THE NEWS, Nathan T, United § ates Land Office at Broken was placed on trial at Lincoln, Neb,, dictments charging him with theft of publie records and impersonating officials, ~The trial of R. H. Pannill, a former agent of the C. & O. Rallroad, charged with aiding Tel. ler Hamner in misappropriating the funds of the First National Bank of Lynchburg, was begun in the United States Court in that city, —— Citizens of Harrisonburg, Va., and vicinity have subscribed £150,000 toward the stock of a proposed road through that sec. tion to the West Virginia coal flelds,——The Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad has purchased the Atlantic Short Line, in course of construction from Dublin to Savannah, for two hundred and fifty thousand, About thirty miles of the Atlantic Short Line has been built, —The street railroads entering Philadelphia are devising means to meet the competition of the trolley roads,——Rev. Fiank Chardon, of Chicago, was found guilty in the United States Court of using the malls to sell his clergyman’'s balf-rate orders over various railways, Bow, Vice President Stevenson ana wife expect to go to Europe next summer, —Burglars got one hundred dollars out of the postoflice at Dubois, Pa.——At Lexington, Ky. the heirs of Mrs, Colonel Robert F. Johnsen are suing to coutest her wi.lL. The contestants are descendants of the noted candidate for vice president. There is a quarter of a mil- lion involved. ——Pat Crowe, a train robber, shot Detective Al Moore in Denver and es- caped. Moore is not sericusly hurt, ——The dynamite gunboat Vesuvius started from New York to continue the destruction of derelicts along the coast.—— Robert J, Schall was committed for court in York, Pa, on the charge of murdering Richard Jordan. —James Marlin, a tramp, was shot at Gettysburg, in a secflle for a gun which he is sald to have stolen,—— Ex-cashier Frank A. McEan, of the Indian Hecd National Bank, of Nashua, N. H., was Indicted in eight counts in the United States Circuit Court for embezz ement. More than ! and , four five deaths of reported on Lower Elkhorn Creek, county, Ky. Dre, Gray and Campbell of the best-known physicians in the Sandy Valley, have been called to the are not able to name the disease or check it Not a single ;atieat bas been knowa to rty or the Floyd county epidemic in Casas are Pr two Ke scene, an il live over three days after taking the disease, —— Clarence Hogan, aged twenty-three years and Frank ( ‘hampl n, aged sevente both of Millville, N. J., ed.fessed to having been implicated in fil teen burglaries ia Bridgeton, N. J., and Miliville, within a few weeks, In severa instances they attempted to [fire the build- ings, ——The Georgia Southera and Florid Rallroal was put up at auvetion at Mascon, but no bd was ree ‘dived, ——Frank Thomp- son killed his brother Edward in a family row at their home in Caramel, Mo, —John Oswald, a farmer living near Oley, Pa, was killed by his son ——A fire broke out on the steamer Spokane while crossing Kooteaal Lake. The passengers wer: rescued, but the steamer was destroyed,——Fire j de- ,Stroyed £300,000 worth of property in Bar- lington, Vt, The Parkersburg Traction Company was char.ered in West Virg nia to construet a stree. raliway in tht city, — per, of McSherrytown, Pa was ar:ested by a United States officer on a charge of [raudulent- ly collecting money and passing bixn-elf off a3 a pension examiner, ——Chase Robinson, aged thirty-three years secretary ofa m facturing company in Hartlord Ct, who bad lost several handred dollars of the com. pany's money at poker playing, committed | #u cide, ~—Mr., Emma Blakenship and her | elevea-year-old daughter Anna drowned in the Tuglork River, near Ser. | geant, Ky., their boat ea, sizing while cross. | ing the stream, —The Teath G -orgia Dis. trict nominated Thomas E. Watson for