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THE NEWS,
All the asses of the City
Beef and Canning Company and of the estate
of Ed Haakiuson, who went in the
prash of the Union Loan and Trust Company
two years ago, have been »old at assignecs
sale to the Credits Company,
an organization of the creditors of the insti.
tutions involved in that failure. The
brought £1.00 003, wiping out all debit,
Two Catholie priests fought a duel at Parras,
Mexico, with knives
Sioux Dressed
down
Commutation
about a woman, OUnu
priest is dying and the other is in jail, A
strike was ordered on all the strest car lines
in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but the men re used
to go out, ——A switch enzine in the
bal yards at Kansas City o
Hanni
ilided with a Wa.
and Eagineer CC. G,
Woolman was killed and Fireman J. B. Net.
ties fatally Injured.——While inside
bucket of a dredge on the river near
pah doing repair
bash passenzer train,
the
Ravan
work, J. Chadwick, of
Moorehead City, N, C.,was crushed to death
The wheel of the engine slightl Avo
throwing the heavy wheels of the bucket to-
gether and Chadwick was erushed about the
—-At North Berwick, Me, the T. H
Plow Works were destroyed Ly
waist, —
Hussay
fire
The loss is estimated at
£16,000. —Elm
Warren, burglars, were arrested
N. J.
Percy Mason, Ave Mason,
D.ck Murphy, charged with
Emil Benz, a farmer, near
December, were discharged from custody at
£40.00), insurance
er Hopping and Herbert
(ins Nolan ¢
hav.ng murdered
Leeds, Mo, iast
their preliminary hearing. The state was
unable to introduce evidence whi
would tend to show that the
any
men bad ao
connection with the erime, — Thomas Walsh
of the Pacifle Express
Company, bas confessed that he stole nearly
a trusted collector
£2 000 from the company in August last,
money was taken from a package containing
£25,000 in transit fro to (
Walsh appeared in court in Salt Lake
Seven ms
m Sait Lake
éntered a plea of not guilty.
nt
men blew open the sale in the Belm
ery, in Martins Ferry, O., secured #2)0,
They seized John Broouey, the night wateh-
man, and took | resi.
dence of ex-Cot
in Omaha, Neb.
Mrs, Thier
Iman jur
mp t
dife, but sustaice
ired
was de
nan
ed Ir
leg and was
otherw.se inj
of main buildings
Washington, N. J.
The lo :
wight-million-doliar suit,
This holds
it throwt
the
alleged
Je Cola
Railroad.
Frank Sml
escaped )
The De
eities celebrated Jacksort
and speschmaking.
Wilson was the
Dor
number ©
different parts of
have determined
ora
noeratic Club, Ph
f Knights
the
tax to maintain
of the order.
near Noblesville,
natural
to the ceiling, an
gas expl
1
i, Is
was bally injure
burned about the
Nicholas Webor
moroceo, 1 Lynn, 2
£90,000.»
tenced to
for shoots
hower, unt
appeal, —-Governor M
ated a: Denver, — Dr. Sait
no pleuro
YP. G MclLaughiin, ’y
Trude apeculator, dropg
Heart disease is supposs
RTOS
oc dead in Chi
ito have Cause
fF Ale
leath. — Representatives of filly Amorican
firms met in ( ti. and organizad th
National Asso
Corrugated Pips
Troughs, with T, C
James A. Miller, of Chicago,
Ada Curray, aged four years,
Manu acturers
Calva nx
nyder, of Can
as the
ary officers.
was burned to death while playing in
of the fireplace at her home in
Va.
other daughter, nud Ada was at the home of
a neighbor, —~ "Major
ber of the notorious Market street gang,
is wanted fu Chicago for complicity in the
murder of Gus Colliander, the election clerk
shot last election under
New Orleans, —— Robert Macoy, aged eighty,
grand recorder of the Grand Commandery ol
the Knights Templar of the State of
York, died at his residences in Brooklyn, Mr.
