THE NEWS, Col. , do. pari LRH Marshal Basin, and Union A snowslide in molished the Cimarron stavles the Cimarren mill, the sion tramway, knocked down the San Migue, Coasolidated Eleciric Lig ht wires and did much Thomas Buck and Joseph Ermin. two boys who had run away from St. Vincent's industr.al Utica, lost their way in the woods twisting tens other damage. Nehool, Ix and were saveral freight cars sank Audenriede, Pa. the cavel in. -Joseph frozen to death, into a railroad Green, alias Buckskin Gettysburg, Pa. under pretense of being a government o ffieer, —--1he list of the dead by the explosion at lutte, Mon,, bas been led to fifty-three, and four of the injured cannot recover. (8. C.) Femal« A heavy snow has fall hoi having mine y at bed Joe, was arrested in charged with getting #8 swel Fire damaged the Columbia College £10,000, on the western slope of the Rocky Mountaix — Miss Mary G, eldest daugh ter of Vice-President Stevenson, died at the Battery Park Hotel, Asheviile, N. C.——An- afchist Michael Oilenc sod in Pi.tsb the work- house. Ha- was Killed Stevenson, forl was senten urg to eighteen months in Charles I. Carter, one of the wailan annexation commissioners in a conflict with royalists, ——Emory Davis. while coast. -—Edwia O, York, ¢ bhiy {atally injured rinzs, W. Ya. New on was proba ing at Berkeley Sp Quigiey, l that he was when arrested in esse Mail advices rece China say that the i forger, ived at Vancouver from rowardly Chinese generals are to be executed, committee of the Home Employment Association adopted a b introduced in Quinn murdered his wife in Dalton, Three miners were killed in Kalso, B. C. were begun at Fort Sheridan against Lieutenant James Saddock, duplicating his payaccounts, aud admirals Boys’ and Girls’ all sta'e legislatures, Ga.- near a snowslide ~Court-marshal proceedings First on the charge of Sallie Levan, aged seventeen vears, daughter of Jacob Levan, a farmer, residing near Friedensbur Pa., died of dig death from in two we theria, This madetheseventh the disease in the Levan amily r Traln No. 4 we wrecked at White Plains by the ex ing the track while running at a rapid gai The engine and four ¢ piled aer: the track and smashed, 1 iz A tr fer of the mails — Justice Reed, of Bupreme Cot Trenton N. J., It er a verdiet for the defendant eK8, — Passenge wine un gine jum ars were wwossitatin art, ia istructe the jury to rend in the suit for #25, (00 damages Institate« against James Dermott, v 1883, by of the Barpur ony Superin Fi rea who Is Spauld tendant came to wanted was the employ of the firm. At Wir ASOT iis, anada, Mrs walked into the Rive St. Francis baby in her arms Mary A aged seventy vas burn in the house of in Watkins, N {ozo i ¥ fle i Ace. a A hall destroyed eided in Ch Elestric Company Houston Eleetric C cern, The deoisi patent electri 2 IAC a ¢ the suit ompany ¢ a practically | ymatic reguiat ines, wi h an aut was held son- Houston Company, and whiel usd at $2 000 000 he Mas 8t. Catherines, Ouatlario, fire, —Thon aged twenty! Binckwel ona of having ir Krudop, on Doti, rieco, was alias Jot 18s Spriggins Gr years, was release is Island, an charge « Mare the Italian, wh atl a christ nin lines in Brookiyn ing on a strike. Dour the strikers were ‘1 Bond resigned as one of the Consolidated Fire Wo The steamer Longfellow started Orleans fro ati Mor night nine passengers three hundred tons of freight. the Chesn. peake River Bridge she col with a guards, ~The frites rks Company, m Cineins day and While passing and Ohio pier, which demolished Island Heights Express oo the Long Branch Raliroad struck the batehe wagon of John Hart between Masonville az Hartford, N. J. Both his horses wore killed, and was demolished, At a Nickel Plate Railroad Company. Callo- way, formerly the Toledo, BL Louis and Kansas City Raliroad, president, in place of D. W. Caldwell, In the United States District Court in Albany Judge Coxe directed that Chung Fung Sun, Chung Kong Poeck and One Jung, imprison. ed at Clinton prison for crossing the state line, be released. They bad been ordered to be deported by the government, but this order had not been executed, and the China. men bad been in prison for several months, —ejudge James T. Jones, judge of the First Judicial Circuit, and former member to Con- gress from the First Alabama district, died at Demopolis, A a, alter a lingering iliness, His age was filty-five years, under Hart was fatally injured the wagon meeting of the 8 RK receiver of was elected a— oh — TRAIN ROBBERS IN IOWA. A Burlington Passenger Train The Plunder Small. The passenger train on the Burlington Hoad from Denver to Chicago was robbed at Chillleothe, Iowa, by two masked men, who boarded the express car just as