rt AAA SO ON POO AR SP SRI
THE NEW3
The old enpitol building at Atlanta was
damaged by fire about $100,000, covered by
insurance, —The commissioners of Brooks
eounty; Georgia, issued a statoment saying
nll the trouble there ways
twenty-five white men, only about four of
whom lived in the county. The statemen,
says that there has Leen no race riot, —No
case was made out against the seconds inthe
prizes fight in Now Orleans in woich Andy
Bowen was killed, ——The directors and the
mapagers of the Commercial Dank, at St
Johns, Newfoundland, wore arrested on the
vcancge of preseating a false statement of the
—Joha Moreland, an old soldier, was
Ohio, —A
at the
caused by about
bank
found deal near Martins Ferry,
man, who two days rogisterad
Patnam House, New York, as Joseph Harri.
in his bed
— A bill was filed in the federal court
ago
man, Chicago, was found dead
there, —
at Springfleid, Il, asking for the foreclosure
of a mortgage against the Louisville, Evans.
ville and St. Louis (consdlidated) Railway
~At Cincinnati the
Kouzhton Engineering Company ass
Andrew J. Marsh, Liabilities 20,000; asset:
£80,000, They accepted bonds for building
water works, and could not
same, Recently they were attached at Hills.
boro, Ohio, and Harctiord City, Ind, The
—At Piqua, Ohio,
gldenea Henry
and a sale of property.
ed te
realize on the
firm will soon resume, -
robbers entered the r ol
Fecker while the family was absent, and se-
cured between four and flve thousand dollars
killed
men were
and bad a
in cash, ——H, Clay Eazsll
Nashville by Purdy Elis,
partners in the dairy business,
wus near
The
quarrel, has ordered
that tea at St, Paul, Louis, Detroit
Milwaukee be moro closely examined,
Secretary Carlisle
1
St, and
Whitecaps in Michigan bave made several
attempts to kill the Rev. W, A. Wetscher, a
Bapt st minister of Niles, Mich.——In a col
lision between passenger trains on the H. &
T. C. Railroad, near Waxahatchie, Texas
two persons were fatally and a number of
others seriously injured, ——Adolph Jacobsen
was arrested in Chicago and taken to New
York to anawer to the charge of being at the
vaom
head of a gung of swindlers he sent
around the country to pass bogus checks on
The
over fifty indictme
hotel proprietors,- 8t. Louis grand
jury returned for alec
tion
his son being charged with bribery.
burglars the
and escaped fr
Ala, —
pany
The object is
Falls,
Police Captain Johr
York, was sentenced to 8
crimes, Sherifl-elect
the
jailer's head
Mo
wiaven Water-g
"WB SRcK over
the jail at
The X
been
has
on the
bribe,
1
wounded two others
a county, Ohio, killec
pacy proposes to erect large steel
Lorain, Ohio.
Ol. Wm. Bundy, commander
tho Sons of Veterans, bas sustain
Sot
ebarters to colored app
colored applicants to form
fasal of andaries to grant
ants. He counsels
a separate
ization. —Jadge John C, Stallup bas filed a
suit for a decree to prevent the city of 1
ma from paying
light and water plant
the has been swindled
formed the comg
lamber
Ww.
the engine house ol
TRAD.
any tr int arevt
any more inlerest
and G, E. Crane, and twenty cars
the Central Vern
by fire at Bu
ranca §
lumber fo
Raliroad, were destroyed
ton, Vt; los $150,000, insu
wee Timothy
stabbed and killed by Louis
saloon at Seney, Mich, —— Mra, Sarah
M.D, witseof Dr. J, M.
N. Y,, has
bomeopathie
healer, Harry Menier, the
jumper, ir
Poughkeepsie Bridge
Kane, a
res
Strete
’
Lee, of B
the practice
1
anda
gly up
school,
leaped m the
wita bis 7
aud, apparently sustained no injary fre
foolhardy aot. — Golden sbo
instantly killed Bafus Willia
quarrel, at
named Wilkinson was
wood, W. Va, on
cattle
Kehoe, of Benwood, W, Ya, fell {rom a rail
road train, and was
trouble in Brooks eounty, Ga, is
Two Big Four trains collided near lLafay-
ette, Ind , demolishing both locomotives and
six freight oars and instantly killing
Elijah Campbell, of Indianapolis,
Thros masked mon enterad the homes of C,
~Samuel
ms, in 8 drunken
N Jo—A
arrested
the charge of
false pretenoes,. Edward
Lambertvilie, an
near King-
obia ning
under
f 1X
killed, «wuThe race
OVAL, won
Lngineer
through the house,
aod a collection of ancient coins, Erickson
sould not release himself for three hours —
The grocery store of John McGlensey's Sons,
in Philadelphia, was damaged to the entent
of $75,000 by fire, fully coverel by insurance,
The fire originated in the office, and was
probably caused by an overheated stove, —w—
A suit involving $130,000 was begun in the
Superior Court, in New Haven, against the
Metropoli av Insurances { ompany, Ly Dr. A.