Macoy was the author, compiler and pub
lishor of many books relating to Free Masonry,
ws Bdward B Carter, the delaulting trans.
fer clerk of the National Bank of Commerce
of New York, was sentenssd to six years
six months imprisonment In the Kings County
Penitentinry by Judge Benediat, of the United
States Circuit Court, Carter pleaded gulity
Her parents werd away, bursing an
Bampson, the meme.
shit
night, Is arrest in
New
and
smi nso IIe
Pra.
THE RUSSIAN THISTLE.
How the Spread of the Pest May Be Prevented
in this Country.
§. The spread of the much discussed Russian
istls in this country and the means of
Bvention are discussed in a bulletin which
B been Lsnued by the Agriculture Depart
, It was prepared by Assistant Dotan
« H, Dewey, who says that the thistles’
i ¥ wide distribution east of the Rockies
make {ts continued progress in that region
inevitable, but it may yet be excluded from
the Pacific States. If, wherever found, |!
810uid be killed before it prodaces seed, dur.
ing three successive years, the pest would In
a'l probability be exterminated,
The most troublesome means of introduce.
tion and rapid distribution is running water
thistles spreading with remarkable rapldit,
during the last two years over the irrigated
lands in Colorado nnd Idaho,
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MR. CLEVELAND
Makes a Pointed Statement on
Hawaiian Matters.
INSINUATIONS DENIED.
in Reply to a Hint Thrown Out in the
Senate Debate that the Visit of
Hawallan Royalists Had Con-
nectionwith Ordering Ships
from that Locality.
The Senate debate Benator 1.dy
on
resolution in regard to Hawalinn matters bh
the
dent,
I'he at'ention of the President having been
rallied to a hint throw: 1 the Senate «
*ussion that the visit of a certain “cor
of royalists Ir
ym the Hawaiian Islan
the
tant
onnected io som W wilh
of American ships from
President
“Ol a
Its propriety and the motiy
yurse such an insinuation
ire, ean safely be lef
r and right
arrived here and asg¢
r of State my d
Congressional command,
both by its action and its omission to
signified that nothing need be done touchirn
American interference with the overthitow
the g¢
vernmont of the Queen,
‘Quite jately a government has been
tablished in Hawall which is in i
and operation io all parts of the islands
is maintaining its authority and discharging
ail ordinary governmental functions,
general principles, and not losing sight of
the
PUA
1 y
pon
special
case, the new governmdnt is clearly entitled
to our recognition without
the incidents which accompanied or preced.
ed its innuguration,
“ «This recognition and the attitude of
Hawaiian
alsolute denial
Congress concerning affairs, of
course, lead to an
least present or fulure ald or encouragement
¢
Ol
on my part to an effort to restore any gove
ernment heretolore existing in the Hawaiian
Isiands,
GROVER CLEVELAND."
“W hen the day appoiniel for the meeting
arrived 1 was confined to my bed by dliness
and unable to keep my engagement, |
therefore signed the paper I bad expecied to
road and it was delivered 40 the commission.
ors, who, I believe, returned at once to
Hawail. 1 never saw any member of this
sommistion or committee and never have
had any communiecgtion or transaction with
any of them, directly or indirectly, except as
1 have hore stated.”
THE STATEMENT IN QUBSTION
The statement to which President Clove.
land takes exoeption was made by Senator
Aldrich, of Rhode Island, in the course of a
soliloquy with Beunator Gray, of Delaware,
#1 am told,” seid Mr. Aldrich, “that a
ecommittes of royalists from the Hawaiian
Islands enme to she United States, and visit.
ed Washington, at some time within the past
10 1858 Cag
8 ato ah was 8 ation { he Ha
wiiiun Islands, was withdrawn, and has not
Lebn replace [ de of say that the with-
ft!
wommiltes
drawal was on account o a visit 10 Wash-
ngton of thi to whieh I refer,
but Ik
that the vessel should have
was rather a singu.ar clirenmstane
bean withdrawn
80 closely following the visit of those geunie.
"
SENATE.
TwenTY-BE(
of Missourl, {rom
mittee, reported
Mr. Cockrell (Dem)
the Appropriations Com-
t the Urzont Defleiency bill
to the United Sates Senate, At two o'clock
Mr. Pasco (Dem. ) of Florida, addressed the
Benate on tne Nicaragua Canal bill, in which
he sonounced that, while favori the
etl of interoceanic . ye
+ pending LiL
I'he
disse
the
oND Day.
