THE NEWS, Nathan T, Godd, fcrmerly a olork in the United 8 ates Land Office at Broken Bow, was placed on trial at Lincoln, Neb,, on in- dictments charging him with theft of publie records and impersonating officials, ——The trial of R. H. Pannill, a former agent of the C. & O. Railroad, 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 subseribed £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 bullt, ~The street railroads entering Philadelphia are devising means to meet the competition of the trolley roads, ——Rey, Fiank Chardon, of Chicago, was found guilty in the United States Court of using the malls to sell his clergyman’s half-rate orders over various railways, Vice President Stevenson anda wife expect to go to Europe next summer. Jurglars at Dubois, Pa, ——At Lexington, Ky. the heirs of Mrs. Colonel Robert F. Johnson are suing to contest her wil, The 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 seriously 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 scuffle 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 forty and four or five deaths of the Floyd county epidemic are reported on Lower Elkhorn Creek, Pike county, Ky. Dre, two of the best-known physicians in the Bandy Valley, have been called to the anl are not able to name the disease sk it. Nota to live over three days after taking the disease. Clarence Hogan, aged twenty-three years and Frank Champion, aged seventeen both of Millville, N, J., were ed.fess-d to having been in teen burglaries ia Millville, within a few weeks. several instances they attempted to e build. ings, —-The Georgia Southern and Florid: Rallroal was put up at auction at Macon but no bd was rec ‘ived, —Frank Thom son killed his brother Edward in a am Iy row at their home in Carmel, Mo. So Oswald, a farmer living near Oley, Pa, was | killed by his son ——A fire broke out on the steamer Spokane while crossing Kootenai | Lake. The passengers wers rescued, but | the steamer was destroyed.——Fire j de- ,Stroyed $300,000 worth of property ia Bar- | lington, Vt. One man was buraed to death. casos in Gray asd Campbell scene or che sinzle ; atieat has been known years, arrested and cated in N. J., In fire th phi Bridgeton, and The Parkersburg Traction Company was | char.ered In West Virg nia to construct a stree railway in tht gity,——B roard Kem- | per, of McSherrytown, Pa was ar:ested by a | United States officer on a charge of fraudulent. ly collecting money and passing bixmself off | as 8 pension examiner, Chase Robinson, | azed thirty-three years secretary of a m inu- | facturing company in Hartford, Ct, who had lost several hundred dollars of the com. | pany's money at mmitted | su cide, —Mr., Emma Blakenship and her | elaven-year-old daughter Anns were | drowned in the Tugfork River, near Ser. | geant, Ky., their boat ca, sizing while cross i ing the stream, —The Teath G orgia Dis triet 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 the way from Baltimore to has turne | up aliv +, although the court: had de. | ¢'a’ed him dead, | poker glayinz ec SBepiember on Norfolk, Fouriesn frame bull lings comprisin 1 one | third of the business portion of Iuka, Miss, i w re burned, The total loss will foot up to | £70,000 N»> insurance, The fire is su - | posed to bave been the work of an incen- | diary,——Mrs, Lesi ninety years old, n mitted suicide, by h-nging, at her bome, in | Chicago. She is thought to have boon ite | sane, — An explosion of giant pow ler | occurred in the Verde mine, in Senora, Mexico, whieh 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 semblance: to humanity. Their names were John Rou, John Masse, Barto a Senig aud Angel Capa- lini, J mes Blizzard, a well-known resi dent of Port Morris, N. J, drove a hore and Luggy down to a whar! at Port Norris and into the water. He was drowned, Mrs. W. E. Ho ton, of Keya Paba county, Neb, was criminally assauited, and then strangled to death in her home, The er me was ¢ ommitted by thieves to prevent her giving testimony agn'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 Transler and Implement Company in Sloux City, Iowa, fl ied with farming machinery, was destroyed by fire, Lots, #5),000,— Willlam L. E kins, of Philadelphia, offered a prize of fives thousand dollars for the best work by an American to be exhibited at the Academy of finé arts in