THE NEWS. The town of Dorchester, in Clarke county, Wis., wa. swept by -A Chicago syn- | is negotiating fire, — dica e for 100,00) aeres of | jand in Montgomery county, Gi, intend to settl’, ww | on whieh | colonists from the West The prisoners in the jail at Roswell, N. M, | over, owered Jailer Tallaferro and locked him up and escaped. —The dead bodies of a man and woman were found on the road near St, Louis, all indications pointing to a Sohinstein, murder and suicide,——Charles a molder in a foundry at Phillipsburg, N. J., | was burned to dea h by molten metal — | John Yengling a temp'ed to shoot his wife | at Minerva, O. She escaped. He gan to beat his child, and shot and seriously | wounded Thomas E. Booth, who attempted | to rescue the chi 4. ——Thirty-nine case: o | Il,——The Mor | endenc M then be smallpox in Shawneelo wo, mon elders, in sess on at Indep " cannot agree upon the ace ‘ptance of a s¢ call 4 revelation from J.seph Smith, — The Strathmore Hotel, at Crescent Dsach, Mass., was burned. Lozs £30,000, coverel by insuranc?, partially The Susquehanta River is falling, and 150,000,000 leet of logs ars Dow in the West Branch booms, ready to be gent to tide-water markets, —1wo more outlaws were killed in a battle between the Dover train robbers and United States O. T.—— George Stice was killed whie sit marshals, near Hen ting at the window of his home, near Macon, Mo., holdicg his body on his knee, known maa firing thre ugh the wind him. —— High water in the Merrimac caused the closing of the mills, and 200 em- » v irk, ——1 an ww wat ployes we:e thrown out of w wo American sai ing ships arrived at New York within aa hour of e rety- six days’ from In quarrel about a girl at a dance at Fluvanoa, ch other, alter a nl race Hong pear Jamestown, N. X and killed Fred Mitch — Mary Croughan, aged twenty-five years, died at Lynn, Mass, as the resuit of nine weeks ol continuous hie- The new eaterprise of coughing, ship frozen {from Norway to Eo proven a success. —Frask Potts ado, fatally shot Martin Smi h an John G. Ells, fo The Susquehacna rolling milk near Visall iumbia, Pa, wal . The Mobile, Jackscn and road will bo bu -Tuo Dickinson's ca-e, Seranton, agreed, — successiullyl steamer St ee | 188 DOLE at Lansing, unknown About seventy! man the plant, —— Waite nent farmer and dre has absconded with ver, about £5 00) whieh »d him -Mrs, weeks old Was can Mieh, by the bank at Byron Packer and her six struck by the Cons lida‘ed fly whi er fag on the track near Mystie Ct an killed. ——A seven--tory elevalor wy t 8t. Louls, }) bushels of whes Loss 100, ued at £15,000. —Hi. h water has ca in Moha aged damage Stineger, ; azed thirte n, were { lo and delpbla, It is supposed they were lightbing. —Harry town, Pa, was pu factory on fire, A furious s« along the high ti L.Steliman, o jes Conference» missions, ——The defal cs cashier of the First Na ion etta, Pa., will likely exceed Southern Stale: Lan an Eaglish corporation, in New York, Loadon, E cola, Fila, bas been plac receiver, ber concern in the South, The company a farmer residing In Maric county, Ohio, 1 him on the bead with a ely fused to give his iather demand, and this led to the ciime, —Philip Gaflron was shot and killed by burglars ig his home in Denver, son by strik The son re two dollars upon ing ab, The spring session of the Carlisle Presby- tery was opened in the First Presbyterian Church at Waynesboro, It was decided that the fall session be held at Mercersburg, Pa.——The engineer, fireman and conductor were killed, and a locomotive and eighteen freight cars demolished in a wreek on the Baflalo, Roche ter and Pittsburg Railroad, near Punxsutawney, Pa. ——A Chicago court awarded #50,(00 damages to George W. Coudrey in bis suit against Jacob Bchweln- furth, the Rockford “Messiah," for aliena- ting bis wife's affec:ions,——The collapse ol ofa wall of the T. T. Hutchinson's Com- pany’s storehouse in Wheeling, W. Va, caused the loss of five or six lives, including Very Rev, F. H, Park, viear general of the diocese of Wheeling, Several men were in- jured.