THE NEWS,
At Winchester, Tean., J. C. Arlodgoe was
shot and killed by OfMlcer MeClaren, whom
he wounded, —— The convention of the Uni-
versal Peace Congress, in session Mystio,
Ct,, elected o and adjourned, ——A
memorial was sent to Gov, Morton, of New
York, by the Central W, C T. U., of Kansas
City, asking that he pardon Marie
the Italian now in Sing Bing prison awaiting
electrocution for having murdered Ler lover,
At attempt was made to up the
east-bound Northern Pacific passenger train
by placing a stick of dynamite in a “frog’' at
a junction half a mile east of Butte, Mon.
Nearly the whole train passed over the dyna-
mite before it exploded, last
filled with passengers, was |
ired.-
in
loers
Barb ri,
blew
The
adiy shatterad,
- Frank A. Reed a
Alexandria, Va,
Cald-
coach,
but no one was inj
prominent business man of
committed suicides, —— Judge Henry C.
well, of the United States Circuit Court, is
mentioned in Kansas as a Republican candl-
date lor president,
Miss Fannie Dourne, a prominent young
lady of Germantown, Fhiladelpbia, was
killed while crossing the railroad track near
her home, ——The action of the plug tobacco
manufacturers in forming a combine to fight
the trust caused considerable talk in Rich-
mond tobacco circles, the opinion being ex-
pressed that the pew combine would Ue en-
abled to d ctate terms tothe trust and force a
compromise, - Wo well Known
citizen of Staunton suicide
by shooting himsel
A heavy frost did isiderabls damage In
Delaware Sh 1
steamer Coman
line between New
successfully la
Philadelphia.
tion of Ives {
of the North
in the Unit State urt at Seattle, Wash,
bead, —
ountie
on the
nviie, was
mp's shipyard
} a rine of tl
Oeard oi id
a applica-
receivers
was begun
~Five freight wareho Milwaukee,
Wis,, owned by the
St. Paul
ozether
Milwaukee apo
Railr were
warehou: es were
gregating £400 000,
The sealing
been given up for I —The Few,
Hibbard, recently rector of 5t. Luke's Ch
in New York, wa un or the
track at Little Ferry, N. J. It is
that he was struck bry a train
on the track, Mr. Hibbard
five years of age and
children.
ators in Boston is in fall A
4,000 people are idle, —The B. & O. is said
to be trying for a right-
an elevated ters
ner George BR. White has
George
red
SUPT wed
while walking
was about forty-
leaves a wife and
f
—
* ¢
ae sirixke of
the el
operati
f-ways As to obiain
bicago, ——Loawis
has dis.
covered a new comet. ——H. Lamont
H. Dewl:t, of Baltix
and C
1 B Wi
to Chicago, reached nin
Bott, postmaster at Harrisvi
with issuing ney orders
count, —— Alfred Crow was
under a fall of coal in Sham
dresses on pert nent
the second day's sess!
tha National Pesce Union
A mes!
notin the o« ine
The Lawrence
dation ie t the
fsb * ¥ ~~ re * mote
Oi 10s ACCO au »
bed ia St, Lo
Aurora a
gine and three
ty-foot emiankment,
Becker, of Ind
passengers wer
Chesebro, the s
was convicted
Mrs. Levi Pi
to life Impris
Rev, Charie
tarian Church of
pastorate bec
wii not give
Mr. Wende has a
Usitarian Chur
Lucy Hibbar
Charies 8
more and
William E. ¢
lerstate Con
tention to the prop
which he thinks wiil prove a gigantie trust,
Thomas M. Gra ly, ex cashieret .ae First
Rational Bank of Marietta, Pa., was sen.
tenced to seven years’ imprisonment
bezzlement, Twelve were
out of the ruins of the Gumry Hotel in Den.
ver, — A wreck urred on the Big Four
pear Lawrenceburg, Ind ——Theannual cone
vention of the National Keely League was be"
gun in Harrisburg, Da A meating of the
Bar Iron Association was held in Cleveland,
~The Indianapolis City Council passed #
sweeplog ordinance repealing all franchises
to telegraph and telephone lines within the
business district of the cl'y, including terri.
tery a mile square, and that al;
a Cou mission,
cal
sed Li; railroad
for em.
bo lies taken
oe
ordering
removed within a reasonable time, —
SEVEN DROWNED
Disaster to a Pleasare Party in
Isle of Wight Bay.
