THE NEWS,
In an explosion at the Cambria Iron Works
several men wera hurt,—-—-Aaron Lymau, a
Hoeman, met with a horrible death in Cin:
einnati by falling upon a live wire, ——Dur-
glars ransacked {wo business establishments
in Norfolk, Va, and escaped ——Captain
Wm. J. Jones, of the ship Bidston Hill, at
Newport News, Va., was held for the action
of the federal grand jury for ordering a cus-
tom-house inspector ¢ff his vesse'.——The
Delaware State Senate passed the House bill
making Margaret H. and Rosalle Wilson the
jaughters and heirs of J. Edward Addicks,
——Judge Wood discharged Charles J. and
Frack R. D. Meadowcroft, insolvent bank-
ers, from indictment in Chicago on charge®
of 1eceiving money when thay knew their
bank was nsolvent Dr. J. B. Murphy,
of Chicago, was elected president of the Na,
{onal Association of Rallway Surgeons
its session in Chicago.
Herman Spar! was acquitted in the United
oharge of assisting in the murder of Second
Mate Maurice Fitzgerald, the
bark Heaper, He
former trial, and
Court reversed the case,
ol American
was found guilty on a
the United States Supreme
The Knights of
Pythias, at Indiana, decided {0 make war on
the Improved Order Knights of Pythias, ——
Ten people were killed in the cycione near
Wichita, Kan. ——Ex-Cot Ciertk D. W.
Sonder, who disappeared from Fort Wayne,
Ind., four months ago, and went to Africa,
has come back,——At Omaha, Neb,, William
H. Megquies, assistant casbler of First
National Bank, committed suicide by shoot.
ing himselt through the bead at the residence
of George Barker, president of National
Bink of Commerce. ——At Taz:we!l, Tenn.
Grant Doore, a tough character, was the de-
fendant in a trial belore Justice Mayes, Bl
Carroll was a witness, and Doo
him with swearing toa lie. A quarrel en-
sued, in which Doore shot Carroll, who died
from the ef the wound. Doore
arrested. —-—-David Kasner was arrested at
Canton, O., for
ing materials, mo
in his possession.
nts
Aly
the
1
the
|
te charged
was
yunterfeiting, Counterfeit.
ids and
Kasper is a
of the lawyer Michener, of Canton, who was
arrested in Massillon, April 27, for passing
counterfeit gold coins,
coln were found
Ld
onfederate
Howard E. Thomas was arrested in Ph'l.
Vaited States Court at Topeka, Kan., accus-
ing him of sending an obscene photograph
through the mails. ——The steamer A,
e.t was sunk ia Lake H
The first meeting of the Supreme Couneil,
TUuoilormed Rank Knights
in Indianap
known as .
geacy. with be
broken, —The decision of Judge Smih
the famous suit of the Stocktor
Harvester and Agric
ton, Cal, against the
seventy-two
recover $00,000 as insurance on
Ever.
the (oe,
is,
Oo
th
LL
The pottery combin
Akron-Canton Stoo
Combine
tural Works, in St
Glenns aad
to
property ol
years ago,
Falls,
other insurance mpanies,
the plaintiff burned severa:
rendered ia favor of the Harvester Con
for the full amount. Tom Metzel, ©
the most-sought-lo ts in the ¢
was arrested in Chicago
swind.ing the Nations
war
on a charge
| Bank of Butte, Mon,,
a week ago, out of §€000 by mosns of a
forged check. XMetzel's panion, said te
be Charles Whiteman or Charles Marion es
caped. When arrested £4000 fa
bifla were found on Metzel's person.
Frederick A. Frenchy
ed to death at
g2id and
solored, was burn-
Dol. ——An un,
3
made to wreck an
Wilmiagton,
’
cuccessful effort was
lantie Coastiine train near Charleston, 8
— A nine-raonths’ drouth was broken in
Oklahoma ——The National i
laiiway Surgeons met in Chicago, ——Gover-
oor Morton granted a resp te of one week 10
Dr.
