THE NEWS. Missions of other chureh work were dis- cussed by the Shenandoah Baptist Associa- tion at its meeting in Martinsburg, W. Va. ——The Central Labor and Trades Union, of Richmond, Va. , took steps looking to the nomination of a legislative tigket, Presi. dent Cleveland commended the enterprise of the Associated Press in estabitshing a dally news service betwen the United States and Mexico.——An overflow of water in the Sleepy Hollow and Americus mines, near Central City, Colorado, caused a loss of thirteen lives — The Commissioners of the General Land OfMce gave a decision holding that both certificates issued in Arkansas City before the opening of the Cherokee Strip are 800d, the decision Iavorably affecting three thousand homesteaders and townlot settlers, who hold the certificates, — burglars, James Knight, a ¢ erk tecting his emp shot in the head. ——The Hon. Emory Speer will be the orator atthe opening exercises ol the Cotton State International Expo-ition at Atlanta. —-The Grand Encampment, Knights Templar, elecied Right Eminent Sir Warren Larne Thomas, of Kentucky, 10 succeed Most Eminent Sir Hugh McCurdy. bed at --fann fight witn pro- fatally while oyer s properly was grand master, The next triennial conciave wil be Pittsburg, A Chinese paper received in Chicage says the di-reputabie interpreters at the missions in China are the cause of the troubles there, Harrison Lewis, colored, who murdered Joe Brooks, also colored, was lynched in Ripglieid, Ky.——1he Great Northern lauds {de near Rica. All were saved but the ver. land train ran into a mond Beach, Wash, engineer. ——1he wile of James Telberow, a farmer living near Laokiamite lliver, Oregon while insane held her boy's head under water till be was dead. ——The forest fires are still raging in the neighborhood of Egg Harbor, N. J.—I. W. Enol, of Erie Pa. committed suicide in Cleveland, ——John Dane was sen- tenced in Huntington, W. Va, to five years imprisonment for forgery. ——Albert Driggs, a druggist of Cedarsville, N. J., committed suicide, The Princeton students whose ar- rest was ordered by Governor Richards, of Wyoming, succeeded in getting away before the machinery of the law for their detention could be put into of eration, —Felix Drun-. ner, of Galena, Ill, mate of the steamer Me- nominee, was nearly carved to pleces by two desperadoss named Quinn and Roberts, of Yiotory, Wie, Twenty-five thousand Knights macched in the grand pageant in Bo opened the triennial conelava Templar ston that The proces sion was five hours in passiog the reviewing stand. —J, H. Wolf, of Cripple Creek, Col, the pr rested and committed to jail for trial. Mount Clifton Hotel at Hedgesville, W. Va owned by Mr, Payne, was burned, but ail the guests escaped, The Lolders of 1 shares of stock in the old Whalskey Trust ap- plied to the New York courts for an injunetion to compel the reorganization return the stock he'd by the p judge held the petition under advisems In a fight between members of the Bo Thomas families on the Virgin‘a an tucky lines in Cumberiand Mount: four men were killed and several wous The charter of the Atchison, Topeka and Bt. Joseph Railroad Com; any has been filed r WAS Ar- 1% omoter of the recent ball fight 5. 000 commities t The aintiffs, the for record with the Kansas. It has an authoriz-d epial stock of $1,50,008. Its purg line of raliroad from Bt Topeke, —R H. 1} Cash Insuranes ¢ secretary of state to const ose is ruct a Joseph, Mo, t« nz, president of the mpany, of Pittsburg, and the county, feil down stairs and was killed. He years old, and bad been in feeble health some time ~The bank of Danhead & Ce of Kenosha, Wis, closed its doors, It ported that the tszk was on a large amount of the paper of the Bed. ding Company, whose affairs are now in- voived in the alleged conspiracy ease growing the burning of their plant, Lewis Hammond, aged thirty-Cve years, and wile, committed suicide by taking chloral in a Boston hotel, —Gover- nor Richards, of Wyoming, ordered the ar- rest of the party of Princeton students for killing antelope, —-Seven persons wers ser- lously injured in a collision between a steamboat and a schooner off To.edo, O one of the wealthiest men in was eighty Chicago and arson out of his — —— TRADE OUTLOOK. Phenomenal Activity in Iron and Steel— Advance in Prices R G. I'unn & Co.'s weekly review of trade #ays: The volume of business shrinks, as is natural in August, and the shrinkage seems rather larger than usual Lecause the transac ‘ions in July were somewhat inflated for that month. Somes industries are doing morethan ever before in August, and the prospects for fall trade are good In others, although