THE NEWS, Jere Young, aged sixty years, committed suicide at his bome, in Newmarket N, H,, by shooting himself through the head, Tem- porary insanity, resulting from a year's .li- ness, is supposed to have | d him to end bis life,——-VW, C. Donnelson, alias W, K. Crow, bas been arrested in Sacramento, Cal,, for » £2,000 postoffice burglury at Colville, Kas, ~The greater part of the large pottery ol 8. A. Weller, in Zanesville, Ohio, was burned including the new bullling for the manulao- ture of Lonhuda ware, which is similar to the celebrated Rookwood pottery of Cincin- patl, Toe loss 1- about $50,000, with an in. surance of $54,000, — The Imperial Varnish Works plant, in Akron, O,, was totally de. stroyed by fire. Loss, #125000, ——During a heavy log opposite Skilligaliee Light, off Lake Micigan, the steamer Cayuga, bound down, loaded with merchandise, ran into the steamer Joseph IL. Hurd, bound for Chicago, with lumber, and both sank. Both crews wero picked up by the Minnola, exeept the sook of the Hurd Gecrge Johnston, of Chi. cago, who was drowned, At pumraio tne cooper shops of the Richard Grant Cooperage Company were burned, with all their contents, Toss §75,000—At Bavannah Ward McAllister's son Heyward sued for a divorce ——Receivers were ap- pointed for the O.is Steel Works at Cleve. land.——C, W. Nehrbras, agent for the Deering Machina Company, of Chicago, his life in a 1 e which destroyed the Hotel Ariington, at Montrose, Col.——An explos” ion of tubes connecting with the fire com- partment of an engine of onthe N. Y., N. H, and Hartford Railroad caused the jastant death of Brakeman Owen J. MeCafferty, the fatal injury of Fireman Arthur A. Fuller and the ser.ous scalding ot Eag neer Taylor. McCafferty, who resided at Ballardsville, Mass, was to have been married next we k.——The Delaware legis lature adjourned sine die, bat the speaker of the House, McNulty, declared Henry A- Tbe immediately before ad. Journment, resulted: Dupont, 15; Addicks, 4; Ridgeley, 0; Tunne!, 1. The Republicans claimed that Senator Watson, ia succeeding to the governership, ceased to be a senator, and that thers were, therefore, only 29 on joint ballot, 15 votes econstitu’ing a qu rum. ——Miss Belle Fiatcher, of Clarksburg, W. Va., committed suicide near Damstown, in that state.—_-The Winslow Brick Works near Ezg Harbor, N, J., were burned ; loss, £100,000, The schoener C. D, Wh cisco, was wrocked in a storm of Kodiak Island, Bering Sea, April 22, and the erew were lost. —— Two road agen's roobed pas- sengers in a stage ia Lake county, Cal —— Genz, who was convicted of killing Clara the fast freight Dupont electo | United S:ates senator, last ballot, taken executed May 20.——Ole of Bt Marys, O., and Peter Finch, of Portland, Ind, were killed in a freight wreck on the Erle Railroad, near Celina, O.——Christian May killed himself at his wife's grave at Hasle- ton, Pa. —— Cyrus Rick, cashier of the Farm- er's National Bank at Reading, Pa., dropped dead, —— At Eau Claire, Wis, Judge Bailey sentenced embezzier Harry E McMaster to two years in the state prison. ——E. Brown- stearn, dry goods dealer, assigned at Ports- month, Va, ——At Syracuse Charles E Wik son, who killed Harver, July 31, 1843, was senteuced by Justice Wright to be slectrccuted during the week beginndog Blerelr, Detective James June 17,~-~Two men were kiiled and a third severely injured by a falling wall on Broad street, Hazlston, Pa. The killed are Chris. tian Stillwagon and Emanuel Altenbach, and the injured amuel Griflitbs, The schooner E. Merriam ton with the crew the Norwegian Carl, abandoned and set on firs at The annual meeting of the Harrison Inter- national Telephooe Company was held in Chicago. The sixth annual session of the International Association of Mach nists was beld in Cincinnatl. ——H W,. Thomas was shot and killed by FP. i. Wiliams as he was leaving the residence of the divorced wife of the latter, in Minneapolis, —-I.aac Jope, night clerk in a Pl.taburg hotel, was found murdered in the basement of the hots), of bark BOR, men tined against the suspected town, It took the fire department and a posse of tempt was made to Liow up a new hotel Garwood, N, J., with dynamite, destroyed, when a ledge became