Parker, from New York
ashore near Smith's Island
tion, Virginia. The
saved. ——The Central
Turner, propritor,
in Pottstown, Pa., on executions amounting
to $14,000. Mrs. Tarner Is
creditor. The nwels are £10,000, —
F. Cutaiar was committed by the coroner's
jury in Philadelphia for the murder of Jo-
banna Logue. -
ton of electrie cars as mall distributors,
The Trablg Commercial Company, of Lar.
amie, Wyo., bas made an assignment to EK.
MM. Crumline, The liabilities are $80,000 ; as.
sets nominally £100,000, The direct cause
of the failure was a fire a month ago, by
which the firm lost £70,000, —G. A. K Hall
in Elyr.a, Ohio, was almost demolished by a
terrific gas explosion. A gas jet was in some
way opened without being lit, and filied the
place with gas, When Janitor Martin Fider
struck a mateh in the hall a heavy explosion
lollowed, Flder was terribly burned. An
explosion occurred in the Hagley yard of E,
I. Dupont de Nemours & Co,, in Wilmington,
when two of the rolling mills were blown up,
shaking the neighborhood for some distance
around, Fortunately, no fatalit es occurred,
uo one being in the mills at the time, The
C. M. Sanger Sons Company, wholesale sad.
diery dealers in Milwaukee, made an assign.
ment to Oscar H. Plerce, the bookkeeper of
the company. The bond of the assignee was
fixed at $83,000, The assignment is thé re.
sult of the assassination of Emil A. Sanger
who was the president of the company.
a —
TRAIN ROBBERS DRIVEN OFF.
Worsted by a Train Crew at the Price of the
Engineer's Life,
The Chicago and Alton passenger train,
due at Springfield, Ill, at 1230 A, M., was
boarded by robbers at Carlinville, who, at a
place one-half mile north of there, attacked
the tralnmet and ordered them to hold up
their hands, The engineer and fireman ree
fused and a dosperate fight began. Six shots
were fired and engineer Holmes was killed,
One of the robbers was recaptured and the
other two escaped, A posse was organized
and started in persuit. Engloser Holmes
body was taken to Carlinville, He was one
of the oldest engineers on the road, The rob.
bers secured nothing.
A
Buchannan,——-The schooner
Norfolk,
lils-aaving
to went
Crow-—+ix men
Hotel, William W,
was closed by the shernifl
the
Tae steam yacht Oaelda, which arrived at
New York from Nassau, N, P., reported that
when off Hatteras she saw the bark Wm. H
Dietz, bound from Brunswiek for Philade.
phia, on fire and abandoned, This Is proba
bly the vessel reported by the steamer Dune
i
TEN KILLED.
Kansas Cyclone Spreads Ruin
in Its Narrow Path.
A Whirling Black Cloud Struck the
Farming Country South of Pat.
terson, Kans, and Left Noth-
ing Standing In its Way,
2in, and loss of life were crowd
Friseile whicl
aado’s pathway,
~ Favs doe
mits Jounal
oa Mrs BStinet
The b
celiar barnessed and unb
family of four were all Killed
A weal-tn
Fe was Leld at Halstead unt
passed,
ind passenger train onthe Santa
the st
Where it crc
ssel the track te.e.
graph lines, poles, wires and all were swept
away, The train w
wrecked bad
th #
the bh
uid certain
it gone abead.
pees destroyed were
orchards, &e.,
is lined wiih
whiie the pathway ol the storm
carcasses of dead horses,
bogs, and other animals,
The joss will be great, as the district
ited was settied by well-to-do {armer,
A —
WAR IN THE EAST AT AN END.
Between China and Japan.