much depends on the crops, and the outcome is less ciear than speculators on either side are dis- posed to admis, It is a relief to turn to the groat industries ia which the enormous orders placed some weeks or months ago cause phenomenal ac- tivity for the season. In fron, notwithstand« Ing some uneasiness because the output has greatly inerensed, heavy purchase by two leading companies have advanced the price of Bessemer 50 cents, and a new combination bas raised galvanized barbed wire to $1.80, while combinations are being formed in wire rods and common wire, aud advances in prices is expected. Other prices are un- changed and the new orders for Iron and #isel products are not at present large, In cotton goods the demand is rather more Bective as the price of the raw material ad- vances, but otherwise the business has not materislly changed, and the quotation for print cloths is a shade lower this week, Baleg of wool are smaller than in 1892, and for the mon h thus far have been 16,847,2)0 pounds, of which 9,124,309 pounds were domestie, against 19,072,050 last year, of which 16,316 - 830 were domestic. But the speculative buy- ors still bo d prices very stiffiy and are sup- ported by the strength In foreign markets, No marked change appears in demand for woolen goods, but there Is Inereasfog appre hension shown by agents regarding the ex. tensive sales of forelgn woolens, Failures for the week have been 222 in the United States, against 204 last year, and 45 dn Canada, against 34 last year, Four Murderers Lynched California Town, A REIGN OF DISORDER Feartul of the Law's Delays the People Took the Administration of Justice Into Their Own Hands — Hanged Side by Side. Four murderers were taksn from the coun y jali at Xreka, Cal, by a mob of 250 wen at 1 o'clock in themorning and lynche J, A ltand of citizans, fearing that the law would not be ca ried out, and angzersd over the atrocity of recent crimes, determined to take matters in thelr owa bands, Lhe lynching was the ghastly climax to the reign of lawle-sanss which has prevailed in Bisikyou ecunty for some months past, Ode of the viciims was Lawrence Johnson, who, on the evening of July 28 stabbed his wife to death in the town of Eins. Another nas William Null who shot Henry Hayter in the back with a rifle near Apri 21. Lous Moreno and Garland Seem- er, who are supposed to bave killed George Batley Hill Callaban's on beers and Caspar Melrerhans at Bn August 5, were als) hanged. At 11 ¢' { clock farmers from all the sur- rounding cou .try began to drive into and by midnight area to town, the Ub was ready to i Belore takiog a Was ivooclers the county Jal, *tep, however, every precauticn taken ' prevent the plans of from the being frustrated by the officers cf the law. Lhe sheriff and one «f his deputies were de- co, ed to another part of the town by two f the mob who were engaged In a fliel to al way. and the dre bil was m ng given fa th Was 1each were ed a Massed, BAWAK~ ier Sheriff Radlord, and demanded { raitovely reluas shots out of t ty Marshal Parks acd iaiter nmediately the keys Ir il. Having no keys to the 44 ferent ellis they were con pelied £3 with a siedge hammer whic to do at once, Lawrence IL a rail snd Was tree, Johnson gatliering gave ha * At ‘ he “a8 quickly tO Oe was anson, Louis Moreno, who Is charge killed George Sears oo the 5th of ¢ was taken from his cell and was soon swing- ing with Johnson and Nul, The last and youngest of the four murder- ers to pay the penaity of his crime was Gar- land Seemler, aged about n ompany Moreno, baving killed Caspar Meirerhana at Hill oa the 5.h of this month. A rope was placed about Beemler's neck and he was jail in his bare feet, begged lor mercy, and his last words were: ‘Tell my dear old mother I am innocent of the crime.” Yreka Is a little mining town, and yoirs Ago was [requentiy the scene of mob vio. The summary manner in which jas ties was meled out to the four murderers remind. d the ploneers of similar scones du: ing the gold excitement forty years ago, when it was not an uncommon spectacle to awaken ia (he morniog aad ree the body of a notorious criminal dangling from a trea, nsteen, who, in with was charged wth Bley ed from th Heemlier ance, i — BRAVE SOLDIERS HONORED Titles and Decorations Bestowsd by the Em peror of Japan. Mail advices from Yokohama, jast in by the steamer Poru, state that distribution of bas commenced ia Japan. The highest prime minister; Marshal Yamatgata, Mar- Salgo. ‘These four officials are raised from the rank to ¢. unt to that of marquis, In addition to this promo- O:der of Meri: and the Grand Order of the Yamstga'a, who eom- Corea and