the train was leaving the station, and entered by the end door before the express messenger had locked it. There were three men in the ear, and thoy were taken so completely by surprise that they were obliged to hold up their hands at the command of the robbers, Then they wore stood in a corner and bound acd gagged by one of the robbers while the other covered them with two revolvers, The safe was opened with the keys secured from the mes. songer, and when the train stopped fora rail road crossing a mile from town the robbers fled with their plunder. The robbery was known as soon as the train reached the city, and a posse started in pursuit, It is thoaght the robbers did not secure ovar $8,000 “Held Up" -- RUIN AND DEATH. Details of the Catastrophe tha Overwhelmed Butte, Mont, SIXTY LIVES WERE LOST. Twenty Tons of Clant Powder Spread Ruin Through a Section ofthe City, Like the Scene of a Battle.~-Human Bodies Shattered. Twenty tons of giant powder the cot Montana Central yards, { one lla at during by two lass ox the vicinity of the } 1 t ’ ove 1 v 1s Jat awaki was plang shorter, apg for { the ex; ree of killed outright With the fire Ie the cries an strowed everywhere, ar f the injured a ing presented ene altogeth Blood and Here and there were logs and arms; er unearthly brains wore scattered ald seatiers ed around were pieces of flesh and entrails, it was Between the Northern Pacific space of three hundre sickening. and the great Northern foot, literally covered with parts of human beings and with the dead aad injured was one of utter and desolate Houses in the vieinity were badly wrecked, One of the depots a the ground was The scone destruction, as if a cyclone had struck them, rescuing corps gathered twenty-seven bodies in one place, Eight wore in another. Two and three were in groops here and thors, The rescuers pulled some of the bodies out still quivering, the remnants of the human beings still groaning while legs and arms had been torn off. Shapsless tranks quiver. od and died in the arms of the Hving. The work of rescue was prosecuted in earnest TORTURED BY ROBBERS. ——————— Masked Mon Whip an Aged Couple, take Money and Lock Them in a Room. Masked robbers entered the house of David McBride, tied the farmer and his wife to chairs, at New Castie, Pa, and tried whip ping and threats of torture to compel them to give up their money. After ransacking the house #6 in money and some valuables wore scourad, When toe robbers left they took Mr. and Mrs, MeBride into an unused room and looked them in, They were nearly frozen to death when they wore (scovered by neighbors apd released The magistrates of Brussels, Belgium, have ordered that all the gambling houses in that sity be elosed. Y-THIRD CONGRESS. SENATE FIF?T The U, 8, speeches, in which text fur a wide the cur Bennte nx served as a on the tariff, t platforu., the income t range of discussion rency and the Twexry-EaarnDay—IntheBenateMr, Hill proposition to reler the legality ofthe incom tix to the courts was defeated, only five sen v ors jolaing with Mr, Hill io supp the proposition. Before the vote was taken Mr. Vest made a speech pe attention to the gravity of the ta if war which foreign ¢ tries havo begun against the United States a a result of the ono-tenth sugar differential, Mr. Hill secured the adoption of an amend ment imiting the interrogatories of the offi ors seeking 1o collect the ax I'ie amend ments will have the effuct, if agreed on by 10 House, of ¢ ‘ art nent {io acing the to have the | vil se y tax ind the D Mr. Aldri ring EXPOSITION A Land and 1's Women reg ads, tal and everyth station} ng « will be discharged I« 4h ad fon’ o% Of the ladies p hie whole responsibility, some of the best 3 Mr. W, M. Danner, pul Man, a X. M. C, A. paper ville, has suggested that a be made at the Cotton tional Exposition. The matter ronsideration at omes, and will doubtless take shape very soon, Interna bad serious States and the saggesiion DROWNED IN A MINE, Water Rushes Into 1 the » Pit From Qld ings Twenty Men Lost Work An aceidnant ccourrad at the big Lake col lery at Audiey, North Staffordshire, England, +y whieh it Is thought that a! least 2) per sons lost thelr lives, Two handred and thirty men and boy wore at work in the colliery, when, at about 12 o'clock, there was a sudden rash of water from theoid workings, About 70 men reached the shaft and were speodily bolsted out of danger. The pumps were promptly put at work and rescuing parties descended into the mine, The news of the accident spread with great rapidity and a wildiy-exeited crowd wassoon <athered about the pit-hend, It was not long belore some of the miners came to the sur. face, and every fresh arrival at the mouth of he