Important advices indicating the termina
tion of the war between { ina and Japan
were received in Washington.
of negotiations are ia Do respect
the information leads to positive impressions
that the war Is practically over, an 1 izh
Is given in them to clearly presenta 8i aad a
{a thorough cOnsONANCe with the United
Press reports of an early settlement of the
war in the east, Not among the jeast inter.
esting facts contained in the assurance re
coived in Washington, is 1.4 Hung Chaag has
been instructed by the imperial dynasty to
make his immediate return to Pekin, the in.
structions themselves growing out of thesug-
gestion from the peace ambassador acing in
his capacity as minister { leaipotent ary, und
the meaning whereof is to be instructed only
in the light of indicating that upon h's ar.
rival at the Chinese seat of government final
and decisive action will be taken in ex ‘hang-
ing ratifications of the peace treaty & ready
in virtual existence,
Few other facts are conveyed in the ad-
vices citing these facts, but an interesting
one in keeping with the assertions that a
peaceful solution of the war has been reach.
ed is oontained in the fact that Hon, John
W. Foster, ex-Secretary of State, whose dip-
lomatie funotions have, it is considered, had
appreciable weight on both sides in the set.
tement of the all-imporiant disputes, leit
Pekin and Is expected to arrive in Washing.
ton about the latter part of June, coming by
way of Cheloo and Tien-Tela,
In official quarters in Washington, these
faots, limited as they are in detailed clrbum-
stances, seem clearly to indicate i nearer ap,
pronch to a definite pence than any that has
been heretofore presented.
en
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
The Rev, C. TU, Starkweather, an Epis.
opal minister, has been elected Mayor of
Buperior, Wis. He declares himself in favor
of open saloons Sunday,
men's clubs,’
Rov, W, 8B, Langfo'd, secre ary of the
Doard of Missions of the Episcopal Chuarob,
Lenrs a striking reser
ter, for whom
cailing them ‘‘poor
viance to Bishop Pot.
Dr,
gestures
ate very like
those of his ccolesinstical superior,
Mr. Arthur Ballou
gol! 1
practicing
Terrace,
he is often mistaken,
Laagford’'s precise mode of speech,
and unconscious mannerisms
with
He has been
» in Cariton House
of Mr.
Robert Lowe used
to ride a bieyele, no Parliamentarian of the
first rank hus patronize
content
r
as an outdoor
on bieye
under
Akers-Douglass,
the approving eye
Rince
1 that steed till now,
Mr, Balfour's exampie is likely to be
d to the
ax on-
sively followe iisgust of London
cabmen,
Sigeau, chief of the Pondos, who Is about
30 yoars of age, bas j st
Tow:
AVWIL
been visiting Cape
He was greatly
His gr
powned as the an
in Eu
fas still much to
impressed with what
Le raw, Faka, was ro-
in Poodoland,
Bigean is clad garments, but
He Is very
ied do
earn,
super-
stitious, and was accom pi his sight.
seeing excursions by his witehi-doctor,
Lieutenant Loals M. SBtoddar, who was an
wer on board the Monh at tho time of
sr historic fight with the Merrimac, is a
werved of
three the of-
man
f
Oi
» }
t are living—
1. M. Btod-
as the three
ier
ther every
sconces.
isd in Cr
hi
Teoreau,
mrape,
towa jall
horesau
ihe ialle
fense was to
bt, which be refused on prioecipie. “I
sald Mr.
pever beoerd a maz
tuples,
WURK AND WORKERS
the operators
O., that
they
sirikers Dave
as both the mi
In New York 2
sirike in obedience 10 aa
i ote
on’ Progressive Union. The
Work went od
Lor o
aer ol
trike is for an increase of
in the rate of wages over i inst year,
oyed at the Germania, Pa
the Wheel.
BAYES
mines of Snr , Ch
4
ing division strook
against a reduction in the miniog rate from
62 to 60 cents, Mr. Floerishelm says be will
Lezin to import mea.
