THE NEWS A. K. Hamilton, of the Hadfleld Company, of Milwaukee, has commenced action against the Menominee Fa'ls Stone Company and the Menominee Falls Quarry Company to compel them to deliver their property to him, the claim being made that the quarries in Wau- keska county owned by these companies, properiy belong in the nssels of the Hadfleld Company, and that they were fraudulently conveyed the corporation named, — Adolph Sulro, of Calliornia, says he is going te erect a million dollar hotel on his property at the Clig House, He intends to mnke it an sleal summer resort, and will commence operations when his new e.ectric road tothe Leach is completed. ~——Meyer T. Cohen. a Boston tailor, was swindled out of $6,500 by a stranger, who sold him a iot of stuff which Lie represented to be gold dust, —— At Perth Amboy, N. J., the postoflice was robbed of over £2,000 The large factory to in money and stumps, -— of the Berg (ompany, manufacturers of fertilizers at the corner of Russell and Bath Streets, Ken. sington, near Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire, entailing of $60,000. =A scaffold suspend ad under the roof of the Erie Depot train shed in Jersey City fell, and six of the eight men at work upon it were hurled to the station platform beneath, Twe a loss of the rool girders ahd were thus able { save themselves, seriously injured, one fatally. Au overturned oil stove in Newburyport, car shops set fire to the main building of the L Eogineer James Lynott, of Staunton; Fire- of Moscow: Wm. Hosey, of Binghamton, were killed by a col lislon on the rail at Foster, Pa,——Just Dbe- fore the arrival of the midnight train on the branch road from Kingston Junction, Kiogston, Canada, three mail ing the Kingston mail were ent and all their At Pa, a Hunzarian was pleked near Colorado Mine No. 3, and taken to bospital. He stated that he had been attacked by some unknown parties, After ng this state- ment he became unconscions died, Two robbers shot and mortally wounded one the counting room of the Massachusetts, plant on Merrimac street, £125,000, yas man Elmer Seull, Fireman at bags coniain- eontents taken. Phillipsburg, up the maki and man, and seriously wounded arvother while Stempting to burglarize a bonse in Mahoney City, Pa,—A jury in Treoton, N.J,, awarded George Spencer £12,000 against Dela- ware, Lackawanna and Western Road, for injuries received ,in a raiiroad accident Ex-Mayor Harry White, of Seattle, Washing- tor, confessed that he was gambling place, and that he been impeached, Martin Palaja, thirteen years of age, shot Annie Ramantowskl, six years old, in Grand Rapids, — Three men were killed and on was [atally injured in a freight wreck on the Beach Creek Rat'road, near FPeele, Penna The men were {ot been burglars, ee Alfred Merritt, ex-president of the Du Mesaba and Northern Railroad, has bro suit in Duluth, Minn, against John D. Roc foiler and F. T. Gates, of New York, charg- ing them with fraud and the interested in a should bave ind to have misrepresentation of the Mesaba He asks judgment against yr #1,296, 400. - in securing a consolidation Range iron ihe defend employes of the cutting department eS ants ant the eighty Standard Pearl Batton Com Detroit in remonstrance against the empl to su said, ¥- ment of John Bell as fo cored William Stevens: an, Bedl, an in a prison shop at Ches- — By the explosion of Bb. it Is was formerly a forem ter, IiL A. T. Ereep’s saw-mill, a mile from Parkers burg, W. Va, the buliding was d two men kilied, ——Dr, Robert E, of Philadeiphia, whose widow of George W. ( hilds, died at Asbury Pack, at the age of eighty-two years -Ar- thur Meyer, the driver of a California stage esach, was shot and killed by man. —Judge Foster, at T against the Santa Fe Raliroad the United Biates Court, on the point of Jaw raised by directors’ at. torneys that the court had no jurisdiction. the plaintifls being residents of other states, John A. Nightingale, a wealthy retired business man, died suddenly in Easton, Pa, from paralysis, aged eighty years, The de. ceased was as native of Quincey, Mass, and a descendent of one of the most prominent families in that state, —J. D. Boe, of Day- ton, Newton county, Mo , fired four shots at Ed McAlester in Webb City, slightly wound. ing bim in the neck. He then shot himseif through the head, causing instant death, He was to have been married to 8 Miss Martha Ford, but became insanely jealous of Me- Alester, The shooting took place in the presence of Miss Ford, who