Manchur a; Oyama, who com- Wei-Hal-Wel, and Saigo, who served as minist-r of the navy, will recsive the grand Marshal Noza, who led the Japanese at oelves the same decorations as the last threes oamel, Admiral Kabaya, now Governors General of Formosa, receives the same as Noza, Vice-Admiral Ito, the naval hero, and the Lieutensnt-Gioneral Kawakami, vios-prosi- dent of the gonoral staff, are enrolled fa the posrage with the rack of viscount and deco. rated similarly to Nozu and Kabayama, DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES, An explosion of calel-mining material oo- ocurred in Chieago, and three persons were | injured, one probably fatally. Martin Beam, a farmer of Napolson, Oblo, fell from an apple tree and was killed by belog Impaled on the stump of a broken | limb, Nows reached Beattle that the sealing | schoover Waiter Earle was wrecked off Kodlac Island. Eighteen of the crew were | drowned, Thomas Banks, a lineman, while running electric light wires into the Carnegie Library buliding, at Braddock, Pa., came in contact with a live wire and died in a few minutes. A wazon load of nitro-giycerine exploded | near Franklin, Pa, and the driver, named Hall, and the two MNorses wore blown to atome, No traces of Hall's boly could be found. The steamer Dorian, from Kingston, brought to New York Captain McGillivray and 24 men of the British steamer Argonaut, which foundered August 6, 40 miles north- east of Morant Point, Jamaica, The body of the Rev. George Hebbard, until recently Rector of Bt. Luke's Episcopal Church, New York, was fourd on tho West Shore Rallroad tracks at Little Ferry, N w Jersey, Itis not known wte:her he was struck or fell from a train. A despateh from Black River Forks, Wi-,, says that owing to the fallure of the berry crop, which usually furnishes them a Uviog, the Winnebago Indians are threates- od with starvation this winter. While crossing the channel between Nas® keag Polut and Harbor Island, email boat, Dr, I. F. Carter, of Don Elora and Madise F.ster a 12-year-old girl, of New York, and drowned, W. H Wysong bis fireman, name not injured, oa the N near | {rain ran {oto bine. Malue, in a Joston; overboard were thrown was killed and known, was Eaglneer fatally Bati- raad, a material train on the a owlog to the spreading of the ra ls, the Chicago Am semen The Diresto > g rebul.d the wr It is expected the w lays, i fall on Tha | A803 SIX CIMPANIES DISAGREE Fight Withia 3 heness Organiza. secession mpanie: eaves the f the organization yo ttslarted ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Bana'or Frye, of Maine, depicras the ad- vanes of the alien population a Biata, He says that the town goverament of Lewistown, Me, has been a! times Ia hands of men who were sirangers to him, al his own the years. The men were elected by the foreign ers working in the mills, Mayor Strong is to umpire a base bal game on Seplember 2 His Honor ina mo- meat of enthusiasm consentnd to judge she contest between the Mayors aud Aldermac 0 Yonkers and Mount Vernon, He lsn't so en- thusiastic now as be was at first. as the game threatens to be complicates, Lut he Is ex. pecied to see things through, Captain Philo N. MeGifia sailed for Barope on Wednesday la the interest of anew marine invention. The Captain, who commanded the Caen Yaen for the Chinese in the battle of the Yalu, would not say whether he wouid ultimate y re-enter the Chineso servics or nos. He thought the Chinese, as soon as things wera sottied, would begin to rebuild their navy, and the work wou.d be given to the Leunaid W. Volk, the ploneer sculptor of tho West and an oid resident of Chicago, influence on the development of art in Chica ments lo thelr memory as evidenoss of! his Yoars ago he gained a foremost piace among sculptors by his status of Lin. colt nod Douglas, Rudyard Kipling bas just returned to this country from Europe, and has already ie. tinguished himself by a display of temper, I all camo out over an old grandfather clock on which he bad to pay a duty of #10. When informed of this at the dock he laid two five. dollar gold pleces on the packing case, and sald: “Ab, Igota receipt for this, or is it like a fine in a police court ¥' “Just as you please,” replied Mr, Cooley, the customs offi. olal. Nolther he tor any of the others could #60 any point, but there could be no doubt that Mr, Kipliog had ejected a Joke, Kipliog thea loft for Brattieboro, Vt, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. Epitome of News Gloaned Prom Various Parts of the [tite Jobn Rogers, a well-known eftizen of Bhenandoab, made what will probably turn out to be a successful attempt to cox mit sulclde