension years ago, She left about $60,000, Fraviwix Alace, the popular actress of Berlin, says & contemporary, announces her coming marriage In this way through the press: “To all my friends and acquaintances: «1 desire herewith to make known that I am about to appear in & new character which 1 have never yet performed. The drama | called ‘Marriage’ (‘Die Ehe’). The part of hero will be taken by Herr Haas B—. Upon him it depends whether the play shall be a comedy or a tragedy, It will certainly not te un farce, for we are both of ve terribly in earnest, Besides, all my married friends teil mo that in ‘Marriage’ there is nothing to laugh at’ mms AIO 5 Tug oldest pensioner in the country is An drew Franklin, of Burlington, Kaus, who was born in 1781, fought in the war of 1813, in two Indian wars, and served as 8 foam. ster in the Obvll War, i PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS ef Bews Gleansd From Various ci ihe Epitome Etats Ehortlids ended agreeing that he The trial of Professor 8, (. sharged with murdering his wife, sequittal at Media, the jury was insane when the fatal shot was fired, It is estimated that the he Filnt Coited Glass Compnny has « £1.600.000 in bet ween girugie Glass Workers Union apd the ost the Jorm er ‘hie Joss of wines, besides #250 100 which bas been paid out as strike bene. fits, Becretary MeDryde, ited Mine Workers, said at Colug , that General miners, of I suleide Abderbolden, 1am #1, Al (sien On kK was cons Kling an 18montis-( The trinl of Pr charged with kil relat br ken x The } Opera House, €75.000, was Ark estroyoed by a fire crigin, Charles GO. Garrett, who murdered his wife in Lebanon several ago and es. cape], was seen near Highspire, in Dauphin county, but an attempt to capture him fafied. At a regular i Warwick ite arose ied ne director fastered his sineas ses f the sehool lirectors in Township, | hester relative Oo schools to a Enock-down fight saother and inflicte Suits for assault and wayhem are threatened, Ex-Banker Rockafellow whi of Wilkes-Barre, is serving a sentence in the tn Pen itentinry for dolrauding bis depositors, gives out a statement in which he tries to explain what became of the money, snd nominated candidates ate, the House qualifiedly tithe Siate Sens of Representatives, and un- indorsed Watres for United States Senator, Mra, Frederick Hoobnvr met road in the suburbs of Potteville, was being shifted onto a siding, ard she fell beneath the wheels, Peter Rinker, n brakeman Wilkes-Barre & Eastern road, struck on burg, THE CROP REPORT. Fienty of Rain ani Corn and Wheat in Good Oon- dition. The Weather Bureau in its report of weather crop conditions for the week says: Upon the whoie the week bas been very favorable, Abundant rains have relieved drought conditions in all sections execpt in Nebraska and portions of Kansas, Minnesota and the Dakotas, Fall plowing and sending have progressed rapidly, and much of the early sown winter wheat is looking well Corn cutting has been pushed vigorous'y, The week has boon very favorable for cotton pleking, which has been pushed rapidly, i 0c Enastos Wistaw, sinos he gave ball and eame out of jail, has been kept busy attend, ing to his many enterprises, He is just as no- five and enorgetic as formerly, and his Iriendasay that he will yet work out of al his financial trouble, iy ol sie DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. wii on s fires are raging #t and & 4 fod rie 3, 190 Jala . Louis, spent iu b id his sud daugh jehising nest Owin years, of 6 i by they st the time, n ihat © minutes later, at tal 3s rug ground was at 1.25 o'clock, earth fell on named as they were bending over their sho THE BATTLE-SHIP of the Few Con‘recter.’ Tri l Fighting Machine Buccess!u The United States battleship Maine which has been In ofl construction since 1583. when her keel was laid, left the Brook: lyn navy-vard Tuesday, and it was the firs time she was ever under way. Her initial trip was the vecasion for a cone tractors’ trial to est the horsepower of her engines and her spesd previous to an officisl trial, which will take place in a few days. Capt. F. M. Bunce was {a command of the vessel, Lieut. W, Kellogg, of the New York, acted as the executive officer, an Lieut A Ward, of the San Francisco, pavigatve, The erew of 120 bluejackets was selected fron the eralsers New York and San Francisco, The Maine ras nearly forty miles to sea, when she turned and came back to the navy. yard in the face of a stiff teespe from the northwest, During part of the time while ander forced draught ber machinery re corded 181 revolutions a minute, which fe es. timated to be & speed of 171, knots an hour, Tho contractors feel confident that the horsepower will exceed 5.000, which the specifications call for, The Maine is 310 Yoot long, 57 feet beam, 21 feet draught, and bev displacement is 7,238 tons, When finished her cost will bo §2,500.- 000, out of which $735,000 haus been expendcd on ber engines, boilers and machinery, Course
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