Dax
Iderabic
mm
THE COUNTRY'S CROP3
produet, 446,478.58
pounds; va.ue, 827.760 730
iiss sss
SENATORS SENT
A.
BACK
Pettigrew Ratain Their
oats.
A despatch from Nashviile, Tenn. , says
A joint eauecus © the Democrats of the
Sonate and House met and nominated Isham
G. Harris for Uni ed States Senator, E, 8
Craig for State treasursr, and James Harris
for Stats comptroller, The caucus then ad.
journed subject to the eall of the chairman,
The nominations are equivalent to an eloe-
tion a each instance,
Xo action looking to the gubernatorial
contest was taken in either house, It is the
intention of the Republicans to bring the
matter to an f4sue as soon as possible,
Pignne, & D, ~The joint Republican eng.
cus of both branches of the Bouth Dakota
Legislature convened at noon und unani
mously nominated Hon, RF, Pettigrew as
his own successor to the United States
Senate, Gen. Belsby, the only other candi
date withdrew. before the caucus. The nom
nation wil be forhally ratified by the
Logisiatura on the 20th instant.
JAPY CRUEL AGT
Tales of the Awful Atrocities of
Port Arthur Corroborated.
HELPLESS PEOPLE KILLED.
Troops of Mikado Fired
and Children, Mutilated Bodles
Slaughtered Many.
Town Ransacked.
on Women
and
received in London
A letter
Cowan dated Kobe, December J
the first account
the
1s in every detail
ble atrocities by
Mr.
Port Arthur |
Japanese at
(OWAL says
ex.
the
r sur
prise and dismay we lound that
1
of W
the massacre
anve been
xeused,
if excitoment ia the heat
battie and flush «
ednesday
ex.
pisined, th ecortal
Lae gros
f victory and the Knowledge
of dead comrades mutilated was being con-
cold blood now. Thy
saturday aud Sanday was ep
tinued in lay, Friday,
the
ies of men
$01
diery in murder and pillage
were sirewn in the streets in hundreds, per
not
y unsevored, some
haps thousands, for we eould count
with
heads hacked and cross-cut and split length
but
with eareful precision, down and across, dis
smbowied and dismembered,
some with not a lml
wise, some ripped open, not by chance,
“Meanwhile every building in the town was
throughly ranacked, What was worth tak.
ing was taken and the rest destroyed,’
BEURGLARS ROBBED A BANK.
Vault of the Merchants’s National Bank at
Dofiancs Opened With Dynamite.
It was dise verod at noon that the Mer.
chants’ National Bank, of Defiance, Ohio,
bad beon robbed by professional burginrs,
When the offioinis came to open the bank the
combinations of the outside door would not
work, An expert was called and discovered
that the door of the safe ju the vault had
been blown off, the eash box blown upen and
the funds of the bank were gins,
C, BE. Hooker, the cashier, refuses to make
a statement as to the joss of the bank, but it
is supposed that about $10.00 is cash was
carried away. Theres was nothing to show
that Luegiars had been in the room, but the
expert found that wooden pins had boen used
in the combination of the outside door and
for that reason it would not work.
Cranvorn Fowixn Weirs was the fest
woman publisher. be has been in business
since 1814, and is sill at it In New York,
PENNSYLVARIA ITEMS.
Epitome of News Gleanod From Various Parts
Bate.
of the
The Pittsburg Miners’ Convention adjot
J
ed at Pitsburg after demanding that the
erato:s live up to their
agreement 0 ar
trate tho vate question,
has
ed the contract Lo make 1,500 tons «
secur
The Dethelehem Iron Company
of armor
p:ate for the Russian Government and work
will be begun at once
The bullding and loan associations of Che
ter met and protested against the proposed
ol
tate tax on such corporations,
Turtle Creek, near Braddock, was visite
i fire which eaused a logs of 850.000,
Au entire freight
train ou 4
te Run,
pir Bla
Pawling, o
Ly thr
f Now Milton,
zh the head
During t
with «
[hore is great distress
thracite conl
owning to the shi
miners arou (ilkes-Barre
s¢t time made by them dur
ing December,
Clayton eniered upon his third term
» at Media
, and grante
Juige in De.aware
nga
Aas
1 twenty applica.
tions
The RB
vention at
(ireen for Congress to succeed the late M. B
Wrigh
Judge John GG.