—Damage by floods waa reported from points in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, — It is reported that a great many counterfeit two-cent stamps have been made and sold, While Charles Marshall, 0: Bowers, Cal, and Frank Ham. iton, a colored deputy, were shooting at each other, Albert Lawson got in the way of a bullet, and was fatally wounded. ——— — II — EXPLUDED IN HIS POCKET. A Three-Year Old Boy Fatally Injured by a Can of Powder. Benjamin, Lafayette Wagon r's S-year-sid son, was frightiully injured at their home in Akron, Ohlo, by the explosion of a can o powder in bis pocket, The powder bad been found about the house, and with some companions he was taking It to the woods, How the accident eccurred is not known. The ind will die, A Ics WAR RUMORS IN SAMOA. Rsbels Expeciod to Move at the Closes of the Wet Season, Advices Irom Samon dated Maro) 27, say there are many rumors of war, [he general bolfof is that when ths we: season ends the rebels will move, Old King Malietoa seems to be losing force 1 and lo fluence, . . Decision of the Supreme Bench in Income Cases. ) SECTIONS TURNED DOWN. These Relate to Incomes Derived from Rent, State, County and Municipal Bonds-—-There was Great Interest in the Decision, Not sinea the days when great political ques ions were berore the Buprem {ourt | Las there been suc y interest dis iayed as with referenceto theine The court-room was ly to sullocation yme-lax Gec owded a most poi he action of the ¢ with lawyers, watare of any g trea By a was sustained t 3 federal tax. futo two great SIAR 40% wed be set taxes and duties, imposts and excises Sacond-—Taoatthe im is governed bythe ruls among the saveral siates, ac bers and the imposition and excises by the rule of anilor cut the United States Third—That and representation go to be and was preserved in taxation the prinei} « that together was intended the constitution by the establishment of the rule of appor. that to tionment among the several Siale: so Dh such apportionment should Le a srding numbers in each State, Fourth powe: to levy merce to the genaral government, gave it the eoncurrent power to levy direct taxes in reliance on the protection afforded by the rules prescribed, and hat the compr of the constituiion cannot be disturbed ly egisiative action, Five—That theso the text of the constitution and are supported by the historical evidence furnished by the circumstances surr uoding the framing and adoption of that instrument and the views yt those who framed ad adopted it, Sixth--That the understanding and expec, tation at the time of the adoption of the con. stitution was that direct taxes would not Le evie | by the general government except un jer the pressure of extraordinary exizency and such Mas been the practce down 10 August 15, 1824. If the power to do so is to be exercised as an ordi ary and usual means of supply, tha: fact furn'shes an additional reason for eircumspection in disposing of the present case, feventh-—-That taxes on real estate belong to the class of directinxes, and that the taxes on the rent or income of real e:tate, which iy the incident of it. ownership, belong to the SAMS © As, Eighth-—That by no previous dec’si n of this court bas this question been adjudioated to the contrary of tue conclusions now an nounced, Ninth--That so much of the ac: of August 15, 1804, as a'tempts to imoose a tax upon the rent or income of real estaie without ap. portionment is invalid, AB TO MUNICIPAL BONDS, The court Is farther of the opinion that the act of August 15, 1804, 1s Javalid so far as it That the States surrende-ed tie imposis and to reguiate com- and fn ises cogelusions result from Ai n tive rived from municipal bon ls, pal eorporation State and ons of the ins rumentali municis the represen the State gove nmect, the property «nl of municipal corporati ns are revenuss not the sub- jects of federal taxation, nor is the income munilel 1 the 1 ter.st derived from State o unty aod securliles, since taxat on on therefrom operates on the power to borrow