THE NEWS.
F Fire damaged the Omaha and Grant smel-
ter in Durango, Co., $50,600, destroying the
recalving house, sampler, roaster and several
smaller buildings, The fire caught from the
woiler room, and for two hours the entire
plant, representing £1, 500,000, was in danger
of total destruction, —— Gen, John CO, Black,
United States district attorney at Chicago,
received insiruotions to Investigate the al-
leged combination of Chicago packers to
control the price of besl, His instructions
cames {rom Attorney General Harmon, ——
The Bt, James, an old hotel, centrally located
was damaged by fire to the
Many
in Columbus, O,,
amount of $10,000 at 4 A. M,
had to ba saved by ladders, No one was Jost
or burt, Martin Adams, of Cincinnati
who caused the death of John Ohmer
ting strychnine into a pint
hanged in the penitentiary annex at Co'um
bus. —~United States Revenue Collector Bond
has received Information of
Harden county, Teunosseo, near the Missis-
guests
by put.
of beer, was
the capture in
‘sippl line, of George Davis and Bob Thomas,
two noted desperate moonshiners, —— Nelson i
Miller, a colored man, charged in Wilkes- i
barre, Pa,, with the murder of three Hun- |
garians, was found guiity of murder in th
first degree,
At Hot Springs, Ark,, a fire destroyed the
Pacific Hotel, the Crescent House, adjoining,
the Valley Livery Stables, the Jewish Asy-
lum, and five cottages to the rear of the Paci
fle Hotel, involving a loss of $39,000, which i
was only partly insured, ——- While the wind
was blowing forty miles an hour. fire was de- |
stroyed in the Moore & Galloway lumber
yard, North Fond du Lac, Mich, The mill
and about ten million feet of lumber were
burned. I.oss £140,000; Insurance
~The Chicago Methodist ministers, who
have to through the |
Pope, greater religious freedom ior the Pro-
testants of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, have,
ia response to circular letters, received en-
eouragement from Justin MeCarthy, Alger-
non Charles Swinburne, and the historian,
W. E. H. Lecky. All mpanies of
the Michigan troops, stationed at Ishpeming,
Mich., to prevent lawlessness during the
miner’ strike, left for thelr homes, —— Daniel
Corry, of Boston, was struck and killed by
the Pacific Express, Tyrone, Pa. -— |
Gov. McCorkle has appointed the following
delegates to represent West Virginia at the
first annual convention of the Iaternational
Deep Waterways Association, at Cleveland:
United States Senator 8. B. Elkins, George
A. Burt, State Senator N. E. Whitaker, Hon,
Frank Hearne and ex-Gov. A. B. Fleming.
Dy tne expiogion of a jamp in the dwelling
of Leon Kuchinsky in Pittsburg, two daugh
ters of Kuchkinsky, aged six and eight
were fatally burned. Dr. IL. 8 MeDonal 1,
who rescued the children from the
was severely burned, and wiil
$78 450,
undertaken secure,
five o
near
years
flames,
probably jose
the sight of one eye.——Five Indians
killed and several others wounded In a fight
with ranchmen, who lost three men, —— The
large frame icebouse of Frank Richards, near
Bustiston, a suburb of Philadelphia, was de-
stroyed by fire, A great quantity of io» was
destroyed, Loss, $20,000, —— Var}
ties in Pennsylvania fear a water famine nn-
less there is a rainstorm within a few day,
Hanna fought
g'ars who entered his room in St
Ct,
wore
Jus coun
lev, Thos, C. bur-
ington,
They cut and beat him, but got
Two men were killed on the A mboy di-
vision of the Pennsylvania Railroad al
Hightstown, N. J., while atiempting to cross
the tracks ——John was found
gulily c! murder at Chattanooga, Tenn., In
the first degree for the Eagene
Lynch, a constable, last March, ———A verdio:
of murder in the first degree was returned at
Cheyenne, Wyo., against E. 8
of the most prominent stockmen Wyom-
ng, who has been on trial for two weeks,
charged with the murder in January of hig
partner, Harvey Booth,
Governor O'Ferrall has set October 98
Virginia Day at the Atlanta Exposition
Bishop Haid, of North Carolina, conducted
the consecration service of St. Anthony's
Catholie Church of Lancaster, Pa.—— A co:-
vention of Irish Americans was held in Chi
cago to start a new movement for Ireland's
independence, Ex-Congressman Johan F.