is now prostrated, «Frank Klein and Otis Savage were ar. rested in The Dalles, Oregon, for robbing the Pacific Express Company's office, Klein confessed, and a part of the plunder was re. covered, ~— Adam Aberlo was instantly killed in Bauflalo by a blow with the fist struck by John Liske, The men quarreled in a saloon and then fought, Liske, who isa plasterer, struck Eberle, a batb-r, a vicious blow over the heart, —Thomas M. Barke, of South Beach, Staten Isiand, who, on August 15, eansed the death of Fred Bergman, his son. in-law, by means of a trapgun set at Burke's hut, was sentenced to ten years’ imprison. ment, By advieo of his counsel, Burke pleaded guilty to a charge of mansiaught sr, A — TRAIN WRECKER CONFESSES the boiler in estroyed and ‘eterson, nly daughier is the a highway” decided directors in decision was 3 EN, The A Private Detective Cancen a Consition in the Tilal of aCalifsrnia A BR U Mas, The trial for murder of H G. Worden, at Woodlawn, one of the five A. RB. U, men un. der arrest for having eaused the railroad ac. eldent which resulted in the death of En. gineer Clark and four United States soldiers during the recent strike, developed a sensa- tion, CO. J. Stillwell, a private detective, testified to an alleged confession which was produced in Worden's handwriting, in which he con. fessed complicity in the crime and implicat od the other men arrested. Worden in bis statement says the train wreckers were given the dynamite which they used to shatter the bridge by Compton, a member of the Media. tion Committee, Worden also makes the somewhat remark. able statement that he hired a carriage and drove with the train wreekers almost to the bridge but he loft them and returned to Hac. ramento before they began thelr work ef de W Russia's Autocratic Ruler Suc- cambs to Disease. HIS COUNTRY IN MOURNING. Nicholas Il. Will Reign in His Stead~ Neither the Politics or the Peace of Europe Will Ee Seriously Affected. Alexander 111, Czar of Russia, died at 2,15 o'elock in the alternoon at Livadia, The first news of the death of his was posted shortly before 8 o'clock. Majesty A quar- ter of an hour later a salute of gnus from the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul the sad news, Later a telogram stated tha the Czar was quite conscious when he took ¥ his last sacrament at 10 o'clock. Ib mein bers of the council ol the empire an oth high officials, both civil and military, and many private citizens assembled 10 o'el in the Cathedral of Moutebello where ' at He emn mass was sald lor the repose of : THE EMPEROR 8 LAST HOT Since Tuesday, when the d« the Czar that there was no longer ro 1 hope, his Majesty composedly waited fo end, attending to necessary sate and affairs in the short intervals of ¢ to sedatives to procure sleep On Wednesday the Czar was still taken to a window of the palace, gazed out upon the coun fas to r “Peasant Czar. fry earn for himael! the appeilat The night i" aggravation of all the sympt tinuous distressing cough. the ( zarina remained in him throughout the night, The heavy clouds and the weather n hy i a : morning broke wi FAD at so rapidly that the Czar himself, still © scious, recognized that be could live only a fow hours. He expressed a desire to receive the saerament, which was administered 10 bim by Court L haplain Yanishefl ivan in the presence of the whole 'amil and Father ¥. A BLESSING ON HIS CHILDREN, The Czar then conversed (ome estly with Father Ivan, concluding ty asking bis family to again gather round him. He spoke to each member separately, an 1 at the greatest length with the ( zarion, He Liesas all his children present, The scene was of deep pathos, all being in tears, Ali time he waa sitting up in an arm-chair, one eo grew gradoally wenker, and his voice bec to indistinet He fit of coughing Thence About noon a convulsive THE CZARERWITCH. A til the end the Czar remained quiet, seeming. Iy free from pain. At 2.15 be heaved a deep sigh and breathed his last in the arms of the Empress, who then broke down with the weight of her grief. The Joetors fear the roe sults of reaction upon ber already exhausted system, The body will probably be laid for a conple of days in the palace caapel. The arrange. ments that will be made for the funeral are stl unknown, An imperial deeree announcing the ncees- i gion to the throne of the Grand Duke Nic hoe i las (the Czarewiteh) arrive | THRE XEW C2AL. is expectod to { from Livadia in a few days, The theatres and restaurants closed were