before it is exercised and has a sens.ble in- fluence on the contiact, and therefore such a tax {8 a tux on the power of the Sta'es and thelr instrumen alitles to borrow money, and consequently repugnant to the constitutien. OTHER QUESTIONS INVOLVED, Upon each of the other queti ns argued at the bar, to wii: First, whether the void provisions as to rents and income estate invalidate the whe her the income whole second, from act ; “as to personal the not is third, whether any direc ¢ laylog direct taxes; part of the tax, il not considered as a tax, is favalid for BURROLO i nt are equally di and, thereiore, no opinion is expresse i+ Ta RESULTH the decree of the Circul Toe result is th is reversed and the with directions to enter a decree in ompian'ant in respect oni ut of the tax on the rents an { that whiea it th fear the ret Ic SHIPPING FROZEN MILK. Growth of a New Enterprise in Norway and England The Department of Trade and Commerce COMM at O.1awa has received from E. Sontoun, mere nl agent of the Dominion of Canada at rway, an account of the new milk to ¥ ngs Mr. Sonton says that about a year aco a man having a farm avout three miles rom Gothenberg, tried the experiment of to he com pau y quantity of frezen milk formed a reid rmea the process, with a large capital, trans ¢ n Crea mory into a freezor and factory lor preparing the milk, and has pow made arrangemenis for taking milk all the year round from farmers in his neizhtorhood in such large quantities as will losue the company delivering 50 tons ilk to Manchester, Bir. Castle, Leeds, Hull and fA week of irc mingham, New London, It is also proposed to establish freezers in [relaad, The process, as described by Mr, Sonton, consists in scalding the fresh milk, then freezing it by chemic | process, About 500 pounds of the ir zen milk are placed in a barrel made of white pine, and 500 pounds of un’rozen milk added, The barrel is filled up very lull so that there may be no churning in transit, and the niik, it Is said, will keep sweet and good for a month, ssn III — SEVEN FIREMEN BURIED. —— Some of Them Were Injured Seversly at a Pittsburg Fire, but None Will Die. During the progress of a fire in the Diack Diamond Steel Works, Pltteburg, the roof of a small building fell in, burying seven fire men, Alter a great deal of work they wore release], While some of them were severoly injured, none wili die, The fire was con- fined to one department and only 100 men are thrown out of work. The loss Is $3,000, ings at Wheeling, W, Va. A Four-Story Warehouse Con- demned Years Ago as Unsafe, Was First to Fall Fire Among the Ruins. A confused mass .f brick, broken timbers and stones, marks the spot in the heart of part of Wheeling, W. Va, tha she busine: s where previous stood iwo handsome busi. ness blocks for the wrecking of which some- bod the ru‘us somewhere lie the remain: two y will be held respon-ible, Underneath of five Lhiuman beings, who, with «thers, wero when without a moment's warning, caught, of the buildings colinpsed, carring with nd and pardally wrecking another, y bodies that Lave been recover- the Very Reverend Father tw hat o . Parker, Vicar General of the Catholic The other t Wu L ‘nor tha Wheeling. ody is that ' ard, an iron merchant of ¥. Ya, wh n one of the + i5 OLO i a6 mos irred in Wheeling, Nn mossenger 1 cher, When ¥ wera sther Parke’ the RI feet from the entrance to the alley. fom n the bafidings and ably reach §200,000, pa: tiy coverce EE nts te ROBBERS GOI $16,850 Pold Highwaymen Operates near Cripple Creek, Col nd express wagon which con- liand Railroad at Grassy, two miles from Cripple overpowered the mith, ing $16,000 securad an express and another fackage contain package conta ning §85) and then escaped n horseback The hold-up took p ace about 9:30 o'cloek Hil, on the highway betwaen Ciippl? Creek and Grassy, be Midland all and express wa zon was on the summit of Tenderfoo a sation on Terminal Raliroad, The nn | from Grassy to Cripple Creek with the mat. eli route ter received D § Bit at Gra sy on the morn ng train