Pol adeiphia in De cember, 1805, At Fort Smith, Ark., twen. ty-soven United States prisoners pleaded gullty in the federal court and received sea” tences ranging from thirty days in jail to five years in the penitentiary at Albany, New York, ——At Columbus, Ohio, the Lockhart ttaley and Willard Dry Goods Company went into the hands of Ricelver George W, Bright, Disagreement between partners was the cause, Assets, $60,000; liabilities, 854, 000, Two Englishmen were found dead near Bombrette, Mexico, It Is supposed they were murdered, —Fire in cotton in New Orleans caused a loss of $250,000. The property of the Macon and Atlantic Railroad between Macon and Savaunah was transfer red to the Macon, Dublin and Savannah Road, at Macon, Ga, J 400 PERISHED. 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 search for the m ssiog crulser Reina Regenta, and reports having found the latter vessel sunk Bajo Aceitanos, not far from the Straits o! Gibralter, Only twenty inches of the Reina Regenta's masts were above The All XIIL scene of the wreos with a number of and diviog appliances, to ree the bodies ol (he crew hi near water, to the divers onso has returned in orter var of the sunken war- fssing od fror Moorish ft Tan zier on March 13, She had just convey the refurninz a to Spain, The cralser Cadiz, ascertained u | missle 10 tor and her whereabou 8 had not been definite atil now, Pieces of her boats and semaphore fla :s n pick near Ceuta and Tarifa, cro x of 420 « bands are belioved to bave peri hed, Kod up along ore She car. ried a yMleers and men, aad al So soon yor:s of the m s.in z ves- be as the reg came cu rent, & number of Spanisi tO sea in Sear March 14, d reported seeing a A French steamship on big to have teen the Leina Regenta asbhor vesso , supposed s in Aceitun Tho at he it ip on 8 Bay, probably cel anos, commander of the prait addes wads una t hi the wars rouat of On March 15 the steamer May ol at Barceloaa, and reported «ighting ¢ Le the Spinish olf Marc: eruis r b lieved to t yraing aod Cape Espariel her funse 8s and in flerce gale which prevallel, was apparently unm for ALA Joa {id not ask assistance t off ths May air adde sould the storm ppeared her, Lat r the Spacish cerufse hav.ng searched the Spanish a+ts and the straits without the missing waship. The uncertainty as t) the { Ragenta Mads dl, caused great and the govera: LOWS O en‘ion back telogratas giving information { fags, But, when a aumber of other wre box and kage known to bave longed to the Reina Il-genta was wa bed ashor In Cad z and Cav. .hagona, the 42) off eo at Tails, sho was givea u L. nl » p ior ios where mo of : t rs and mea of the cruiser been the longed, there bas anxiety and ement poried m #3 ng. “he Be na Hegen'a, same to New York as tquadron which escorted across the Atiantic the Columbus caravels. The Infania Isabel now reported to have schooner ofl ths coast Nueva Espana, wer the Spanish squadron, The a. rived Foriress Monroe on April 21, 15893, the Reina Regente having the earavel Banta Maria in tow ; the Pinta was fo tow of the In:iznia [sabel, and the Nina was great aselt from moment sho was re- aboul two years ago, of tbe Spaai+h oue th tae of Cuba, and other sh ps ol the aller al in tow by Nueva Espana. All three of these Spanish warships took a conspicuous pars fa the great Co umblan naval parade in New York harbor on April 27 of the sams year, ———————— MURDERED BY ITALIANS. the a Quarrel An awful tragedy accurred at MoGregor, Minn, A family of the name of Jeannette consisting of father, dren, the oldest 12 years and the young nt a nursing babe, 1. ved in a cabin aod kept a small store, Two Italians, who were cleariag uy a homestead near by, had trouble with Jeaneite over some saw logs, which resulted in a quarrel at night. The Italians, Nick acd Angelo Cristello, brothers, returned in the morning and Niek Cristollo shot Jeannetie with a shotgun, tearing a gaping wound in his side, Angelo shot Mrs Jeannette with the Winchester, blowing the top of her head oft. Both were killed instantly. The chil dren were shiveriag with terror, About noon the murderers came to Me. Gregor and sald they were golog to Al ken to give themselves up, but the local ofa re beld thom until the arrival of the Eherifl, who at onee took them to Altkea to ihe county jail, The Jeanneite's were sn muol