but the streets were busy as usual, Crowds bulletins the | ofMeinl announcement of His Majesty's death, It is reported that the populace of Moscow, | stood about the places where the | { from Livadia have been posted, roading indignant at what they believe to be the mal” | practice of Dr, Zacharin in the case of the Czar, wrecked the doctor's house in that eity, Shortly after 4 o'cloek the members of the palace guard were marshnied in the square for the swenring allegiance to. the They were the first to take the oath, in front of the paluco chapel cere- | mony of new Czar, The Grand Duke was the next to swear alie- glaneo, and they were followed in the order of precedence by the high court function. fMcinls, military officers and aries, court « eivil officials, AT THE RUSRIAR of LE the ATION, The brought profoun Announce Czar's death tho Russinn lega- a from tion at Washi n the vyenera- for thelr rrow to Drives tien which Russians hold it was a personal sc 3 who had, before com Lumen, ing to this o try, been brot $ persona ed An aes s following eal Wis Dro tion pe tion bad sites, and yet he mot assassins - auld mperor fod Ly § . While the ate Emperor moved 1] ag bis people until he died amid their piversal grief, of vernment will The President's mes age eo oi the Hassian g be transmitted to Minister Brookinridge, at St Petersils TIT fTORY OF ALEXANDER IIL Alexander Alexandroviteh was the second son of Alexander [I and of Princess Maria, daughter of the late Duke of Hesse Darm- stale, March 10, 1845. The | eldest boy, Nicholas Alexandroviteh, died at Niece, in 1863. He #anid to have been a miracle of gooduess and cleverness, Nicholas and was Lorn is was tall and slender, and as handsome as his grandfather, Hus countenance bad a charm i of expression which captivated everyone, He was the pet of his mother, of court, of f¢ death, the whole asd the nation. bis | erected » temple in their hearts to his mom- ory, and greeted the ukae which declared i Alexander Alexandroviteh the titie of Czareviteh with ciear tokeas ol | dissatisfaction, Alexander 111, when he became the heir to | the throne at the azo of 20. bad ail the odds | against him. The nation disliked him, Like | all the gracd dukes of Russia not destined to igit on the throne, his education was exeln- { sively military. It was a serious obstacle to { bis becoming a goodsoverign., He had no | selentifle fustruction and no kuowiedge of | foreign languages except French, Of polities { and solology hes new next to nothing, He | was inclined to a life of pleasure rather than one of labor. To acquire the necessary qual ifleations for his new calling was a serious task. He was obliged at ones to enter upon the duties of a crown prines. Ho» had a seat in the counell of state. He was foresd to take an interest in exsoutive affairs anl in ques tions of publio polloy, and to show by desds and words that he was endowed with as much judgment as his lamented brother. Alexander had married on November 8, | 1866, Maria Dagmar, daughter of King Chris. | tian 1X, of Denmark, belag the first of his house lor many years who had married out. side of Germany. It may have been aocldent that caused the selection of other than a Ger. man princes for the wife, but taken into Jconsiderntion with his later acts it seams to provs that his more recent pronounced aver sion to the Teutons showed itself by this marriava 4 General sorrow lussian people liowed iho his successor to THREE An Inhuman Crime Committed in Upper Luzerne. BUILDING BLOWN T0 ATOMS Dyna:nite Placed Under the Cente: and the Four Corners-Sixty Per- sons Lived There.—A Battery Supplied the Fatal Epark. A large Hungarian at Laurel Run, Luzerne county, Pa, was blown up by dynamitards at 8 o'clock in the mors- ing. of right, four fatally injured and balf doses seriously hurt, boarding-house Three the inmates were killed cut. Twenty-four sticks of dynamite under the bullding, each were placed being about hall A wire connected the sticks with a ba When the current turned nine inches long and weighing about a pound, A. tery, the situnted avout fifty yards away. sigoal was given an on only about a hall a exploded, They were completely wreck the building, not a beam « pinuk of which wns f the § ielt standing. Bevernd « in the yppe f coped fatal injuries by trees near by, Hall Caz i were alle 10 res A tra # hie E-waiker, who go rily after the exj £8 were ving : debris ’ ol One thea made } sighboring Blankets and bedding nd the injured Laotegh Val 