THE NEWS, will be Refining The oll aad eoal flalds in Maxlieo worked by the Internationa! Oil Company ol Chieago.——An upheaval of the parth in the Pacific Osean March 2nd, reported by vessels at San Francisco, San Jose, Cal, the Darron will contest for the two million dollar estate of Ed. ward Jarron was closed wiih a ver. diet in favor of the contestee, George Barron, who was disinherited by his father, the property being bequeathed to Elward Barron's second wile, Eva Risa Barron. The four-story building at 255 South Second street, Philadelphia, occupied by G. Walker Kally and Co. and Al Zugsmith, manuincturer of jowelry boxes, was gutted by fire loss; about £12,000, —] is rumored that Dr. Oto von Musller, for- merly of Kansas City, hs murdered his wife at Crocow, Poland, nnd has was —- At furaliure agents, been arrestod, Smallpox prevails in paris of and —Rav, Elijah Telior torn to pieces wild animals in county, W, Va.——}M. O. Sullivan, a Ken ucky. wns by Logun postal with rifling letters, Matthew Calloway, colored, to be hangel on James Waters, colored, of the victim, who wa: inlieted on the charge of aiding and abetting in the erime, was sou- was nominated by the Republicans to suce. ed in the House of Representatives Currows, lately elected to the United State, Senate, ———Three firemen were fatally injured by a train at De'roitj —Mrs. Elisa Cowen and ber three ciildren, of Northfield, O.. were poisoned by cating fried beef, —-) I Waldo, who was cashier of the People's Bank at Fostoria, O,, up to the time of {is failure 000 in his accounts, United States transport Fein, off Cape C.d at night, Within a few [- et of the fire were stored four hundred pounds of rmoke.es powder. The hero ceflorts of the crew, huw- lenge senatorial contest in Idaho finally termi'nated in the re slection of Senator George L. Shoup, —— Near Beverly, W. Va. Charies Slavin shot and kilied Ham Collins in a fight. ——The steam- ship Istrian arrived at Newport ever, saved the ship, ——The News from Bermuda, alter a rough voyage, ——At Lex. ington, Va. the grand indictef C. Figgatt, late cashier of the Bank of Lexis t anl also ILL K G win, bookkeeper, for making fa jury ton, for embes $6 ent and C, W. Irvine for receiving money, ki ing his bank account t, be overdue, The Rav, J. Hoftnan Bitten, a religious paper in Asbury publisher of Park, was ar- res. od on the charge of libaling the mavor of the town, ——0, P. released a few Minnesota Wilkins, days ago from the penitentiary, and Charles W, Crawford, a youth of nine- Adel ier, secured teen years, entered the State Bunk at shot 8. M. Leach, the cash & few hundred dollars and ese Iowa, ped from the Wilkins took He w which n, pursued by a crowd, refuge in a barn, which was fired, and a fight foliowed was shot dead, The other robber forced out was Several men ware Booth, of the 8 was granted permission by Ju tured, wot sd Mrs Jallington Cincinnati, to perform the ~The trial of Perry Coffe for the murder ¢ mony. NC, ponel becaus: Jo y at Winston, ee TH® first ann Ga me Wholesa'e Lumber Dealer's Association, was hell in Philadeiphia A strike javolving from twelve on in the ners is the operators having refuse 10 sixty-nine cent rate de. manded bj 1 sullrage in Mascne the lower h thousand ralir miners in the Pittsburg » of fourteen yed the J. B e, Ky Jas. £75.09), ~ - Dy Aaderson, lad % vd a ion of natural gas in lock of business houses valued was destroyed.