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THE NEWS.
The late Mra. Rosanna Sing master In her
will left $46,000 to be divide! betwesn the
Lutheran Theological Seminary of Gettys-
burg and the Lutheran Seminary at Mt, Alrys
Philadelphia, ~The exercises attendant
upon the dedication of the Chicamauga and
Chattanooga National Military Park we:e
continued. Addresses were delivered by
Fenator Bate and General Grosvenor, —
George Behrum was run over by a train at
Hanover, Pa., with /atal results, —— Dwight
J. Partello, United States consul at Sonnen-
burg, Germany, said in Chicago, that in his
consula’e alone the government Is cheated
out of $150,000 in customs duty, ——Peter
Kenizel an Arizona farmer, killed his wife
and himself, ——The miil of the Murphy
Lumber Company of Green Bay, Wis, was
destroyed by flre.——Mrs. Moorehead, of
Ogontz, Pa., was killed, and her daughter
fatally injured by being struck by a train on
the North Peon Railroad, Friday the col-
ored people in the vicinity of Oak Grove,
Ga., a few miles west of Camilla, beld a pic-
nie. Since that day about thirty of those
who ate of the picnic dinner have been sick.
Three of them bave died, and several others
will probably die.
‘rhe Cotton States and International Expo.
gition at Atlanta was successfully opened,
monies, Following a military
prayer by Bishop Nelsos. Addresses wero
made by President Collier, of the board
managers; Judge Emory Bpeer,
Washington and Mrs, Joseph Thompson
In the evening President Cieveland, at Gray
Gables, pressed the electric button tha,
started the machinery inthe Exposition build.
1ngs. Many thousands of veterans and
other visitors gathered on the fleid of Chicka-
ments of Michigan, Ohio, lilinols and In.
diana. Addresses were made by Governor
McKinley, of Ohlo, and the executives of the
other states. The Society of the Army of th
Cumberland held a reunion in the evening.
~The United Synod of the Evangelical
ton, Va.—— Daniel Reanolls, a track-walker,
was killed by lightning near York, Pa, and
his body subsequently mangled bya train
~The new con:olidation of Dbimetaliie
leagues perfected its organization at a meet-
ng in Chicago, and appointed a committee
to take charge o! affairs, with headquarters
in that city.
Louis Wyatt, who shot his !ather-in-law,
Edes Holiand , a year ago, and who receatly
escaped from jail at Claremont, Va., sur-
rendered to the sheriff of Warwick county.
—=The A. P. A. police commission of
Omaha, Neb, has discharged Chief of Police
White and replaced him with ex-Sergeant
Sigwart, as acting clerk, who was discharged
several months ago for alleged corrupt prac
tices, ——The Plate Glass Jobbers' Amsocia-
tion held a meeting at Minneapolis, —F, D,
Christian, a tobacco salesman, thoughtto be
insane, held up a saloonkeeper at the pistol’s
point, in Memphis, Tean,, and took #5 from
bim, He then fled, but was captured after a
chase of more than a mile ——A large party
of working people arrived at Clearfield, Pa,
from Gothenburg, Neb, baving traveled the
entire distance in wagons io quest of work
aud homes in the East, ——The United State,
government commercial suit in the United
States Court in Deadwood, 8. ID, to recover
$700,000 damages from the Homestake Mio-
seventeen years the Homestake Company bas
cut one million trees,
Petrona, Ind., by Thomas Beyers, whom BE.
was treating. ——James Walsh was shot and
killed near Beaver Creek by a sherifl’s
who were after him for murder,
schooner A, Heaten was sunk off Nanset
during the fog by the four-master Cit
Augusta ——Minnle Dean, convicted of
murder of chiidren, was executed in Inver.
cargill, New Zealand. —Iz a
J. D. Catebings and Sydney
posse.
fight between
t
Blackburn, at
woman, the latter was killed, The Sov-
ereign Grand Lodgeof Odd Fellows began
its session in Atlantie City. Grand Sire C.