8 ee eCia Lhe ni ured barre Doss say» he is ¢ Gastardly Ta bis § encircied his waist of en see On Wore (rain ps, iynamite, Lae is suse had been Lroker An oid pew batiery taken und near by Tae supg fon iatter would pot work end a new as Lv CORRMATY. a ——i THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION. sisi Presid at Cloviland BR views The Continued Fless ings Aoocried the Nation President Cleveland issued the customary Thauksgiving proclamation as follows LO By the President of the United States of America, A PROCLAMATION The American people should gratefully ren. der thanksgiving and praise to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe who has watched over them with kindoess and fostering care dur bas i ing the year that passed; they should also with humility agd faith supplicate the Fatber of all mercies for continued blessings according to their needs, and the of every good and perfect gift, President should ol the they by deeds of charity seek favor ¥ J Giver Fherefore I, Grover Cleveland, and of thanksgiving observed sot apart Thursday, the twenty-ninth day November, instant, as a day of and prayer, 10 be kept and the people of the land, by au On that day let our ordinary and jet meet our accustomed places of worship and give thanks to Almighty God for our preservation Work business bo suspended, and us in as a nation, for our immunity from disease and pestilence, for the harvests (hat have re. na in our warded our husbandry, for a renewal of tional prosperity and lor every advance virtue and intelligence that has marked growih as a peopis, And with our thanksgiving let us pray that these blessings be multiplied unto us, that our national conscience may be quickened to a better recognition of the jower and good ness of God, that in our national life we may olenrer sos nod closer follow the path of righteousness, And in our places of worship and praise, as weil as in the happy reunions of kindred and friends, on that day, let us invoke Divine approval by generously remembering the poor and needy, durely He who has given us comfort and plenty <7 look upon our re- ef of the destitute and our ministration of oharity as the work of hearts truly grateful and as proofs of the sincerity of our tuanks- giving. Witness my hand and the seal of the United States on the first day of November in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and nine. teenth, Grover CLeveLAYD By the President: W, GC Guusuan, Secretary of State, III Numszns of the leading English and fon eign anarchists are vacating their haunts in London asd the majoilly are prooseding singly to Amerien to escape the incessant g of the polise, SHELLS TO PIERCE SHIPS. Exp rimonts Meds at Indign Head--Th: Bors! Gus Tried, A series of Interesting tests | of shells that ! will penetrate ships buving thin armor and then Gurst loside was begun the Indian Head Proving Ground, The XRavy Depart. ments contemplates purchasing several hun nt dred of these shells for the Lig nod for tails purpose invited five firngos mak ing shells to subanit samples, Two of them, one made by the Wheeling Sterling Company nnd the other by tho Midiave Steel Company, tet} AIL were tried, i fan ol 970 feet } were fired with a velocity apninst a 7-iuch nickel steel and both went th and into the ¢ rough tt arb They were vom aratively auinjured, ton, chief of the Ordnance Bureau, says the tosts showed thnt be were excelient pro- jection, Another charge was gun, the Inrgest The powder © yet used, nnd the velocity the pro- “4ile attnioed wa je 2452 feet and a fninimn pressu This cliy ol nine Har caliler, sys, may bave Des Bay i On thst the the care wit! hin ot this gun la INRE® & tests are conducled, GREAT FLOODS IN FRAKCZ. TWO F Tiree Mes Kills EIGHT WRECES Thre Bart M atiy Kill O! the {twenty neariy al are so Hadiy burt th thelr injuriea All of the Bristol pl clans were summon. ed 10 the soene of the wreck, tending to the Eo and after at wounds sent it Phila. 