Con- | gress, —J, M. Newcomb, of Petersburg, Va , | who was supposed to have been drown d by falling from a s‘eam r last Seplember on the way from Baltimore to Norfolk, has turne | up aliv-, although the court: had de- | ¢'a‘ed bim dead, ; en Years, were arrested and r n ing | ing» WL ware | ¥ourtesn frame bull lings comprisin ; one- third of the business portion of Iuka, Miss. w re burned, The total loss will foot up to £70,000 No ipsurance, The fire Is su - | posed to have been the work of an Incen- diary,—=Mra, Levi ninety years old, co mitted suicide, by h-nging, at her bome, Chicago. She is thought to have Leon sans, ——An explosion of occurred in the Verde mine, Mexico, which killed four miners and wounded one fatally, The men were blown with terrific force against the tides of the mine and erushed out of a'l semblanc: to bumanity. Their names were John Ro, John Masse, Barto a Senig aud Angel Capa lini, J mes Blizzard, a well-known resi. dent of Port Morris, N. J., drove a hor e and Luggy down to a whar! at Port Norris and into he water, He was drowned, Mrs. W. E. Hoton, of Keya Paba county, Neb, was criminally assaulted, and then strangled to death in her home, The er me was ¢ mmitted by thieves to prevent her giving testimony aga’ nst cattle rustiers. Fire in the Internati nal Cotton Press at New Orleans destroyed nearly 20,000 bales of cotton, ——A storage house of the Western Trans'er and Implement Company in Sioux City, Towa, fl ied with farming machinery, was destroyed by fire. Lois, $5)000 «mr William I. E kins, of Philadelphia, offered a prize of five thousand dollars for the best work by an American to be exhibited at the Academy of finé arts in Phi adelphia in De cember, 1895, ——At Fort Smith, Ark,, twen- ty-sevea United States prisoners pleaded gulity in the federal court and received sen” tences ranging from thirty days in jail to five years in the penitentiary at Albany, New York. ——At Columbus, Oblo, the Lockhart rtaley and Willard Dry Goods Company went into the hands of R:celver George W. Bright, Disagreement between partners wus the cause, Assets, $60,000; liabilities, $54,- 000, ——Two Englishmen were found dead near Bomitrette, Mexico, It is supposed they were murdered, ——Fire in cotton in New Orloans caused a loss of $260,000, ~The property of the Macon and Atlantic Railroad between Macon and Savannah was transfers rod to the Macon, Dublin Road, at Macon, Ga, me giant ' i | 400 PERISHEL Wreck of the Missing Spanish Warship _ Found. SEARCH FOR THE BODIES. Sunk Near the Straits of Gibraltar, and Only Twenty Inches of Her Masts Visible Above the Water, | The Span'sh crulser Alphonso XIII has returned (0 Cadiz after a for the m sslog crulser Reina Regenta, and reports having found the latter vessel Bajo Aceitanos, not far from the Gibralter. Only twenty inches of the Reina Regenta's masts were above walter, The Alonso XIIL soene of the wrec: with a number ol and divi to ver | the bodies of sunken war- hi. lhe Roina Regeata was n March 13, She had Cadiz to lanier mission to Syain, The er on Marcu 10 for Cadiz, had not been defini search sunk near Straits of to the div has returned irs g appliances, in or.ler rec the crew of the nveyed from Moori t Tanzler 8 just e« Just < the relurning ser lof and ber whereabou s ascertained Pirces of ber boats and semapl 1p alox were reported to have been pleked 1 ar Couta and Tarifa, She 420 « i men, ids are belivved to have perl hed. the number { the shore n ried a cre x of yflcers an and ba So soon as the reporis of m 8.07 ves sal became cu rent, a Spanis fO 804 in searo March 14, and Brit sh war vessels put »f er. A French steamship oa arrived at G.braltar, and reported seeing a supposed to have Leen the hein: yin ashore in Aceitun The ¢ Acel anos, added that big vesso Reger a Day, pr Bajo ymmanader Frewch erait ng: the weather, On March at