THE NEWS,
of
heart, -
Mrs. Helena ilobokey, N J,
died of a broken - [he Portland
(Ore.) Cold Stora se Wareaouss was buraed
Loss £75,0 0. —Several iowboats and barges
were sunk in thy Oily River near East
Liverpool, O , by the ice, —A gool deal of
silver is being shippad from tae United 8 ates
to Japan, —— Rev, H, W, Harris, of Oakland,
Cal, has gone the ~(George
Magee was hanged at Frankfort, Ky.
a fight at Kimball, W.Va , four persons were
seriously wounded, and Frank Mournot was
killed. ——Bill Tom Hatflsid was killed on
Short Pole Creak, W. Va, ~The Nebraska
legislature has decided to pay beei-sugar
producers five do'lars u ton. ——Harrry Hill
who murdered Matthew Akeson, of Cass
county, Neb. , was hangel at Plattsmouth,
Neb, - Fire at Norfolk, Neb,, destroyed the
Reno Hotel anl other property.
$75,000—— William H. Wallace, an old rai'-
road man in the service 0! the Consolidated
Road, retired from service, ~The
firm of Waxelbaum & son, dry goods mer.
chants a: Macon, Ga , went into the hands
o! a receiver. ——Joe Dean, a mu. derer, was
banged in Fairbura, Gu. The rop:
and he was swung off the seallold the second
Beims,
on sta za, -
weer 3 1
Damag»
a0uva
broke,
time. Five thousand people tore down the
fence surrounding the gallows and witnessed
the execution.
Clarence Watts was nccidentally shot and
instantly killed in Chicigo Max
The work of constructing braoch lines ol
the Mexican
Monelova, Mexico, to
by Brunn
International
S.erra
—— Mra. Josephine Light, colored, age
twenty-two years, who was
ton, N. J., by a dog last December, and wh
was taken with convulsions a few days ago
died of bydrophobia,—It is
three of the most prominent sewing mac ine
companies have already entered into the
stated that
pro
pes d sewing machine combination, and are
now prepared to buy out absolutely the pl
of a fourth company, —8, B. Kissell, a load-
jog dry goods merchant of Car isle, Pa,
signed with liabilities of
dollars, —
old couple living alone on a farm
wood, Otlo, were burned
— A freight
Piate Road, near Linden,
as
eleven thousand
-— George Weiver an his wile, an
to death
dwelling. train on
£2.
horse and carr aze containing a pariyol!
persons, twe of whom were killed, acd
cthers badly wounded
Edward Kahley, a wealthy
CGlengardaer, Hunterdon county, N. J
mitted suicide by banging
ple tree in the rear of his house, He
sixty years old. The reaon for the
unknown, The Charleston, 8. C,,
force seized the schooner Carolina, which
was ioaded with contraband whiskey, —
The graad jury indicted ex-County Auditor
Van Auken, of Mason City, Ia, for forgery
of the public records. He had a dispute with
the county board over fees, and it is charged
tha: to make good his case he altered
records, ——An altempt to rob the overland
express at Sieas Pass, Arizona, failed be-
cause the robbe-s made a mistake {a cuttin;
off the wrong ear. ——The coroner's
dshland, Pa, returned a verdiot
Edward Welsh was murderel by some un-
known person. Her husband Is under arrest,
In an explosion ol molten meal atthe
furnace of the Shenango S8.eel Company, in
Newcastle, Pa., James O'Brien, Jeremiah
Sullivan were probably fatally burned, while
Matthew Custis and six others were pain
fojured. The accident
prriect bosh piate, which burned out.
An explosion of gas wrecked the coal mine
of the Santa Fe Raliroad Company near Cer.
riflos, N. M., and forty or more men were
entombed, —A fire in the heart of the West
Side factory district of Chicago destroyed
several bulidings, and caused panics among
working women and childrea, In a rush of
children from the Lancaster caramel factory
a number were terribly crushed and maimed.