——An incendiary Kinston, N, C., destroyed twenty-five buiid- Loss, 40,000; in- had £90,000 ings, twelve being sioros, surance, £10,000. Last week a $200,000 five, with «A distinet earthquake shock oral seconds was felt at Wilson, N. C, ings were shaken but no damage Wya't Maylerry, colored, went to church and locked his three up in the house in Breaham, Texas, The house caught firs and the oldest child, aged seven years sscaped by climbing out of the window, The (wo youngest were burned death, « Crawford M. Kendrick and his Charles, who stood high in business circles ja 8t. Louis, got out ol town, leaving many dabis behind, , ——— TRAIN WRECKED IN GEORGIA. Kingston insurages of insting sev. Build. done, children to brother A Mother and Daughter Killed, and Others Hart. The F oride vestiba'e train golag south at the rate of filty miles an hour struck a tam- pered switch and was wrecked at Scotland, Ga. The train consistel of thres Paliman ears, first and second-class coaches, mall asd express cir. Every one oi these was deralied, Tse Puliman and first and second-cinss coaches were thrown on their sides, One of the coaches wers oovupled by the Rolanl Read theatrieal company and the other had a fall complement of passengers, Mes. C. W, Babors, of Pickens, Mis, with tieket t> Ocala, Fa, nnl hee flve-yoar.old daughter were killed, Roland Reed had his leg and baek Injured, Miss Mary Myers, Now York, was siverely wrenched In the back and shoulder, Neliher was severely hurt, Roland Read distingu'shel) himassl! by res cuing, at a great risk, three of the ladies from the uptarned oar, The switch bad been turned and naifled down by unknown pariles, NII A W. W. Lowp gave a succoessfal test at Duluth, Mino., of his invention for sanding pletures by telegraph, The faintest detally wore transmi ted, even to the shading ol the features, The objection to the “telantograph’ has besn its inability to re, produce shaded lines Three Sessions, SILVER, TARIFF, FINANCES. A Summary of the Work Accoms= plished Since August, 1893, when the President Called the Mem=~ bers in Extraordinary Sessions. The three sessl ns of the Fifty-‘hird Con. tontrolling lssucs, The first bythe silver The second by the iariff question. Jn the 7th of A ig ast, 1898 the Congross convened in for the avowed purpose of repealing the compulsory extraordinary session This was the silver session, Mr. W. L. Wilson, chairman of the Ways and Means Committees, preparel a bill, in the the 25th of August, 1893, this measure passed the House, Lhe Senat’, io the mean paring, through the CommIittes on Fiuanze 2 substitu e bill, and on the 1st of Nove nber this Senate suustitute recolved the appr val President's message, and ou time had been pre- This meas irs, ad a a0 fon mw, ¢ ose l Upon its meeting in regular session, in Do- Congress entered apoa the consideration of the revision of the tariff. As but 1a much more pronounced manner, the Hou ‘proposed’ and the Senate Ihe ‘Wilson tariff bill, passed by the House Feb- ruary 1, 1831 was set aside for the Jones Gorman comp dis; osed.’ omi eo tarifl bill, aad adopted by the Senate on the Sd of July, 1894, a ter four months’ debate, and the House ua the blunt option of the * ing." the Pres! ieat on the 158 Senate and 3 of Augus , 1 It took the Senate bill NOT SIGNED BY THE PRES President Cles d permit become a law an falormal vidual witho manne members of tion with the foad: in the tariff systen Supp em# law, the Se and ine Senators quarters ong other y pational sirictions un Slate ADDITIONAL Ths bill was defeats was followed by a second message fron Bresident, received by both Houses of ( gress December 28, ln whield the saldthat whalover might have Len the merits of the original plan proposed by him he “now convinced tha: its reception by ( gress and our present advanced stage of financial perplexity necessitated additional or different legislation He once again recomn of a law authorizing the isus of low ’ the est bearing bonds to maintain the gold serve. The Banking and Currency Commit on the 1st of February, 1885 a bill to gold United bonds to maintain a suflleieat and to redeem and retire notes," After only two hours’ debate this bill was also defeated by a majority of 27. On the next day the Presiden: iaformed Congres: that he had negotiated a conditional sale over $62,000,00) of 4 per cent. coin bonds tc a syndicate largely represented by foreigo capitalists, having no resource lelt, because of the “omission thus