Barcelona, and rep Le © m was warship oc ist 15 the steamer May rigt wted the Spin ruin bh lieved to sh erul Rag tween enta, ont 2 Tarifa aud Cape Espariel p bad lost her fund beavily in the prevaliel, as was laboring flerce gale which was apparently unmana ea did no the May. air k for assistance did nt s iptain of ths May 1 as the opinion that survived the »to which she appeared to be at the Ler, Las r the Spanish cruise i Alfon<o X1IL return the Span son<ts and the straits without the missing waskip, The uncertainty as ty th 1 u Ud a hav.ng searched st Ragenta aged Groat Madrid, and 1 back ne of ? BO Wa « orderel the deten’] keeping a telegrams giving information But, box and t when a number of fl other wreckage known 10 bare be. longed to the Reina I -genta was wa bed ashore at Ta:ifa, she was lor InCad za the 427 officers and mea ed glivea up ad Car. .hagena, whers ot great an tha long there has been excitement poried m#s ng. na Hegen'a, about 1Xioty ar the moment she was from “he Re {wo years ago, same to New York as the Spaai-h tquadron which escorted across the Atlantic the Columbus caravels, The Infania Isabel aow reported to have sank an American schooner off the coast of and Nueva Espana, wer: the other sh ps of Spanish squadron. The Foriress Monroe on April 21, Regente having the caravel San tow ; the Pinta was in tow Isabel, and the Niba was Nueva Espana. All three these Spanish warships took a conspicuous pari ia great Co umblan naval parade in New York barbor on Api 2 7 of the same year, AI MURDERED BY ITALIANS. in a———— A Storekeeper and His Wife Killed Becanss of a Quarrel. of one tae Cuba, the miter a.rived 1893, a the Reina Maria in the Iniznta in tow by of the of ihe An awfa! tragedy accurred at MoGregor, Mina, A family of the name of Jeannette, consisting of father, mother and four cbil- dren, the oldest 12 years, and the young nt a nursing babe, |. ved inn cabin and kept a small store, Two Italians, who were clearing uy a homestead near by, bad trouble with Jeaneite over some saw logs, which resulied in a quarrel at night. The Italians, Niek and Angelo Cristello, brothers, returned in the morning and Nick Cristelio shot Jeannetie with a shotgun, tearing a gaping wound in his side. Angelo shot Mrs Jeasunctie with the Winchester, blowing the top of her head off. Both were killed instantly. The chil dren were shivering with terror. About noon the murderers came to Me. Gregor and sald they were golag to Ai ken to give themselves up, but the local offic rs held them until the arrival of the Eherifl who at onee took them to Aitken to ihe county jail, The Jeannette's were a muol respected family In the neighborlioold, I BROTHERS FIGHT A DUEL Fatally Wounded. George De Forest was shot by his brother, Calvin, st Oakley, Mich, Calvin was also shot and badly wounded by George, George De Forest had lately been considered insane. Ho wont to the home of his sister, Mes, AL fred Beers, and drove them from the house. Ho then started for the home of his parents vowing to take summary vengeanesé upon them. Calvin De Forest started with his gun to intercept his brother, As they approached each other George pulled a revolver and be- gan firing, Calvin replied with his gun. The result was that George had his right Jung perforated, It is feared Calvin's wound | 847 also prove fatal, 1 i : $ s SIR ROBERT HART. In fixing the method of securing the pay- of the instal of the war Indem. aimed by Japan from Chiua, the overmont will probably have to deal 3) ment ments pity © Jap- Aneso g with Bir Robert Hart, ars has who for more than been at the head of China's flunp- i i | i | i Gl years o! | oined the British | 1 ng within o the highest nositior i ion in { Chines the eral o When Sir but three tor ( i r Gi { Were pean, whereas there ar distrust of bert Hart en} espite the lunate th the Chinese, Sir R