The property loss exceeds $600,000, —The
board of managers of ths Young Men's He-
brew Association of Savannah, which has
the lease of the ball in Masonie Templo in
farmer near
«5 COM,
ap-
was
himseif to an
act is
polies
he
jury in
that Mrs,
bly
escaped the fury of a mob, canceled the con-
tract for the hall with Slattery, The asso-
ciation dec 'ared that this action was taken
cite riot and endanger lives, ——The small
pox scare in Hot Springs, Ark.,
hundreds of people away from that resort
~—Fire which broke out in the B. McNickles
drug store at Bath Beach, Long Island, has
has driven
the value of $50,000,
COTTON-GROWERS.
The Raising of the Staple Product Is No
Longer Profitable.
During the Filiy-second Congress the Sen-
8.6 committees on agricalture and forestry
was authorized by the Sena'e to make an in-
quiry upon the existing depression in farm
products and Senators George, Bate and Proc-
tor were selected as a sub-committee to take
in band the portion of the inquiry concerning
the depressed price of cotton, ‘Ihe commii-
tee addressed a circular containing ing iiries
to a large number of farmers ia each of the
colton states,
Th + nuswers to these inquiries, the com-
mittee say, show that generally the finaneial
condition of farmers is bad, a very large per.
centage insolvent, and that very few, indeed,
are substantinlly increasing in the pos ession
of property, and that even thése few are such
as ralse their own supplies and produce cot.
ton only as a surplus,
The repiios also demonstra’s that with ibe
price prevailing in the years 1801, 1802, 1808
in nearly every part uf the cotton -produeing
region the cost of production equaled, If ft
did not exceed, the value of the cotton rajesd,
a copdilion that applied even to the small
farmers who raised their crops by thelr owa
labor, and the conditions have grown worse
instead of better since, Indeed, they say
“there Is a general consensus of opinion that
cotton eaunot, except under the most fovor
able cireamstances, be raised profitably a
loss than 8 eents per pound, nor without Joss
vader 7 cents. ds
Tax health of the Czar's brother, Grand
Duke George, who ls suffering from pulmo-
nary trouble, is said to be eff ctel by the se
vere winter of Russia, His condition is said
10 be siarmivg.
OT IN SAVANNAH
Ex-Priest Slattery Protected by
the Military.
TROOPS GUARDING THE CITY
The Windows of the Hall Demol~-
ished by Bricks and Many Per-
sons Hurt by Flying Missiles.
A despateh from Savannah, Ga., says: The
the Was
in consequence of an attack by a
eatire white military force o! city
alied out
mob upon the Masonic lemple, in which ex-
Priest Slattery delivered a lecture on the
Roman Catholic Church,
The announcement of the intended lecturs
ied to the circulation of a petition appealing
to Mr.
re u-e to permit it on the ground
Herman Myers, mayor of the city, to
that iis
rier would result, The mavor and e¢ity at-
torsey t:id the committee whieh presented
the pei jon that tuey had no power to abridge
the right of free speech, and advised
would Le offende | by the
main the ka
Mayor Meyers i su
» MeDermott
force on han
away irom
fee
Fifteen policemen
15
or the
€ the Dall
Upstairs a number of 1
had cheered
jeclaration that he belonged to
gathered around the ex.priest t
A= they leit the ball, A
y defend
number, it
dent, had come armed in anti
feation ¢
ipation
trouble,
Outside Mavor Myers
Garrard were in
an
asuiiatl
hissed atthe police and hiote
ers t
) disy ran,
The military ala . eleven
bells ia the city, was sent
roundod mob derided
some of the
- with them;
sab Volunteer Guards, une
Col, Garrard, swung into
of the bail with fixed
bail cated
By ordes of the mayor, {|
ionded with
in two siogle lines
and «
with fixed bayonets in hopes o! it
The mob was shoved re.
tack slowiy,
fused to break, and
thrown at the ball,
deflant
Bix companies fron
occasional rocks were
The mob was su
lotermined.
Beg
and apparent
v
the First
under Lieutenant-Colonel Reilly,
soon afterwards, making el
on the ground.
avon
In the hall the audience was still
penned
ap. Some of the women were crying, and
those who ventured to glanee out
the risk of a broken head
The military were deployed so as
the mob back and
the hall
When a consultation of the
aid so
to drive
form a hollow Fquare
about
ion, one of the most prominent Catholics
of
the city, tendered his services as
mager,
8 peace.