by throwing himsel! on the track in front of a moving Lehigh Valley Raliroad coal train, Besides losing his left sustained a fracture injaries which it ls leared will prove fatal, Roiers had Lean dricking heavily some time,and after quarrel'n sr with his wile, He was formerly engaged in the business, Lut through digsipatiou becams in. solvent and reckless, I: is believed be attempted to end bis life, Two oflicers were ba ily use! up at a Hun. ball at become intox cated a garian wedding in a When the crowd bad ru bh was made for Constable Fagan, was to preserve order, disarmed, knockel down and liceman Foy went to the rescus and Homestead, whe there Facan was beaten, shot into the mob, hitt ng one foreigner, who was carried off by companions, rescued Oiler policemen The Kulle eut eames and Fazan, bruised all over and bas a right made, Jutie & Co, companies along the Monongahela river, has away with the company with iattor is nder bis eve, Wholesalo a‘rests will be ons of the largest mining done store, at confo Uniontown, In with the min rs fh agrea- ment Other compan yw suit and abacdon ihe This company will remove one uf the { the Mon bave long 0 IBINIPRE, strikes in FOLIoes The men AQ0 re. t stores and In all ftrestrikes it was the priaeipal bone of ecntention. 1hat the Polish, Russian and Austrian im- aking an Eugiish. mining of onstrated by the rs’ Examing Board kin distriet, whi ist been The report shows that of classes out of the cutting and + § anoual report of the Mise of the Sham: issued, certillcatos issued to mines xh has j the 475 luring the year ending July 1, 1803 871 wero givea to P “AGYen Le Huns and I'aliacs, live while only sixty Americans, sach Eogl eightean Germans, seven i , three Welsh and og the applicants. Fi! ioen years ago Polish, Hungarian and Aus trian 1 oR wore unknown ia these collier. ies, and now they are literally crowding the pative workmen into men other fleids of employ. el Hiram 8 Michae i, 8 Penasylvania Rallros gat Bim wih aoer, I oting at i, and T a court, r ali Michael was held for to Peansyivania Raliroad Cor f sad Mr, Peiffer have been st law ! propesty belonging to which was takea by taliroad and the litigation is still pending. toad company through Ie Mer's farm in such a manser that time over the ran sn additlor the dwelling bouse is separated {rom the bars Oy a deep cut, In going from the barn 1c the hb a use Mr, Peiffer crossed the cutand was jasntiy arrested, case Las excited o slo i . Y main 3 ia Noribera Lancas oat deal of atten! cial Executive ( of a valuabl Myr Sao dd ipal street from Mra t to have laid on it on to [ree lit Linas for wheelm ruersione | rary mmiities secured half firoads ‘ate weet at Erie Ino ial, The Usited 8a Michigan, Fesscada and Haze will ix tc participate in the naval parade, flag of school children {rom ali was agroed upon, At the Council ast meeting of the Jolhinstown City ordinances was iotroduced pro for the taxation of bicyeles in that city 0 a year, and tho matier was mmittee with insiractions an viding at §1.5 referred to report on The action the ordinance at the next mest. quite a determined protest from the 400 ject to paying the 81.50, but t ey claim the would be unjust, Counsel has ordinance when it comes up for passage, Decause the contractor, Si as Lydeck, asked H. E. Anderson, treasurer of the Penn. fores of workmen to the building aod razed it to the ground. The structure was on the Stratford pian in the Eat Fund and was nearly compleied. It was a falrly expensive residenc: and Mr. Andorson and the eon tractor hal numerous clashes Lydeck threatens a damace suit and Anderson says he will have a house built after his own ideas or note at all The Iamilies of Michael Buckley and An. drew Rice of Shamokin, narrowly escaped being cremated when their home caught fire while they were asleep. Fortunately the flames wero discovered by passers-by who sounded an a’'arm and wakencd the oocu- pants intima to allow them to make their escape. The loss was £250), The large barn ou Theodore W, Bye's farm near Kembleville east of Oxford, was entire ly destroyed by fire. It was ono of the larg- est barns in Southern Chester County, and contained the Bummer's harvest. Origin of fire unknown. KILLED FIFTEEN INDIANS. A Massacre by Cowboys in Diamond Valley. Troops Under Arms. A courier Irom Diamond Valley reports the killing of fifteen Iadiass by oattie men under the leadership of ‘Nye’ smith, Smith's reason was revenge lor the murder of his jather in 15878 in Diamond Va ley. There is great excitement in town and through the country. Troep A Is in readi ness to march on short notios and is awaitiog orders from the