tire confidences, year for the support « He has absolute cont of the appointmen ineso anl foreign. cials, Ch “THE HAWAIIAN MINISTER. Mr. Thurston to be Recalled at uest of the State Depar.m Req as there are nO a foreign representative , bas talked too Ir sasion where called at the insta: hat of Ministe iritian’s repre. a country to letter ad- and vote Cleve demand wa he Queen ar CABLE SPARKS 1 A hurricane destructiveto li swept over the Fiji Islands recently, Taz remains of Viotor Hugo wore placed io the Pantheon in Paris. Hugo died May 1885, Tae have fe and pro; erty the Reichs Rani centrist members decided to grain monopoly bill Tue German State C¢ leviate the toreen vd conditiog oppose Lhe uncil Pp 0 the supa” growers by increasing tho expori anty Su Zar, Ths Spanish govern emt reporta an eo gagemont with a band of Cu which fifty of the latter wounded, Tue Btate's genara’ of Holland has passcd { 10,000,000 guilders, the money 1 be used in squipping the army wikh Maou. leher rifles, Sir William Vernon Harcourt may chosen Speaker of the House of Commons succeed Sir Arthur Wellesley Peel, The position is said to be favorable to him, Tar newly chosen London county has elected Mr. Arnold, the progrossive oan, didate, to be chairman by a vote 0! 66 to coast for the Duke of Norfolk, Ine sentence of ex-Queen Llluokalant has been fixed for five years imprisonment and to pay a fine of $5,002, Shoe is sill con. fined to a room in the palace at Honolulu hewever, A conlerence of bart, fn for Austrainsian federation. The bill to bs submitted to the various colonial linments, Iu remains of Ismail Pasha, ex-Ebedive of Egypt, who diel recently at Constanti- nople, was conveyed to the Cie Mosque, ia Cairo, where they were interred wil muen pomp. Tur report of Lord Roseberry's inention to retire [rom ofMios has been fevived in Lon’ don, and It ssald that a time for dissolution of Parilamént bins beun fixed for soon alte, the Easter recess, A vioop la the Parahiba do Sal river Brazil, has des‘royed the entire sugar crop in the Campos dos Goltocaser district, In th» State ol Rio Janeiro, This district produces the best sugar grown in Brasil, Tux torms of the treaty of peaos about to be cencluded between China and Japan are known almost to egactn ss ln diplomatie sir eles bocause of the part Ministers Dun and Denby have taken in the negotlation. The Island of Formosa will be ceded to Japan. Coren made independent, a oensh indemnity of $250,000,000 paid by China and Port Ar thar and Wel-Hal- Wel retained for a term of years, , rebels, io killed an were a credit o Le OY ¥ counch oi colonial premiers at Ho. Tesm sain, has prepared a bill provid. is Par. PERU WAR Two Thousand Men Killed i inthe Battle at Lima. AN ARMISTICE WAS CALLED. To Permitthe Dead tobe Buriled,the Wounded Cared For, and Change to Arrange a Peace. a A dispatch was received in Washington by Secretary Gresham from Minister McKenzie in Peru in reference to the recent revolution there. According to Mr. McKenzie there wa « ting in and around | At the end of this time | sand dead budies Jy 16 and sides An armistice was agreed © j ermit the dead to be buried and the ed cared for Alter were still ¢ Lima for th ee days, ing were exhau unburied ig tt treets both sted upon 5 rnil { wound this was finished negotiation ntinued, and finally f 16 sort was reached by the leaders of he onnt . t eaders of the ntending but learned by the ome sort of a provisional govern- ent now seems to be ir Hi Control, factions, the detalls « were not Minister Tives from I fm % wn th i AMA says t 1 and wounded » hh sides in the fighting bout bout the eap- 2 G00 ‘ 4 OM were killed General Plerola, % insurgents, entered 2,000 mea at dawn Sunday. rave defense n treet fich: inc . 1 street fighiing ntil early iuesday " 4 . 1¥ mals ar to bury { bas now been arranged tha! ’ ores and his forces, as well ss ym the eity. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. ————— Vadame Ea who nabl ‘Oth Hi in Ch now, was u cago, where 3 ia all iis 2 a the vie climates she says Ia vary Lrying ct ne, the secreinry of Lega ion, Hu sian said, wil ¢ 3 i ferred at The BE taldish a je tis purp F We 58 de be rily tran from shington, ssfan Gov-rament 0 vided (10 o8 Hesse Darmstadt, and Mr. ma sod Boikive the. ¢ as irst BDeCcroiar/y. Thomas H. W lliams, Ca ilornia b« guardian Te the pia rey, F n, will iol jollars, nily in San is property At 12 Fraceisos of Ms A. E Davis, wife of a well. siate of a BO gooctacio wad the ex. under of delivered BOI Vices, Boe EDGan 1s Senator } { a womans nageing r, | en prene nisl « Mra the San Franca re. ses, OrgAr ., ih an address and led the burial " rding to & last request © 4 npie but im wee i IVIODS Wore sil Ex-Senator w oa seven gen!lemen who of N braska at the boarde | at the Herndon House The ine deat is curious in the imstance that iam Ww ashiagton, in tho Territ resi in Was Oi Al © the war Omala, the 1 of the ays vutbreak of in Hight ean ol interesting circa seven in after years cocupied a seat on the floor United States Senses The Herndon House is now used the head- quarters oi the Union Pacifie Raliroad Com- pany. Mr. Justice Oliver We dell Holmes eee. brated his 54th birthday the other day and as he sa: oa the el: of the Ch e' Jastics did not look aday ov r 43. Judge Holmes is the youn rest the Missachuscils Su preme Court Justices and ti yird in the line of succession to the Chie! Ja ticeship. Mr. Ju ties Allen immediately prece les him, aad should the two hono able men step from the bench M « sachusetts will see a younrg-look- ing ma: as Chie! Justice, surrounded by white-haired old gentlemen as his asso. oa oa of the as of all amiss —— =~ ARMED FOR BUNCO STEERERS. irgton City. Three West Virginians, John O. Wheeler | and Ira A. Greatheu e, of Hyer; and Jobn | BL Hickman, of Clarkesburg, were arrestod in Washington, | They were armed with revolvers and | slungshots and had €400 in ea<h. Wheeler | said he was a merobant; that they had come | to Washington to meet green goods men at the Central National Bank, but did not ia- tend to be buncoed. Their plan was to knock down the sharp- ors with slungshots and take the sample packages of genuine money, which always figures in the transaction. His story Was oorroborated by the others, A man giving his nams as Alexander P. Hill, who called at the hotel for the trio, has been arrested on stspicion that he deals in oon NS The Nev. Dr, Parkhurst wis the guest of Prinoe Hadick de Futak at luncheon in New York the other day. Count Hadik, though » large landholder in Hangary, is a Ropubs ljoan, and he told Dr. Parkburd that a: a Hungarian reform r he was anxious 10 meet an American reformer, : HANNIS TAYLOR. The trouble between the Bpani h and Unit. sed by the firing upon the UnitedBlates mall steamer Alllancy, veérnmen's, cau is practically settled, nceording to a cable gram received at the State Department from Minister Taylor stating that the Spanish assures the United States Mr, in Government thay Tay New. no such offense shall again occur, s born Feptember 12th, 1851 NN. C.,} amas a ut when quite removed | nd has He is a the 1 young to A been a resident Mobile, mitted to of | ad, years of | age. Very soon after his admission to the bar he began working apoa a history of the | “Origin and the Con- | hae | favor, | thei ia atl sinee lawyer, having been Lar when not yet 10 Growth of the English stitution,” the first volume of which been published and met with This, together with U. 8 Buprems C od $05 Bilin Tse ito his apg on irs great his argument before the intment to the Spacifh minis- | yurt in lottery contest PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS Epitome of News Gleaned