W. Stebbins submitted his annual report, ——
President Diaz, of Mexico, submitted his an-
vile, Ky., and kilied by the husband. ——Th,
wenty-seventh annual session of the Army
of the Tennessee was begun in Clacinnati
Baltimore plan, favoring the admission ©
women delegates to the general conference.
Amos Davis, a prondnent farmer, living
ingdon, gave an apple-paring and lovited a
while Jink Thompson and John Chafline,
and both were present on this occasion.
Late in the evening a dispute aross between
them and they eame to blows, Thompson
was knocked down, and while lying on the
floor pulled his revolver and fired four times
at bis antagonist, Two of ihe balls entered
his abdomen and one pierced bis jeft breast.
The other ball penetrated the left lung of
Mrs. Emily Sparks, a youn woman who
tushed to Chaffins' rescue, Chaffins Is fatally
Injured, while there are bat little hopes for
the recovery of Mra Sparie. Thompson
surrenderol himsell to the authorities aod
eaters a plea of sell-delense,
A destruc ive fire occurred in Prighton,
adjacsnt to Portsmouth, which resuitel in
he 10 al destruction of Reed Bros.’ large
grist-m. ll, situated at the crossing of the
Deep Creek turngike and the Shell road.
The fire was incendiary, and thers was no
insuranee oa the property,
i anette
A LUNATIC'S ACT.
—
Dr. Dey While Examining the Man's Mental
Condition is Felled by a Terrible Blow.
Dr. Richard Dey, of Romulous, N. Y., lies
in a oritical condition as the result of an at-
tack by Earnest Benjamin, a lunatic,
Dr. Dey was making an examination to
determine the man's mental condition when
Benjamin suddenly became violent, seized a
stone and struck the physician a terrible
blow on the head, felling him and producing
concussion of the brain. Eeojamin bas
beta taken to the Wil ard Biate Hospital at
vid,
LANTA'S FAIR
States Exposition.
CROWDED WITH VISITORS.
President Cleveland's Part
Started the Mighty Machinery
by Touching a Button—Brill-
fant Pageant.
The Cotton States and International Expo,
sition was opened Wednesduy alternocn
Responsive to the touch of President
land at his summer home, Gray Gables, on
the shore of Buzzard's Bay, Massachu
Cleve.
in
Auditorium on the Exposition grounds, the
Machin-
ery Hall, the mighty machinery began
move, aud the great {air was open to delight
and instruct visitors until the ast night of
the year 1895,
This interesting event was the c¢. imax of
the day's exercises, A procession had Leen
formed in the city and procereded to the ex
position, The streets and wore
crowded and the greatest
valled,
I'uriog the nizht the finishing touches had
been put on a number of bulidings, Over
nine-tenths of the exhibits complete
and neatly appareled
each booth, The policemen were
the grounds,
where,
At 1 o'clock
mand of Col. W
States Army, as marsial, began ftom in
the line werethe filth regiment, United Slates
Artillery, New
by
0)
grounds
enthusiasm pre-
were
attendants stood at
patroling
Exposition guards were every-
the
L. Kellogg, of the
procession, under com
Uaited
IVR
Army, the Washington Or
iean's crack company, © Col,
Johan B. Richardson ; the
Georgia Volunteers and vari
troops, making tweoly-five ¢
Guests and directors rode in carriages. Five
bands, includ ng Glimore's famous organi a
tion headed by Vieto
musie for the tramping column, which swept
ts brilliant length cut towards the Exposi-
tion Park betwesn continuous iloes of ad mir
ing and cheering speciators.
The head of the column reached
Herbert, furnished
the gales,
the companies were halted and the
tion directors aad their guests
passed into the groun is,
The guests and the directors entered the
auditorium, where ths formal openiag oe-
curred, While the crowd was still gathering
Vie or Herbert rendered his new and ori:
Atlanta,” amid grea:
EXPOS.
in
carriages
ta
0 ape
nal “Salute
plause,
Ex-Gov. Rofus B. Balloek,
Risbop
as master of
geremonies, presented Cleveland
Kinlock Neilson, who the opening
prayer. Mr. Hemphill presented Col, A'L ¢
Howell, who read the Exposition ode, wiitten
by Frank L. Btanton.