1 § me - S Spit to Bris Hoan he oll deiphin Hospital Loma on the Pittsburg, Fort Railroad was Ons pe freight, west bound, 4 Chi the oii é ne Warne as ages t into Irom freight No 77 in a dense Jog | in rear by #1 Ottawa river bridge, Rix cars were thrown down an enbankment and wrecked, One gondola loaded with o« and war o« ske caught fire nsumed, DBrakefian ris, Engineer John Kohler, Fireman W. D. ously, but not fatally. Loss $480 000, A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY. ——— Convict on of Fe ons wards for the detection, arrest and convie- $0, 1805, First - One thousand dollars for the arres! and conviction ¢f any person in any Un ted States court on the charge of robbing the mails while being conveyed in any mail oar atiached to a railroad train, Recond The sum of $500 for arrest and sonvietion ou the charge of robbing the mails being conveyed over any route other than a railway and who wounds the carrier post of the mail, Third —Two hundred and fifty dolars fm the arrest and conviction on the charge © attempting to rob the mails being conveyed over any post route and who assaults of threatens the person carrying the mail, Fourth From $100 to $200 for arrest and conviction of any person on the charge of breaking into a postoffice snd stealing there. from, All rewards must be claimed within six months from the date of conviction the of fonder, * — i ——— SNOWSTORMS OUT WEST. Winter Setting is Early in Nebraska lows. A severe stow storm has prevailed througout Nebraska, It is quite general, re- ports showing snow at a number of towns throughout the State, In the extreme north. ern portion of the State stock Is said to be suffering, though elsewhere the snow is melt. ng rapidly and the weather is moderating, | Stoux Crry, Ia —Boow has been falling | over nearly all of South Dakota and North | western Towa, At Vermillion the snow re | wembles an old-fashioned bllzsard, Conn and % FENNSYLVANRIA ITEMS Eews of Iritome of Giesned From Variomn ite Stats Parts Biante Treasurer Jackson reporis eash on the clos of October, amounting to #4 844, 197.07. Pittsburg poliee arrested the band in the several depositories st i 1 officers of co-pperative association op the complsint of stockholders who charge conspiracy fraud, Two miners were drowned by a f old mine slope ai Nan rush of water in au coke, Lars Albert Hon whi Finger, a young yhrook, met with runing for rabbits, While hig gun at a point about threo miles from his conter f tha {ow home the ite of one barrel of t g plece was discharged, ne of his th preliminary shot a portion of bh the heavy load of blew o yt off, tore I» stomach away ally lodged ia bis chin and neck. of a fatal sature, counts young Finger was stiil al ig breaking ts 5 #4 ) eas UO biEA, By an e Croyden Stati wounding twenty olhers r War veterans of! Centre count ¥ are indig- effort being mad in onu mn the v nant over © paris of the State to erect a m Nar G Colonel wernor Cartin at Harrisburg, Coit, nal Guards t C who commanded the Chis Nati hat fired on the lynchers a House, He had been i urt was ocaled in Pittsburg. in hiding siuce October 19. At an early bour the other morning vicinity of Peale a disastrous in the wreck of a which three were killed outright and tw were badly injured, ing in a box oar when the wreck oceu broken axle was the canse of the disaster y or three Thre Killed wer While services were in progress some mad to fire the Lahaska Methodist Chureb, Rey, Joseph W,. Hudson ol starting a bon fire in main of the iront trance 10 the building. through the transom over eas Doylestown, by on The ihe door attracted the congregation aud the flames were extinguished belore mach dam. age was done, Several attempls have Leen made to destroy the property, The flaw in the marriage license law which makes it inoperative until 1855 was used 0 defend a man accused of perjury in Pills burg. Doss Delakavich is suspected of causingtibe Lugerne County dynamite for the purpose of robbery. Huoglish speaking works men are believed by some to have Liown up the Huns, A big coal deal was made at Hazleton, whereby the two Joansville coliferies became the Lehigh Vailey Coal « ompany's propesiy. Rev, Thomas Chapman, of Pittsburg, is ae cused of frauduiently managing the vetate of Mra. Annie Hinds, of Richmond, Va, ——III ——s ot si AFTER THE COOK GANG. Five of the Terperadeen Coplund<In Tunelt of thy Other Robbers Captain Charles Boeck, commanding » squad of twenty Indian polices, has just ar rived in Wagoner, 1. T., baving in captivity “Joo! Johnson, “Mose” Price, “Diek™ Reinolds, “Jim” Bates and Leon Perry, five of ihe members of the Cook gang, captured by him, The officer surprised the outiaws in camp and bad them covered with Winches ters belore the robbers could get their guns, The capture was made without a shot (eing fired, + aptain Bock reports the rest of the gang in this vielnity, aud after escorting bis pris. vomers to Fort Gibson will retarn and renew hight sbiniag oulrage
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