respected family in the neighboriood, —— BROTHERS FIGHT A DUEL Fatally Wounded, George De Forest was shot by his brother, Calvin, at Oakley, Mich, Calvin was also shot and badly wounded by George, George De Forest had lately been considered insane. Ho went to the home of his sister, Mrs, AL fred Beers, and drove them from the house. Ho then started for the home of his parents vowing to take summary vengeancé 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 firlng, Calvin replied with his gun. The result was that George had his right lung perforated, It is feared Calvin's wound may also prove fatal, SIR ROBERT HART. In fixing the method of securing the pay. of the war Indem- the goverment will probably have to deal ment of the instal ments pity elaimed by Japan from Chioa, Jap- anese with 8ir Robert Hart, who for more than 3) yvanrs has been at the head of China's flunan- Battle at Lima. AN ARMISTICE WAS CALLED. To Permitthe Dead tobe Buried, the Wounded Cared For, Change and a { { to Arrange a Peace, Secrelary Gresham from Minister MeKenzie in Peru In reference to the recent revolution there, According to Mr, McKenzie there WA 4 At the end of this time thousand dead budies Jy- ing unburied fo the :treets and both sides there were over a cial system. He is now about 61 years of | e British ng and joined ti in Hong K highes that of Inspector General « ustoms, When service there were but three p there distrust o At the age of 20 he within | vies { t position in the | f Chinese | bert entered | Imperial ( Sir He the pen pean, whereas are now spite tbe in Chi t {orelene { foreigners Des the nate ort Hart enjoys their en- a0, Bir Rob tire cont dence £2 000 0.0 year for the suj He has absolute control of the appointmen { i cialis, Chinese an “THE HAWAIIAN MINISTER. Mr. Thurston to be Recalled at Req tate Depar.ment. Hon ter to rin M. Th the United Bia his governmet Department, irae has be oretary of Mr, too freely and bas given and a foreign representative, Thurstor it is said, has talked fvanos etl " These fa information in o ant, sis have Leen ir minister at Hawai! with instru nek President Tlerston at withdraw Mr, oocasion where a foreign Dole jast re. once. The ister was {th svernment allied at the instanos of th wat Sritian’s repre. ative at Washington, letter ad. »d Englishmen ia this country to vote or Mr, Cleveland’ The & Prompt the Queen and Sir J 1 later appointed he Majesty’ ter to Us ited States, CABLE SPARKS. is go of Great Minister West, who in s election eight years ago, demand was tly complied with by a ar s minis the A hurricane destructive to life and pro; erty swopt over the Fiji Islands recently. Tuz remains of Victor Hugo the Pantheon in Paris, Hugo 1885, ine have centrist mem! decided to oppose grain monopoly bill Ture German State C loviate the depressed coandit growers by i sugar, The Spanish government gagemont with a baad of Cu wile b fifty latter wounded, Tur State's general of Hollasd has passcd a credit of 10,030,000 guilders, the money be used in equipping the army wikh Mao licher riflos, Bir William VYernon Harcourt may chosen Speaker of the House of Commons sucesed Sir Arthur Wellealoy Peel. The op position is sald to be favorable to him, Tur newly chosen London county council has elected Mr. Arnold, the progrossive oan, didate, to be chairman by a vote ol 66 to 57 oast for the Duke of Norlolk, Ine sentence of ex-Queen Liilluokalan bas been fixed for five years imprisonment and to pay a flue of #5,00). She is siill con. fined to a room in the palace at Honolulu hewever, A conference of colonial premiers at Ho. bart, Tesm aia, has prepared a bill provid. fog for Austrainsian federation, The bill 10 ba submitted to the various colonial Par. linments, Que remains of Ismall Pasha, ex-Kbedive of Egypt, who diel recently at Constanti- nople, was conveyed to the Cle Mosque, io Cairo, where they were interred with mueh pomp. Tue report of Lord Roseberry's intention to retire [rom office has been revived in Lon” don, and it 1ssald that a time for dissolution of Parliament has boun fixed for soon alte, the Easter recess, A vioop la the Parahiba do Sal river Brazil, has desiroyed the entire sugar crop in the Campos dos Goltocazer distriet, In th» State of Rio Jansiro, This district produces the best sugar grown in Brasil, Tux terms of the treaty