THE NEWS, ———— Actions were begun in Tacoma, Wash, against tho former officials of the National Bank of Commerce, accusing them of incom. petency.—— Reports reached San Francisco of a terrible storm in Japan, in which lives were lost and property thirteth annual reunion of the Drotherhool of Locomotive Engineers was opened al Pittsburg.—-Jacob Wiihelm, in Lower Wind- sor townsbip, York county, Pa, was killed by falling headforemost into a threshing ma- chine, ——Mrs, Callie Harrell and her two daughters perished in their burning dwelling in Memphis, Tenn, ——FProf. Wm, T, Currel was elected to fill the chair of modern lan- guages, at Washington and Lee University. —John Johnson, eolored, was hanged a! Mount Sterling, Ky., for killing Po.dcemar Charles Evans, June 15. Johnson's neck was aot broken, and he did not die for twenty. five minutes after the trap was sprung. Nearly 10,000 people witnessed the banging. — Indian Agent Teter reported that the In. dians threaten to leave the reservation fora hunting expedition to Jackson's Hole, — George Cheseboro, who Killed his grand. mother in Graod Haven, Mich,, was con. victed of murder in the frst degree destroyed, ~The granted a temporary writ of in the case of Taylor, and it has been served on tha sherifl, It is returnable in three days, when will be argued.——The Augusta News bas suspeaded publication. ployes entered ¢ alms for wages due, and the sheriff! levied upon plant, Proprietor Gow sald the embarrassment Is only tem porary, —— The Soutbern Lumber Manulac turers’ Association concluded their session in Memph s, alter adopting the | presented Ly the various price list, based on a twenty-two cent freight rate, was adopted, to take efl-0 1. The prices of all standard lumber were advanced, ——The announcement was that the Hopkinton Saviags Bank, of Yalley, R 1, had suspecded pay: principally to the depreciation of the North- the Jitteos, ¢ Feptember 1 i made Hope ties and the withdrawal of deposits fo vestment in Fiorlda securities, bound freight train broke in two a mile from Pom!ret Station, CL together af er the break, wrecking seveantesan cars, Brakeman Beason was slightly Jured, and three tramps kilied, office at North Brookfleld, Mass, , was robbed of £1,000 worth of stamp», caped. Thesafs was b.own open and wrecked almost beyond repalr, while were scatterad all over the office. J. 8 Pacifle iG- in- The thieves es- the contents at Judge, a freight age for the Uanlon Raliroad in Sacramento, Cal, bung Irving M. Scott, of San , president of the Union Iron Works, which turned out the Olympia and American cruisers, will scon go to Japan to bid on the contracts for bullding Japanese navy. Harvey Merritt, pardoned out of the Georgia penitentiary has entered sul the company lor :nhuman treatment while a convict, —Qeorge Giass abot and killed an unknown colored burglar The American Looking Glass Manufac, turing Company atl eigunmeat. Assels, gcheduled. C H. "rancisco other crack recently t for heavy damages agaiust near Pittsburg. Chicago, made an as- £06,000 ; liabilities Beyer, president, als wounded by bis Wiillam Haas, Chicago, —At Grove, a mining town near FP Patrick and Dennis Morgan, brothers, qaar- roiled while intoxicated, and attacked each other with penknivea, Talrick and Deanis Is dying. Both fright fully cut and slashed. At Baker City, Ore., fire destroy Ore on Railway and Navigation Cox freight and passenger depot, a large house and nice loaded {relght cars, large wool and freight warehouse of 8 and Iatally in Willow od the ipany’s Ware iba A. contents. Loss, $140,000, James Gonigle shot his father, while a!misag at an- other man, In North Yakima, Wash, He then /ataily wounded the father of a girl he bad slandered, —— Three men, with n trained bear, relused to Farmer Med place, at Summitville, N YY. The thereupon shot two of them, — Jennis Lewis a domestic, was shot and killed in Oakland, Cal, by a rejected lover. ——Jesse G. Jones, lumberman, of Minneapolis, Minn., bas