THE NEWS, N. B. Montserrat has Minted oeiver of the Columbus, Bandusky and Hock beea apg re. ing Rallroad, vice J, a week ago. practical railroad man outside of the fs which led to a receivership, son, proprietor of the White in Springfield, IIL, fatally shot H. Stewart, appointed The change is made to get a ~{keorge Law his wile and then himself, Lawson was drunk. 10 the Kitchen, where his wife was p a meal, He kissed her, and then » body, — ored, was hangel in the M« { Loui iast suminer, —— Jame through th Thomas murde; killed John Case, alias MeDowell, wera near Canyounvilie Ore, They are su of being the parties who held the Oregon express in Co Doth men Mary Morgan, aged tw Maggie Lafferty, aged Philadel ’ Pennsylvania Rallroad a she Holmesturg Junction, are supposed to have heen The bo nty-one convicts and v me years, of yoars, twenty were found on the tracks ofthe rtdistance abo: a suburb, The girls run down by a train, ——At Loul ville, Ala. lightning ki'led Postma -ter Edward Bryan, wile and baby, One boy survives, The village of Reddick, near Dwight, I'L; was nearly wiped out by fire.——A sheep's leg was substituted for a di-eased bose ia a boy's leg. ‘Ihe operation was performed ia Wa! ash i crusiea a Philadelphia hospital, —— On ths road, near N ; into a s'esper ar men, —John H the notoric JO train. in Texas, - mill and minster -B Northyv £370,000, oma Land $1,000,000 of which to purchase frot in for shipping, man: purposes the most im tide flats, —L. D, McLissick, ssl for the government to recov from the Stanford estate, says the case will at once be appeaed to the Uaitel Court, il necessary, Heo says the litigation will not affect Stanford University, no ter what the outcomes may be, — George RH. Culp, the thirteen. year-old son of a Metho- dist clergyman at Bittle Creek, Mich., was found by a policeman in North Buffalo. The boy ate as if he had ben days without fosd, He had fallen in with tramps who had robbed him,—<liho house of Trotter Holl r mil bends Btalos mat- ley, Cal., was burned, and Holliday and his niece perished In the flames, ~The Kaks Indians, of Alaska, who massacred seve:al whites during an outbreak in 1803, are again on the warpath, The duo to the killing of one of their bucks by a Wrangel Island Indian, who also killed hia wife because she eloped with the Kake Indians, trouble is icc oy. foci A FAMILY DESTROYED. The Widow of a Suicide Poisons Hor Children and Herself When the sister of Mra. Benson Bennett visite 1 the latter's honse at Jeflersoaviile, Ind,, she discovered a horrible sight, Mra Bennett and her two children, Homer, six years old, and Lotta, aged twelve, lay upon the bed, The children were dead and the mother lay in the agony of a deadly poison, Physicians were called, but Mrs. Bennett was beyond help, Hbhe had poisoned the children, who had been dead for several hours, and after watching them die, had taken poison herself, She is the widow of Beason Bennett, who defaulted as treasurer of Clark Lodge, Brotherhood of Firemen, and who commits tod suicide some time ago. Mrs, Bennett had left a nots sticking under the door di- resting that her sister, Mrs, Ganate, and the coroner be notified. THE DEFICIT. Excess of Expenditures Receipts $13,260,000. An Array of Figures fromthe Treas- ury Department-Total Recelp:s Were $313,000,000-Expans= ses $356,.250,000 Rev~- enue~Lutter Service, Just issued to be appro This added to last $70, 0 year MAKES the ex ripts since June 30, 1803 The total rece pts ol ment this fiscal year, exclusive revenues, amount to nearly § the expenditures §3 sions took $:41,801.623. Last p 1 gregate re ts exclusive of is thi i through nc ie of performing promotiag younger men to the vieanci thus created, Measures have also been stituted and are in course ing to new appointments to agala fill complement of officers on the active list, ts nt —— FIREPROOF WOOD. $ ui execution lo The Naval Construction Bureau Discovers a Composition to Prevent Combustion. running Navy of expae:imen’s Boston As the result through three months at the Yard, conducted by Naval Constructor Hans. has at rendering of. war Bureau inst means of som, the Construction suceseded in finding a the woodwork of the Interior of men. fire proof. Tue sap of the wood is extractedfin vacum in large iron tanks, and the pores of the wood are then filled under heavy pressure by a chemical composition of borax, boracie acid and mariate and salphate of ammonia, Thus tron‘ed the wood may be sul jsct to flames without taking fire, The color and tex ure of the wood fs unaltersd and none of the de- sirable qualities Is impaired, The same process may be used to fireproof , such as spare salls, hammocks, ropes and all the material going into A ship of war, The Construction Bureau thinks so woii of ths process that it has recommended that the department adops it and fit out all of the new ships with woodwork 20 treated in. stoad of abandoning woodwork in flavor of compositions of cork aud other sulstances, The Ion, Emily Jans Mercer, dowagor Marchioness of Lansdowne and mother of the present Marquis o! Lansdowns, who was lormerly governor-general of Canada, and ate governor-goneral of India, is dead in Eogland, aged seventy aix years, cloth fabrics M. Palenotre, the French ambasiador to It is thought in 8! thatwar b anghal } Laptain-General Campos has aske the offen~ ops belore taking uban fasurgents, vrkiand a rd 1 il peror t embankm Brunson, Parker and : Cl bruised and socal PRICE LYNCHED. 