of peace about to be cenciuded between China and Japan are known almost to exactness in diplomatie eir- cles bocause of the part Ministers Dun and Denby have taken in the negotiation. The Island of Formosn will be eaded to Japan. Corea made independent, a cash indemnity of $250, 000,000 paid by Ohloa and Port Ar thur and Wel-Hal-Wel retained for a term of years, ¢ re uncil poo 4a BY v noreasing tha expori reports rebeis, killed an © an he of were is were exhausted An armistice was agreed upon 0 )ermit the dead to be burled and the wounded cared for. After negotiation were still cont this was finished inued, and finally was reached by ntending i Were it of some sort tie leaders of the factions, but not learned by the me sortola pre visionai govern - the details « ff th Minister, So ment now seems to be in o ntrol, Loxpox. —A dispatch to the Lima says that the Tives from low and wounded h sides in the fighting about the cap was 2000. No foreigners were killed in killed on vo ital that General Plerola . ’ $ i . 4 er Of ihe insurgents, entered 2,000 men at dawn Sunday. at fo # made a brave defence zed roen the contir nti early diplomats ar’ be it Ww 8 to in foree unt This true bury arranged thal iny afternoon, I both bas now been and b Riiow ides to {COres is forces well i rell irom the city . Bs 8s Peru are NOTED PEOPLE ABOUT Mada: oi, who was ‘Oth 1 e Eames, unable to sing in ¢ ileago, where the opera ry, biamed ils gory, her On 1% BOW Bia all spose On the vie ciimale bh she says Is vary trying organs . P. Botk ne, Ru sian the the Loga io be shortly tran ferred from Washington, The Russia tatdish a it is purp has decided 10 o8 and eas ment Hease-Darms i Mr. Bol y Gov ra ade, ¢ the lagna. fon at sod to sen Ki First Becro Th Ca tlornia bL¢ guardian of sninie « rah Alt Terry, AV Iree Ci ars. mas HH. W liiams, 8r.. the wellknown appointe i hea the piaintifl in ihe iOrious Bharca in 3 BI sount of consider property At the Frac recenlly in San fun: ral cleo of wolle be a sociate of Me wile of a Known rand Senator Fair #peciacie Wal presented of a wor jo:ing the ex- Mrs, Sarah B. Cooper, founder of ergar ens, delivered services, Ac re ses, the San } an address an ote last request of the dead. The ingtoala requ rTORSIVO, Kellogg, one the Territoiial days a rvices Ww re sim Ex-Sepator Wi es in en who, ple but img pitt faglon, jam who now resi Waal WAS of in outbreak of the war, in Omaha, seven gen'ilem of N braska a: the voarde! at the Herndon House The {ne dent is curious in the Hght of the that each of the ded a seat on the The the head- interesting circumsiance peven in alter years coon; United States is now used floor of the Sena eo, Herndon Hi quarters o: the Union Pacifie Raliroad Com- pany. Mr. Justice Oliver We dell Holm brated his 54th birthday the other day sad as he sa‘ oa the el: of the Ch eo’ Justices did not look a day ov r 45. Judge Holmes is the youn test of all the Missachussits su preme Court Justices and third in the line of succession to the Chie! Ja ticeship, Mr. Ju ties Allen immediately proce les him aad | should the two hono able men step from the bench M « sachusetis will see a young-look- ing ma: as Chis! Justice, surrounded by white-haired old goatlemen as his asso. on oa an ns oy 00.0 ssi III ssc ARMED FOR BUNCO STEERERS. Three West Virginians Arrested in Wash- irgton City. Three West Virginians, John O, Wheeler | and Ira A. Greatheou e, of Hyer; and John | H Hiekman, of Clarkesburg, were arrested | in Washington, | They wore armed with revolvers and | slungshots ani bad 400 in cah. Wheeler | said he was a merchant; that they had come | to Washington to meet green goods men at the Central National Bank, but did not in- 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 eorroboratod by the others, A man giving his names as Alexander P. Hill, who ealled at the hotel for the trio, has been arrested on suspicion that he deals in assis sis inns The Rov, Dr, Parkhurst wis the guest of Prince Hadiok de Fatak at luncheon in New York the other day. Count Hadlk, though a large land holder in Hangary, is a Ropubs lican, and he told Dr, Parkhurst that a: a Hungarian reform r he was anxious to meet an American refoimer. HANNIS TAYLOR. The trouble between the Bpani h and Unit. od States Governmen's, firing ipon the UnitedStates mail steamer Alliances caused by