been forced to assign, His Habilities are $150,000, and bis estimated assets, $238,000, His com- mercial obligations are estimated at about $20,000. The Northern Trust Company Is the assignee, The convention of the Amer. ican Library Association was bezun in Den- ver, ——Mrs. Luther Lowe, of Kansas City, was attacked by a tramp. ——The Bank of Shelby, in Tennessee, suspended, ——Judge O'Neill, In Cinelnoati, decided that the Com- mercial Bank, of that city, was insolvent long before it suspended, and that the ofMelals violated the law, Samuel Vinson and his son Charles, who had killed two men, were taken from the sounty jail in Ellensburg, Wash. and hanged. mee A gtage was held up near Roseburg, Ore, aad robbed by a lose highwayman, ——T.ue boiler of a threshing machine exploded in Morgantown, W, Va., killing thres men and injuring three others, ——DBy the explosion of a large boller in tho paper mill and postal ecard manufactory of Woolworth & Co, at Castleton, near Albany, N. YX, one man, James Lawton, the watchman, was killed, and another, the engineer, was so badly in- jired that he will die, ——Ex-Stale Treasurer W. W. Taylor, of South Dakato, who de- faulted last January, has been sent to the penitentiary for five years, —— The ocean tug Shaw, owned by Smith & McVey, of Philadel phia, was destroyed by fire while lylog at her dock in the Dslaware River, The fire originated in the engine room, Ten thous and dollars will cover the loss, ~The entire business part of the village of Pikeville in Tennesses, was destroyed by fire, Lose, $83,000, — Ex-Mayor Van Horn, of Denves was killed in that eity by falling from a wine dow. ——A horrible accident oeourred in the home of Mrs, Alexander Teachant, who, to save her home from des ruction, seized the stove and threw it out of the door, She was immediately wrapped in flames, and her clothes, saturated with ofl, were totally de- stroyod, The woman's flesh was burned to a fa Mo- eave mb's farmer 15,000 DEAD What Disease and Battle are Doing for Cuba, The Insurgents are Victorious every Engagement-—-Record of the Killed Kept Secret. The Ward Line steamers Seneca arrived from Havana to New York with the latest re- liable news of the Cuban insurrection. Among the fifty-one pastcngers was a native of the 1sland, who raid that the losurrection is more widespread ihan the people of Hav. ana or the whole country know or believe, “Captain Gea. Martinez Campos,” sald the passenger, is Ina sad plight and cannot last long. He was caught in avery bad trap at Bayamo, and but for the haste of Maceo, the Cuban leader, who was most impulsive and precipitated the attack, Campos would have been eaptured then nod there, The in~ and within the last four months the bpan- ards have lost {ully 15,000 men {com disease, debauchery and battle, Tire greale.t care Is taken, however, to keep secret of the killed and wounded the greatest publicity is given to any and all the record in battle, while matters that show a loss to the revoiutionis's, The Spanish authorities admit the loss ol 10,000 men since April “The day before the Seneca sailed, Geon- ral Campos demanded the transfer of 130 men each from the volunteer organlzatio to the regular army, and the greate.t in 1ig- nation The was obdurate, however, and the order stands acd as manifested, Geaeral must be obeyed, “More thaa 3),000 insu wit be fa fleld They make their camp ln the mo fort sirike a UW dom and return to the cover of thar rendez ling on their to disconcert the enemy. rgenls are kn the overrunuiog the o JUnLrY. uotains aad “he sal.y yw for Calan fie voas, depen rapid Dut the for plans relating to the {u ure insurg alded by some 8000 sympathizers who resides io and about Havana, would tingo or some other important ¢.t Nat Salle capture y and posi- {ive action and continu wd wariare would follow, i be secured with the a protectorals, “It independence coul ment of estabilsh say uid the United tales or ernment, soitied, Cuba, however, are negroes, an