Two beside the road ace sted Smith, | asking a ride, H+: drew up his team snd one of the men el.mbd the {rom aver aad Colorado Springs, ing for to the seat mounted the up | teside bim, wai olher i baggage bein, | As soon as Smith started to drive on the { man teiind siruck him on the head The blow slaggered but did not sun him, The man oa the seal with him also drew a revolver and love ing it at him commanded him to get down, walk to the heads of the horses and hold their bridles, H: complied, anl while he was sovered wth their guns they ripped open and rifled the mall aod express pouches, After securin: §.60)), which wis being shipped to the Cripple Creek national banks and sev ral other valuible packages they unhiiched the two leadig horses and mounted them aad rode off rapidly inte the mountains, sovaral t. mes with a revaiiver ee ———e VILLAGES WIPED OUT. Floods Cause Great Loss of Life in Hun. gary. Floods in Hungary are Increasing. Two more villages near Femlin, in Slavonia, have lisappeared beneath the rising waters of the Danube, Many of the inhabitants of the vii- Ingesiwere drowned. The others were res. cued in tonts At Semlin, which Is on the right bank of the Danube, three miles northwest of Bel. grade, Sorvia, a number of Servians tried to cut the dike protecting the Hungarian shore in order to save Belgrade from being joun- dated, Happily a Hungarian guard Irustrar. od the attemp, + CABLE SPARKS. Crnovena has appeased in the providenes of Podoli, Russia. Ax association has been formed in Ger. many to protect the gold standard of the gountry, Brep Waoprerr, the American who was shot in Paris 8 few days ago by Thomas O'Brien, the noted Lunco-steocer, is dead, Turner was heavy fighting fa the Molokand Pass between the British troops and the na- tives under Umra Khan, the ifovader of Chitral, A Bpanish warship is reported to have fired upon a British steamor off Cape Maysi, Cuba, and to have sent officers ou board to search the vessel, Fexon pe Lous, the new Spanish to the United States, and Marshal de Campos of Cuba, have minister the new Governor-General sailed for Havana, Tae bill suspendiug for a year from June 1 the export duties on sugar from the Duich East Indias have been adopted by the Blates- General of Holland. Tux peace negotiations between China and Japan, which was broken off whez ue at was made the Ii Hung Chang, have been renewed, lempt ile on of nehed at Wil. ren A yew German fronclad was lau by Emgj which it Kiel and christened JX is eror Ham. This is the vessel was ported was to be named Bismarck, Privee Bismarck stood the fa iz new VYeoezo V Atnirt # lreainien oreigi iain WORK AND WORKERS. the site Cle I A and w only last a fe fMcial said §! was owing to sugar on the Refluin sy of spirits f E new all, Treasurer Jobn Searle , Jr. hat the reason ! bis depar that the compar grade syrap, whic refining process, A was a by A discriminati Francs prevented shipment of and +0 the company proposes to distil it. The alcohol obtained {2 :2 be sold in England I iii THE TERMS OF PEACE. fapan's Demands Made Known Through Of ficial Sources An authoritative statement of the terms of [be statement is made in order to clear up nuch misapprehension arising from specula. on as to the terms of peace, They are five First Hecond Independence of Corea. Permanent cession of the Island {f Formosa to Japan. Third Chinese coin worth $1.33 ) Fourth -~Permanent occupation of Port Ar. bur and the immediate contiguous territory, Fifth--A new Japan-China treaty opening {he interior of China to commerce Tae fifth term as 10 a pew ‘realy vatious trade features, such as free access of Chinos® rivers. There is no demand for ter. ri:ory on the mainland outside of Port Ar. thur and its contingaous surroundings, i ————_— ROBBERS FIGHT WITH FIRE. Indemnity of 830,700,000 taels fnclude: An Exciting Chase After the Rock Island Train Gang is Cut Short. The Rook Island train robbers are now ia the Gloss Mountais isglon and have set the prairie on fire bebind them in order to baflie thelr pun uers, There