lcosened and fell, burying three of them, Michael Joy was crushed to death, Patrick Ryan was fatally injured, and an Italian was seriously hurt ~—In Pottsville, Pa., Thomas Flood was xilied James Tidibock Iatally injured, and two other men badly burned while drilling a hole that had already been charged with dynaciite, at the Albright colliery at Liewel. yn Large Amounts of Money Being Invested in Cotton Mills. Especially prominent features in the de, velopment of the South noted by the Manu- gacturers’ Record duricg the week, are the number of new cotton mills, showing that large amounts of money continues to be. in. vested in the industries. The reports include a 15,000 spindie mill and a 350 loom mill at Austin, Texas, Other industries are a kali. ting mill at Winchester, Va, to employ 200 bands; a $50,000 ofl miil in Alabama; $200, 000 to be invested in various Industries in Baltimore; two 100-ton cotton oll mills in Mississipp!; a £150,000 company to manufac: ture tobacco at Tampa, Fla, ; a $100,000 coal mining company in Texas, and two coal and lumber companies fa West Virginia repre senting $500,000. ———————— Major Wissmaon, the well-kn- wn Germans explorer, has bron appoin od Goverpor of Gorman East Afriea, TORNADO IN IOWA. A Large Number of Persons Killed and Injured, SEVERAL TOWNS IN RUINS, Over a Score of Bodies Have Al ready Feen Recovered fromthe Wrecks of Their Homes—-De- talls Hard to Cet, At least fifty people are believed to have teen killed by a to nado which passed about of Bioux Centr, a smuli town in Bicux County, 45 miles north three miles nortk west of Sioux City, Teieg:aphic reports from the socne of the storm are very meagre, aii the wires Lelug down, but it {s understood that a ronsiderabie number were killed and injured, [hie lest reports were received by the Sioux City & Northern Raliway from its a ant at Ths despatch sald that a schoolhous~ had blown down aad that the enche: and several children were killed and Injured, De«patches from sloux Center that ¢ school houses and at least twenty ro {- At SBloux Center say LIT lences and barns were swept away. The women were found dead about 6 o'clock not far from were killed and maoy injure, the point where one « stood, Liown away and his (smiy killed, sell escaped and says that at least three hundre | people must have been killed, Parties have been sent out Center, Orange and neighboring towns, but heir work Is being carried on in total dark- wind and uess nod in the mi ist of a great cannot be learned, It is said that Perkins, a sm Doon was lireectly in the path of the storm and was ale rost entirely wipad out, The wires leading down. The tracks are all washed out and the roads cannot be safely traveled w.ng to the manner in which they were Ruiiled by the ruin set out from Hull, Physicians have already Orange, Cedar and Len er, but are moetin 4 Wilh every conceive able obstacle fn their effort to reach Me fe sOB0O Le st 1 Lide storm, News was received from Sibley to the effact tS P.M ng the house of John Waterson, killing Mrs, Water-on and injuring ad his son. The Sioux City & Northern tra n which arrived at 10 o'clock, brought engers who witnessed the storm. destroy. Waterson sevoras Jas They ro. ported that thirteen dead had into Sloux Center at 6 P. M, ly escaped a smashing been Lrough The tia up in a wasbot Doon, but was st pped before it passed the dangerous ter. itory, WORK AND WORKERS. The Min Iron « nounced a 10 per cent. ralse 1,000 employes, The molders employed In Ouilo., went increase In wages, nesota in Cleve aad, on The annual convention of the Amaigama- ted Association of Iron and will be held in Cleveland iz Stow! Worke in 10 weeks aad it will be the 1802 iwo hundred employes of the Athens Ga Cotten Mills struck on acount of a most important session since 10 pes cent cut in wages and an order to pay er bail cash and the remalader in tickets, This will foree out 125 baads miils aiso, Six hundred ocal miners, employed by the companies composing the Laurel (Ky ) ( Association, went out on a sirike probably remain out all summer, They strike for the pay of last year--70 cents per ton. The operators offer only 65 cents. A special from Janesville; Wis, Three hundred employes