ence at this time under any oib would mean negro government, 4 tr abail Jeslie it shail mn genis waa home ruie and granted by the Spasish present guerrilia he vernmeat, The Ce warfare, th is refore, must ontinue until me rales procialme tome allied is granted. Toe white peog island bope for concessions on this line Spain, in preference (0 a repu by tiacks, without which it wou tu sex u ire the relief! desired {ic n of independence. — DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES, Forty or more bulldings in Halifax, Nova Beotia, were burned, loss £100,000, Jobn Strand, Jr, and Arthur Hemmin way were drowned by the capsizing of yacht in Jamalea Bay, Loag Island. Elwocd Timothy Niagara rive Tleir bodies z. ® n F. Butler and were drowned in the Ed Gap, Va, y started the burned, three small Five yousg children, the offspring of Hix, and his wile, of Big ne were burned to death, Hix, whe fire while drunk, was also fatally Mra. Annie Behafflo and ber daaghters were [rightfully burned in more by the eylosion of a gasoline stove, Two of the children will die of their injuries, Frank Briggs died at Parkiil, New Ylrk, from eating toadstools, whicg were mistaken for mushrooms, Justice Willlam B Slocum ate them at the same time and died on Fri- day. Thomas Moberly, of Richmond, Kentucky, was drowaed at Virginia Beach while en- daughter, who went beyond her depth while bathing. The young indy was saved, A Baltimore and Oulo freight train jumped the track at Finlayville, Oblo, and gine, which turned over, killed Eagioeer William Funk, of Pittsburg, and seriously in” ju ed the fireman, : The Red “D" arrived at New York from Curaeca, brought five distressed seamen ameng her passen, gers. They were the crew of the Norwegiag brig Hebe, which stranded on Little Curacoa on July 13 during a heavy gale of wind. John H. Mitler was instantly kllied at Dun- cansviile, Pa,, by lightning: his mother was intally Injured and two other members of the family received severe shocks, They had sought shelter from the storm under a tree, which was shattered by a boit, Wilkerson Keith, aged 28 years, and bi¢ sister Annie, aged 10, were killed by a train on the Chicago and Allon Railroad, near Louisiana, Missourl, Keith, who was feeble minded, was walking on the track, and hig sistor, seeing the approaching train, ran to his assistance, with the above result, POSTOFFICE ROBBERS CAUGHT. Sto Bait Two Youthful Experts Rounded Up in West Virginia. Two of the slickest catches ever made by Ualted States officers are now ULehind the bars in Huntington, W,Va., and were landed by Deputies Boyd Vinson and “Doo” Smith, They gave thelr names as Albert Fisher and Oscar Dawson, and though youngsters in looks are oid hands at postoffice robbery: They are from the East. but the looting of at lenst 8 x postofioes in this State is credited to them. The deputies arrested them In Tazewell county, Va. The two men are being closely guarded, aad although they refuse to talk, it is believed that the arrest | | CABLE SPARKS. Frederick Enzels, bead of the international Panama that work on th® be resumed It is expected at is to Reports from Cuba sta’e that yellow fever he Spanish soldiers to Reliable advices received at Key West from effect that the insergents raliroad vridges near Banetl Spiritus, Mr. Justin MeCarthy has issued an appeal urgiog in thelr rauks, which, he says, have brought disaster to their pause, Toe High Court of Foresters, in England, for permis- nited ¥ ual in the I order Wa # on to use the elaborate ri gucorss of the i i i Mr. Glad tone was greeted with tumulituon hb h meot. de- sald oers at Chester when he spoke at a tng of the Armenian As oclation, He that Great Britain m ercion, u-t not fear to apply co- The judielal committe of the British privy argumen th after hearing the tion whether the pronibition ' ton ! Oi traffic belongs to the ion or the pro- vinelal authority in Canada, bas reserved its j dgment on the subject, The posill { Eur districts