President Collier
address, Mrs Joseph Thompson,
of the board of woman managers, spoke in
beball of the woman's department,
Booker F. Washington, ¢ }
siored,
offered
delivered the opening
r
presid: nt
the prin-
cipal of the Tuskegee Normal Institute, then
denvered an address in beball of
departmeat,
Mayor Kiag spoke for the city and Hon
represented Governor At.
by Hi-beaith
the negro
George KR Brown
kinson, who
from speaking for the State,
Then came the electric spark from Gray
Gables and the machinery started, the slee.
was prevented
works blaz:*d and beiched,
This ciosed the regular programme, and
the great crowd distributed
grounds and the buildings for a first peep at
tel! over the
piete and unequivocal success, and the ex.
position begins with every good omen in its
DUILDINGS AND SITR
The site of the exposition is a natural park
About three miles from the heart of Atlanta,
From a ridge which marks its outside bound.
artificial lake, The amphitheatrie topo-
graphy of the ground lends itself naturally
Fine, sweeping vstas
foliage skirting the fenes for probably two-
left to ba desired in the way of broad land-
scape allectn,
Eight of the eleven mala buiidiogs bave
than of classic architectures, They are sim-
Ply big, airy, well-lighted wooden rinks.
Their sides and roofs are of siapbeard and
thiagles. Their window-framss and sashes,
though larg~, are of the conventional pattern,
These are the bulidings ded eated to machin.
ery. electricity, manufactures and the liberal
administration and the Georgia manufac
turers’ buildings. All except the last named
Are painted slate olor, with dull green roofs
aad white trimmings, sons to be as unob-
strusive as posible,
Of the three main bulldings which are out
side of the common architectural scheme two
~the Woman's Bull1ing and the Hallof Fine
Arts—are classic in outline and eoversd with
white staff, The remaining one is the Min-
orals and Forestry Building, which has a flat
rool and a large octagonal tower in the cen.
tre, and whose sides have a rustis surface of
split logs with the bark on. The largest of
the main buildings Is that of Manufactures
and the Liberal Arts, which is 356 feet long
and 200 fest wide ; the smallest is the Wo.
man’s Building, 150 by 128 feet,
In one respect the mechanioal and electri~
cal exhibits at Atlanta will be especially note
worthy, if not unique, Fifty thousand dol
lars’ worth of Worthington pumps, which are
an exhibit in themssives, supply water for
the fountalae and aquarium, fill all the re-
serve tanks, and wili do whatever other ser.
viee may be required of pumplog apparatus
about the promises,
The cotton machinery of various kinds will
fllustrate thelr practioal value by operating
on cotton picked from plants growing on the
exposition grounds, the tults being taken
from Weir bolis by one new piece of labor-
ded, spun and woven Ly others and flually
made into suits of clothes by the aid of sew-
jng machines on exhibition with the rest, all
‘n a single day and under the eyes of the vis.
Lors.,
The Minerals and Forestry Bullding will
contain as five au exhibit as any that has
ever been brought together in this country.
The collection is made up almost exclusively
of the products of'the Bouthern States, Baux-
ite, from which aluminum is made, being
jArgely a Bouthern product, a manulaciuring
corporation has volunteered a complete ex.
bibit of the now mnde it,
drinking cups to small stewmbonts, and
articles of from
will
have & machine in operstion turning out sou
venir trinkets fcr the crowd, laoside the cir,
cie of clays will come one of the
building
CRUISER LOST.
Sunk in Havana Harbor by
Merchant Steamer.
FORTY-SIX WERE DROWNED.
Among the Victims Were Admiral
Delgado Parejo, Commander of
the Spanish Naval
in Cuba.