pit was greeted with cavers, Dy 5 o'clock 150 of the men and boys had been rescued, Of the 80 who were below it was thought that 20 were in the lower worklugs waen the mine was flooded and that they bad been drowned, Casimir-Perier Resigns the Office of President. The Cabinet Unable to Dissuadc President From His Purpose— Causes That Led to His Ac~ tion—-Henry Brisson May Be His Successor. the vening that } { the day © French it © sted a member The debate on the fected President iv. and he freited were showered ah served to ate President ( asimir tier © era. December presidency of pei that was ‘he SOL On On M. Henri Brisson to the } mber of Deg the late M, Bardeaun, M shied ¢ asimir-Perier in { France, Cha jties In Drisson, remembored, § the highest and he was retaining tagistrate © be sire for a chiel ipown M. Gerault-Ricbard in prison and in Javor of for all jaently bis re-election, presidency of the Chamber of Deputies was looked npon In many quarters as being a lecided rebuff to President Casimir Perier, Vensaintea <M. Felix Faure, minister of marine in the present cabinet, was elected on the second ballot to be President of ihe French Republic. M. Faure polled 430 votes to 861 votes polled by his nearest opponent, M. Heard Brisson, pro«ident of the Chamber of Deputies, The socialists protested vio lently when the result ol the ballot was made known. WHOLE FAMILY POISONED. ugly opposed to political crimes. Conse. on January 8, to the Two of Them Die After Eating Broad Made of Cornmeal. An entire family named MeGroea, oy Charleston, 8, C., was poisoned, the fata; dose being placed in cornmeal made into broad, The deed was fospired by jealousy, and, itis alleged, was committed by Maggie Boroughs. John and Jane, the son and daugh. tor of Mrs. MoCrea, are dead. The others will recover, CABLE SPARES. Hsl Histrict 1 Texas id tnat the ager he rewards At 540 308 18 $4 and the ws and rail DOD I TO INCREASE THE NAVY. s Favors the Enlistmant of 2,000 Men. A House Committ fed engag, riant legisiation dee he sub-committee waich is The most imp apon by wpriation bill is the addition of 2.000 enlisted men. This increase was reo. ommended by Secretary Herbert in wherein be explained the his an nual report, dif. culty of properly manning the ships with the present force of seamen of the rank and file, No doubt is expressed that the full commit. toe will sanction this item, and that It wil meet the approval of the House, Another matter not #o easily disposed of is the Secretary's request for three new battle ships and 12 torpedo boats, For several days the sub-commitieo ins been wrestling with this question and bas not been able to agree, por is it certain that its plan when formu jated will be endorsed by the committee, as certain members contend shat in the present state { of the Government's finances there should be no expense incurred that can be avoided Chairmen Sayers, of the Appropriation Committes, has told Naval mea that be will oppose expenditures for new craft. A plan has been suggested 10 build three new ships, one at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, one at Nore folk and the third on the Pacific Const, buy PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. KewsOle Various Parts From of the Btate Frm ttabiury afte yw nn Texas his parents, hite judicial contest Wilncssos sedved in 183 Lancaster county lob aster, appointe 4 = i aoval of the appr r the Siate ex; Iwo Polanders were, jw» hreo others ht at a Wilkes-Barre christe Judge Endlich, irn pike company seriously hur: as the at Beadiag, sould irom wheelmen, The Reg Huzleton nuet and minated candidates for the city offices, Judge McClund decided at hartered clubs eould no: ablicans of that sell liquor to wes. Pittsburg out a license, SPRECKELS ON HAWAIL The Bugar King Declares the Infant Repud lic a Temporary Sham. Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, declare thatthe Hawaiian Republic isa sham. He fire, made a #atemeaent at the Chamber of Com. merce, San Francisco, speaking of the resoly, tion of the Government to station a warship permanently at Honolsla to'protect American interests there. He reiterated the remark ins subsequent interview, and says the Republic Is being maintainsd temporarily by a few men interested in Jand specalation, Spreckels says thy Government is daily growing in disfavor and eassot last. He points to the fact that at the inst monarchiag election 11,000 votes were polled, and that the election under the present Government had but 3000 voles, Epreckels is skeptionl as to the steamship line cr a eable from Van who consider contract bulldiog cheaper, ! products in Ban Francisco,
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