of China is reported to n | ypeans in the disturbed owiog to the } Native off} province of Fu rebel.lon, at Europeans bave asked lor the protec Run be vostioat! als, The Driti-h are to make an ILAasEAC lem wiil ders, The volu Rhode Island W ac aud Man Farwell M lis at Central y recent Rroat sirike, ibe advance SHOT FIVE CHILDREN. John Smith Resisted Sheriff and Mi Arrest Jobn Smith and Smith, attempted to bis brother preven at A i at from evicting the latter lowa City, charged a shotgun The cflicet’s bead was se near w T i 4 : The nia p Leossie ( old ; Eisle Capp, sged 15; Erries Yager, age Yager, aged 11 All were more or less serious] feared Errick Yager and Eile Cuj live. Deaplie vicleatthreats ol | by the earaged pe pie of th shen and his deputy br town aad placed them In jall aged 12 £3 - ‘ io, § - ught JAPAN'S GREAT STORM. Railway Traiz Blown from the Track and 130 Reported Killed and Injured. Jajacese advices to July 28 received by the areto the effect that a storm of extraordinary saverity visited South Japan on July 25, caus. immense value, A raliway train bringing hospital treatment was overthrown and force of the tempest was such that cars together with the engine were blown from the causeway into the inland It 1s stated that 130 passengers were killed A PROMISING OUTLOOK. Sin An Iron Expert Ouilinss the Business Prospects. Thore are few men in the coun'ry better posted on iron and kiodred matters than Col Iu close touch with the indus. ry, his views on business prospects ars of guusual value, “The day that Congress adjourned marks About hal until Congress adjourned, feariog it would that these frst may prove to Le etaggerated, A corps of surgeons was dispatobed from Hiroshima to the scene bythe Emperor's order and 500 men were sent Ly express to reileve tho Immediate wants of sufferers, INDIANS INSUBORDINATE. Declare They Will Hunt in Jackson Hole to Avert Brarvation, Certain Indians say that they will go to Jackson's Hole for the purpose of hunting A: 800n as the haying season 8 over; that they will starve during the coming winter if they do not kill game at this season for Win ter subsistence, and that they have a right to hunt in Jackson's Hole, In the opinion of agency attaches at Fort Hall it Is absolutely necessary to keep the Indians on the reservation, even if they are justified in going to Jackson's Hole, as they are talking about taking revenge upon the sottiers and will go prepared for that pur pose. Asa solution of the matter it Is sug- gested that the contract for the big diteh on the reservation be entered into as soon ab possible. This would give the indians em- ployment and an opportunity to earn money with which to provide for themselves through the Winter, | it would do something. The next day every- for the be done, This threw east nothing beipful would be dons, the country upon I's own resources and syerybody went to work. The re wins that by the first day of April evi. dences ol returning prosperity sult marked visible now retrospective were Four months have in every direction, and when we view of the 1 passed, take isiness revivals and Improve. have taken place d ents tb fod have gone so high; not that there bave besa to uring that per. it secs very wonderiu not that prices Rlural causes produce Lhe revival, but the fuct that in ines there Bas boon a ss eady, gradual rovement, The movement! starting did four months ago, has grown in momentum touched and increase | has practical hamlet in America is the Dest evic every The fact that it is niversal s of its stabilit and {ts certainly to co we have passed the Less, Lope that ¥ ‘The is that we wed & s gant. e Al rag i gent Tha ners g Way t i vill y particular line of { SOUTHERN INDUSTRY. mproved Cotton Ginnisg System. The Manulaet: the past week b jro:s’ Hes As bean aa uny and busy one In B ction enterprises have ore Loan southern industrial affairs pushed i} been with usual vigor. A company has been auiced with a capital stock of #1. interested 