FOUR OF A FAMILY PERISH.
Lost Are Young Girls
from Fourteen to Sixteen Years
of Age
Five of the
A Disastrous Capsize.
By the eapsizing of a sailboat in Isle of
Wight bay, seven miles north of Ocean Ci ¥
Md.,
twelve lost their lives,
seven persons out of a pleasure party of
Two men, two young
the
drowned four were members of a Philadel
ladies and a little gir] were saved, Of
phia family—'ather, mother and two youn
into
thers who lost their lives were young
®
i sh'e y nit 1s hse
| daugh'ers womanhood
Tares «
girls Ir
dix out
just emerging
m fourteen to sixteen years of a.e
of the seven we:e lad es. The names
| of the drowned were as
Miss Hall, Bish
years ; Miss Lor ail, Bi
years ; Miss Myr]
Mr,
Mrs, Laur:
lows:
Stella prille, fourteen
{ teen Years
paia;
| M. Bio
Storrs
{ who
ladies wh
I'he Misses Hall wore daughters
Hall,
and Miss Myrtle
or of Mr, J
niavens
ua Sley
Minule, were
hire aven
:0Wn in the ¢
were
ror bad lost the
wv r ¥ -
niy ae Lana,
mmer, and exhibite
y, where the
atisuation of
uly was tt Al
wo
Ka as
inos owned
i th
p o y 1
site the
nay
was sailing
assis'ed the t
boat were res
off from the sh
3 eantreboar
was rescued by ber ur who also saw the
accident from th hore, Walter Hudson
and William idson mnaged fo
reach
shore by swimming exhausted
the beach,
ibe body of Mr, Storrs wa: soon recover.
ed. The sad news spread rapidly in
surrounding country for many miles, Sev
eral parties with seines and lines began
dragging in the bay to recover the remiins
of those who had been lost,
The news reached Ocean City and Captain
Dutton, of the lifesaving
on
the
sorvice, went wi bh
to assist in the work of searching the waters
Those that Bave been recovered were sent 10
Beibyvilie, Del. The scene of the aceident i+
at a point where the establishment of a Jife.
saving station bas been urged. It pointed
out here that if a station existed at
of the lives, which were lost, would bav:
been raved,
FOR A NEW CONSTITUTION.
Johns & Fowler, was destroyed by fire, we
Governor Werts, of New Jersey, granted a
warrant for the extradition of George 8
Rogers, who Is in Morristown jail, and whe
kis five-year-old eohild at
Hotel in that city,
2 ———
EXPRESS TEAIN WRECKED.
Went Of a Forty-Foot Embankment and
Only One Man Killed
The worst wreckage ever shown by a rali-
road accident in the viciaity of Toccoa, Ga,
was at the vighty-one-mile post on the South.
ern Railway. The fast train to Washington
met with an accident four miles from Toccoa
and that anybody lives to tell the tale ls a
wonder,
From Mount Alry to Toccon there Is a
steep down grade, and the train was moving
full sixty miles an hour when the tend r left
the track, The engine cut loose and the osrs
with the exception of the sleeper, went off a
forty~10.t embankment,
Expre.s Messager R. M, Greer, of Colume
‘a, 8 OC, was killed and Robert James, a
negro, was Intally injured. James wn« in
the express car, The passengers was bralsed,
but tbat was all, The engineer could not
stop his engine, and for five miles it ran
away, Hesays he must have gone a hua.
dred miles an hour,
the Continental
South Carolina
crats Carry the Day
Elects Delegates—D mo-
The election of delegate: to the
tional convention to meet on the 10th of Sep-
tember next was he d throughout the State
Ia nineteen of the thirty-five counties of the
State thers were contests, Ia the others the
tickets nominated in the democratic primar-
les were elected without opposition,
In six of the nineteen counties In which
there were contests theirs were factional
fights among the democrats, In the other
thirteen the republioans had out full tickets
but the reports at this time indicate that only
in one county have the republicans had any
tuccess, and in that one, Beaufort, the sue.
cess has only besa partial,
From present indications the convention
will be composed of 110 Tilman democrats,
{5-antl-Tiliman democrats and 5 republicans,
Governor Evans and both Senators Tiliman
snd Irby will be members of the convention,
together withjseveral Congressmen ex-olreuit
judges and other prominent mea in the
Biate,
Altogether it will be the strongest body of
men which has met together in South Caro
lina since the war,
constitu ~
— III ws
General Maceo weiles to the Cuban head.
quarters in New York that the Spanish sol.
diers aro panic-stricken and are defeated in
every encounter with the losurgents,
Japanese friendship for the United States
has never been so pronounced as now.