being a high wind the fire has cov- sred an immense area of territory and the Marshal's posse cannot advanoe. EE Governor Holcomb has signed the law passed by the Nebraska Legislature appro. priating $200,000 for the purchase of sead grain and food dor the droughtstrioken farm ers of the State, and it becomes imme diately operative min IIIS 5 si sss. A sax battle to commemorate the vio tory of the Mexicans over the French my Pueblo in 1867, was given at Mexioan City, when 5,000 troops participated and 5,00 people saw the gia ‘6. General Escobado FENNSYLVANIA ITEMS Ss Epitome of RewsGleaned From Various Parts of the Btate Diptheria ha: again broken out in Oley, and a two-year-old child of Daniel Rothen- There are in berger has died (rom the disease, vix other children in the family, all ol wh three ms there was an epldemie in that are iil with diphtheria, rome which re united insixtess deaths, six of wii were 1a one family. Daniel I tting, of why Townsbip, has brought an action agains 0,000 damages by reason on the 20th of driving v ra bridge on his way home at night woen bie fell ihe widow of Maxata- the township f.r & yf the death of her husband November last, Her busband was over the side of the bridge with his is claimed that the It accide % TT he neces secident was due 10 the negiec team an i was killed tof the co Damage suits were lustituted at Norristown f Prog pany, and Ly two erty own rs a.ainst a sireel niliway youths for ia arrest ading Raliroad, Henry Boaneka wa: found Alt Mrs, George Hughesville, t CHA. Windish was Wilkes Lear oA : . LT oto fa ond is su-preted of tl Easton authoriiies were lo Veghte, charged with Piaintield, N. J. Rev, J. T. Milligan, at the International Prisc t at Pari-, June 30 li be made by Pittsd slealin Pittsburg, receiv d notice that 1 i Tl gress would 1 An attempt torneys to see re a parloa for Charles Jones of killing his wile In 0 w rg als who was convicted 1856 Thomas F. Shaw was arrested Pa re on a charge of defrauding a bank. the Pennsylvania Steel at Wilkes The past week at Works at Steelion has been one ol unusual in the light the business depression of! the past 1wO0 yeirs Every dejarimert had a full compiem of had doatie mill was notivity whea viewed of ut men at wor: and the frog shop Tue product at the rai large, while that was up turns on, a 1 T rall« and unusually of the open hearth furnaces capacity. The ridge and const uction de partment is stocked with work and orders sufficient to keep it busy, Not for seo al years have the prospects a busy sudnmer as they . ils been as bright jor ire at present Poor Directors, Mercer coun'y, bave sdopted new tac jos to get rid «1 the large sumber of families depending upon ihe They have shut off all of » ckuoss, of ine of ounty lor support sutside relief except in oases The direc ors ¢ ain that the revival dustries enable the poor 10 get work of rome kind, Dr. Roberti N rth, the hypnotist, bas dise appeared irom Eston, leaviag a small board bill asd a number of other debs, George Evick, of York, who e sikall was crushed by a fall from the root of the Came barland Valley Normal Sehool baliding in Saipp ‘nsburg, diel at the later place, Partié, interested are talking of vuildiag a deaf and damo ins (tation at Eat 8 road. ensbarg. Prol, J rome T. E well has pur chas+«d sufficient grouni near Drodbea » Croek and workmen are basy geting it ready for baliding. Trouble is feare | in the Pittsburg mining distriot because of violeno» wh oh began at a mine wear McDonall, where de puty sheriils were on guard, A dividend of £272.00) wis dsciarel by the Lumbermen's Exchafige, at Williams port, rapres ating profit. of lost lumber res covered sines last Bpring’s flood. The Puliman section of the Atlantic exe press on the Peansylvanis Rullroad aware Balley'. Station, orashed into a large roek on the track, No ons was badly hurl, An unkaowa pra in Doylestown is ale most daily vending money by mall 10 weil. know i: anl well-to-do redlests of hat Pac. : Gh : :
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