0 , 000 nong the colt for the weer were a §500,000 Hd at Newport ompany at Memg mpany being a $50.000 Hat Haw River: a §3 00 News, Va. a Tenn organized miil at Greer, N ais, at =. Lo 8 IAarge m mii near Pine Blofl, N. ( mpany at Monro a : 18e 2ame Blale; while two $75.0 iin Richmond County, of extensis improve al , Wii add abe new new mi @ Among t innecus enterprises reported tar th or the week w.re tt ent of ir «8 cLATReIN Aina; gpoid } bushel grain piant at ib mpany at pipe works at Gadsden, perations at Hefl n at Mobile 5 « B Iar wining eevalor (20m joe ” 0J brick Day- als E® phos eclevatl sciric power at ire works at High ‘amp ver company at Whit prant at Oca's; a $500 pany at Dahl a raliroad ; £185,000 water works at J ton, Ky. ; a $10,000 trunk vide, In Loulsiasa a §57 0 negs, Ga, organ zed zabeth inciory at Lou ) hardware com- A $150,- — mpany in § * pany and a $100,000 sugar reflaery WJ lumber and mercantile Caroiioa; 820,00) oli mi And Ana erson, ii lennesses A Jumber mil at Mempt irie pliant at Knoxville, » mi hk In Texas $20,000 § t San Anions pany a «S04 A COmMpPpress COM pany a gis Hillsboro, eomprras at [al sivia three lu tL 7exns Lily; ) waler wore an Weaet In West al AE, | § £8 " y mber companies with an agg pate capital stock of $380 OC The aciiv.ty in re 0. iron interests costing and southern furnaces are b« meet the demand for {roa ( of the Tennessee Con es, ug pushed tc A. M, and Rar sh « Iron in the South, fu a letter 10 the oa’ Record, says: “The bus ness mosem io volume and Increased in n to-day, It bas practical y touched every vil inge and hamlet in America, The | it is #0 ualversal is the beat evidence of stability and its certainty least until we bave pamed {| condition of business the recent advances In Iron, the fodications for a steadily Increasing con-umpiion and | As a natural consequence increased prices, bave not been so manifest at any time sinoe the revival started as it has Leen during the past two or three days.’ —————— men. um until ils nt normal to continue, he THE ELBE DISASTER. Decision of the German Admiralty Court Blames the Crathie’'s Ma'e The Admiralty Court has rendered a de- olsion in tbe inquiry made into the sioking of the Nortbh-German Lioyd Steamsbip Com. pany'a steamer Elbe in collision with the British steamer Crathie in January iat The a urt holds that the Liame for the col” lision must be attributed to the mate of the Crathie, who deserted his post immediately telore the occurrecoo and went into the gal- loy of the Crathie, Continuing, the findings say that the official in charge of the watch of the Eite canuot, however, te [reed from the reproach that he omitted to get out ofl the way of the Crathie by a timely manipuiation of the he.m and falied to attract the attention of the crew of the Crathie by signaling with the steam whistle, In regard to the steps taken to save life on board the Eibe after the collision ocourred the court holds thet the orders g.ven by Capt. von Gossel and executed by the officers and crew of the Elbe for that purpose wer® deserving of praise, The Admiralty Court adds that it is considered desirable that reg. ular boat exercises should be practiosd on all fransatiantio vessels, and that the tndividoa! duties of the crew should be better under. ABOUT ROTED PEOPLE. In bis boyhood Charles A. Dana clerk {no a Baflalo store, Hohenzollorn was a the family name of His true is not Emporor W.lliam, liam Zollern, name is Wik I Zabgwill, the novelist, a fondnes? for wearing re i neckties, which by no mean” become his a’ via of beauty. Mr A 8 who die | at Cleveland reo-ntly, her youth lnstructor of James A, Garfield. It was she who taugh! the fu ure President his alphabet, Chief Watts, of. police force, is sald to have the has Palmer, was aid Insye tor the Loston finest collec tion of clipplugs relating to crime and erimi- pals that can be lound anywhere, Mrs. E eanor Sedgwick, dean of Newnham, is © the Treasurer Balfour, of the England's famcus