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