the is practically settled, nceording to a cable gram received at the Btate Department from Minister that the Taylor stating Bpanish Government assures the United States thay oflense Mr, Tay- 1851, in New young no such shall again occur, or was born Feptember 12th, ay bern, N. C., but when quite to Alabama and has since Mobile, ving - mitted to the bar when not yet 19 years of Very soon after his admission to the bar he began working upoa a history of the “Origin and the Growth of the Engl stitution, of He isa lawyer, ba been age, ish the first volume which been published and with This, together with his argument before U. 8 ourt in the lottery ied to bis appointment to the Spacifh tre rd met great Bupremse ( contest PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS Epitome of News Gleanod From Various Parts . Henry ( { Le- oppee, aclils resident ¢ a hiehem high University, I of heart disease, ag hi were nt ‘ , & distacos of Missionary Boelety adjourned at to moet at , created a sen- 3g that gran n tampered with, jontown was savagely at, ¥ - robbers ambar bul ow while working in his ground, built from I wh connecting all intermedi itis. | jarter Sessions the borough by the addition The Boye rtown was enlarged { forty-three acres to its area. bad been present 4 baving ry and Ly earlier t bh oa bee a the ( move approved ourt a by Grand Ju decree to tha effect was made, Colonel Br on, Of noi u, who Reading ten days ago { passing arsested in the charge ¢ orged check W. Kauf- jail ever [since ‘ounty loner and oxi Cyrus man, who Ea en io was arranged in court rodnoed no acquitted and disch argoed, pr evidesoe against him he age 45 years, ed by his 19-year John of Oley, near Reading, oid #0 the later mother, The window Oswald, a farmer, was kill u while was defending his mare actu Pits ginss country were iu session at a national organization Dr. H. C. Lichtenthaler, Coroner, city phys ean and sexreiary of the Cliaton Count) Medical Soolety, died at Lock Haven. Rive: Pittsburg decided to form a distinetl organisation, he Salt Lake Gas and Gil Company de- e.ded to drill a test well near Karthaus, At Enterprise Mise, Shamokin, Jobin Dav ineki, a miner, was caught rock and kiled, Samuel Siall, operalors atl shooi ing. Felix Matthews has been missing home in New Cumberland since the February blizzard, The big factory of the Galland Bros, Wilkes. Barre, wili de shut Gown, It Is expected, ig ashort ize, throwing about 50) hands out of work, The firm bas recently esiab. lished another faslory in Brookyyn and the work will be done there Fifteen thousand children in Lycoming County celeb ated simul:asecusly the cen. tennial anniversary of the county, Louis Pascuto during his murder trial at Pottaviile changed his plea of not gulity to guilty of murder in the sscond degree, At West Chester ex-Coliecior of the Port Cooper delended the silver views of Senator Cameron, By a ruling of Judge Stowe at Pittsburg, all night salooh« and free lunches are to be allowed in Allegheny County. The H. C Frick Coal Company at Union town, announced tha: it woud make an ad vanes on Aprii 1 of 15 per ¢ nt in all wages, Three more wazon loads of plunder were recovered at Allegheny Irom the home of the Dennison siste:s, who are nceused of whole sale shoplifting. There is much ta'k 51 Pittsburg of a Na. tional coal strike belug ordered about May 1, when the mining scales ol the Middie Sta'es expire, The public res gnition service of the new First Baptist Church at Atdmore was held, Represen atives of telegraph, telephone and electro light companies pro ested at New Haven agalost aa ordnance there tax ing street poles, The Central Penosylvania Methodist Con ference at Tyrone opened with a love feast, and Bishop Newman preached the ordina- tion sermon and afterwards ordained the deacons, Walter Chapin, aged 79 years, and Mary Walters, oue year younger, who were lovers from thelr youth, were married at Wilkes Barre, Two Plymouth men, a groceryman and a from his Jastios of the peace, were atoused by Wile Yam Zdias of false imprisonment. ALL DEAD. Red Canyon's Awful Coal-Pit Disaster. Wh RCKEDTHE P0 WERHOUSE Fourteen Mangled Bodies Recovers and 47 are Still 2,000 Feet Below Surface, Buried the ad known to bave of gas in Rocky at Red Canyon, flity were mar- Tie total number of miner perist el in the explosion