From Various Parts of the Stats Dr. Henry Coppee, & resident of Le- | ing p bio Unive fry ial at v w Fleet Ble high University, died sudden’'yat Bethie of heart disease, aged 75 sears, Whi at Wil. sd and the men were | carpente s » #t work distavce of twelve reigt ign Missiona ar amspert 10 meet ¢ A miner n tacked by chamber below was savagely at, | working im hi A new trolley line | burg i« Johneto sie towns By of Boyertown was enlarged ’ . lectes of Quarter Sess) he additic The in the forty-three acres 10 ils area. petition | ad been present d earlier woek and | baving iry and Ly the O the move been by the | approve a Grand J effect was made, Colonel Brennon, of O who gan, 4 3 71 1 of arrested in Reading s e ten days ago the charge of passing a forged check upon Ww jail ever [since ex-County Commissioner Cyrus man, and who tas b en in was arranged As produced po evidesoe against him in erurt he acquitted and discharged. John Oswald, a Oley, near LReadiog, was kil oid sou while the laiter mother, The window cuniry were ia iganiIalion. Lickitenthaler, the farmer rane, age 45 years, led by his 1 of mace acturers of Pitis RiRES session at a national o Dr. H, C ean aad Medical BOQ Rive: Coroner, city pl eviary of Clinton County y, died at Lock Haven Pliwsburg decided « listinel organination, The Salt Lake Gus sad Oil Company de- e.ded to drill a test well near Karthaus, At Enterprise Mine, Shamokia, Joba Dav inski, a miner, was caught rock and kiled, Bamu tance norih of Sharon, committed suicide by oor operaiors at form a « shoolisg. Felix Matthews h home in New Cumbe blizzard, The big faciory of as veen missing riand sinee the February the Galland Bros, Wilkes. wili be shut down, it ie expected, ize, throwing about 50) hands The frm has recently esiab. in ashort out of work. | work will be done there. Fifteen thousand children in Lycoming County osieb ated simulianecusly the cen. Louis Pascato during bis murder trial at : Pottsville changed his plea of no: gulity to At West Chester ex-Coliecior of the Port Cooper defended the sliver views of Senator Cameron, By a ruling of Judge Stowe at Piitsburg, allowed in Allegheny vounly. The H. C Frick Coal Company at Union- town, aanounced tha: it woud make an ad vance on April 1 of 15 per ¢ ol in ali wages, Three more wagon loads of plander were recovered at Allegheny (rom the home of the Dennison sisto's, who are nceused ol whole sale shoplifting. There Is much (a'k at Pittsburg of a Na. tional coal strike belag ordered about May i, when the mining scales of the Middie Sta'es expire The public re gaiiien servios of the new First Baptist Chareh at Atdmore was held, Represen atives of telegraph, telephone and electro light companies pro ested at New Haven agalost an ordinance there tax ing street poles, The Central Penasylvania Methodist Cone ference at Tyrone opened with a love feast, and Bishop Newman preached the ordina- tion sermon and alterwards ordained the deacons, Walter Chapin, aged 790 years, and Mary Walters, oue year younger, who were lovers from their youth, were married at Wilkes Barre, Two Plymouth men, a groceryman and a jastios of the peace, were aboused by Wile Ham Zdias of false imprisonment. ALL DEAD. Red Canyon’s Awful Coal-Pit Disaster. Wi ECKED THE POWERHOUSE Fourteen Mangled Bodies Recover- aed and 47 are Still Buried 2,000 Feet Below the Surface, Toe total number of miners known to bave periste! in the explosion of gas in Rocky Mountain coal mine at Bed Canyon, of which filty were mar. n and boys, The out of a total of 63 who met their d aths in the mine, have been recovered and turned over to their relatives : W. B. Clark, John Morris, D. Laurie, G. Hyde, John Lieke, W, H. Grivesand, Samuel Clay, Samuel Hutchinson, M. Morris, Coale, Charles red. No. §, Wyoming, is sixty, ried and nine young 1m: bodies of the following, Ww. J. Jam