of the Janesviile Company struck because the company would not reslore wages which were cut cent, two years ago. The manager says the mills will probably be closed Indefinite y. Al Pocohon'as, Va, no Attempt was made to join the strike, The town is quiet, and this company, the lar. est io the coal fleids, bas made no reduction of wages amoog its 900 employes. In the event that f ree js used to compel the men to strike the elugons will join the miners in resisting, While all Ohio miners are out awaitiag an agreement on the new scale, there are other sonditions than that of the scale, Owing to loeal feeling the strikers are getiiag beyond the contro! of representatives of the union mine workers, Guards are at the tl ples and driftmouths, rallway trestes and bridges, Pat MoBride, seeretary-tressurer of the Uatted Mine Workers, of Ameriea, 1s inves tigating the strike in the Pittsburg distriet for the purpose of making a report to the national convention of the order, which meets in Columbus, It Is thought great deal will depend upon the acilon of this convention. at the upper OR ———— nnn III ss. sisi i GUARDS WENT TO SLEEP. Then a Post Office Robber Slipped His Hand. cuffs and Escaped. Charles Jobmson, a post office robber, wanted in the Iudian Territory, escaped from two United States deputy marshals between Olean and Salamanca, New York. He was eaptured in Brooklyn and was being taken West on an Erie train. He was handeuffed 10 & seat and was seemingly in safe custody when the traia left Olean, Soon alter his guards dropped into a doze and when they awoke at dalamanca it was discovered that their prisoner had silpped his bandsufls and escaped. Bo far diligent search has revealed no trace of him, The police of surrounding towns have been notified. It Is understood thers is & ro. ward of $2,000 upon bis head, TOMAS ESTRADA PALMA. Tomas Estrada Palma, recently proclaimed President of the Cuban Republic by the in- surgents, lives in Central Valley, N. Y. There he directs a large seminary, for the educa- Senor Palma was During th. tion of weaithy Cubans. born in Bayamo, Caba in 1#35 last revoluticn ne was constantly in the fleid. His valor and natural to handie sol. diers attracted the attention of his country- after Hniity men and be was named for one office another until finally he was proclaimed President of the Repubiie, he was captured and imprisone L tus war ended be was freed and came to this coun. and has five tniker a courtier. Senor Palma is married iry. tr bright children. He is an intero tin: nanuers are tho.e of DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES and bis ¢ Wilkins, Ketcham & Rothebild's furniture actory in Chicago was damaged by tue extent of $125,000, M. A Eider, jasitor of th- G Eiyria. Oblo, was possibly fa ally b of fre 10 A. RK Hall at by wrecked the irned an expiosion Luliding. A cyclone struck east of Hutchinson, Kacsas It is rep Bhs, which miles ried great Halstead, twealy that tea | eople have Leen killed and damage douse, A despatch from N.obrara, Nebr that the Govern : ent schoo S.ntes Indiana Reserva a loss of £4,000, Frank H. De Aiva, stu bed to death while owas Lurn ing aged tr beitiug on a shall tabilshmeat iu New Yo gait 11 id Paul, ad wore t Dutiog a heavy on the Chicago, St, Omaba Ralir And overturn James Hoflueum r, » id, was struck by a ts freight cars Minneapolls and fro Jwn in the track od, nenr Eu Claire Wisconsin, nutes, 21 years ia Brookiya, and iastaaliy kil.ed 3h In + Lhe numier of victims todiese 110 total Brookiyn ihe bodies of Mrs, Mary Po t, or, Mra. Pat Figiey, and t Ausiran ber daagh. little E bel Finley river, in Alge: is Le jeved that they apsizicg of a boat Southwest + have made au ear y Appearances and o inmage is being done growing wheat, Sim lar damage from these bugs is reported in Northern Kansas, Arkas sas and Iadian Territor of Lor entirely wiped out by fre, iP The town more, . WAS almost wod in. i » ndiary origin Eixteen ditioen 1908 prop. The loss rare consumed and - nough residence erty to rendec 11 Iamiiies bome es, will aggregate $100 000 M investigating ibe grand jury at Bal'e, nlana, which { r threo wooks bas been the ivynrmite axplodon ‘mn wh ed, reg wars y ki orts it has been