Forces
The crulser Barcastegul was wrecked at
and carved, Next will eome coals, next fron
ores, and soon. Inside of all will be a cireu-
lar case of gems from Bouthern mines and
river beds including two or three diamonds
and the largest single piece of pearly matter
ever discovered anywhere,
ibit in
be distinguished chiefly for
The ext the Woman's Bullding wily
the
he customary proportion of needlework and
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in the canal at
ue entrance to the port at Havaoa,
Admiral Delgado Parejo and three other
officers and thirty of the crew were drowned.
recovered,
also recovered,
condition, indicat
in the colli
# body has been
ing that be had been crushed
illustrations ol woman's accompl shments in
the higher flelds of art and indu-try, Collec
tions have been made of paintings, statuary
uted
women; of literature and music composed by
{
them: of
and architectorial drawings, exes
book covers, tiles, &o, designed by
them; of Inventions they have patented, and
f their work In variow
Hoes of trade formerly monopolized
of typleal specimens «
by men
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES,
Cape Viaceat, at the foot of Lake Oatarios
Was struck by a tornado, The
pot, storage shed and other bulidings were
destroyed, Two
sixteen injured,
Edward Latsbaw, his wile
Young sons and Hans Bjornstad
and three other pers
Uy an explosion of
Ferry, lown.
Charles Freundt,
age, from .
Cathedral in Toledo, Ohio, and was instants
’
ralir.ad de
persons were killed acd
Le
ed
ns were badly injured
their
were Kil
dynamite at Spechi's
A carpenter,
¢
ell {
the steeple of BL Patrick's
iy killed, Tue dis'ance from the steeple to
the pavement is 1
33 ¢
3i leowt,
No,
Mich, ,
A party of men went down shaft
the Osceola Mine, at Calumet,
found twenty-three dead miners a: the !
teenth are still
fire has been ext nguished,
evel, Five missing.
A report bas just been received in Browns.
ville, Texas, of the wreck of
"
Garlock, pear the mouth of the Rio Grande.
’
ihe steamer
The captain, a crow of four men and Joseph
Bimea, Jr, a passenger, were lo.t,
Fitieen oll tak
oad were bur:
suit of a collision
Cars on
Ait
Jonas Welch =
Durned and Charles « aris po, fireman of
ared by
the Eurilngton
od near yaa, (iL, the re.
as faleily
the
locomotive, was falally in) the col.
lislon.
A Cineinna‘i
Blosher and a
that
Zan named Harris
killed, Eagloeer Roberts was se: ob
fared and three J
despaioh rays
wotives and
cars were demolished fn a hea
on the CC seinnatl,
4 go
«and eniiisl
Orienns
New and Texas
Pacific Ruliway, near Blanchot
W. T. Thompeon and 0. L. Morton,
Angele Calilornia, were pols
ing from a bite
inlced wine, I: was jelit Ly
at the Sante Fe raiircs
Los
whieh they supg
i rtating
bare been given the }
M
with fatal results,
The Rev. Dr, Franeis I. Rolbins, of Phil.
sdeipbis, fell downstairs at
Grernfleld, Mass
snd badly b
“ihe house was
rter of oar
jag
Thompson and
iisten J,
fils hoxe in
lalt wrist
uising booy
to bs opened as the new
Prankila County Hcspital!, snd as Mr, Rob-
bias cannot be moved
will be the
Ureakiog bs
his head and
for several days, he
fe
Srat patient in the hosplial’
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SIX PERSONS KILLED.
A Southern Railway Train Strikes a Wagon
near Lynchburg, Va.
Six persons were kilied
crossing accidest Lawse
miles below Lynchlurg, Va
2s a
at “4 ¥tal
A vebic
j er-ons supposed to
ol Rustburg,
, & girl of
LE
inining ix be Joseph
t ailaban,
¥a
two smal
of the B«
Campbell county,
« IWO Wome about sixteen and
children,
of a
iraia,
pats of
. the youog wirli was so
severely injured that she died shortly aller.
Toe unknown in the
PAL los were
lificaity and some uaceriainly that they
of Ru tharg.
The raliroad ofMeinis are at a loss to une
derstand how the aco dent occurred at the
for a distance of 200 yards or more and the
occupants of the vehicle should have been
EE —— -
THE EUROPEAN CROPS.
Condition of the Cereal Yields in Eagland,
France and Elsewhere.