The North
worksare at I
Braceh Steel Company, whose
aville, Mountoar county, Pa.
wii soon start u
which bas been
1853, owing to the better prices now asked by
bloom aad billet manufacturers,
A meeting of delegates from
essemer Steel plant,
since its const uetion io
the Drother.
of Illinois, In-
, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virgiuia is
Chlel Bar.
goat and reoreiacry Aracid are present to ex-
emplify the new ritual for the second degree,
Samuel K. Wilson, the mii
Trenton, N. J., whose em-
been on for the past
ration of the second
hood of Locomotive Firemen
diag
at which
ia session in Cincinnati,
foaaire woolen
manufacturer of
ployes have a slrike
seven weeks for the rest
10 per cent, reduction made in their wages
inst fall, met a delegation of the striking
‘weavers, and consented to their demands,
A TORNADO IN OMAHA,
os Demolished and Persons Hurt Before
Daylight
northern part of
Omaka, Nob, pumber of
dwellings and and destroying
many trees, Bevel persons are reported in.
jured,
The storm only struek the earth for A mo
ment and then rebounded into the air. Its
sotrse was from northeast to southwest; It
was abut a block in width and only covered
a territory of about four blocks long. Some
of the residents who saw it from a vantage
of three or four blocks away said that as
ue rly ae could be seen in the darkness it
iooked as though a bunch of clouds came
swirliag through the air from the northeast
and after striking the cottages bounded lato
the alr like a ball
Outside of the Immediate neighborhood of
the devastation the wind was no greater than
it was 1a other portions of the city, Immedl-
ately alter the greatest force of the wind had
sutaided rain fell in torrents
81. Jossrn, Mo. —A severe rain, bail and
wind storm struck this city, Lite damage
was done, but north of here, where tho storm
was mors severe, it ia feared the bail injured
the frult orop. The rain was badly needed.
Ln a aI AAA SAA
Amalie Rives-Ohanler has Jost her sylph,
ike proportions and ls said to be growing
stout, Mrs. Chanler recently visited Ban
Franoisco, where she made the oustomary
‘rip through Chinatown and then departed,
the
demoiishiag 8
A tornado struck
outhouses
Co ——
Causing Heavy Loss of Life and
Property in France,
OVER A HUNDRED DROWNED.
Million of Tons of Water Let Loose
on a Peaceful Valley to Carry
Death and Destruction in Its
Course Help for the
Afflicted People.
By the
Bouzey in
of the great dyke at
bursting
{ the Vosges,
the Epinal district of
France, the whole Aviere Valley has beon laid
in ruins, over a hundred lives have been lost
and millions of dollars’ of property
One hundred fiiteon deaths
have already been re
bodies have been recovered, It
worth
i and
sorted }
poried, but
destroyed
Mie
fifty
believel
that the death jist will be greatly
of
QXCcH-8
the d
It is sup-
into
fr
in
the figures above given when all
tricts
devastated are heard from.
posed that many of the dead were swept
'
iso.ated places, where it will be a long
belore the | s are found,
yi
The volume ol water
dyke Is estimated
break was made 1
this breach ‘he w
{ waler swept
if wreckage
many pisces Lhe early
out of tbe ground and th
curred will
bo very heavy.
4 he viere, a small owstream, is now
» places a mile and a half The
wiue,
raliway aul places
los sintion were
pt away and ul
Nearly every |
»od was either
damaged that they w
The co
’ wt d £23
msirgclion os ie
yeas 1d
2 Le Germ
i Paris, was
meieas due
utributed by
Heine bas sont
which will be appl
lerers,
The prefect of th
all the districts affected
bas organized the employe
roads, and will
HOON As Pr gs ible regio
aided by military,
im ia oT
nmunication, a0
3
smployes and - ! | immediately
search for the dead and bury all the dead
saimals they may fin
The municipal authorities are working un.
seasingly
order out of the chaos prevailing.
9.0 persons from the near-by towns and
surroundiag country visited the scene of
distributing elie] and making
Over 50.-
hie
the
disaster,
enc sis
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
81% men were kille! and several injured by
the eollapse of an amphitheatre surrounding
a cockpit at Hualta, Mex,
A despatch
that Henry DBarnrenter, a
who was bitten by a oat six weeks ago, died
from
12-year-old boy,
after suffering two days from hydrophobia
Ix Providence, BR. 1., an electric ran
into a wagon, in which was a party of young
Emily Handy, 12 years old, was
probably fatally injared, and four
seriously,
Tillie Ransche, the 6-year-oll
o! George Rausch, who was taken 1 after
eating some “April fool’ candy, died in New
York. The child showed symptoms of ar.
senical poisoning.
