THE NEWS, Joseph SBegrose committed sulelde in Hazle- ton, Pa., by throwing him-eif in front of a passenger train at Audenried. He was ground to pieces, Segrose was we'l known through. out the country. He recently came fato pos- session of considerable mosoy, and it is be. lieved this caused him to lose his reason, —— In the Mercer County Court of Quarter Ses- sions, in Trenton, N. J., Judge Woodruff, on motion of Judge Peasley, coun:el for John L. Kuser, indicted for conspiracy against the state in connection with the German print- fog contracts, granted a rule to show cause why the indic:ments should not be quashed. we EX-Congressman Dorsey has beea in- dicted by the Federal Court in Omaha, Neb,, for falsifying national bank records at the First National Bank of Ponea. An indiot. ment last November was quashed, —— By the the Walden seven miles west of coliision of two trolley cars on and Orange Lake road, Newburgh, N. Y., niue men were severely in- Jurel Motormans Eugene Clary may le obliged to undergo the amputation of a leg. The col islon cecurred at the valley, the grade both ways being steep. the bottom of made an assignment to George EK. Peasley, Bills payable are 91,473, $11,800, ~The West Virginia suit for $100,000 acainst the Standard Ol! Company aud for $50,000 r gainst the Eureka K. Pearson, of Chicago, who announced at the close of the commence. ment exerches that he would give Leahman fatally wounded Lis wileat Wilkes. barre, Pa., by shouting ber in the left breast, The would-be murderer irled to e cape, bat was arrested, and placed in jall. ——Execu* the Altoona Produce Company, a wholesale house, The liabilities are esti. mated at $15,000, — Grasshoppers haveap- peared insuch quantities in certain sections of Nebraska as to interfere with railroad travel. —— Daniel Stetzel, of Kutztown, Pa, was murdered while returniug to his father's bouse, ——Polies Inspector McLaughlin has been sentenced to two years and six months ian which to settles cyclone passed Piatte, Neb, destroying much and demolishing mapy houses, Ben Young. a promicent farmer, was carried with his house a long d and was Ten prisoners, four of them murderers, tun. neled their way out of the county jall at Pop lar Bluff, Mo, and all but one are sill at large. One of the murderers was captured. Mrs. Alabama Kaootts, was struck bya rain near York, Pa, and killed, B. T. 8S. Hastings, aged twenty-'hree years shot a girl named Trixie 8t, Clair, at dusky, O., kiling her {cstantly, and then at- tempted suicide, in Cleveland, O., Convention, Is allowed him affairs, — A North up his terrible over stance, killed, sane — Delegates are gathering to the National Eepubiican fecretar umphrey stated ecretary Humphrey \ celebrated the one hundred and twentieth saniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill with parade The boilers at the water works plant at Union City, Tenn,, exploded, killing Engineer Carman instastly and injuring other persons, — A big b. lier in the Unlon Cotton Press building, New Orleans exploded kill ng one man and injuring a sumber of others, ——A certificate of Incorporation of the Terminal Railway Company, of Buffalo with a capital of £500 000, was filed in that elity, ——The twenty-seveoth annual conven. tion of the National Couneil of the Junior Order United American Mechanics opened in Omaha, Neb. —An armed body of! men attempted to take possession of the Schuleldt, Distillery, at Chieago, one of the plants of the Whiskey Trust. They exchanged shots with the deputy marshals on guard, and were driven away, no one being lojured on either side, of grasshoppers are dying near Brighton, Col, and thereseems to be a promase that unknown disease or other agenoy,——As a result of a raid made by detectives in Chi. cago, five Canadians, all said to be burglars, and one an ex-convict, were arrestod, They are James Cunningham, William Settles Patrick Loney, Albert Shape and John Clark. of burglars’ tools and firearms. The men are said to have been driven outo! Can, ada by the Dominion authorities, —— William Nelson, postmaster at the National Soldiers Home, at Milwaukeo, Wis, is under arrest tharged with embezzlement of €1,180.46 of the funds of the office, ——~C, F, Halling, who bas been on trial several days at Johnstown, N. Y., for the murder of Louis Kloss at Op- peaheim last fall, was sentenced to Danne. mora for life, — Edward Rodgers, a seaman on the steamer Ravensdale, 8 charged, at Chester, Pa., with stabbiog Matthew Brown, eaptain of the steamer, ——Lawyer Bemple, counsel of Theo, Lambert, who was to have been hangel at Camden, N, J,, has obtained a stay by appealing to the United States SBa- preme Court.