The crop prespects of Europes are reviewed
in a report of the European agent of the
Agricultural Department. In Great Britain
there are 1,147,641 nores of wheat under cu.*
tivation, 2,166,279 of barley, 8,705,905 of oats
541,217 of potatoes, and of hay, clover and
rotation grasses, 2 308. 481, and of hope, 08 «
40 ncres,
The crops In Holland, Belgium and Den,
mark are of average quantiy, but deficleny
quality, In Bwitzerand the wheat crop Is
under 5,000,000 bushels, In France the
wheat erop Is exeellent, but in Geemany the
(quality has been impaired by bad weather
though the quantity is good. The central
orops in Austro-Hungary are favorab e, but
in Italy and Spain the yield Is poor. In Ro-
mania barley, wheat and ryeare of good
Quality, but oats not so good. A large maize
orop Is expec od,
The crulser Barcastegul had been employed
business between
diff srent parts of the I-'and of Cuba. She
was a third-c
véeroment
ass cruiser, carrying five beavy
And two rapld-firing guos, and was of 1,000
She was bulit in 1876.
at mid-
night, with General Delgado Parejo on board.
Uo reaching the
'
nt.
The cruiser led Fort Bareastegul
of the
mouth harbor, clore
to Moro fort, the Barcastegul came in colli-
'r engaged in
Mortera struck the
kon wite the Mortera, a steam
TT™
iae
the coastwise trade,
erulser on the starbosrd and so badly injured
her that she sank The
though Ladiy damaged, stood off 10 give as-
the
the greatsr
at Mortera,
ouoe,
those on board Barcastegul,
ith ber boats, saved part
b Crew,
Admiral Parejo,
Jeu, Lopez A
1
Boto and Canajo
lazs jo
« or. Ma
Machinist Zarzuela and 35 of the crew were
Alde-de-Camp Gaston was saved
A, another of the officers, b
i, but was picked up by a bos
Parejo
caval forces
I Dalgado
the Bpauish
rived on the island June 17, fr
apiain Vical, of the steamer
be course of an interview, said that at
LIS
when be was two miles of the
within
of the barbor aod golog at a moder
of spoed, he saw ahead on his star
he presumed
ide a green light, which
ol a steamer leaving port
ordered the steamer t1oslow down," sald
Hrye
Criiser,
Glo Lhe harbor
it siarboard the
of the cruiser, we whistied twioe
thos indicating that we were turning
ibe barbor, when suddenly all t
the erulser were put ou
immedintely ordered the
WAS
engineer
3 backwards ; Lut it of no aval, jor
the sieamer coliided, I ordered the boats t
owered and 1
© preservers 10 be thrown
the collision we were on
ang ith the Barcastegul for a time but
this situation endangered the Mortera as well
1
i
ed
ny attention Del
Wag
8s the crulser, an I orde the engine to
iry 10 run
go ahead
the Darcastegul asbore, soon found, how
> LO
ever, that this could not Le done with safety
the Mortera,
the Barcaste
Uacking off Irom the crulser
wus
wu
ile cause 0f the
+ank almost instantly.”
extit ish of the
Mglis on board the erulser,
scribed by Captain Visa
wich
which was de.
; ofthe Mortera, and
indoutiedly was the of the
plag
r whore
caus
to.ision, was occasioned by the sto of
the engines Lo save the life of a ralic
arm bad Leen caught ins dynamo.
A DESTRUCTIVE
Tears a Church From Its Foundations and
Levels All Before It
CYCLONE.
A terrific esclone swept over Door county
demclishing fully
The principal
peninsula in Wisconsin,
thirty buildings losses were
inge Bhlloh Chureh
lifted
the
its
At Clay Banks
was twisted from
bodily into the air and dumped Lottom up
Its ne, It fa an
stose and lumber, and bas
For a distance
of twenty miies the A swatl
through timber and across farms, leveling
everything before it. No one was killed,
and only two persons are koown 10 bave
been hurt,
foundations,
undati
was: of bricks,
no semblance of a buliding
c¢yciones oul
DEFECT IN THE TEXAS.