DB. Fuller, the assignee of forty-five policy-
bolders, who elalm thers was not full settio-
ment in the policies in the payment of the
reserve dividend, — W, J. Quinn, ex-treus-
urer of Mosa covnty, Col, who pleaded guilty
of embezzling $16,000 of ihe county's funds,
Las been sentenced tc the penitentiary for
five years, Quinn lost the money in Denver
gambling houses,
ves cosimii sr IIIION 1 ssc sia =.
MAY DISPLACE COAL
Disgrans of a Dyvice for Burning Potroleum
to Generate Steam.
United States Consul Richman, at 8t, Gall,
Switzerland, has transmitted to the State Di-
partment, Washingtoa, diagrams and a do-
tailed description of a new devieo for burn.
fog petroleam to generate steam, known as
the Leeman Baumvartner apparatus,
The results obtained were strikingly success.
ral, and in the opinion of experts indieatethe
displacement of conlas stoam-producing fuel
wherever petroleum ean be procured
———— A Si
A dlapatelifrom Minister Denby, of Pekin,
sys there is no truth in the report recently
printed in somes American pap ns that Yo-
fo-Na-La, the young wifo of the Emperor of
Chios, had committed suicide.
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
CENATER.
Frereexrn Day. --Fourteen speeches in
connection with the prese. ation to the
United States by the State of New Hampshire
of the marble statues of Geoeral John Stark
and Daniel Webster, were delivered in the
United State Senate. At thelr conclusion
0:40 I. M. adjournment was taken, The
only legislative business of any importance
transacted was the passage of a bill making
deflelency appropriations for Census Durenu
and the Department of Justice for the cur-
rent fiscal year.
Bixreext Day. —The United Stales Sen
ate was not io session to-day,
BEVENTEENTH DAY. —A number ofthe sena-
tors have already gone home to spend the
bolidays, and when that body convened
attendance, ‘I'he
holiday adjournment resolution, which came
over from the House shortly after the Senute
met, caused some discussion, and Mr George
(Dem. ), of Mississippi, at flist objected to ity
consideration, expressing the opinion that in
view of the large i
Measures now peadine, the Senate
sit through the holidays. He subsequently
withdrew his ot jection, aad the resviu.lon
was passed,
number of im
HOUSE,
Firrzexta Day.—The debate or the
rency Lill was comparatively
s exercises in conneet
tues of Wels
+618, Sherry, of
of the Bank
and DBrosius,
wosad the measure respectively,
Sixrerxt Day. In the House
ers
ginia,
Pendleton (Dem
Pein.) ot .
Messrs, Ha
MeLaurin (Ix
and Rawlin { Der
Mr. Bpringer, ti
the Banking and Currency
sented the amendmen:s
agree upon by the De
the 0 yd
were
1
and diekies {
wa
tee, And
retary of the
altered by the am
a substit
the subsiitute
depend.
SgvexTEENTR Day
debate in the Houses
WORK AND WORKERS.
Tax Portsmouth Company’s mill at South
Barwick,
ter a shut
Maine, bas resumed operations al
down of six weeks,
Taz Directors of the American
cago and
y the headquarters of
Ww.