——Adam Lawsky was instantly killed, and Peter Domerit so badly hurt that he died in an hour, by the falling of 8 mass of clay and rook in King’s stripping mine at Eckely, Pa.—The picking establishment of Welssinger Bros, at Mount Carmel, Pa., was destroyed by fire, Loss $10,000, five A NOTABLE HANGING EVENT. Crowds of (Country People Attracted to the Execution of August Bergman. August Bergman, who murdered his brother Julius in Bterling, N. J., on February 23cd, 1893, was hanged for the erime in Mor. ris county jail, The exacution of Bergman was the first’ ona in eight years In Morris county, and ft attracted a big erowd of people, Farmers from the surrounding country drove In town in thelr wagons, and Morrissown presented a sort of fholiday appearance, Many of the farmers brought thelr Junch with. them and did not leave Norristown until after the seal. fold had been taken down and the execution was over, E lison's great-grandfather lived tothe age of 102, His grandfather died at 1(8 and one of his aunts at 103, while his own father ls still alive at 9) The widow of Sir Richard Sutton, of Gen. esta-America'’s cup fame, is about to be mar- riled again. Lady Sutton's second will bea slergyman-—a curate, Miss Mindora L. Berry, of Oakland, Cal, Is to conduct a summer school for the “due sation of prospective missionaries to China and Japan, She is an enthusiast on the sub- ject of missions, and has worked as a mis. sionary fa China herself Dr. Claudius B. Webster, for many years United States Consul at ShefMeld, England, and prior t» that time principal of a young ladies’ seminary in Norwich, Conn. is now the old: st su viving graduate of Dartmouth College, having bien grad uated in 1836. Herbert Brennan, Jr., {8 the hero ol the Loug Island Century Run which was beld last Saturday. Young Brennan is only 10 years of age, and he rode the century in gool style Hs father says that the youugster is all right and he dces not anlel- pate any evil effects from the run Mrs, Willlam Rockefeller will bulld a new parsonage for the First Baptist at Tarrytown, on the lot near the church pur. chased by Mr. Rockefeller some time The new parsonage will be bulit of brick, with stone trimmings, The specifica Yhy 2 pad Charebh, ago, mattied John Joseph Kalu, the nes Archbishop of St, Louls, was born In Martinsburg, Va, May, 31, 1842. pre; aratory education at St, Charies Seminary, in How- ard County, Md, and fin'shed kis course at 8t, Mary's Unirvereity, in Balt ! He received his He was Kane, of They proicunce their names alike, The Macleods have Leen the Chureh « leading men in f Scotland for more than a ater I fourth over the general assembly, Donald Ma Rev. Dr gow, bas just been chosen for that offic, ao + r of “Good Words," traveled over most of the loves ing and fishing, is a eap:ial sto most [asdionable Ginggow - > - INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY. The Southern Railway to water Terminus at The past week i+ one of is history of the South now suterprises bave been made pusile, facturers’ Record has received " ¢ sdrmatioa of the report that Rallway Company w.ll make iis and eured control of over two miles of ' principal tidewat :r terminus at Norfolk bas se walter iront on which to erect ware wharves Delta mile mies Bens ihe 30 an elevator and other buildings, Construction Company will vuild of raliroad near Now Urleans bushel ias0 a 52,000 two ’ presses, and ¢s ablish a new saipping point on the Mississippl River, maki «g an iovesi- EIain e.evalor 3.00) (on com ment of ov.r #1 500,000, New York parties Are interested in it, O:her projects reported to the Manufao- wrers' Record during £100,009, a 5,000 spindle, a 4,520 spindle and ia a $230,000 the week inc.ude a mill North Carolina, cotion manufacturing purpec spladie m ses ; in South Carona a 60)) il, also one of several A $200. £125 000 and and lum- Arkansas, J 00J cottonseed delinter company, umber company, a $500,000 ber company are to locale in implement plant and a comj which will develop 100,000 acres of coal and timber ny ny land wii locate in Tennesses; while £50,000 company and Virginia re. por.s £200,000 lumber company, also severa new of mills and raw mills, Io Mississippi a £100,000 development company is to begin operations; while new enterprises in Florida Texas enterprises company, £5,000 coiton oll Weat inciude lumber works for ice plants and The activity in bulidiog is 75,000 chureh propos«d at umber mills, ing at Galveston, Tex. New £6). Ia; 0 ofMle bulld. Orleans, and hotels in EN —— SHE GAVE THEM POISON. Then Takes a Fatal Do.e Herself farmer, (near Bhelisburg, Iowa, polsoned hersell and three of her six children. Hho was known to be