Faulty «un Her Trial Run
Reports from the baitie-hip T' xas are thas
the vessel is being graduaily put into shape
for the official steam test, The machinery,
which was damaged by the shoal water at
the Norfolk yard, bas received a general
overhauling, It is believed at the de
partment that no permanent damage was
done,
The experience which bas been bad with
the ship shows thst there will certainly bs
trouble w.th her ven'ilating apparatus,
which was constructed upcen the same pian
as that of the Amphitrite and bes been
found to be very defective,
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FIERCE FIGHTING.
Cuban Insurgents Blow Up a Train With
Dynamite,
Detalls of the battie of Bao del Indio are
still vague, Some terrific fighting was done
and the Cutan cavalry showed desperate
valor in two unsuccessful attemps to eaplure
the Spanish artillery, They floal y succeeded
{0 taking one of the guns,
Tuo Insurgents have blown up with dyos
mite one of the trains conveying the rein.
forcoments lately arrived to the interior, On
the cars was the battallion of Luchana, and
the explosion cecurred between Guantanamo
and Calmanera, Immediately after the ex-
plosion a charge was made, al machetes, and
the bulobery which followed was fearful
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PENRSYLVANIA ITEMS.
Epitome of News Gloaned From Various Parts
of the Btate
John Young, of Topton, had both legs cut
off on the Allentown HRaliroad at Toptop,
He was walking on the tracks when the
Kutztown train came along and struck him,
Lancaster City Councils passed an ord.
nance autho: izing a loan of $120,000 to pay
the judgement recently obtained by the {
county against the city, and another submit. |
ting to the electors of the city the question |
of increasing the city debt £100,(00 for the
establishment of a gartage crematory, At
the present time there i: n® place about the !
pity fcr the deposit and
garbage, {
James Brown was instantly killed at the |
Stevens, Jacoon & Co. quarry, Pen Argyl, |
where he was employed, While
luncheon a large plece of roek fell
de-truction of
eating |
from the |
side and struck Brown in the back, crushing
bis body in a frightful manner,
wife and four ekildren, |
The Corry Kane and |
Charles McLaughlin, who led in the demon. |
stration and following ex-Pries: |
luthven's lecture last W eon viet |
sd at Erle, will be |
brought to tr'al, Ruthven was not present
at the trial ; the prosecution was conducted
by the Corry City authorities,
An unknown
Emaus. The
He leaves a |
rioters, Michael
suit
inter were
Twenty-five others
man committed suleide at
man had at Captain
Adrian's Hotel, He was seen a number of |
times lately to lie down the raflroad |
track as | assenger trains were about to
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been
on
ap
proach, but as the engines drew near he
apparently lost courage and got
walked away, His dead body
the Perkiomen Road, near
Toere is no clue to the man's identity,
body was badly mangled,
ages, t
scaped from some
up and |
was found on
the station,
Tie
is was about [#
is believed he
lunatic asylom,
told Captain
Adrian that be had murdered some one,
years of that
bad «
During bi«s'ay in Emaus he
The Pennsylvania Haliroad intends to give
Pittsburg a depot worthy of is
be
stat. ous on the continent,
the question of site
bezun,
J. Martin Woessner,
contractors, Al ezheny,
the city. It
to one of tte moet palatial passenger
Just as soon
work will
us
f¢ lad
is seitied be
'
in his
by shooting
brother, Jacob
firm, banged
uder 8 small
A peculiarity about the
t
side of both men is
himeei!
offios sometime 8
the Lead.
heed
Mares 1,
bridge on Troy BIL
sul
in
bimeel!
oh
Lae
Woessner,
himeeil og
that they left home
without any intimation of seli-destruction
or previ body was discov
his son. Woessner, who com.
1594, was also a victim of
His
Jacob
us threats,
ered by
mitted suleide in
chroale lil health,
Francis Pauview, a Frenchman, the win-
dow smasher who was the terror of the peo.