He brought Viear-Gereral Caff sty
who is in charge of the diocese in the ab
sence of Bishop Becker to
rouble,
the scene ol
Vicar-General Cafferty addressed a portion
of the mob, **This man Slattery."
“ean do your church
said he,
no harm. You are
bringing disgrace upon your religion by your
conduct, It can meet with but eondemna.
tion, I plead with you to disperse and go
home, Do not render it necessary to shed
blood,
A few of those he addressed shook
viear<general by the baad snd Jeft, but
majority stood still,
Major Mildrim and others urged the mob
to disperse, but to no purpose, With double
ine of soldiers a block was formed, and
while the rest of the militia kept the crowd
back nearly all of the audience passed out of
the hall amid hisses,
Blattery was escorted to the Pulaski Hotel
by polict and military, Later his wiles was
taken there in a carriage
The crowd dwindled away, but the mili
tary was stiil on duty at midnight,
More trouble is feared, though prominent
Catholics are trying to allay the excitement,
Several policrmen were so Injured tha
they were sent home, Several of the military
were wounded by belong struck by stones,
Binttery's manager was kaockel sensoloss
with a sandbag.
messiness oI rss.
M. Auguste Vacqueri,a well.known French
literateur and editor. in-obief of the Rappel,
8 radiesl republican organ, is dead, sged
soventy.two years, He was the author of &
number of works of prose, poetry, and also
wrote several dramas,
the
the
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
SENATE
Bixry-Trinp Day, In the SBepnnte considers
ation of the sundry eivil ag projpriation bill
Wis resumed, A financial discussion was
narrowly averted upon the items appropri-
ating $100,000. as expenses of this govern.
ment in participating in an interoatiooal
monetary conference, By a vote of 49 to 16
the Senate decided to consider the propo-
kition to pay sugar bounty for the crop of
1804. At 6.10 P. M. the Benate took a recess
until 8 P, M. At the evening ses-ion private
bills ware passed,
Bixiv-Fountn Day. —In the Senate the
chile! interest of the day's debate centered
firound the debate upon the debt-certiticate
pina | roposed by Mr, Gorman, After it had
teen debated by Mr. Gorman, Mr. Mills, Mr,
Voorhees, Mr, Allison, Mr. Hill and other
Senators, it was withdrawn by Mr. Gorman.
There was further consideration of the eivil
sundry approprintivn bill,
Bixoy-Firrn Day. --In the Beunte the sun-
dry civil appropriation bill wus pas<ed, in-
cluding the #5,000.000 for sugar bounty and
the provision for tue representation of the
United States ut an international monetary
The deficiency appropriation
bill was reported, The civil sundry bill was
amended to au appropriation of
¢ Tennesses Exposition, A
night seasi Senate was held, at
which Mr, Chandler consumed the greater
jart of the time in elections ia
Dem
include
£125.0 0 for th
not the
discussing
ceriaie sinles,
ri Day. the LADY
eal imporiacce were passed, Mr,
Mander on's resolu. fon was nade pted for a
ymmittee of inquiry s+ to the advisability of
i joint ¢ mitte neerology, to do
Ww th the cas n of pronouncing culogies
eceased m mbers of (
BIXIY FIX
His of |
In Benate
+ ON away
ipon
An amend.
feney bill was of.
250.08) for an arbiira-
Britian to ad-
the Bering sea
offered Ly Mr,
#4.5,000 to pay
a rdanes with the
dation, rejected,
the work of the eleventh
ed before July | next. The
was passed, Priva o
Lon
nEre.s
general defi
Ialing
th Great
on
o Was
{ was require
“nsus Le gory
ii
4 her
6 was no obj
interest was
arbitration Li,
report
6 peusion lor Hiran
VOIR IDeRsures relatin
imbin were § i
Inthe House of Re
Br Was A general tg Te
{ private bi ls. Tha legl
ecutive and judicial bill was sent
I'he bill 10 add two erimisnl sec.
ythe in erstale commerce act was defeated,
bil designed 1 preserys fur seals in
Bering Sea was passed, The anti-lottery
WARS [esd A ill was
Virginia $181 304
WAL 1X «
her=tolore pald by the
P. M. the Bouse took
At the evening sess
ag
Banew
SIXTY-N1xrs Day
fehnintives t CON1os
RssRLe
ence
'
'
ihe i
passed
slinre
edi 338
ROvernmey
ns her
{ 1861, loss
A recess
ion privaie
were considered,
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES
A wood chog
ana three
pe a in CC,
Warner,
hs wife children wore {
snd
frozen to death in their Beutort
a few days ago.
atsies ins th
Alnn in tte
Mountains, in Mssou |, The
liscovery was accidently made by a hua.er.
