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,