Spain has decided to pay the Mora claim |
In a lump sum in September next, but with |
out interest
At the meeting of the peaco conference at
Brussels an English de'egate defended an at
tack upon the Ualted States for not promptly
paying the Bering sea award,
By the breaking of a gang- plank on which a
number of the |
ship yard at Kiel, |
workmen wore walking in
Germany, elght men were
thrown into the water and drowned,
The Chinese
utrage investigative com-
mission has left Foo Chow for Ku ( hen,
and Lieutenant Evans, of the United States
Navy, Is a memter of the commission,
d to the
of the Canadian authorities in the copyright
England bas refuse grant reques
matter, and the mini<ter who went to Lon.
don to adjust the trouble has returned home
Cholera Is reported to be working frightful
havoe disease hav
in Japan, the
spread by soldiers rece:
the
from the war. Toe Formosa expedition has
proved particularly d sastrous,
the
Mr,
inanime Usiy re
At a mee'ing of
party io Loonon,
PY. was
Irish parliamentary
Justin McCarthy, M
slacted
the party, Me
chairman,
4
The whips of ‘
S878,
Tanner, Donnel and Tuite,
Were nso
BLOCKING INVESTIGATION.
Chinese Officials Will Not
Inquiry at Kit Cheng
Permit a Foreign
bi to the Mercury
ported on g
Hiness go
sarie
fiake any
auoe of the massacre
A by
Li meut «
invest. gation, the |
ujkear own inciinati
loomers
by wen
Davies, the leader of
yf Great Britain, sa
tkabi Me Woman,
¥. A
ciaims
ma
5
patrick, a Georgia veteran
be 105 years old, bas applied
pension usder the indigent pen ion act,
Fair is
often amuses her
Mise Virginia an expert
friends by
waie
and
ing pranks similar to those Ir
ged,
George Mere lith is
ag at
i
tine Yox indul
exceedingly
aud finds great difficul'y in making speeches
He invariably refuses to respond when ealiod
upon for a few remai Ka,
161.
The Countess of Dudley Is the only e¢
can e¢ aim the Jdistine
ess in England who
tion of having been a bona-flde shop-g rl be,
fore she assumed the title,
E. A
lonaire of
Orange, N. J. smokes cigareties which cost
him $75 a thousan They are short and
fat asd embossed with his monogram,
C. P. Huntington, who has just reiurned
from Europe, says he d:d not go abroad on
business but for a vaeation, He found money
cheap a'l over Europe and American secur.
es standing well, As to raliroad matiers,
he again expressed the opinicn tbat
European railroads wore not as gocd as our
own,
Commander Philo N, McGifis, who bas
Schutze, a mi
young
which he commanded the Ciinese ship Coen-
Yuen/'it is sald, went to Li Hung Chang with
a letter from James CG. Daina, He was grad”
uated from Annapolis in 1882 and was no
yet 50 years old when hs entered the Chinese
pervioe,
Mayor Bwif!, of Chleago, who Is enjoying
is being reformed it Js not being done tc
brass band accompaniment, The dives he
declares, have been wiped out, and Chleago
is no longer a “widr-open town.” Mayor
Swift admires Comm ssioner Roosevelt le,
eause he considers him a maa of great en.
ergy and perfectly honest,
HOTEL BLOWN UP.
Fifteen Persons Perish in the
Gumry House at Denver.
EXPLOSION AND THEN FIRE.
No Warning of the Catastrophe
The Disaster Bellaved to Be Due
to the Bursting of Bollers.