pe of Villa Nova, and Wayne [or weeks was
convicted in Melia, of window breaking, and
aise of amauit and batlery upon those who
aoarchistio
uid
Judge (
tried to arrest him, He bas an
appearancs, and wild jook and cc
not
speak a word of English, ayton
acted as interpreter, and told Bauview with
He
when
what he was charged, relused 10 say
word to the Court, frst arrested, be
said that be broke the windows because the
eople laughed at him, asd to others he said
in such fine
The st )
‘sloek
3 isk am
and thestoves thrown
pie haus ©
ouses, and permit bim to
ry
»
that pe t 10 live
bh starve,
throwing was a ways done Delween 12
and 3 o
& bedroom
sock at night,
windows, Julge Clayton sea-
tenoed Bauview, 10 two years in the Eastern
Penitentiary. As there was some doult as ic
condition, the Court d.rected an
his menial
examinati
d insane, be will be sen
n of the man to be made and If
t tothe akyium
at Norrislowa,
The Court at Norristown filed an opinion
in the estate of John Boyer, deceased, allow.
ing the Protestent Ep of
Pil adelphia §6:17 The
and
Mary Eimpeosn the interest of
iscopal Hospital
docoased wns a
Norristown banker giving
Mrs £5000 for
life, and at ber death the principal 10 Le paid
he hospital, Mere, Simpson died in 1802,
and the auditor awarded the interost and ac.
jolt a wil
to1
cretions on the priceipal sum, amounting to
#1017, 10 other dev.seos, but the hospital flied
exceptions which the Courtsusiained.
Great inconvenience to the mujority and
wos of much need=2 ork has been caused
at Wilkes-Darre, by the water famine and
iged to
gi+pend operations for lack of supply. The
water famine in Ashley is becoming a serious
question with the railroad officials and the
IL. & W, B Coal Companies. The boilers ag
No. 1 slope of the Hartford Mine were closed
on account of no water and all bat two were
closed at the pew sicpe at the Maxwell No. 2
The men were all ordered out of the ruineg
and the fan stopped.
A man ealied at the headquarters of the
Phoenixville police making loquiry atoutiwo
tiorses stolen from bim. The maa bad been
seat from Philadsiphia to Reading with four
borses for a mac %5 ihe name of Eyireh, of
the latter piace, When the man reached
Norristown he imbited freely and it was ate
when he again started on the way to Readiog:
After leaving Jeffersonville he went to sieep
and when he awoke two of the horses were
missing.
The Carlisle Grand Jury cams into cour
and recommended, among other thiage, to
Judge Biddle the buiiding of an addition to
the County Jail for the mceommodation of
1
Ther also recommended that
the Bberiff should receive 12 cents per diem
INJURED BY AN EXPLOSION.
ably Die
An explosion cocurred at noon at the fac.
tory ¢f the American Smokeless Powder
Company at Bay Chester, N. J. Several per
sons were injured, one of whom will die,
The injured are Frank Widner, 25 years
old ; Mary Bearing, 14 years old, of Westches®
ter; Nathan BE Leonard, 20 years old, of
Westchester,
Ex-Quoon Lilluckaiani has been pardoned
by the Hawallan government and all exiles
may return to the country. There had been
thirty-five deaths from cholera at Honolulu
up to September 5.
BURNED AT SEA
Terrible Catastrophe on the
British Steamer Iona
SEVEN PERSONS PERISH
—————
Six Women and a Child Burned to
Death While the Crew Was Fight-
ing the Fire-The Charred
Remains of the Victims
Found,
i.re broke out on board the steamer Ions,
from Edinburgh to The fame
rapidity that before aid
reached the vessel six of the passengers snd
the stewardess of the Iona were burned to
death. The fire wae put out after four hours’
Brugge.
The fre broke out when
London,
tbe Iona was off
Clacton, in the fore part of the yeusel, The
passengers were aroused and it was sup-
posed that all bad escaped from the burning
cabin, While the crew were fgbting
the flames sol assisted in
ippiying poassen~
gers with Jite Lets, There was no wiosd and
the sea was perlectly sme There was,
much excitement and
busy
ilers ou board
Oth,
however, so esnlasion
Bmoug the paisengers that the eaplain was
unabie to restore order
Buddeniy It that
women and children missing.
slewardess re-entered the burnin
presumed
war discovered some
Tte
Lis
were
darkness
the
were
& cabin,
10 iry to rescue those who
missing and als
and the volur from
burning cabia
reene,
Here there rushi
seeking bis
for
Was a passenger
and fro in anguish
there was another searc
ter, twas
¥
X
ind been burned th
enter the cabin, overed
echi'd,
were
charred remalas of six women and on
Then the engines of the steamer
started up agaic and the vessel proceeded on
its way to Loadon.
reassess ecsmsccssr
INCREASE IN PRICE OF COTTON.