204, The Marderer of Sallie Dean Hanged at Denton. Mar:hall EE. Price, the eindemned mur. derer of Sallie Dan, was taken from the jl at Denton, Md., by a number of masked men and hanged to a tree, At 10 o'clock a had ga herad, a fow at a time, mber ol! pe sons in o the towa Arge n num was to be a nnd then it was known there iynchiog. Prios was told of their and sald to on goad “For me out. I will hide, presance God's sake ie! I will not run away.” But every avenu» and the ofl escape was guarded, herill bad been notified not to take Prios away, The mob bad no ail, whera they found the erouching ar terrifled muan, H+ was quickly foreed cut of the bu lding, and a short distance from the jail stan ls whieh he was banged, This termination was not unexpected. After a fair and impartial trial had been ace corded Price, and after he had been oon. vieled of a foul and trutual murder upon testimony which was deemed conclusive, the poopie of Caroline county thought the law should take its course, Whoen the lawyers from Buitimore came down and asked for a now trial and then after that motion was overruled by the court and the appeal was taken murmutiogs were heard and come pisints of the law's delays wers made Ly people all over the county. Tals feeling was intensified this morning when the reprieve granted by the Governor arrived. Many misunderstood the na‘ure and meaning of a reprieve, They thought that it was ia effect diffieulty in entering the tree to punishment which would result floaily in the galiows being cheated and ths escapes of the murderer, Then there was talk of the removal of the prisoner to Baltimore and then the ol max was reached, WORK AND WORKERS. The Greylock Manufacturing Comn North Adams, Mass. , gave es of 10 per 12 weavers of the milton | Mnss, , Iron and luntarily will Ihe s Daranac rike in the Nat Mills, WAS prac turned to 3 t advances iu the wags sat mes PREPARING FOR we — WAR. Bp Wa send ¢.LY Has Ma yw «A DROWNED IN LAKE MICHIGAN Suicide of ex.-Lieutenan: Governor Sherwood Minneiota urt, Chicago, It was of suicide, Mr, Stie wo o have a surgi operation per Hal . ctoria ‘ast Mach He wa Crossing. f under the care of DD, He left the Vi I, where he bad been staying, ound ia the rimmed, yf Grand Hote and hal au hour Iat:r his DOJy Was waler, Twenty years ago Mr. Sherwood was one | « f the most prominent poilticians 1a Minne. He came west from New Midlord, C1, hls birthplace, in 1856, aud vole, se tie l at Rash. He was a doctor by prof Lat oned that calling inter and took up the practics of law. As a awseor, Mr, Sherwood was one of tue most Mr life, and his rise orl, Mina, s+ion, 30 aban a few yoars in Minue.oia Sherwood ens Fuccossiu ered poidides ear y in WAS instantaneous, Alter serving 4s a CONGress- | man from the Rushiord distriot he was twice prosi- siected governor of Minnesota. As | the abiest parliamentarian of his time, Some ten or filteen years ago Mr Bher- wood went 10 Tennessee, where a town was named for him. His widow and two chil. dren live there now, He was president of a lL. me quarty near Sherwood, and owned large tracts in that vicinity, Mr. Sbeiwood became General Al. or, of Michigan, ia land specu. ation several years ago, and together they at one time owned large holdings Ia Ten. pssoo and Minnesota, It is said that Mr Sherwood acted as counsel for General Alger for several years, A coroner's jury gave a verdict ol drown. ing, but whether Mr, Sherwood commitied suleide or was drowned by accident the jury was unable to say. 5. w—— interested with The Mexican Central Ralirond Company fas decided to build a short line connecting the City of Mexico with * Tampico, It will reduce the time between the two cities by ten hours, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. of tue Stata The Carnegie Bleed flied an answer 1 sompany a leging ents, deny Iwo youn Booth a be 4 ad i Ars Road a train al phia & by three and rot mingo Stadl ing Railroad, They were be was nls 5 man held ug ¢ beat him into iusen«ildiity an watch a .d mony and leaped Uo and escaped, EX-PRESIDENT PEIXO0TO DEAD. He Raled Brazil Daring the Great Rebellion. Naval Ex-Presidest Peixoto, who hal been in fll heaith for several months past, is dead, » Marshal Fiorlano Paixoto, ex- President o! the republic of the Uaited State: of Brazil was the so o! Lien Araujo Peixoto, Col. Hanoel Vierra de He was bora on April 80, distinguished for the suppression of the revolution which broke ou: in Brazil ia the summer: of 1883. Soon al.er the return of Admiral de Melio and Admiral da Gama irom the naval review at Now York fn 1503 th» naval ores broke away from the rule Sul, succesded in organizing a rebeilion formidable in its aspects, desuitory fighting has been kept up oa both sides ever singe, though the death of Da Gama a few days ago will probably end the revolt, BE ——————————— Owing to the rejection of the land and in. cotas taxes assessment bill the Parliamest of New Howth Wales will be dissolved, EOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Ld pe 4 A roard. ¥ —— SHOCKED A CONGREGATION. 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