First Livutenaut Fremout P. Peck, of the
Ordpance Corps of the United B.aes Army
I ¥
Sandy
of a
was killed on the proving grounds at
Hook, Uy the bursting of the
Hotchkiss rapid firing gun,
Ax vxplosion oi gas occurred in the West
Bear Ridge Colliery, at Mahoooy Plane, Pa.
and six miners were killed and oar serious
breech
ily burned, Five of the victim+« were entomb.
ed butiheir bodies were subsequently re
covered,
Ratiroad the
wrecked seven miles west of Hun ington,
John Adkins, of
killed outright and an t
ern Jumped trmoek and was
Ww.
Wayne county, was
nknown womau from
Petosky, Mich., was probabiy fatally injured,
Engineer Jackson and Fireman Ganze
seriously hurt,
were
A freight wreek occurred Joa the Cineln.
pati, Hamilton and Indiana Railroad
Labanon Junction, Ohio, *Y
at
onduactor Chas,
Huriess, of Dayton, went with the
into the dite, He lay pinioned and partly
submergad ic water for nearly two hoars
While the work of rescues was in progrese the
wreek caught fire and the flames were burn
ing flercely about the imprisoned o.nduector
ut the moment of his rescue,
wreckage
Ed
MINERS SUFFOCATED.
Twonty-Six Men Have Los: Life in a Now
Mexico Cal Pit
A special to the Morning Democrat says:
“White Ash coal mines, three miles from
Cerrillos, were the scene of a terrible explo.
sion. Tuirty-séeven men were working in
four levels when the disaster oceurred, .
“Eleven of these have so far been rescued,
all in a dying condition, The remaining 20
have doubtless porisked, Over a dozen dead
bodies have been recovered,
“I'he scones at the identification of the
wounded and dead wore heartrending., The
miners all nro married men, When the news
of the disaster spread wives and children
Wurried from Wa do and Madeid, Not until
evening were searohars able to descend ow.
ing to the poisonous vapors. In the course
of ball an hour severnl dead bodies were
sent up. Then it wns feared not a soul of
the 87 bad escaped, but the eleven were
found nlive,
CABLE SPARKS.
Dr. Hulke, president of the Royal Coliege
ol Burgeons of England, is dead,
Viceroy Li Huxo Cuava is -aid to be plot-
ting to secure the overthrow of
dynasty in China,
The students of Toron'o University have
refused
the sanchu
to attend lectures Lecause a pro
fessor has been dismissed
Unusual honors were shown to the mem
ory of Minister Gray when his remains left
Mexico for Indianap lis.
Tae re; ort ot a possible war between Chill
nod Argentina over » boundry dispute i, de-
clared to have no foundation,
The Kbedive of Egypt bas signed a mar-
ringe contract with his favorite
tee cutly gave birth to a girl,
slave, whe
Parumice Hicarss, who was for a long time
the advanced section o
the Feninas in Eagiaod and
iu Liverpool,
Bo-between lor the
America, died
A bill will be submitted
Parliament asking 1or
to the Japane-¢
the appropriation of
£5),000,000 tor the expenses of carrying on
the war against Ch na,
The new United Bervieo Tustitute in White.
ball, London,
Prince of Wales In the presence of a
listinguished company.