y fix the responsibiit iVil sUlls IOr damages, aggre By gating $250.0! have be n brough the two bardware cou The tug boat KL H. Smith was sunk WwW. E in New York agninst panies, in a Chapman, of Toree men by the tug by at the time tha. one tug. saliision with the tug ier 48 East river, were pleked up out ol the water N. LL. Wright, whieh was near f the collision, I: is thought ma was drowned rom the susken MORE CASH FOR JAPAN. by $50,000,000. t is reported in London that ation of Japan's abandonment of Tung Peninsula she will r-esive an addi tional indemnity of £50,000,00, of the feeling la Rusia regarding the latest developn.ent in the Far East Veemya™ Japaa’s reply power's to bea: equivocal one that it leaves the pending quastions open The “Novmsti' a limits the pacifis eff-ot of Japan's conesssions, but Japanase occupation of a portion of the Chiness mainian d must not be unlimited. The “Grashdanin" waras Rassia to econ rolidats her podtion in the Far Fast, claim. ing that Japan will never for ive her for het diplomatic deaeat The , Rassia’s diplomatic triumph as a great de. leat for Great Britain, The “Bourw Gazstte” alyseates the three considers “3viat’ soming the guarantes fir China paying the inoreasel inlemiity in consideration of Japan forthwith evacuating Chinese terri tory, Tte Parle prose, generally speaking, is sa'isfled with the course Japan has adopted in 1egard to the remon-tranees of the powers 48 to the terms of the treaty of pease with Japan, RUSSIA 18 SATISFIED. Japan's Roply to Her Protest Ends All Trouble, The Russian Government {s satisfied with Japan's reply to the protest of the Powers and regards the lacldent thus far as closed, Russia Is evidently glad to get out of a very awkward position without bagging as to the particular form of Imaguage in which Japan agrees to refraim from annexing the Lino Tung Peninsula, The Russiao muitary preparations in the Far East have been suspended, In accord. ance with telegvaphia order, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. —— Epitome of News Gleaned From Various Parts of the State The Grady antl-poo lag bill was hold up by the House, Adjutant General Btewart, at fssuod a general order fixing the places for the brigade encampments of National Guard of | ennsyivania, Governor Hasting« vetoed the bill which gave to married wom sn the right to sell real estale or cater into contracts free from oou- trol of their husbands, Collector Harrisburg, time and the Internal Revenue Herr ng, at Seganton, received a letter from Washington, reverses profits in which the Treasury Department itseifon a former opinion that coal are not exempt from income tax, Over 90) mii] workers at Norristown and Bridgeport are idle on account of {wo strikes and a shut down. Furoaece owners in the Shenango and Ma- honing Valleys granted the demands of the strikers, The i eminary trustees, of Allegheny, refused to Western Presbyterian Theological alter the charter of the school to comp.y with General Assembly request, Evidence was «fered ia the Helek murder trinl ut Wilkes-Barre, to carroborate the alibles established by the prisoners and his | allezed accomplices, Charles H, Evens was the murder of Isaac held Joke, Van $i or acslt dng a colt alc at Pitts burg fo { ar-old « Auken, of r Filteen-.y Arie Shoemakers, was ris ng the when ates of {righ | road to Decker raed hi 8 Ferry r-e8 came valiog iid not thought of a p an to ing wildly toward ung lady wr turn away, tut scream he animals, Bhe drew up to one side let # pass her then rode alter A thort she twas an exciting chase, atnad was the river, and rea- 8 s 1 4 . yoy “. a * she did not stop them gulckly both lunge in aod drown themse ves, Ii a lew moments before the colt i the girl nlongside the horses, Qui iash she grabbed the outlside line ihe runaways almost around to a siandstiil, This was do .e { wih one hand, fcr the other was engaged ip idis of her own horse, orgoed letter withdrawing Hir i Qe en’ the iissjoner Blerner caused his and the electi yuncis, Farme { while by the City ( the 8 Na. 1 duty ons of aristian May, sitiz ns of Hazleton, most prominent suicide by hanging himsell to the monument erected ¢ r his wilo's ¢ - Over his wile Krave, f +} Daniel