Judge A. O. Furst
Bellefonte distriet, was sworn into office,
David Tho nas, aged 20, a driver boy it
the Kingston Coal Company's No. 2 Colliery
burned
epublicans of Wayne county in eon.
flonesdale nominated Homer
the successor
Judge, i
Love,
as President
fell under a trip of cars and was
death,
1he York County Auditors met for organi
following officers
Secretary
the
Henderson:
A. Myers; Counsel
gation and olected
President, Jos-ph 4
J. L. Hewes; Clerk, U,
WwW. HL Sitler,
Residents of Lower Luzerne (County at a
meoting in Hazieton passed resolutions in
structing legislative ropresentatives to push
the scheme for a new county, 10 be ealled
Quay « ounty,
battery ¢, N, G. P,, opened its new armory
at Phoenixvide with e.aborate ceremonies,
Judge Charles E. Taylor, of Franklin, who
attempted to shoot Deputy Sheriff Shoe.
maker, is sericusly (il and the warrant for
his arrest Las nol been served,
A movement is on foot in Pittsburg to have
a Btate Deparment of Charities provided for
by the Legislature,
United Mine Workers are organizing in the
Hazleton district and thero is talk of a strike
The minwie of the Pittsburg | striot met in
convention at Pittsburg and re-elected Presi
dent Cnirns, :
A
® ~distrais | a
of the Rio Grands for out 200 alien. ey
El Paso, Texas, because of a lack
4
BREAD RIOTS.
Thousand Workingmen
Demolished Stores.
i sm———
MADE RECKLESS BY HUNGER
Two
Police Force of Sixty Men was
Powerless to Suppress the Out-
break-~-The Common People
Starving-Marines Saved
the City.
KILLED BY SURGLARS.
After a Long Fight for Life Rev. and X=:
E. Henshaw Are Fatally Wounded.
Ww
Henshay
Henshaw was awakened by the bur
lars entered through t be kiteh
. who had
: CAVE De J
aad grapp.ed with one
Henshaw was dragged
the burgiars shot her
through the head
4
a revolver and she fell, nial y wounded,
Ihe Mr, Heushaw,
who jump d up and went lor the of!
noise had awakeaed
ar thiel
The thie! was grabbed by Mr. Hes shaw,
of the
1%
as he
two men fought ¢
was going oul back door ihe
ear into the middie of the
road, where the burginr overpowered the
preacher, asd alter shooting him through the
ugh tt
no jess than
with a dirk knife,
hip stabbed him twelve timos
There is great excitement in the neighbor.
bood and crowds are scouring the country in
search of the robbers, The police of Iadia-
napoiis bave been enl sted in the search and
Woodhounds bave been sent to the scene,
——————...
WHISKEY STILL TRAGEDY.
A Famous Moonshiner
Killed
Menger details reached Memphis,
of a double killing in Hardin Oounty, Tenn.
Gas Thomas, the most famous and desperate
of Southern moonshiners by a commercial
travelor named Steele, who was in turn shot 7
to death by a party of Thomas iriends, The
drummer was taken for a revenue spotter
and the tragedy followed. Thomas Lraraild™
murdered De, Martin, of Kentuoky at Red
Balphur Springs a week azo, and is aso the
same person whose arrest was attempted by |
Marshal Brown and posse, of Memphis a
couple of years ago, when that officer was
seriously wounded and one of his deputies
named Garner, was slain,
A Tame on the Fitchburg Raliroma at
Keene, N. HL, ran into a sleigh containing
Charles Brooks, aged 60, his daughter Ada, |
about 25, and Tendis Bergoyoe, a boy aby
‘15. All throe were instantly killed.
and a Drommer