The Appeal Court at Brussels bas upheld
the judgment agaiast Mr, Loe-,
wis lormuaily opened Ly the
1
au American,
who claims that he is the inventor of the new
Belgian army rifle,
Oo Janeir
100 00 ; co
wn
It is s'ated at Ik that a new in.
ternational
ioan of tos of rels wii
be arranged for the purpose of
the Brazilian paper currency.
bexpe led
the Jesuits from Germany passed the Reich-
ng. Its
desrath will not sane:ior
The bili to repeal the law whe
th
* saougn
s HOWever, 1
Arrangements have
tween Franee and Portuga
fuce to and treatment
Mogamb que of §
i
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE
Ma T. 2
contested {
John R Mclean
r one of the boxes for
Me.
wt of $8540,
Lesten and Mr
the «
Oeason at
Washington Lester finally gol
tac
HMAN, capitalist
died re
discover the
An early pion
1 edd
rently,
an of Los Gatos, Ca who
Was one ola party 1
Yosemite Valley in March, 1854
Bev, Amos Kenwo thy, of Kaighstown, In
diana, is a Friend, but not of Edstern
Branch, He
het. He Is now
Cleveland,
the
as he balleves in jevivals, has
also the reputation of a prog
conducting a revival in
Tux of
President of the British
Duke Westminster has become
national trust for
places of historic intervst or natural
Mes, F.
people
beauty.
Talbot bas presented to the English
through the
ciifl at Barmouth, N
Mx,
trust, sn beautiful ses
sth Wales,
Kars, wa'chmaker of
the works
a wall-known
is the owner of
dare on the
wine bottie and the
the tog of the bottle,
tery attached
years ago it fio
Michigan,
I
no
Nevera)
from Lake
been a go
Harvard since Oliver
1835 indorss],
Harie's
# approachiog
is generally
Hera d recails Boot
performan
this line, when {resh from
Ttuthfal James and Ah
very frivoious verses
Governor James P,
on. He Is a
pleasing ad
sin Washing
gentleman of ress and is
best lawyers in Siate,
the
Clarke came East to try to effect a
settiement between the United States
the
against
’
lot ¢
08 OF
matter of ceriain claims onch bho.ds
the other growing out of the sale of a
swamp lands years ago,
Hannum Lioyp, the representative
Central Labor Union, of Bostox
* Bn,
ol the
isa clean eat
yoars of age. He wears gold.
bowed giasses shaves his face ciean, has a
and is never at loss {or a perti-
nent question or atswer when he goes belore
a legislative committe,
Miss Elizabeth Coleridge, who died a
Weaks ago at Ottery St Mary, in Devonshire,
few
where she has passed the whole of her life,
wad a niece of Bamuel Taylor Coleridge and
a veconl cousin of Engiand’s late Lord Chief
dustie . Miss Coleridge, wh was an accom.
plished artist and a clever woman, had the
culture and literary tastes for which nearly
ali the members of her
aoted,
family have been
A BARK BLOWN UP.
Burglars Wrecked a Building at Griswold,
but Got Nothing.
A terrifie explosion wrecked the First Na.
tional Bank, of Griswold, Ia. Barglars ‘had
blown up the bLuliding, bat the excited
crowds that hurried to the place found, on
cleaning away the wreckage, that the con.
tents of the burglar proof vaults were intact,
A spirited fight between the bask robbers
and loeal authorities occurred, in which
several persons were shot. OMoars bad
been notified to watch for the men who
robbed the Griswold Bank. Deputy Sberift
O'Brien with BShorilf Hooker smd Officers
Peterson and Warre arrested a suspect, Just
ns they reached the Court House two men
who kad beea [foliowing the party com.
meneed firing at ths offlecrs. Presenting
their guns, the officers returned the fire, the
prisoner and the two strangers separating
from the officers and shooting as they ran,
For some minutes the fuslinde was kept up,
eitizens and other ofMoeors joining in the bat.
tle, which had become general all along the
line, until the desperndoes were overcome
and two of them placed under arrest and
taken to jail, where they gave thelr names as
GHTEEN YEAR.
Charles A. Morganfield Found
Guilty as Charged.
JURY AGREES IN10 MINUTES
Thred of Ther Were In Favor of
the Death Penalty-~The Prisoner
Recelves the Verdict Cooly.
A
Siys:
despateh from Fredericksburg, Va.
With a cigar in his hand and a smile on
a his traln robler Morganfield looked into
he stern and solema faces of twelve jurors
ind learned bis fale—gullly as charged in
he indictment, with a punishment of eigh-
the
¥us out only about ten minutes, and on the
rst ballot
nusion,
een years in penitentiary, The jury
arrived at a unanimous con.