county Sheriff for authority to act. Indians are reported as approaching the town from the south, but are believed to by iglendly, WORK AND WORKERS. The President bas signed an order extend. ing the classified servies to inciude ail prints Ws and pressmea employed in the various The Laks Angeline and Cleveland Cliffs companies at Ishpeming, Mieb., have pulled to an extended shut-down. fast fliling with water, Over 1,00 of the striking The mines are clotting opera- their employers having co npiled with the wads by the United Workers, It is expected that strikers will Gurment 8 H) return to bet worn work. The Bloomsburg (I'a.) Behool Furnishing ul time alter a month's idleness and will ship two carloads The an order ip f desks each day for several weeks, Bloomsburg Cer Company received Navigation A meeting of window-glass manufacturers will be held at the Holicnden Hog e, C.eves ing os West. land, this week, for the purpose of form & natonal combine, The failure of th orn manulaciurers Upon a wage scai= i likely by considered, The Philadelphia ingrain aud workrues to agree ir the « oming "Ore will CATDOT Weavers, (s several weess ago for an wages have wo increase of 7 per cent. in { Ogu, al é #inv L ived ali b y the “un Lave s o ue new ais g:anting vanoe, and th nailkder wili doubtiess {ol suit at an earl Tae | ris Woolen Company, aud Perseverance Woonsocket, HR I ease of wages iron 3 Gel WHOSE FAULT WAS IT. . be Gumrey Engineer fays the Proprietor Eznew the Boiler Was Unsafe. Elmer Lotsher, the engineer of the Gum- rey Hotel, in Denver, wh Antonio, naibie for the expiosion, is under no EBYS arrest at Way re- th that cialmsa that be was in He er lospecior Epo threes months ago a boi ithe bolier unsafe and instructed leciared Gumnrey . bave it repaired bave the t Onished, Gumrey contracted 1 paired, but the work was no Loesher himeel! had 1c t off some « ad nd Greiner 4 Juring the night, Sues, The nonin boiler spected, and OG after it more or less be is nota drinking man, and imrey ber claims that says be fled because he leared Iynching. IIIs sin, MARKETS, PALTINORE. CRAIN, ETO l—Falo. Hest Pat.8 High Grade Extra WHEAT-N N PROVIRIONS, HOGBPRODUCTS-shids.t Clear rib rk, per bar..... LA RD-Crude ‘hun Best refined..... BUTTER, BUTTER-—Fine Crmy..$ Under fine............ Creamery Rolls, CHEESE, CHEESE-N.Y. Fancy... 8 Nn, X. flats. Skim Cheese. ..oon.nviee EGGR EGGR-8iate... anh North Carolina... ..... SEAR Arann ses nun LIVE POU LTAY. CHICKENS —Hens.......3 11 Ducks, PU Beseicssiane 2 TORACOO, TOBACCO--MA, Infer's.g 1% Sound common. ........ 300 Middling.. . cone ROO FaROY couse siinserinses 100) LIVE STOCK. BEEF--Dest Beeves......8 250 BHERY...ovcsvsscscniane 150 Hogs 500 FURS AND SKINS, MUBERAT.......o0nccc8 10 HAB00O0m . ooo sess series Rod PoX..oooiissssseans Skunk Black.....cco0ue OPOBBUI. cases rs onnsresn IR. cuensirsnnnsciince CRRBE « currrmrsssssisrersinn serene KEW YORR. ——— FLOUR—8outhern.......8 WHEAT--No. 2 Red....... RYE-~Waostern............. CORN--No. 8...c00viiniinne OATB--No. B......evvmervnn BUTTER--8tate.............. EGGS-—8tate................. CHEESE-8tate........... .. PHILADELPHIA, Wo assis. UR—Bouthern......, 300 WATEAT Nos medooso¥ CORN-=No. CEsAas ana n DT ERR Nie rasan HH me @® $400 66 hd 20 ux Banana Loaves. flour from ba- industry in Cen. Before it is : the manufacture of grow America is 0 and drie the preference jMai Electricity for Dentists The Horned Toa: Survived The Englishman It is we Kn appreciation of Wn i Amer great not marked by any keenness, a I at the Rittenhouse Club There is a young FE; in Philadelphia wh his headquarters there } » overheard one of the 4 Li : was the Englishman made a tel m at the la he case in this al de himself The 1 he 1 vd the Hsual { ext saiut Englishman stiace broadened nt grin. Striking an attitude claimed do | you caw old chap, you dawn't see Discoverbd a Lost Art. A —— A Pittsburg special says that George Cromiey| Cornelius Shay and t see 1 me! ing copper to irpn or steel. They show several sumiples of the metals perfectly welded. The last report history gives of these metals having been welded was 'in 500 B. C. The value of the discovery consists in the fact that copper offers greater re- sistance to the action of salt water than any other metal. The Carnegie Company has offered the men a fixed price {or the secret. A shop has been fitted up for the men at the Home- stead plant, where the men propose to weld a plate of sopper into an in. t of nickel steel armor plate. The ‘arnegie Company hopes to be able to cover all the armor plates for the biz battleships with cop,
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