Railway
deeided $0 re
net in ¢
jet in Ui
* roan bea ti
tis organizati
Howard,
imp says that
vember 1 to December 8, 1804,
{rom (bis country of passsngbra by
was 25
ber,
544, and the arrivals during
Ly» re, were 19.8588
Tus n Federati
Denver defeated by a vote «
proposed political platform,
was adopted for the removal
juarters of the Federation from New
of labor, ag
Denver adopted a resolution refusing to
Ink American Fedor:
ha
f Labor “a
yn
say dealings with the Koights o
The general
det
Presideat
be anouai
id in Pel
iting the
ray irniomen’s uni
salaries made by th
swivar
ours and want nine hout
was made in writing and a {ail-
y comply tay use a
slrixe,
Tar nrbit inted to clo
Maassilion controversy
have
unanimous report lishing
abi
i 16
re exi cents,
Asis Ay
means that the
of 60
least 65, as they had hoped,
the Ho
miners wili be paid at the rate
king Va ley, This
coats,
instead of a
Ag a result of a conference held ia Wash-
representatives
ployes of the Southern
and the ¢
ington between of the em-
Railway
Is of the various brotherhoods of
iployes on the other hand, and W
H. Baldwin, Jr., Third Vice President of the
Bouthern Baliway Company, on the other, a
trues of 60 days was declared, at the end
which time the company is ubmit
schedules of salaries and new rules and
ulations lot the government of employes.
DEFICIT INCREASING.
Company
railway en
ol
to paw
ros
National Expenses the Past Month Ezxcesd
Receipts by 85,771,501
The receipts from cus'oms so far this
month jamou nt to} £9,157,'51; from internal
revenue, $5,240,150; miscellaneous, §1,171,-
189, making » total of 18,560,490, The ex-
penditures during the month amount to £24,
341,000, leaving a deficit for the month of
$5,771,501, and for the present fiscal year
$28,066,643. The disbursements for pensions
#0 far this fiscal year amount to abou: &71,.-
000,000. a
HELD UP THE PASSENGERS,
———
Four Masked Robbers Relieve Travelers of
Valuables.
When the Chleago, Milwaukes & Bt. Pau;
passenger train from South Dakota came iv
Sioux City, Ia, four robbers went into one
of the conehes some distance from the depot,
They vised no revolvers, -but had masks on
Nearly every passenger Was relieved of a
watch or a pocketbook,
“Just keep still, we are looking for a bau.
dle,” ope of them said, as they went through
the first man's pookets, Nota ban! was
raised against them,
i
i
i
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THE INCOME TAX.
Constituticnality of the Law to be Testeds
Caso Before the Distriet Court.
A despatch from Wasbington, The
firet steps have been taken in the Disiriet Bu
preme Court to test
the income-tax law,
counsel lor John GG. Moore, of
FRyP:
the eons:itutl nality o
Jeremiah Wilson, as
the New York
banking firm of Moore & applied to
Bchley,
Judge Cole, of the equity branea of tue Bu
preme Court of the District of « olumbia, for
an order restraining Joha G. Miller, commis
sioner of internal
and colleetin sz a tax upon
from
his
cause of the importance of the
expected that the court will
for the bearing.
revenue, AnRrBsing
'"
ot
mb
fix an early day
incoms
action
This is only one of a uum-
ber of legal nttacks that wil oa be made
here upon the income tax, and each suit wii
be based upon different grounds, The mov
is the intentlior { a number of the individ
to
. Moore's compliant
» under six heads and his prayers
nt corporations which be net earn
, from whieh they pay « to bin
and other stockholders,
‘he com
ininant further states th
ar incomes derived from
the
ia
business, He further alleges that
roquired t«
2 per ceat, on their earnings, wi
to dividends paid outofnet e
:
he is required to pay a like
4
ridania &
lividends received
by him,
CHINESE HAVE ENOU
The
Gover
Celestial
Commissioners
assure
yaitively be stated t}
e the United United
Japan and China, while engaged
iat
} Eiates
SIAN
tion, nndertaken even to discuss the
All such matters as the
of the war indemnity to be paid
final peace,
feated country. the guarantes
pendence of Corea, the occu
Arthur and the Island o
left untouched for the dis
commissioners, and the sole
Ministers have been directed
principals together to discuss term
The News Confirmed.
Tisx Terx, ~The Chinese Government has
finally decided to send two env
in order to treat for peace and an imperia;
deeres sanctioning theappointmon: ol Chang
Yin Huan and Shao for this purpose has been
issurd,
ys to Japan
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES
Tue Denver Times bulldiag was damaged
by fire to the extent of £50,000,
Arptonso Smitu and William Hillon were
kitled at Jeffersonville, Indiana, by the pre.
ma‘ure explosion of a bias’,
A boiler in Russell Dros,’ box [actory, at
West Day City, Michigan, exploded, and
Jolin Caleutt, George Plund, Albert Rahn,
John B. Raun and Al Haverback wero killed,
and three others were injured. One boy is
missing,
Witeiax A. Prue, of Indianapolis, ex:
Chief of the Bureaa of S'atistios of Indiana,
was found dead in a bath tub at the Visitors’
flome of Bt, Mary's Lustitute, in Terre Haute,
“His death wos caused by drowning, as ho
was lying in such & position he could not ex-
tricute himsel
A boller connested with an {llielt stili inthe
neart of the o:ity of Quabes blew up, The
building was badly damaged by tho explosion
snd nine porsons were badly burned. Aser.
gonnt of the aly polices named Remond
owned the outfit, which has been seized by
inland revenyo officials
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
by the Prosident and Cabinet.