college for = women, sister of first Jord of and famous as one bett mathemat - clans in Engiak! Jos ph B. died recont vy, at the famous duplex sys‘em of He bad the of earved ivorles in the world Biearns of Camden, Me,, the age of 65 years, was the who inventor of telegraph y. inr.est collection and was also a bib lomanine, Lady Aberdeen {4 the adian discontent, I n'est victim of the Can he wile of (raver- nor-Genoeral asks the servants of the house. holds which she vinits how they are treated, advises the maids to dof caps and other badges of servitu th | all the servants Cat his ie began iterary career vew Odeans ‘‘Plea- sx the LOW story was i Hid atten tin « { now fol tssimes’ MURDERED BY ARMENIANS. an inn ” I “Grand. A Report which f Revolutionis! Ehows Some of the Methods ¢ The Departo rom Minster Terrell & whioh throws » 29, tejegranhe Riaph + 4 3 CRO CiliZer 480 Ut REO sayin % Fron Miniter Ter. injured rell's reg Armenian oa 1 assassinated He Wh t Marsov r was the ity, and it government in revo re arre as It was said there was 111 ubt that Garabed purdered by them sluraiize SAR A Frar ag received wii! WHO Was aesnssl sixteen wh hias been In assassinaied, at the requ * ARsARB ILS American famiil octal Goveraor deciares the object menjans was {o in order to t tinn Europe VE SHELLS. provoke Turkish a secure Lhe sympalay NEW BXPLOSI Fired Safely from a Rifle and Exploded with Terrific Force An exhibition of the new e.ls invented Ly George M. Hath high explosive and gun st AWAY Was given at party oi fiity experts fir ym a Winchester repeating he propelling force bombs with a tim* The Wellsboto, Pa., before a and capilalists, he shells were fired fr rifle with guapowder as sad they exploded like stances of 400 and 500 yards, be shells were fuse at a di force was terrific, but t irom explosion by concussion. The new explosive can be handled with as much salety as cornmeal, which in appearance, but its force is. 40 per more powstriul than the highest grade of dyn amite. These are the first shells produced iz which high expicsives can be salely bandied asd fired from heavy casnon and shouldes arms, and the theory of some experts thats a high explos ve requires a high detonatioz is set at naught, os ——————— ALL DEAD IN THE WRECK. A Freight Goes Through a Bridges Just Aflier an Excursion Passed. Hundreds of excursionists visited the scene of the wreck on the Ohio Southern Hoad at Bainbridge, Ohio, whore between twenty-lve aad thirty cars went through the Bain Creek bridge, killing ail on board and raving none to tell the story, Bes de the four tralamen who were killed, it is believed now that four tramps and three boys who are missing from Greenfield are under the wreck, As the debris 's lu over twenty feet of water little was done in clearing it. No more bodies have ben recover 4d. The dam below the bridge bas been cut open aad divers have been engaged. ENTOMBED EIGHT MEN. A Brown Stone Building Collapses in Pater son, New Jersey. The old brownstone buildicg opposite the Clty Hall at Paterson, N. J., collapsed en. tombing Contractor Jac.b Steeie and seven of his workmen, The structure was about to be torn down to make way for a large addition to a de partment store, It was three stories high The workmen entomed were in a pit In the colar, All were cut and bruised, but were saved from fatal injuries by some timbers which fell horizontally across thopit and shielded them to a great oxtent, They were . rescued by firemen aud polos, PERNSYLVANIA Epitome of News Gleaned From Various Parts ITEMS. of the Btate. in Pucks beriviile, A clever swindier is river cperaling county, across the from Lam n lcttery tick +s acd me hods +3 When visits is no sine be tells the woman in charge that for ingly sedu tive, hie 5 thers sewing ma ehe can purchase ar st corlaln chance to draw from niery 8 neighbor, who has a it no piano, be induces to luy a ticket z that musical instru. THER Wagons and r zes of §200 are offered, ¥ gh yi caught many unsu