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.
¥
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SHOCKED A CONGREGATION.
EGGRState AR i
North Caroling. .coveise 1)
LIVE POULTRY.
CHICKENS «Hens
Ducks, per ®...ovoine
TOBACCO.
TOBACCO-MA,
Sound com
Middling
Fan®y cesses
infer's.§
LIVE STOCK.
BEEF Best Beeves......8
od to Fair.
Hogs
MUSKRAT
laccoon
Red Fox .
Skunk Black....
LINOESUTE ccna w ovis
Mink
Utior.veie
we
11811
FLOUR-Southern.......§
WHEAT-No. 2 Red. cooven
RYE-—Western.... eu
CORN-=No, 8. ce commision
BUTTER State. co vuminn
BOGRBtato ws sain
CHEEBE-~SUate. uw
A ——
PRILADELPILAL
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FLOURSouthern.,.. 3 a0
WHEAT-—No. 2 Red..... 74
CORN-No. B.viviniivie 82
OATSN, Sesser ARRAN
BUTTER—State.. cuuvsue
EGUGS—Yenus, Buvinnas
@ $400