W, Pragle, one of the oldest con- onthe Peansyivania Raliroad, was at Alt 3 Harry Frank, aged 16 years, was dragged Hors an engine Ona. y deata runaway horse near Mount Ly a 5. James Delaney asd Ar hur Wiaburg, were instantly Killed by Avoca, » men were killed and a third severely by a falling wall in Hazleton into the | A la bull ran away aad broke ol Rev. H. B Lutheran Church, ( before 1 Wile, pastor the ariisle, The en- animal, sote overs tarned sevaral tables smashed an ornament ed the veatibu aged lg ye in ML naway ut of 4 the harness and was Harry Frank, a farm band & Wagon, 2 via 3 perc drazged erable distance His bead came with severel rocks which frac tekuoli, and be was dead when , #4 years o in R use the heat was m i, shot and killed as Township De. re than he coul ihe thermometer registered 90 degrees in ih the shade, aod the beat, of which Mrer oom. plains i 1s supp wed to have affec od his ! brain, While John Prailey was | Mi] Creek, three miles from walking along Lancas er, he shore, and of a ner was: notified and an ind a bundle iving near the | pon opening it found the dead The body | boy baby, cor | inquest held, The | eves the ohild was corongr’s physician be alive when thrown in the sirenm. Forest fires in McKean | 10,000,000 fest of lumber, Captain P, N. MeGriflin, who commanded County destroyed { China lost the war through the Meers, Luzerne authorities have oa led in private treachery | of Government { dotectives 10 scareh for murderers, Three.year-cld Katie Lutz was scalded t, leath at Reading Ly falling in a tub of ho | water, Mre, {| hem was fatally injured Matilda Feastermachor, of B-ihle. by J | trolley oar a! Catasauqua, W. W. Bufiagicn made atiempt to commit sulcide throat at Harrisburg, unsuecessful bis an by ecutthug Harrisburg as betag choked to death, Pians for a general strike by iron men to ation at P.ttsburg, A banquet was tendered to retiring Audi. Board of Trade ot Reading, Auditor General Gregg was presen ed with a watch and chain by the department employes at Harrisburg, three were badly injured, Three men were atally and two ltadly burnel by an explosion in the Behooley mine at Biurmer. ville Further damaging evidence was given at Wilkes-Barre against Hendricks, oharged with the murder of Barney Rejok. Under a guard of deputies colored mes Were put to work In the places of strikem In the Hackett mine on the Wheeling divi olthe B. & 0. Railroad. TN S01305.5 Foreign warships are assombiing at various ports of Jap .n and the French vessels have been ordersd to prepare for emergencies There are indloations of a orsi« in the rela. tions between Japan and Ru sia LAWRENCE DELMOUR. Lawrence Delmour, the pr sent chieftain He ork City x For somes time hehas been in the real estate bus ness, ber of Tammany Hall His activity in politics, and his great ability as a po itic He has been a 1m tince its reorganization in 1872 leader Dig leader, lod to his se ection as Democracy in the 24th A sembly all affairs except those now a retired business ma the most popular man | me 3 ‘ i NICARAGUA’S TROUBLE OVER | President Zelaya Still Bays the Trouble Was Caused by England A des Granada, Nie ale to the Lond ITRZUB, BAYS Zelaya bas teleg ing the statemse Great Briain settied, The President a tbat the question | t did, waen it s friendly discu flatly refused t New You Teguelyg “Fight ra ua Word comes from tere that the fo Orie, Zervia and Mackerro bave make war on Ze.aya. “The Cape Graelas feared that the threats united to Honduran troops concentrated at will remain there, as it is ows 2 neq C ithireak Ua M squito Reservation may ex'eand be Lere, troops at Amaipa will listributed alors the coast, “General Bonll 10 Presiden: Te & Ale svacua.l UR ABOUT NOTED PEOPLP Bir Oliver Mowat bas bec me the honorary president of the Hamil team. Sig. Alas, i= sain to a tele UATE (0Ve totation by wire. Captain Joshus Rioey Bosion in his I riy-fog fil around the world voyage. Capial ks a no Mrs widow ted adventurer, Mary E , of Batavis, Richmond i Dean Richmond, the ! hmon NX, ax Ls TRI road and steam b §£15.0.0,000 to be dren, al nan, leave. an e.tate of divided among her Gren, Simon R. Buckner, the Confederate veteran, is one of the most enthusiastic