It was about 4:3) when court
the
The court-ro«
reopened to
eceive the verdict, and prisoner was
tircied in on his eot, I WHS
ammed, and for once it was unnecessary
or Sheriff Kennedy to wave his hat and
| yell, “Be slient, gentlemen!
“Have you arrived at a verdie:?” inquired
bad hel
- ;
Jerk Bryau a.ter the jary taken thei
places,
“We have,
“Look
he jury.
upon the sentiemen of
is he gullty or not’
“Guauty!” spoke up several of the jurors
promptly. The verdict was then handed uj
sud read, aud it was all over. When the
pnnishment need
Was anne
[the room gave
Lie and was sbarg
ie was «
At the verdic
send
'
asd
ae her thee ws
was asked
% 0st ory Ww 1% Yt
wutence should not
bm
Broed on hus oot, and
voice 10id the court that he had gone jot
he trial weak in mind and body, and with
rut preparation, and that he not ex
had
pected to be tried so soon,
Judge Ashton pronounce] the sentence,
closing his address by congratulaing
vieted man upon his lucky escape
He sald he thought
aer bad been ably defended,
he galiowa the
and coul
Morzan
Awe, 4
the castodyot
no reason lor reopening
field was then remanded ¢
cksburg authorities,
rosy White asked for a continuance
art entered the order against the
: ie
And Senator
vay
of this orion remain and the
:
judge said be was thor ughly fatigued, and
presumed counsel were similarly affected,
EE —— —
CALLED TO THE CABINET
Wilson
General,
William L Postm aster.
ihe President sent th owing nomina
Wik
Postmaster
y the RK -~Widlam i.
WO De
of Illinois, to
s at Paso
B Spagooli, of ( alifornia,
od
of th del
Norie, Mexico; D
wo be Consul of tha U
the Uasited States, at Mila:
Lialy.
Iuterior—J sho H. Brickenstein, of
stivania, and Arthur P
Penn
of New
Hampshire, (now principal examiners in the
Patent Office), to be
the Patent Office
Toe tact that President
roejey
Greeiey,
examiners-in- chief in
Cieveland intend
been Kncwa for several days to the most in
friends of to Mr
Wilson himsell, The selection is one which
timate
dr Wilson and
the President made of his own motion with.
out any urging from Mr, Wilson's frends,
and jargely in recoguliion of the member's
in lading the tariff fight
Hot ao, *
services in the
No member has ben on more intima'e
terms with the President than has beea the
| chairman of the ways asd me
and his specehes in Hi
anus commitios,
# bes
"3470
ise have always
adminisiration. I: was asted that Me Wil
sot’s speech on the amendment to the post.
offies bill to compel railway clerks to live at
the end of ther perhaps the last
speech he will make as a Congressman was
an earnest plea to support the Postmaster
Gen ral,
No man in Congre«s has a greater personal
popularity among members o! both parties
thar Mr. Wilson
Toules
—————
AWAKE FOR FIVE MONTHS
ns
David Jones Went 152 Days and Nights
Without Rleep—He is Improving.
David Jones, a wonlthy farmer, residing
near Elwood, Ind,, failed on the night of
September 28rd Inst to sleep, and from that
time on, night after nizht, could not get any
rest, Ho lost a fow pounds of flesh, but was
able to continues work,
Noted med ional men valuly tried to afford
him reilef, Last Friday night be began to
feel drowsy and that night slept hall an
hour, He has since been sleeping a little
each night and it §8 now thought that he
soon will be all right again,
He went 152 days and nights without sles
Three yoars ago he went ninsty days awd
nights, He has lost only ten pounds during
the long sleepless period now apparently at
an end.