Tug Brothers of Nazareth Home, on the
priory farm, at Chestnut Ridgs, N. Y., was
destroyed by fire. The children wore ali
gotton salely out of the building. The loss
will exoced £30,0.0,
§1x tons of nitro-glyocerine in the factory of
the Ohio and Indiana Torpedo Compacy, at
Lima, O., exploded. Many windows were
broken and other damage was done to the
bu dings, but no person was injured.
Tag towboats Onward and IL N. Bunton
struck the Norfolk and Western Raliroad
bridge at Kenova, W. Va, wi ecking 13
barges and sinking 13,000 bushels of coal,
The loss will amount *o about £30,000,
Tux Navy Department received a telegram
announcing thrt Coxswain John Johnson
was killed on the new cruiser Olympia, off
San Diego, en Wednesday, by an accident
happening to a five-inch-rapid-fire gun,
Captain Wilkie, of the steamship Bowden
at Baltimore, from Port Antonio, Jamaica’
reported a large steamer, apparently atout
2,500 tons, ashore at Caps False, Bouth of
Cape Henry. She was lylog broad.ide on
the shore and was rolling heavily,
Charles Wheeler, of Dexter, Me, and
Charles J. Kolley and his wife, of Berlin
Falls, was ssphyxintod by escaplog illumi.
oating gos In a hotel at Concord, N. H. Kel
ley, who was on his welding trip, is in a
aritical condition, Wheeler, who was
resuscitated, sald he bad blown out the gas
CAT
people,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
Epitome of News Gleaned From Various Parts
of the Stats
Beoator White arousel bis
chairman
ecolieaguoes by
ol
Mauy bills were acted upon
accusing commiites
| Lillis,
i
i
J ir ast bye
pocieing
in Lot
branches,
Ia the new Legislative apportionment bill
most changes aflzci the Western part of 1
EBtate,
The dispute cn Bible reading in the Waver-
ly Bebool Loard will azain Le re. erred to the
Lackawanoa Courts,
The
Pennsylvania elected oi
Funeral Directors
Assc
cers a
ciation
Pits
rie nt
per at
Wiliam Baliz tel ke Laucas-
by
lesr gm ¢
ler, wa ghiot oanded
orinilly w
Adam Berish his discharged bartender
Wile-mus« Char es Garrat
i advisors,
s instituted at Holliday
® sale of the ros
na, Ci
'
Therelis a good bit lof
: box at the cl
feed
JUUg
°
James Hen
Wilkes -Bar ©
Reich,
By a fall of rock
Patrick Noone was ins.antly kille
injured. Noone and
lin
Scranton,
and his laborer slightly
nlx cagaged ia
Lis
rer Tere
whes a siab of rock over five
pearly six inches thick fo
out of Noopo's body, He
age and married.
Six driver boys at the
Ash Colliery
the Work
Ded
ha
struck work bacause they i todo
yi spraggers and wanted spragger’s pay for
it. 81.65 aday. Four hundred men are out
of work as a result of the strike, Hon. Mor-
an B. Williams, vice-president of the com-
pany, said the emp oyees’ demands would
wot be allowed.
80 mar but thirty-four
passed by the Logislature, of these six bave
ween vetood Ly Governor and the re-
wainder were approved.
samuel
acs have been
the
Carpenier, suspected of killing
Mra Blackwell, at Phillipsburg, tried to kill
bimsel! in the Easton Jail
iwo women and a podceman were ser-
fousiy hurt and four houses were wrecked
Ly a natural gas explosion in Wilkinsburg
Secretary Elge, of the State Board of
Agriculture, says that in bis
high prics of beel is unwarranted.