ad- Yooates of good roads in Kentucky, On farm in Hart county ke has cons ten m iss of macsdamized highwars J. B. Gordon big General Commanding the United States Confederate Veterans, througt George V. Moorman, A%isrant issued an order in which be announced No. 600 bas been reached in the earoliment Gonera., has made mora, Mr. Whitelaw Raid was in Jerusalem April 6. At that date he had ju t for the come wp to art northward Beyrout April 30, through Damascus to which he exproied to reach on Taking steamer at that point to by May 10 and New York about the middis of June. Mr. Reid's health is gre atly im. be has been at any time during the past ten yours, Orochyatekba, a Canadian Indian, is en. joying himself in Lonion. He is a pure Mo- of the Chiefs of Canada, which comprises the Mohawks, Oneidas, Omoudagas, Cayugns, SBenecas and Taeearoras® He tickeis the Lone doners by saying: “The Americans sacked our towns an. villages. As to toe French we thrashed them ; when they came we drove them back. Originaly, you know, we were settled on the banks of the Mohawk Valley, stretching from Albany to Niagara. We jolt it voluntarily in order to be still British, made ourselves exiles in order to be still British, nt Iss THE GOLD RESERVE The United States Treasury Now Has $06. 039,868 on Hand. The Treasury gold reserve shows an in crease of $3 448 280 making its total £06. 039,808 No explanation is made at the Treasury Department beyond the statement that it is presumed the deposit was made by the New bond syndicate, Annie Gormon, a 2.yeat-0id Chioago tot toll thirty feet recently and in two minutes after was as chipper and bright as before sho had a good cry. as she was badly soared but the dostors say she is absolutely unin. jared, A ANS. 50 5 Mme, Yang, wile of the Chinese Minister al Washington, is progressing »o finely in Eng. {ish that she Js quite abies to converse wiih ter many visitors In (5a aative tongue Cdds and Ends In Essam they lower corpses from the root, it araingt the law to carry them i door. “ing Beient show only S00 persons having records nown second attacks ifie CHRBEE are X of of smallpox, Tom Burrows, the all-round Aus- tralian athlete, ins beaten the record by swingis of Indian clubs for mrs, without stop- ping even for In Russia freczes below the frost wenty-four mens thie because the water sapply never pipes laid are Ne. Street pelled by Dresden KAS engines cars in are pro- By a new ockin How North Chin doughnut. ure oH gs mind 114 made oul of the 5,000 miles from put a market, nman first man to cure’’ on the ligher than the natural string can be agnesiun +d while it preserves ation cs of Shake town, terest fig signet } nit on it, desk at which he sat in the Stratford. The visitors to the 23.000 fl ring. with the initials he number of and chur is BYerage poet & home f whom 6,000 are Americans. at the Yancy There isa standing of Mount Michs #l, in nty, North C at the the River, that twenty-seven feet nine the cutting height. It is and estimated to yield over 20,000 feet of lumber. f inches at of an Larned, the title of teachers at “Tribe of Gad” is ation In England imitation or filled cheese cannot legally be sold as cheese. Mount Tacoma is the highest point in the United States—about 15,000 feet. A Minnesota man has sued a barber for $500 damages for ruining his beard. There are in the world 000 species of flowering pl aver 1 20, » ants Men or women who wear corde to their eyeglasses these days are the exception, The Dutch Bonnet. The Dutch bonnet is on top in a double sense, It really looks more or less—~more rather than less--like a Fiji headdress, nevertheless 't seems to become its wearers, who wonder at itthemselves. The truth is, women, 80 far from being as vain as they have been given credii for, are quite surprisingly modest; they admire and adopt all sorts of absurd styles, never realizing that it is really their own perennial loveliness and charm that make them admirable. The truth is, it doesn't matter what a pretty woman puts on, she will grace the article and look lovely in it, the worst of which is that all the other women take it for granted that they will look equally so, ; :
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