The President and the members of the Cab-
inet celebrated Christmas 10 an old fashion.
ed way, making it essentially a family aflair,
At the White House it was a genuine chil
There
the
tile
fhe
pleasure of the Onos wis fi
Christmas tree set in Hbrary,
own, and Mrs, Cleveland hersel! added
finishing touches to the whieh,
tree,
not of great proportions benutl,
uily trimmed ani de with tiny parti.
olored electric lamps in i
time wax candles. for the little
were numerous, and almost until noon ex
press wagons and messsnyers came juden to
the White House,
ent remembered all
Evoary
fat turkey and to his persoani
As usual the Presi
employees in the House.
¥
President gave substantia
0x
ample
King
retary ’ ar witl
wttendants, Mrs, C
Gavel
little presen: for each of
herself ved very
rece
ents, the President's to
tiful
glk
The only guests at the White
Mrs, (
the dinner was strictly
leveland’s mother, Mes
Preceding it,
iittle
members (
un
White House to soe
All the members
Christmas ner at » with
and per is largest gathering was at t
ire the Secretary and Mrs,
Seraior Woleott and Repro
sentative Clark, of Mis i. are men of one
Kidowy, each having hag one f those crgans
removed
Hey, W Langford, secretary
f the Eola
re 14
mistaxen
wi LLut
Bishop
. ten
Birk Hack { Blurpgeot
strapping SOUS wWiO liave
: a Dose
sugges from any family team in the country
Dr. Ts
tions in the prehis
ad of
yortanes
finished his excasa-
the ls
f great
undas
s neeropolis of
Amorgcs, and the resuits are ©
the
and pre-Mycacnean or isinad age.
Harry OC. Daval, Dr
the burden of ki
for the study of iy cacnean
Depow's lieutenant,
relaxes fron
gece 8 of
owing all the
the New York Centra’ by lakiog
is an adept with the camera
grapher.
Rudyard Kipling, after sending his first
two or three stories to nearly every publisher
in England, finally sold them for $156 His
last story brought him 1,000 for the English
rights alone, For his Scolch engineer poem
bie got even more than that for the different
American, Buoglish, Iadian and Australian
rights,
John Jacob Astor modestly responds to the
naw salutation of “Colonel” which military
distinetion bas come to bim with his appoint
ment as an aide on Governor-elset Morton's
personal stafl. Mr. Astor is not the first of
the family, however, to have the title of cok
onsl, for his late uncle, John Jac ob, had i
and in 1862 was io the fleid with the Army of
the Potomae for a time.
El cuuE—
A BOY'S AWFUL REVENGE.
Discharged a Shot Gun Into a Crowded Sohos
Room, Fatally Wounding Four.
Near Brundige, Ala, Wilton Bowden, 18
years old, fired a shot gun through a window
in Pea River school house,
Four pupils were fatally wounded. Mary
Bryant, aged 14, who received twenty-ol. ht
shots in the lungs; Lillian Bryant, aged 10,
shot in the eyos and neck; Willie Black, aged
10, wounded in the neck and head, and Fore
man Bow len, brother of the boy who did ine
shooting, wounded in the breast, Bevera
others reccaved slight wounds
Bowden claims the shooting was aceiden,
tal, but friends of Mary Bryant say it wae
boouuses ber fathor refused iv
slow Bowden to visit tho girl,
IENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
Epitome of News Gleansd From Various Parts
of the Btals
At the reservoir, n Elmburst, Frank
Pucelo, a laborer employed by the gas and
water company, sustained Interna
and his
right heed and
explosicn
blown off and his
arm badly lacerated by the
left hnad was
premalurs of a dynamite car
iridge,
John Jackson, a man 6) yenrs ol aze, em.
ployed in the D, & H. mics, at Jermyn,
Ds
ths
was
sensed hind
with
found dead in the mine, been
suffering for ssveral mon neuralzia
of the stomach, but he Lad been able to at-
end to bis work.