Probably the most acel
far-reaching
dent ever witnessed (n Denver, Col,, occurred
shortly alter midnight, There was a terrific
explosion in the Gumry Hotel Lawrence
on
sireot, belween Soven'senth and Eighteenth
sireots, caused, it is belleved, by the bursting
of bollers in the basement, The rear portien
of the hotel was compietely demolished and
§
the number of dead and missing is estimated
at 34 The
be known,
exact number of v.etims will not
the d
have been cleared away, aud
however, until
this task can
not be accomplished for several davs
To add to tha h
rror of the sliuation
tis . fn
hiding took fire and
ruins of the big b
iortunates who were not killed outrigh bey
the crash were silos} o death,
screams and pleadings tl 3 be killed
Save them
in the extrem
powerless to
There is no d
byob
iisaster was caused
lier e xj Frank Loescher,
xieated,
T
i
neared ¢
insure J
MeCann which staads next th
It is
ia
ory pressed brick, and
by the A. Liliblade
Furniture ( The whole end of this
biock wes ruined. The joss on the building
is about §25,000, as the building will have ¢
iowa. This block is insured for
$15.1 The steok of A. Liliblade, valued
at £30,00 , is only partly lost.
Gumry, heavily damaged,
Fisher and was bulit
1800, It
occupied
mpany,
be torn
0).
KILLED BY HIS OWN TRAP
H+ Bet a Oun for Thieves and Was Himself
the Vietim
Bet jamin E Cross, who did a grocery busi
ness on East Washiogtion Street, Sufioik, Var
sustaining |
had
an oid
was shot by a trap gun, juries
ermioating fatally. His
robbed recently and Cross set
miuske! in the rear, heaviiy charged wi h No
2 shot, with a nicely adjusied wire a'tach
ment to the trigger.
He put out the lights about midn
was preparing to close the doors when he re.
turned to the baiek of the store to get a piek-
aie, * Foryetting the trap gun, he struck the
janger wire, which discharged the picoe,
store been
army
ght and
A
THREE LIVES LOST.
Two Boys and a Girl Drowned in Lake
Michigan
Arthur Butler, 10 years o!d and his brother
Waiter, two years younger, were drowned in
Lake Michigan while In bathing. The
younger of the brothers had been carried be.
yond his depth, and in an effort 10 save his
brother Arthur Batier was seiz d around the
neck by his younger brother and both were
drowned,
Three girls were carrie | Into the lake be.
yond their depth at Highland Park. Florence
Millard was drowned belors rescuers reached
Grace and Esthet
MiL{ll, her companions, were rescued.
——— EE —— ee ——
There has been heavy mortality among the
French troops in Madagasear on account of
disease, The Hovas are now intrenched in
the mountains and a strong foros has gone
to the rear to out off the supplies of the
French force operating against them,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
Epitome of News Gleaned From Various Parts
of the State.
A terrific explosion startled Franklin, and
on Investigation it was found that over 1600
had exploded
pounds of nitro-glycerine
the top of Bully Hil, the
Franklin, Claude Ward, of
load of nitro-gls
storehouse on Bully Hill, wh
on
cutskirts of
Oil
ering
on
Cly, wa
¥
to th,
no the stufll
that will
Ward was blown to pleces, bardiy a
and both
to at
hauling a
ploded from a cause never be
known,
3
handlul of uis body being found,
nm were blown
thirty
the wag
hors«s and the wug
A bole
marks the p
1
ten feet Asan and
- feet wid
Ag
4
where slood
RCH
Windows were shat’
tered io Franklin,
A pevere soi
as he came
ward getting
CAING Af
eharacier an
rants are cut lo
During tt
Bn
were
Hyer,
August Panquest
ja 1 becauws 1
money to get marr.ed
Lurgiars seve
Three rely |
Brhwartz at Wilkes-Barre
dishard Carney and
ners, were |
Helle Yern
bya train
{ Pbiiade «
ananusi meeting of
thas ists, at Pats
burg.
(eorge Metzger
eT
#eil to Mauch
ater surrendering his
Guok authorities was taken
to Wilkes-Barre and there con’es-od kil R
a0 Arabian pediar
Among the thr
A Year ag
ag of picnickers at College
Park, a few miles below Bristool, was Gar
As4d Faglll, together with a lot of bes
snail boys, wh floor of
the arse
peaetrated the abd
were sliding ou the
paviiion A
men of
dancin splinter
young Garfleid,
He
was takea to Drstol and a physician extract.
en the splinter which measured ten and one-
hall inches,
ho immediately became une >uscious,
Jeneros Colaceno was shot and killed by
b's oousin, Amendo Voipe, in Chester
County.