Fire in Pittsburg caused a loss of £20,030
and it is thought a sick man was burned to
death,
John H. Sprow, one of the best foundry
men in Chester county, died at his residence
2410 West Third sireet, of lockjaw, ihe re
suit of injuries received. Mr, Sprow fell
while boarding a car in Philadelphia, break-
ing a flager, and receiving injuries about
the neck. He was brought home when lock.
jaw set in.
While walking on the Pennsylvania Rall
read tracks west of Lancaster, William
Haines was murderously assauliel, He be-
easme unconscious and when found by a
track wa ker blood was flowing irom a
wound in his abdomen and his body was
otherwise mutilated, He oan give no de
scription of his assailants aad the objest of
the attack is a mystery, as Do attempt was
made to rob him. He was brougat to a hos
pital and his condition is eritiaal
EIGHTEEN YEARS IN PRISON.
Train Robber Morgan Refused a New Trial
by a Virginia Court.
The Supreme Court of Appeals refused a
writ of error in the oase of the Acquia Creek
train robber, who was arrested in Cincinnati
and taken to Stafford county, Va., for trial
This settles it and Morgan must go to the
penitentiary for eighteen years, No power
cna now save him escept the Goveraor
a Fire in a Pitisburg
A frame dweill
in the East End,
Weaver and bis family,
three lives were lost, Mr. Weaver was
11 with typhoid fever and could not Le
t Frederic
of the ©
he other victims were
Vm, Mitchell, a purse, who was
Ir. Weaver, He remained
it 1a the he
with Ls
eX
sving him, asc t
rgd A
1 Lis own
with great difficu
lition Ir
Says He Has
e to say what
plish, Ali I can say
1 have I shall give to
Police Comr
view to the we |
nisvosta of ti
nierests of th
strikers and
MARKETS.
BALTIMORE.
GRAIN, ETO
'R~Balto, Best Pat}
High rade EXira,..
WHEAT, 2 Bed.....
STHAW Hye in car Ids..
Wheat BlookS...ecevess
Ont BloCKS. co veens sss
CANXED GOODS.
TOMATOES—8tnd. No, 3
Np 9
Se0ODAS. cco coverrassnine
CORN—Dry Pack..coceee
Molst.oosconnsss
EIDES.
CITY STEERSB..cccvensesl
CIty COWB.oossscorsnnes
southern No. seteran Sig
POTATOES & VEGETABLES.
POTATOES—Burbanks..$
ONIONS. ccoveessrssssnnss
Re
o
en
nm Qe
40
PROVISIONS.
HOGEPRODUCTS-shids.$
Clear ribsides.... conve
Hamas...
Mess Pork, per bar.....
LARD—Crude...ccovvvese
Best refined. ccocensnsrve
BUTTER.
I'TTER-—Fine Crmy....5
Under fine
Creamery
L
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Rolls. cavene
CHEESE.
CHEESE-N.Y. Fancy...§ 12
N. Y.fat8.coovercessnes 124
Shim Cheese. cove irene 6
EGGS.
EGOB—State..ccvvvissend
North Caroling. ..ceeese
@ 8
122 8
10
LIVE POULTRY.
CHICKENS-—Hens. ... cc 8
Ducks, per B..cicianse
TOBACCO.
Infer's.$ 150
30
11
TOBACCO--M4.
Sound COMMON. ceesenee S00
MidAlnG. « «evs sesesrses 800
FanCY cosccccasssssasass 1000
LIVE BTOCK.
BEEF-—Best Beeves......8 500
Good to Fair...c.ceeeee 475
SHEEP. .csssessvcrnrsanin 300
Hogs 400
FURS AND SKINS,
MUSKRAT.ccocvrrnnneesd
Raccoo!
Bssssssssss sansnn
o
POX.oxsssssrssnnssn
Skunk Black ....cvveven
DRGs sare sun serre
IDK. cases trnnvsnsnnen
IRAP susrissrarsss resin ion
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FEW YORK.
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FLOUR-—Southern......8 310 @8% 420
WHEAT-—No. 2 Red... 683 "1
RYE~Westarn. .. unm
CORN--No. 2. Eh]
EN, Brcvinnrmmensm
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0 con riverine
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