far on the part of Cun. gress to benefleially enlarge the powers ol the Seeretary of the Treasury in the prem. fsen.” This last message went to the Ways and Means Committee, whose chairman, Mr, Wilson, of West Virginia, seven days aiter its receipt, reported a resolution authoriziog the issue of $65,116,275 of gold 3 per swf bonds, as recommended by the Presidook, The measure was called up on February 14th and defeated the same day by forty-seves majority, after a stermy debate, THE SENATE PROGRAMME These three financial measures, with the general appropriation bills, consumed the greater part of the session. Early in the session the Democratic caucus of the Senate agreed that the [ollowing matters should be considered: A financial measures of some sort, detalls not designed; the bankruptey bill; the bills for the admission of New Mexico aad Arizona the Nioaraguan Canal bill, and the Bate Bank tax repoal bill Of all these moasures, the Nicaraguan Oa. nal bill alone passed the Bena'e, alter two months’ debate, and that only because the Mepublieans utilized it as a buffer to keep off the bankruptey bil. It filled to receive con- sideration in the House, The bankruptey Wl was made the unflaished busipegs, Lut Slates of was choked by the appropriation bills, Fi, nancinl moasures were not acted upon by the Senate, and nothing planned by the Benate caucus resuited In legldation, The so.enled “popgun’’ tariff bills sent over by the House, providing for free sugar, free coal and free fron were not even honored by covsideration, and the raliroad pooling bill, ons of the most important measures passed by the House ’ was also shelved. sms AIO sss os a “TIAL . FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. SENATE Sixry-Bevextn Dar. Iu the Benate the gession Lean ut 2 P.M, alter a recess from 3 A.M. Great crowds filied the galleries. Lue pavat appropristion blll was passed providiag for two battle shi », six guubon's and three torpedo-bonis, Early in the day AD Agreement betwosn the two houses was rescamd on the sundry civil appeopr.a fon biil, and luter on tas diplomatic wud consa ar Lill, Mr Har is acveptid the provision of the civil rundry Wil Jook ng 10 an inter- national monetary conlere wes, Tae provis ion in the sam: il cor the retirement of the revenue mar ae offf ers was withdrawn, The the sundry civil appro priation bil was concurred In, A 6 I. AM hs bunate took a reco until 8.3) P. M., Toe Senn © recedsd from its ameadment to 1h lumat.e and cousulur bl! wpproprinting n-truction of uo calie teport on » iil 8B xry-Eionru Day --Th» bad sembl 4d at 9 A, i and defle.egey bills were dis possi of, Senators Yoothess and Sherman whited upon the Presiden: nnd advised him Seunts bad completed its business, When Mr, Yoorhess couveysd to the Bepate nyratuin fons of the President upon fis ndjournment there was a round of lhughter galle jes, Mr, Stey , nad Mr, Harris, Vice-Presi- tho Bena.e, recived ttauks of yy for the manner in which they bave inrged thelr duties, ad Senate dent o the HOUSE Sixry-Sevexta Dav.-The House was in nln salon all day, with recesses Iron and ir 3) ia the nferen mG until 7 thie eveuln Iecks 0 the Hoal coaler- lading, legisia rintion Ui is had be naval bil aad “ : 1d ne beiwy n sund ycivii HOmMAtIc appro I, ivaving ouly t in re's attempt Dill to grant a right of way throug viing Territory to a railroad company Pros det U's veto Inlled Mr. J posed the bill gra » Major-G nern the nes | month niter of a speech by Gooeral New York) it passed i AY batlurday [8 Were passe i } to bulld = session SHAKEN BY AN EARTHQUAKE 1et Shocks Were Felt at Wytheville WAR IN VER:ZZUZLA is ropo 1 kal for ‘be moral support 1h American countries in his at » ¥ pritish aggre sion, sms se WORK AND WOREKRS the we avers of p bo Lancaster G ng, Clinton, returned fo work, $ Were rannirn ia, at Massachuseits, whe strike, The cot yperators of the Pittsburg dis ir. et reached as agreement which will