insane, All four died. Mrs Gillis started out of the house witha 4 yoar- iew rods from the door she fell to the ground where both were found dead, Her husband was feeding stock at the time, EXPLOSION IN NEW ORLEANS. Clement B. Penrose, Manager of the Union Cotton Press. One of the boilers of the Union Cotton Presa, situated at the corner of South Peters and Terpsiohore sireots, exploded while be. ing tested. Mr. Clement B. Penrose, man. ager of the press, was Instantly killed and thirteen others were Injured. The walls of the boller house fell in, The cause of the ex- plasion 1s unknown, Mr. Penrose was a prominent citizen. He WAS a part owner of the compress and was a member of the school board, I — STAGE ROBBERS GET $6,000 Masked Mexicans Kill the Driver of an Arizona Coach. The stage runnlog from Dishes to Naoae sari, Sonora, was held up, halfway bstwoeen the two points, In Mexico, by five masked Moxioans. ‘They killed the driver and secured $6,000, ns EL GANAL FETE Hamburg Full of Kings, Princes and Grand Dukes. OUR WARSHIPS THERE. Formal Openingofthe Canala Great Success—~Enormous Crowd Gath ering to View the Cere~ monies, with a total displacement of 21,747 tons, 7! officers and 1470 men ; France by three ves sols wit 18,80) tons displacement, G6) officers and 1497 men ; Hussis by thre» vessels, with 20 R72 tons, 70 officers and 1395 men; Austria Hungary by four vessels with « total displacement of 12,804 tons, 52 and 1212 men; Scandinavia by five with b5 of- ficers, 675 men and 5504 tons; Bpain by three with 56 officers, 12 and 10366 tons: Denmark, by six, with 32 officers, 137) men and 2060 tons; Holland, ty two with 25 offi- cers, 413 mon and 4775 tons; by officers aud 420 650 with all officers 13 Ié men Roumania men and corveliee in Of ths of §420,00), £231,500, was used in prepars- grant more There bas teen an enormous influx of | visitors to Hamburg to view the ceremonios es incident npon the opening of North Fea canal at and spec'ac the Bltie many, Ace 3 Depart. ment at Washington, the American men-of Kle!, Ger rd ng to orders by the Navy war at Kiel will be illuminated by e ectriclty every night during their stay at that port, It 1s intended that the crui er New York shall i with 2,000 {the rexalning be provide incandescent lights, and each o three :hips of Ad- sbout 1,50) les the usual power ul search lights, The ndescent lights will le arranged accord- o Lrilli ant designs, each vessel carrying around miral Kuklaond's fleet will have in ing t the pliot house an immerse hisd and The AR [make DA and is-siays, and up 4 own aod arout gs nokealakes UCulted States met-ol-war Ww slaboraie displays of Lreworks duriog the nrogross of the fete [rogroes the fotes The rosal reception rocing which Empe William will re. saive ihe German nat and fl ted « jecorated siate rooms io the ler, The watarway op* bas besa navigable jor | vyesels for Over a hundred years, In i pleted the Eld»r Canal, which | way betwees Kiel Bay and there was ccm rsa walters | Baltic, Mann of wo k foliowed a langth being 108 miles only seven fee’ so tha ern Davy was nothing 6 1840 the:alore the ing, in transportation to anp fro of the guests pro- In large and of the material and visions needed for tneir entertaioment, hiring small crafts and chartering steamers for the conveyance of the BJO guests The bal to defray of the Emperor and thelr suite, poe, some $200,000 will bo use i the cost of hospitality to be extended to the officers of the foreign squadrons, inciulding a grand bali for the officers and a dinner for the crews, Among the more important war ve sels i Crise flagship of Rear Adm here are the armors: rs San Francisco ral Kirkland, ( bia, New York an Marblehead, from g i United States; the battiesh iI, \ussian P ander flagshi and armored orpedo boats, ‘ be presence « { 80 sarge a n the barbor ex ra pre Oo, a new sigaal = ation the bu tional Dat Ing virid «iy the gramme of {estivi corem piace in the open air at Holtenau where the Emjperor perforn the ceremony on Friday has Deen embellish ed by bands ome designs io landscape gar. iening and the lighthouse in close proximity ree brouzs reliefs of Em OVER TREE CANAL AT GRURNXEXTEAL, II. Beneath tue relie! medallion of the old or. nament«l, on which is engraved in giit let. William I, laid the Baltic Canalon June ters “His Maj=s'y, Experor ! blows with retmans yadertook the present magnificent rork, with its depth of 50 feet and its bread! of over 210 feet, with enthusiasm, NAVAL OFTICERS INTRODUCED, At 8 o'clock the war vessels of the fourteen ations represented hoisted their flags to | he strains of the anthems of their respective sountries, The official introduction of the | lorelgn admirals and commandars to the port | saptain and mi itary commandant of Kiel seeurre dl on board the Mars and concluded with the official interchange of visita The Mars hoisted the flag of Admiral Knorr and the latter subsequently, accompanied by the commanders of the foreign squadrons and nany officers of various nations, started for Hamburg ia order to meet the Emperor, At Holtenau there was a scens feverish ae Hivty throughout the morning as the work- men put the flashing touches upon the decorations at tho end of the casal, The splendor of the preparations Is the object of universal admiration, The Imperial tent richly decorated and stands an object of great interest to the right of the lighthouse, oppos- ite which lies the last stone of the canal, which was put in piace by the Emperor. In this tent his M-jesty entertained the invited guests and made a speech. THE REFREAENTATIVE suirs, Germany has about fifty large and small vessels of the imperial navy at the opening exercises, while the other nations are repre. sented about as follows Great Dritain by ten vessels with a total d oat of 78,660 tons, 171 oMeers and 4200 men ; Italy u nine vessels, with a total dis ent of 38,017 tone, 180 officers and ber permanent welfare, in token of her might The lighthouse and the block of masonry stone are surrounded by enormous scaffold. fogs, afford ng seating room for about 15.- the banquet took place and the bay where the international naval demonstration came off can be seen, THE GREAT BANQUET. The grand banquet at which 10 0 guests participated, including the diplomatic rep. resentatives of the various natogs, was given in a structure ol original design, the iatter being based on an idea of the Em. peror himsell, The structure is a fac-simile of a huge vessel of ancient construction as n vogue in the seventeenth century, At the banque: Emperor William toasted the United States Navy and the band played “Hail Columbia.” The French Admiral, hand ;and the Russian Admiral, Bkrydioft will be seated on his left. Home 300 yachts and other private pleasure and passenger o:a't wers assigned positions in Kel harbor anl immediate vicinity, To enable the Hamburg: Berlin Railway to bring the thou. anda of visitors from every part of Germany to the soens ol the dedication, all freight traffo was ordered suspended on that line during the three days from June 18 to 22. The newspapers of the world are represented but of the 250 who ex a desire to participate, but 150 could be accommodated wv the Government. At the Im Ban. quet but fifteen representatives of the fir. men; the United States by four vesselng | capt pros wll bo admitted, STORM IN KANSAS Twenty Dwellings Destroed and Many Persons Hurt, BIG STORM IN NEBRASKA | Startling Spectacle Seen from a Rallroad Train ness the Passengers Wit- Formation and De~ scent of the Clouds. A special to the Kansas Times fre ford, Kan, sess: Aboutbocock P. M., » this place, m Hart tornado struck coming from the swosping everything in it southwest, and which id th width, was # path, clean cut and about 10) fes: in tov. eral per-ons were injured so badly that they are not expected to live far as No one, 80 known, was kilied outright, Twelve hous & were destroyed, as well as many barns and outhouses, Among the bouses destroyed were those of Judge ( ombe, Mrs. Rawsons, Cla‘e ley, J. A. Th frey Schwarle msoen TT ’ rf $e 3 * sho rool of Charles ymicy's house was ited off as cleanly : » had beep utiinished, The re- racture was unbarmed, put up and the mainder of Many other houses were m The total | ire or less dam. aged, Oss if estimated at #20 000, FAN EYE WITNESS traveling from on the incoming Mis. Hart. train salesman I was Texas ! raio due at vu as the was stopping ng ioticed tothe south. west a p cullarly shag the passenger 6 Ariy ike a bali ng. Its joc iiiar ur alteniion, 0 slre turn dar WESTERN ARID LANDS. Millions and Millions of Acres to Be Re claimed for Beitiers aores Are mes ead Congress the general 8S ate in Millions and 1 be added to res k the Wast, The last viding that fo areas of aw rad government shall 4d which there are ar d enacted a nate 'o sach {llion mores of such land: on con rec ame. ation is done by the Sis Already Idaho plied with ali th have taken steps towards secur ng a millic Liege. and E, have bave com- ties of the law, and i) in their borders acres of lands wit! tenan:-Governor of Idaho, Meads, of Wyoming, toth been appointed by enginesrs, weir respective States to Toeilr mission promises to be very successiul for eomplete the fnal arrangements they are rece. ving from Land Commissioner Lamoreux the most cordial co-operation “The steps which are now being