Twenty robberies bare occurred
shobocken within the past week,
The Methodl-t Ep rcopal Charch at Train.
in Coa-
presence of a large company.
Highwaymen held up four men near Seran.
ton,
A festival to commemorate the old Mora-
vian “Feast of Lanterns’ was held at Bethio.
hem,
geraid’s Court, located at the heart of city of
Pittsburg, In the fire two women, Fannie
Barclay and Myrtle Jone, were badly burned
and were taken to the hospital by the police,
The Jones woman had the flesh burned from
her face, arms and neck, About threes houses
harbored about twenty negro women and
were resorts for the most hardened criminals,
The Jones woman started the fire by-drop-
ping a lamp,
Julius Lindegren, a plano tuner, of Soran.
ton, stepped from a Lehigh Valley train be
tween Wysox and East Towanda and was
seriously Injared, Lindegren had been
asleop and when awakened by a brakeman
jumped up, rushed to the piatiorm asd
stepped off. He was found soon afterward
and brought to the Ward House,
A beavy thunderstorm and lightaing
pasted over Bradford, Deb Dikman, while
milkiog a cow at his barn at Bolivar Ran,
was struck by lightning and instantly killed,
His son who was standing near at the time
received a severe shock and it is believed his
fojuries will prove fatal,
#
-
HURLED T0 DEATH.
Six Men Killed and Six
Fatally Hurt,
[RON FURNACE EXPLODES
In the Carnegie works at Braddock,
Pa.~Not One of the Twenty Mer
Employed Escape Uninjured,
An explosion at furnace H. of
¢ ie w Tera AA,
on Sissel Works, at Bradd
ck in the morning, kilie
od f
isieen others al
propety,
The explosion was dus to a
whieh suddenly was
ne moiten met
“nse
allog an Imm jusatity
ould not esesp
the explosion fx
The terrible loss of life was &
iar cause, A few m
sion oecurred on«
nutes be!
barrow of material
1 {forgot en 1«
ae jurnace and prevents
A gang cf sixteen
Harrison, were
{sland g
the rain was in moti
i awn heid
compelied the engineer
Laggage car, open the
he did by nfl bag-
gage man that they were held up aad that
his head and de-
ioor and
gain 2
tance, whicn yrming the
un at
They were admitted at
the robbers hal & §
manded admitiance
man was compel
He could not
the larger combination sale and the robbers
with
once and the express
open the smaller safe, pen
proceeded to blow the top out of it
dynamite,
in the meantime
give th-m the slip,
uncoupled the engine and made
Gothealurg for a posse of
ture the bandi's, In a »
volunteers were en r« ute I
robbery, but before they arr
bad disappeared,
The windows were all
baggage car by the explosion, The bandits
were expers in using the expiosive. When
the dynamite exploded, the passengers on
board were much excited, but were not
mo ested,
Nw Ricamoxn, Mion. ~The sherilf and
his posse, together witn raliroad detectives,
are on the tral of the five robbers who held
up the Chicago and West Michigan train
near Fennvile, They have tracked the gang
four miles towards Allegan, The entire
county has bees aroused and posses are out
in every direction. A new brass lantern
which was use! in flagging the train was
found near the scone of the hold-up. Seo.
ton men also fund a revolver. There was
a olot of blood on the barrel. The raliroad
officials offer a reward of #1000) for the
robbers, and Allegan county officials also
offer a reward. The robbers did not secure
any booty,
stn III 55 5 AA
A STEAMER SUNK.
the fireman managed to
orward, b
the
and going
rum to
¥ * = =
pen tol ei
hort
r the sonne
ved the robb
time (we
biown out of the
A Bostioad of Knights Templar Wrecked
Near Montreal,
Steamer Terrebonne, from Kingston,
tor Montreal, with several come
manderies of Kolghts Templar on board
struck a reef at loot of Castade Rapids and
sank shortly after in the satrance to Lachine
Canal. Bo far as reported uo lives are lost.