bring nearly all of the outside operators into the Railroad Coal Operators’ Association The Board of Walking Delegates in Now York e ty decided to eall out every man con nec'el with the bulliinz trade. The sweep- effect 1,000 workmen, District Assentory 75, K. of I, in Brook. iyn, decided t off th: strike on the trol. ley rallr.ads in Brookiyn, with ing strike order, wil ; ORl the excep. of the Atientic Avenue Company's system of lines, Th» Trades and Labor Assembly in Colum. bus, Oulo, a; po.nted a commit: se to inves: i. gate the charges of brivery made by Presi, lent Wild in the Miners’ Convention against John MeBride, Pre.ideat of the American Federation of Labor, Tux Baugh Steam Forge Department of th: Michigan Peninsa ar Car Works at Ds troly, which has beeu employing » limited number of men for many months, started work at I's ful est ca, acly, giving employ. ment to nearly 600 men, A #8, Louis despatoh says that the strike situation a: the [udor Iron Works is bee sm lng serious. Armed guards have been placed at the gates to protect the non-union work men, aad the company has secared beds for the toen to a'oep in the works, The weavers at the Lancaster Mills, at Clinton, Massachuset #, s.ruck against a ro. duction In wages of from 73{ 10 10 per cent. They desire the corporation to promise to ad. vance their wages to the old standard wien the market ploks up. About 1500 «pers ives in all woot out, A Boston despatoh says the drivers ana mot rmen of the West Ead Street Rallway decided not to accept the compromise pro. positon of the management of the road, but to adhere to their origional demand of 2 50 porday, Tae point of attack has been “banged, however, and instead of a tlo.up of the West End system there is to be a legisla, tive fight Insugurated, walch fs expected to restrict the employment of inexperience | men on the cars of the company, RAILROAD WRECKS Particulars of the Great Dis- aster in Mexico, HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED The Victims Were Excursionists on a Religious Pligrimage-A Pas~ senger Train on the New Jersey Central Hallroad Crashes Into Coal Cars. A despatch from City of Mexico, says: —One of the most frightful accldonts In the history of the Mex.ean raliroads, in the killing of 104 persons, and the serious if not fatal injury of about 85 others, occurred on resulting ths Inlerseennie Rallroal at a point about 25 miles from this city. A fow dys azo a great number of persons left the eap.tal and the towns in the vicinliy to goon a pilgrim. a ze to the Catholic shrine at Bacremonto. A long train, were 1,200 passengers, abrard of waleh there was returning from All went thas line about midway bLe- twooen Temitla and Tenango On this part o/ the road 18 place of pligrimage, woll autil a point on was reached, there is a steep ia- eine, tho line at one place having eurve waere it runs closes to high preciplos, a sharp the edge of a Ia coming down the mountain the engi ning at a high rate of speed when it struck the curve, The engines jumped the track into & deep canyon, It was f aches all of In rolling dowa the mountain Yon oe shoas we ts gy * t tie coaches were brokeu inlo kindling woo livwed by three passenger ¢ which were filled with people, and not a passenger escaped inj ther thes also left the track, ng of ng on Thrown Way Line expres had le t Jer fiy, weal-bound at6.12P M nae, {ime with a coal ans 1 it reachel Baye ran parallel Jor some train con<isting of The running ut a bigh rate of speed, and it consisted of a three pas-enger sieeper and a combination smoker and bag- gage car, The engioe was in chargeof William H Thomas, the engineer, of ‘niladeiphia, and Winfield Hollaod and Harry O' Rell, firemen, of the same place, There are four tracks at this place, two tsed for passenger services and the other two for aud freight trae, While both trains were speading along an axle of one of the gondolas suddenly saappsd In two throwiog « number