taken to transform an itimenss section of arid coun- try into fertile and frui:fal Sel is,” said the commissioner, “wil, without doubt, Le lar, reaching In their effects, Up to the presant t.me the arid sect ons of the West have been iylng barren because the goverament eouid sot be indeoad to eater upon wholesale irri. gation, and private corporations found the task both gigantic and, ia a certain sense, unprofitable “Under the new law, however, the State Is to sell the lands in sections of not over 160 acres tO any one person {or such price as oan be obtained. The government retains possession for five years, and if at the end of that time the reclamation appears to be per- manent, the title to the and passes 10 the State and theooe to a seitier, This means homes aad farms for a “wuititade of people, Millions and million ol acres will in course of time be reciaimed under these now condi- tions. The work may not aad doubtiess will not be finished iz your day or mine, but it bas begun aod that means everything.” COLIMA SURVIVORS. ihroe Members of the Steamers Crew Return. ing from Mexico. The steamer City of Bydaey, eilio, is carrying to San Francisco, three of the survivors of the lcs: Colima. Their names ars John Rezinous, J. Jokeman, Santa Maria-—all of the crew, They boarded the Sydaey at Manzanillo, They are members of the party who got ashore in Il'eboat number §, and wero alter. ward found by the steamer Maneatian, The survivors found by the Barracouta to have gone South, Chilberg has gone to Guate. mala, Bryan, to New York, and five at Man. wanilio have loft for thelr respective des ina. tions, The latest reports from Mansaniila say that ninety miles south of Manzanillo, twe women avd one man, survivors of (he Cole fms, are liviag on a ranch, from Man PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. Epitcme of News Gleaned From Various Parts . of the Bate Officer James Callaban, at Columbia, was shot Ly a tramp in trylag to make an arrest, bitten on Henry Blitd. g, 7 yes old, was the head by a suake at Shamokin, Demeritt were of ciay and ai Eckley. 4 BECOLG BiMsNOUSe Adam laweky nad Peter killed by the lniling of 4 mass roe in Kng's Biripping miue Jobin Liscoln, sald to be a cousin to Avraham Liscoin, died in the at Reading, By a fall of rock two Hungarians were Hazleton 1oelr Lovelawsky and Peter abor- k lied at King's Btripplug, 0ines Adam are Domard, The men were ew ployed ns ers aud were engaged in 8 spacs where ex- amount opeaing, cavations pad been made, and s believed was weakened by 6 Diast A large overtu .g i1ae cay » buried bencalll Loos IA Wsky Was taken oul ue AmUUIALNCEe Was be Bospitsel Dut Pardons again postponed yn of the Hugh F. convicted Homestead labor case of , aged 30 years, was mur. Tae er was George 5 jurgiars oA office blew at Beaver , Was prob. COOKIE LTeak- fire OAD TAD t fanned burned ters tore the pdraugh acd burniog clothes irom her body and was badly secreh about the hands and Mra Pe a critical condition. arm re Was lu overnor Haslings gave a number of hear. Jelegations ia the interest of various or a seat on the sew Supe ior and measures awaiting his roceedings $2 in foreciosure of a mat at age 13,000 were satered Allentown By runving a switeh engine oan the main of the Central Raliroad of New Jersey, Wilkes-Barre a rucaway oar was The eng.ne was deralied. A number ol wage conferences have been Dear While fighting the fire in Hazle Mine's en.aged in reopeniog a hole above the tim. bers in an effort to reach the seat of the fire, The timbers suddenly gave way and the top came down on the miners. A huge mass of stuff covered Condy, smothering him to death, John McGovern, 40 years of age, a railroad committed uicide by shooling himsell through the brain. Fioancial troubie Is given as the cause of the de d. He left four letters, one sddressed to his wilow, one to the firm of which be was a member, and two others, the pddresses of which the Coroner will not give, Ex-Congressmen Lemuel Amerman and John T. Richards, ol Borantos, and ex Attorney General HL W. Padmer, of Wilkes Barre, have gone tu Winchester, Va., to are range for pilaciog a monam-nt over the grave of ex-Jadge Joba Haodley, of Scranton, who is buried in Winchester, ——— HE BLED TO DEATH. A Gun in the Hands of a School Boy Explodes With Fatal Effcet. James Kospp and Watkin Quick, two school boys, wett hunting near Livesays' Mills, Charleston, W, Va, They holel a ground hog and while trying to get him out the gun was accidently dise charged, the load taking effect in Koapp's abdomen, severing an artery and causing him to bleed to death in hall an hour,
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