large families, Benjamin Thomas Booth, 8, Clark, Willard Brown, Morgan, of This leaves thirty-eight unrec yo8 Lamb k i Ril men yvered bodies in the nn The timbering i largely biown { the whole hattered so that the ne, t and the walls and roo. © ine are wrecks earching party olf eighleen now omrades buried, fows and e mine is 6 bodies are halng lang -r of belag in ¢ of wi ' fst a olin mine were so he removed on §2.000 a ece, i to 1 for VE OH pose hav me t a + ry sO QUES, w Aing a posed veutd- s mine Wis Bi mine was suj being well mpany, gene rally or have lesignaied as mi ne mile mines with 150 This leaves tbe COmn~ {Wo nes num with ors O and 6, face making two separate +h ES but d pusars ber 6 Mmratin se] barmed, rives DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES , Oslo, High he A ; yrs t Tha T A416 Tooled: School building ol $30, 000; of natural gas caused the lio and Rossi Bol { laborers, were r 20 feet of earth in Brookiya, by of a trenca In which they were 3 the exten tent fire, the worse. At Hot 8 death on aving Iu rEansas, ther: was one Co r 21 »ases of small-pox 4 » to date the bons deaths 1 ¥ an ex pl 1 Tennesse» ree miners were | osion of gas in the nn iamond Coal Co The steam r Rosedai~ as Wa ash river, near ansville, with 5.00 bushels of wheat, One of the deck band was drowned The works of Car- ps of re, w: re nd Cart and oarriaze sho , New } . $65,00 fre ght train on the ( oad of out 11 entra: Ralir v a and rod. Georg fA Was wrecke lin a iroy, Alavama several inju d, Okiahe miles from were two men killed and a dugo tt ovou- caved L and Yoo liwar ma aad mas by Charles Thomas Mrs. Th ring her me icmiy hing to dea her SX Pp ny opie were crossing Tug south of Hunting. don, West Virginia when the skill was up- a:d Mrs, Emma Elankenship and ber 10-year-old daughter were: drowned, William Boetler, aged 17 by in a Baliimore printing iife by an electric sock. Ho gine floor with his right hand resting eleciric motor and turned the lever with his jolt hand, He was killed {ostantiy. Only two miners lost their ives fn the Sultana Min-.at Rat Portage Mani obs, as a result of the fire in the shaft housa. The imprisoned men were nearly suffocated by smoke, but when rescued, all were resus oitated, ex ‘epting John Lagire and Radoiph B. Erickson, A terrific explosion occurred in the house occupied by a man named Stile, in Bayside, Loog Isiand, whereby one child was fatally and two others seriously injured, Stile and his wife were severely burned. The cause of the expicsion is sail to have Leen the running of an illicit still on the top floor of the house, iin II SIX YEARS A LEPER river, about miles set, yoars, a press lost his 8 00d « the on an m Que A Man 8: ricken With the Dreaded Disease in New York. The New York health board learned that there ba | been a man stricken with leprosy living for the pst six yours in a tenement house in the city, President Wilson said that the ‘ac's so far as ascertained had been given 10 the sanliary superintendent, Dr, Cuaries F. Roberts, and that a prompt and thorough investigation of the ease wou'd be made immediately, The man's name and address have not been given out. He bas a wife and five children. One ol bis daughters is married and has a T- month-old baby. Although the case has besn handled dure ing the past lew yoars by two physicians and brought to the notios of the medion afl of the Presbyterian Hosplial, it never been reported to the health board Dr. Albert 8 Ashmead, of 58 Carleton street, who passed upon the case as an ex- pert, said that the man was undoubtedly in an advanced stage of leprosy. Dr. Ashmead sald also that Dr. Hansen, the eminent Norwegian scientist and physi. clan, who in 1874 discovered the leprosy bao lius, is of ph optuion that Inprony a uot * Suiaglows Siseuse
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