The South Has Raised a Remarkably Large
Corn Crop.
* Manufacturers’ Record in its weekly
thern busisess conditions says :
y iarge Iallis the cc
tion Crc
mpared with last year
by the great
iis crop is bringing
t rear's. Io addition to
rased a y large corn
i an avundant of provisions
ive puttiog
better oopditio
interests
tinue active, and during the week a num.
{ enterprises have be reported. The
unning 13000
Wohin anh,
wiii be wore
§ ys vege
ince
ounierbaianced
ice mh ch 1}
MN
Lus remarkal
Uppy
sified farm
e farmers ¢
products, thus
fe Oo ir
{ the South in
r INADY years,
Cotton mill
en
spindles at Union, 8,
o be
, will build a new mill
0,000 spindies and 1,200
over ball a
mpany is fig"
on dolar mill
equipped with §
coms at an cost of
A New York
Min wm iild
ding of a milli
Aggregate
o doliars.
nthe bul
A company bas been organized
idsboro, N, C,, with £60,000 capital
urchase and reequip an oid mill. A §75.000
al
G to
company has beet organized
CA $100,000 cotto
has been organized in Ix
Winnsboro
8 compress Compan
uisiana, and a oyi-
indrical-bale cotion compressing
Tennessee,
A for the
factory
pressed
Among other enterprises reported
week were a £25,000 shirt and pants
ps and
& works in the same State; a $25 000 lum-
£10 000 tacnery;: a 25,000 ma-
a $10,000 eleciric light
pian; a §25,000 tobacco culiivating compaty
company in Florida
ory aud a £10,000 nava.
a $50,000 bicycle company
§22 water works in
ric light plant and water
wo: ks in Mississippi; a &50,000 cooperage
factory, a packing bouse and a Jumber plast
in North Caroiioa: nid coke com-
panies with §5 0,006 and $620,000 capital
sock respectivey in a $10,000
a $10,000 cotton
at deima, Aa, ;
bri
ber ¢
machine +b
mpany
chiunery company ;
and a $100,000 1
a 150,00 paper fac
stores in Georgia;
er lllzer
y
in Lotisiana, and 02
Kentucky; elect
two coal
Texas, and
n seed oil ©
Att
Mi
ompany asd
Compress Company,
sin IIIc
WORK AND WORKERS
Work was started at Champion Mise, 14
miles from Ishpeming, Michigan, the mivers
being guarded by Stale troops,
Two hundred weavers and spinners at the
Aurora, Illinois, Cotton Mill struck for a 1p
per cent, increase in wages, and the mili was
that down
The American Wire
notices, at its big p ant
that it would reduce iis
phe-half this week,
The Champion Mine at Isbpaming, Michie
| gan, started its steam shoveland ore crushers
with 100 men, the miners and laborers desir
ing to get back to work,
About 200 men and women, members of
the Knee Pants Makers’ Union, wao wers on
strike in New York, returned to work, the
emp oyors renewing the oid agreement for
one year,
; Trouble Is again brewing in the Maselilon,
Ohio, coal district, and a strike of the micers
| about the end of this month is regarded as
{ probable, About 600 of the Palmyra men
Nail Company gave
at Anderson, lad,
foree of employes
have voted to rejoin the United Mine Work.
ora
The 'longshoremen of FPernandica, Florida,
are on strike, and colored wen have been im.
ported to take the strikers’ places Thess
ymported men were fired on while sleepin: in
their camp. No one was injured, but the
men were badly Irigbtened, snd some
have left,
The pumpmen, firemen and otber Union
employes at two mines of the Lake Buperior
Company at Ishpeming, Michigan, have re
fused to go on strike at the bidding of the
Miners’ Union. The pumps, it is stated,
would be run in cass no mining was done,
sad the pumpmen desire to bold thelr posi