Mountain eonl mine No. 5, of which and boys, The Wyoming, is sixty, ried and nine young m+n bodies of the following, out of a total of § who met their d aths in the mine have been thar relatives : D. Laurie, G. Grivesand, Samuel M. Morris, Coale, ( hiaries as Lamb ies, recovered and turned over to W. B. Clark, John Morris, Hyde, John Lieke W. H Ciay, Samuel Hutchinson, W. Thomas Booth, Benjamin J. gE, Clark, Willard Drown, Ja Morgan, This leaves thirty- 3 red, fam all men of large vared bodies wa ine the eighteen now ine. The largely bio t and the walls # wreek ec the whole srior are hattered so that voiunteer searching omrades buried, The agonizing screat { widows and : * he mine is are 16 bodies yment in dang r of being GVOry mi sing nd children about she mouth of S WEers so to be removed oun ac- the work could “hy hie nged to the which Hece, ’ sin W for §2 Tey 4 Jrimen, in er hey were insure i 000 a; have come sed to f, mAKIng a was supposed well veati~ osion is suppc m & blast setting fire jus: explosion, since Lhe mine to be i beng uted, The designated as the Wo mines num ors 5 face making two separate ret pillars separating the ” 1 vy v 1 pr 5 seed of umber 6 rmed, but « obs # naa any of one-half DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES , Oslo, High School aged by fire to the extent o The Toledc of natural gas Inand Bossi B under 20 feet of earth in Bre caving fu of a trenel In raused 14 laborers were , by h they were okiyn the working whic 8, Arkansas, ther: aw cases of 8 wai one mali-pox. Up Cas®s ar 21 an _- vii a to date thers have been 92 deaths Liree miners were jojore an explosi Diamond C Tennesse, The steam ! Wa ash river, with 5.000 near Evansville, bushels of wheat, One of the deck od. works of bands Trow The WAS Car- shops of TE, We the Cortiand Cart and iaze Company and the carria n Cortland, New Y« £65,002, A Ire ght train on the ( (re re Raliroad of a vashout lim and ured ent ras WE a was wrecke | in iles two were men from Troy, Alacama, killed and several inj At Oklah by Charles The Mrs. Th Woo lward, ma, a dugo it orou- femily caved death and mas and mas 1o ng ber mother, ¢ were crossing Tug river, about south don, West Virginia when the skiff sot, ard Mra, Emma Elankenship 10-year-old daughter were drowned, William Boetler, aged 17 by in a Bal imore printing lo«t his iife by an electric sock. He=s odd on the gine floor with his right band resting on an eleciric motor and turned the lever with his ieft hand. He was killed {fostantiy, Only two miners lost their lives in the Sultana Min- at Rat Portage Mani obs, asa result of the fire in the shaft house The imprisoned men were nearly suffocated by smoke, but when rescued, all were resus. itated, ex epting John Lagire and Rudolph B. Erickson. A terrific explosion occurred in the house occupied by a man named Stile, in Bayside, Long Island, whereby one child was fatally and two others seriously injured. Stile and his wife were severely burned. The cause of the expiusion is sail to have Leen the running of an fliicit still on the top floor of the house, BX propi forty miles of Huntiog. mwas up- and ber years, office Od a press III SIX YEARS A LEPER — A Man 8: ricken With the Dreaded Disease in New York. The New York health board learned that there bal been a man stricken with leprosy fiviag for the pst six years in a tenement house in the city, President Wilson said that the ‘acs so far as asoeriained had been given to the sanliary superintendent, Dr, Coaries ¥. Roberts, and that a prompt and thorough investigation ol the case woud be made immediately, The man's name and address have aot been given out. He has a wife and five children. One of his daughters is married and bas a 7 motith-old baby. Although the case has been handled dure ing the past tew yoars by two Physieltag; and brought to the notios of the medica staff of the Presbyterian Hospital, it bas never been reported to the health board Dr. Albert 8. Ashmead, of 59 Carleton street, who passed upon the case as an ex- port, said that the man was undoubtedly in an advanced stage of leprosy. Dr, Ashmead sald also that Dr. Hansen, the eminent Morwegian scientist and physi. clan, who in 1874 discovered the bao lus, is of the opiates that Iepresy nek & contagious disease. J
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