of the empty conl cars over on to the passenger tracks a few rods in front of the locomotive, Before Eagineer Thomns was able to stop his en. ine crashed into thy gondoins, The locomotive was wr oked and the bag age car ran up into the engine. The passenger coaches were throws from the tracks, but were not overturned, twenty empty gondoias, SXPross was {locomotive coal sn —— WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER. A Plasterer Cuts the Throats of His Wife and Six Children and Kills Himself A plasierer named Taylor, living at Lower Tooting, near London, out the throats of his wife and pix children and then took his own life, All of the family are dead with the excep. tion of one child, who 1s lylog at the polatol death, The crime was the outcome of the extreme destituiion that prevails among many of the working classes, Taylor was a sober, steady workman, but had been thrown out of work by the remarkable ood weather, which brought all building operations to a stand. still. Not being able 10 provide for his fam- ily his mind beeame unhinged and it is evi. dent that ho determined to kill them and “himself in order to save all from slowly starve tog to death, NOMINATIONS FAILED. Twentyone Appointments that Wore Not : Confirmed by the Senate. i Out of an toial of nearly 80 nominations ! fo this Bennte failed to act on sent session of Congress the tween y-ons as follows: Arthur PP, Greely, of New Hampshire, and fon H. Briekens ine, of Pennsylvania, to be principal exam ners in the Patent Office, David G. Browne, to toms ‘or the disiriet of arece s appointment, Albert I fo: the distrie: o! Bistoa and Chatleston, Wiliam L attorney for the dis 1iel of bs collector of cus Montaua and Idaho Blerns, appraiser of merchandise Htates The ton this at the last session, Marbury to be United Maryland Benats failed to ¢ aud the nominees was again sppointed dur- fug the lust recess, Joseph R, Herod, of Iadiana, now second pocrotary of legation in Japan, to be firs Becretnry, Pennsyly ing B Deck und ¢ P. McAn. Postmasters: art, Middletown, drews, Whitehaven, Malne—Sou-an G. Stephenson, Togus. Uses G8ores WwW, Wa OF, Rio- Blonetiam: A Taowas H n, Fachourg, f-Daniel EK -Laather Clark M. Huck, Jinton Maryian Krane, Cumberland, svi Eureka » Nabraska-—M Schuyler, Minnesota —( Tobey, Bauk Cet. Kansas —Robert Kennedy, Pleasanton, Willis E. Dowell, Missoula, ~-Frauk W. Joplin, Moniana Kentucky Ellzabe John Beard, Danville, A recess The rejeclions were as follow peli, distriel atwrnasy for tae of { New York internal rustoms for the linsiey Full Provisions of the Last Bill Signed by the resident. the Presi nierest & 215ASTERS AND CASUALTIES osnt, By the expl Woltze's raw mill, were killed the bui Tux « ing wrecked ty Hall in Brookiyn was damaged » the extent of §4),900 The toner ie building flooded with water, Albuquerque, New the mine exjpio- dead y at 25. One man is s: {ll missiog. Two convicts aud 23 mules were smoth« sred to death in Rock Slope shaft No, the Pratt Mines, Ala. The fire in the mines Is believed to have been of lucendiary or. fin, Tunxg firemen were injured, two probably fata.ly, in Rochester, N. Y., ata fire in the mils of the R T. French Company, mhnu- ac urers of eplecs snd bakin: powder, The lows on build nz and 8 ock 1s $40,000, Tung wane a colition on tne Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Raliroad near Guth- tie, Okinhoma Territory, between a passen- gor and live stock train, Charles Uppleby, the lreight engioeer, was ki led and twenty others were injured, two fatally. Awrnep Rioxnorr scoidenialiy shot and lata iy wounded Burt Habrell, aged 18 years, na Caleago piace 0 amuse nent, IR ckhoft is a fanoy marksman, and Habrell was em. ployed to hold glass balls in bis band. While Hab eli wns assuming his position Rekhofl's rifle was prematurely discharged, the bullet striking Habrell {a the abdomen, Ateleg am from Hennessy, Okla, says that an appeal Yor aid has