PENNSYLVANIA ITZM3
ipitome of News Gleanod From Various Parts
of the Stats
Tbe Commissloners of lLatdeastsr co
inty
have Just successfully completed the rs und-
ing of the county's 4 per cent, bonds with a
The
new joan bearing 31g per cont interest,
new loan will be taken almost wholly by the
present holders, There is
county io the State whose
other
vss
only oae
bonds bear
cent, interest,
4 per
Judge Esed and other Philadelphians ape
peared before the Judiciary General Com.
mittee on bebalf of truer civil servics,
At the
nt Carifsie,
wommencement of the Indian Mehool
twenty graduates received
plomas,
The East Pennsylvania Counferense of
United Evangelical Church convened
Schuylkill Haven, Bishop Dubs presiding
Over 120 ministers he
attended
meeting of the filty-seventh annual sess!
the Ewtern Pennsylvania Conference of
aul Association at Pot'stown,
Evangel
81, Joseph's Roman Catholic Chu
festroyed by fire, causing a
rea at
wns
030, A
SOWH
of #100 man was K'lled by a fall-
ing Wall
Josenn shute a well-to-do resident: of
Staufler, it is eharged, fired a bullet into his
wri sides 1s fisting
wite's side, inflicting
a probably fatal
Sehbute and his wile
ago and
He {
gquarreisd
she Jelt }
qicatle owning the Gettys.
ns accepted the 1
veroment to removes ti
Jie
unt Washingtor
*. and saved b
or
[a tree
“ne
Haziston
usar
a tunne
Fiyna,
ownship,
Sve miles long
chard S0 eisclion eversner
East Duties Seasuyikill county,
charged that Micha acd J
Patrick Mal
ho Carley
’ banast anid Biv v
Ney sjeciea UIT4 fei” 8
tha Rehland Cant
offioe ; rn was bDiown
barge Hrs On ROOUL HLF
worth of po The paper: were
scatierod around fl A heavy
s'edze bang ind
by the thieves
Collector Edward P. Kearns, of
¢ removed from office
Pittsburg,
w by President Cleve
innd and Edward Bigler of Clear fl
ag nied 10} i
al coal operators met at Pits!
’
President Lobbins az: to retire §
harmony,
visite:
be
3
- 2 §owae 3 nat thm
Invesligatleq uf
Wernerviile Ho:pital and
charges of cruelly preferred agalust the em-
piovees of that
»
Eiiz
ter ©
inst
iheth 8 ianghe
merson, an 1l.year oid «
Rober: Somerson, of Smock Siation,
was the victims of a fatal burning Her par-
ents were away and she siaried « ico a
£0
neighbor's before dayiizht, lighting ber way
clothing
When she reached the house of
with a pit lamp
tf
Hoe,
Iu some way her
eRuUgh
William Louther she fell down
on the §
unconscious
or. Every shred of
arned irom ber body,
clothing was
Peath came in a few
2 OUTS,
Mrs, William Derk, of Shamokin, died =»
the opera house whie awaiting the rajsing
Khe
of the curtain before the first act
immediately
was
removed to her home, Her
death is atrributed Yo heart failure, Her hus.
band caught ber in his arms when
stricken,
she was
The double residence on the
Sharon,
of
wae
gus €x.
of aoe
The residence
was cecupied by Joha Ashton and lamily and
Daniel Bryson and family. The injured mie
Johu Ash on, severely burned about the ince
aud body, may die; Jean Bryson, burned
about the face and band; Miss Grace Ash.
ton, burned a «d one Anger nimost biows off;
Mra, Daniel Bryson, Mrs, Joha Ashton and
Miss Mitnaie Ashton were slightly injured
All the walls of the house are down an 1 sev
eral ol the inmates wero blown out oa the
slice.
corner
Bhenaugo and Reno sireets
completely destroyed by a na ural
plosion which resuited from igniting
cumuinied gas in the eceller,
IIs
ONE SHOT TOO MANY.
RKineteen Bullets Struck His Breas: Plate,
buat the Last Passed Balow It.
William Haverty was shot and fatally ine
jared at Eagel's Patilion, Caloago, by Pro
fessor Alfried Risokhoff, an alleged obham-
pion rifle shot of the world. The msn were
performing the human target act, Haverty,
who was acting as Risekhofl's assistant, had
& stool plate over his breast,
Rieckboll fired twenty shots at the steel
pate, “ringing the bell” nineteen times
At the twentieth +hot Haverty sank to the
floor erplog. “My God I'm shot.” Oas of
the bullets had entered his stomach below
the plate. Aithe hospital It ws sald be
could not live, Risskhoff was arresio |
ISSIR.
The strike at the Greploek Mills, Norts
- the ope
atives having voted to return to work at the