He bad
Danville Insane
g r} ia
iat srhondaie,
coal train and ki le
just been released from th
1 killed himself,
Yandevar , of Beliwoo
wandered from hon
Mrs. B I
tu dealin by
burned
t
»
Ines ove, W
nen i
othing had been
body was very badly
William H, Boyder, af
returned to Wert Chests
wife had Leen divoreed
The Behuyikill (
funued
con
Fires visit and
Bal! a block of
about £30,000 usurance, $20
Policeman Gallagher,
cidentally
Brown, whom he was trying to arrest
DISTRESS IN NEERASKA,
caused
000,
ol Wilkes-Darre
and fatally shot a man name
farmers Flod, Leaving The
the Fiel
A bl
en on Nebraska, asd a ¢
bat Perkins
county he evor saw,
ereaks or a sign of anything that would give
stock
iat was there was in
ndent saye
the most desolate
¢ nnty is
1 » rivers ot
Oro Are n
moisture or produce bay. But litte
pid be seen, though w
good condition. A few doseried sod huts and
frame houses ware seen, and there were
habitations
the
other goods of their owners when they loft
Farm implements were seen in the flelds
and at a distance substantial grasaries stood
left County
signs here and there that some
had been taken down and removed with
just as their owner had them.
represanting about 8,600 people are in desti,
tute condition. This is about three.
fourths of the county's population, We are
facing the most desperate situation in our
history."
‘“T'hie suffering here,” says the correspon.
dent, “is the most general of any county 1
have yet visited, The people who are desti-
wate will not survive unless succorded soon.”
President Nason, of the Nebraska State
Relief Commission secured a carefully pre-
pared report of the number of destitute fam-
files in the different counties where there
wore crop fallures as follows: Caster County,
£50 tamnilios; Chase, 225: Dundy, 130; Hitoh
cock, 350; Redwillow, 100; Hayes, 200; Fron.
tier, 40; Furnas, 100; Lincola, 700; Dawson,
45; Keith, 200; Deul, 4; Cherry, 4; McPherson,
#0; Walne, 20; Boyd, 250; Holt, 50; Antelope
80; Keyapaha, 25; Knox, 25. Coalributions
are coming in, but not as fast as they should.
The commission bas earefully gone over the
finid and none but the deserviag are to be as
sisted.
i RI. os
120 REBELS BURNED.
Brazilian Troops Sot Fire to a Hospital at
Ban Gab. isl
A house at Ban Gabrie!, used as a hospital
wns burned, adviess received Montevideo ro-
port, by Bazi jan troops. More than 120
rebels perished,
Several who tried to escape were forced
back into the flames by layonets, Over 200
Cras Alta and have gone over to the rebels.
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
Tue first sailing vessel to be li
ed by electricity is said to have been
the Spanish bark La Vigusea, a buik-
oil ard general-carzo carrier. Bhe is
fitted throughout with incandescent
the power
by
ishics power
Len she is loading or
ols
ghbs
for the dynamo
urnighed a smal ollengine,
pump
i
to
at for the cure of
has been invented
it 8 CcoOn~-
in vi-
gmall electro-motor
600 turns a minute.
is described as
makes
snsation, which
2 _. # 5.
, produces drowsiness;
ft ine
Is asleep under
f that the
d awakes to find
Cra30nR
the worst
iK¥) to
Y
1
WEY,
bec n
the
flow
harness will
Ariel will do his sub-
with ontward token of
his existence save in the effects pro-
That such will be the case is
tricians to be no wild
he iarved
as energy ul
wmrnessed to do the work of
3
tie service no
fancy.
¥
IN¥ a recent address to the Royal
Photographic Society, Sir Henry
Trueman-Wood summed up very
concisely the various services which
photography had rendered to science,
First comes its association with the
telescope and the spectroscope, which
has placed modern astronomy on a
new basis, and its work asa i1ecarder
of scientific observations. The me-
teorologist has by the «id of photo-
graphy been enabled to study the
form and nature of clouds, and the
shape and character of the lightning
flash, The zoologist has been en-
abled to trace the real character of
animal motion. The microscopist
has for a long time relied upon the
camera as the only accurate means of
producing the forms of organisms
too small for the eye to see; while
the physicist has by photographie
methods been enabled to investigate
phenomena in which changes occur
too rapidly for the eye to detect.
Photography is also extensively used
in anthropology, geology, ge
and arch®ology ; and it has
his observations,
ylies the me. 8 ! yy