been lsmued by settlers in the Bteip. “Handreds of familia ate absclutely starving, ean.fug practically prairie dogs and horses, The suffering annparalleled, Cattie have Leen dylog in droves as a result of the unprecedented nor” thers' which wisitel both Territories and Texas within the past P= “saggy 11 Hang Obang has been received three times in audience be the Emperor of China, who treated him graciously, and the viceroy has accepted the mission to Japan In order ADpYicE received al Mexico, from the se*ne d 15 os poRiLiY lo negotints for pence, EE PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS Epitome of Nows Gloaned From Various Parts cf tho State Governor Hastings approved the Marshall Pipe Line bill and vetoed the Bird book bil, All negotiations bstween the mines and operators of the Pittsburg Disrict wers de pirike invoving 20.000, was Thousands ars al- ginred off and a ordered immediately, ready out, Dr, Edward BE, Ilyas, of Readinz, has Blair County auditors nt Hollldassburg be- ehurgos ngaiust the County Commissioners, Con'erencs ad. nfter denouncing Congress {ur sitting on Sunday, were Tie United Evangelisal Bebuyikill Haven minister al appointments also 4) years of had his Thorn. bury Crushing Company, Media, while blast. #, He , and when found his b Luckily ths lias quarr¥man, abou age, named Carrio Crovaouions, head blown off at the works of the ruanit wis blown sixty ing w fee iy was headless, dozen otisr mm nu empioyel in for the day and quit work { Maken a lisiance away lo watch the train on the Centra! Raddl- arted on grade the , includ. asd The flim wer wer lly ex. vio B10,- Allentown silision of CLIO», cars © il, were wrecied s loss will adores 00 No one was inj red the Tax hile House Charles Heber Clark satlacked a hearing of deiphia manuisciurers bYelors the Waysand M aus Comm of Bouth Chess” 0. pauper Mrs, Jenne Wis Dakota ar Cumberinnd, Ia Union were By the expiosi iat McKsesp ied and tw Willlam nla, As = engine under akemen m the he cars. His hea evered Irom old f. indepen his oad a bearing balore the Govern + line repeal 3 i At Brictol nll tha mill whid'es blew in cele. bration of iration o! the fifty-ihird ho of ion ia k Congress 1 . Ana + deol The Court at Lancaster deci led that sa- {ree night leouksepers must no jon ger rerve t iri and dealded to strike nest week if the 60 eent rate was not restored, The County Comm seioner: have clinchel the contract for a naw ¢ » rt hoase at Wiikes- Darre by paying Architest E I. Meyors, of Detroit, $10, 00 of the $20.03) which;it ses. timated, witli bs h's percen ag: on the total gost of the new building, Henry Yheulon, a hotel kKeepor of Allen. town, was shot in the right arm by Albert Fillman, alins Fro, who hala grodge agninst Yheulon, grow ng out of the Lebich Valley a.rike ol 1803. No serious resiits are feared, Filiman, after committing the act, ran out of the hotel and delivere!l hime { to Ofcer Priok, He was committe | to jail = During se vices a: tho Mets did Episospal Church, of Mill Creek, Davis Wilsoa, age 11 acoussd Cioyd Coy, aged 8, of sheking a pleco of obewlag eum oa his back. Some warm words passed between them, eading in Coy leaving the church, When Wilsoa came out of church at the clo-e of the serv.oes Coy atiark-d him witha ka f- and statbei him fn the ablomaa, inflle ing a probaly fa al wound, WRECKED BY GAS Supply Pipes Cut in a Kansas City House by an Incendiary. An explosion of cas. said (0 bo dalibarate- Iv planaed by an inesndiary, wrecked the two-story briok building of Lawis If Day, ia Lydian avenus, Kneas City, and caused thy, death of threes firemen. The exp osion was caused Ly a gas pips leading from the base mont being cat and letting the gas flow through the house, which bad apparently been set on fice. Soon after the firemen ar tive 1 the whole side of the hoasa was blown out and the remainder of (he structure shat. te ol,
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