Finerty, of Chicago, made a speech advoeat.
two
bing
Lemmons
be iilix '
King ol
Crocker, one
of
ne
fog a strong aggressive movement wee Thi
Norristown Shoe ( ompany, of Norristown,
Pa., made an assignment. ILiatil ties, $34
000, —— Four men were seriously injured by
the fall of a derrick on the newe unty eourt-
bouss building at Troy, N. Y. An iovest!
gation was begun in Pittsburg of charges of
bribery and blackmail against the potice de
partment of that city, The West Virginia
M. E. Conference adjourned, after the an-
nouncement of the appointments, —--A wagon
in which wers five colored women and one
colored man was struck by a rallroad (rain
at Long Branch, Allie Bell was instantly
killed, Louls Beaneit was badly hurt abo ut
the back, and the others received severs in-
juries,
Erwin Clarke, a diamond broker who dis-
appeared from Denver, Col, July 25, with
several thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds,
entrusted to him for sale, has been arrested
at Ban Francisco, and will be brought back
to Denver. He was traced by means of let-
tors mailed to him from Loulsville by his
wife,——John R. Lanier was shot and killed
at Point Pleasant, W.Va. by Thomas Potts,
The crew of the schooner, Menuneatuck, from
Perth Amboy, N.J., narrowly escaped drown.
ing, and were landed at Lyno, ——The ques
tion of the revival of American shipping was
discussed at the International Deep Water.
ways Convention, in Cleveland, The Irish
New Movement Convention, in session la Chi.
cago, passed resolutions demanding the free.
dom of Ireland from English rule, —— Holt
Robinson, white, nnd a negro, name un-
known, were killed in a shaft at Winter Rock
coal mines, In Chesterfield, Va,, the sides
caving in.——John 8, Matthews was son.
tenced to four years in the penitentiary for
embezzlement in Martinsburg, W, Va, — Mrs,
Violet Haskell, who last June left her hus-
band at Deer Isle, Maine, and married the
colored leader of the Plekaninny Band at
Cinclocatl, and shortly afterwards returned
and was forgiven by her husband committed
suicide,
I 5 5st
A Frenon foree from Guiana has landed
north of Amaps, Brasil, and has blockaded
Counanl,closs to where the fighting occurred
last May,
The Danger of Deforestation
Emphasized,
Dr.Fernow, cf the Forestry Division
Writes About Atlanta
Exhibit
it Does.
the
and the Cood
The rustic building In which the fores'ry
and mining exhibits are contained 18 one of
the Exposition
grounds, The forestry exhibits have all been
of Dr. B. E
{the Forestry
most interesting on the
installed under the direciion
Fernow the well known head «
Division of the Agricultural Department a!
Washington, On the top of the buliding is
one of the largest roof gardens in the world,
The entire buliding Is lighted with over five
hucpdre i lights and make an impressive effec:
at night.
The forestry exhibit countalns many In
structive thinge, Onojs a ricca of a long
were planted in
Btill another interesting
pared "ernow sl
tive effect «
growth, the mar
forests and the
THE FORESTRY
Dr,
article on his department
Fernow, has furnished
The idea which prevades the
Forestry Department i
vidior all Information
the axte
fa ness «
Therefore variety is
ws the I8
ibers may be stud
lisp ay occupying th
itiding,
The remarkable a'ze t
attain is
arolina,
wn in an exbi
ETRin are sh
and in a series of highly
which line the cen‘er aisle,
exhibit from Michigan of
ear'y woods in sizes, such as have
fore been polished, shows the
beauty of these ¢
From {
orn forest resources can learn that for variety
e 1
itlous grain.
theses displays the student
ADP ATANSs 1H
yi
other country ean vie with the weods of the
South, This statement is not vitiated
Uy the most attractive display of the Argen
tine Republie which occuples the entire east
wall of the bulldiag. Its woodsare the rieh-
est in color, but have little variety of grain,
and are hard to work. This variety in Ap
plication is brought out by a vezies of panels,
whieh indicate the use of wood In the kitchen,
in the laundry, in the grocery, the worksh p,
the field and the garden, in Nshing and boat.
log and iu every ot er cecupation of man.
All are represented In such manner as to
show the gradual development from the
rough block hewn in the forest to the finished
article,
aven
a ————
SWEPT BY FIERCE STORMS.
The Intense Heat Brought
Abrupt End
A terrific storm swept over the city of Mil.
waukee, Wis, the wind reaching a velochly
of 50 miles an hour, A number of trees and
small sheds were blown down, but no serious
damage was done, In the state a number of
fatal accidents are reported, and others wiil
probably be heard from, Many telegraph
wires ate down,
Lacrosse, Wis,—The long spell of heat
ended suddenly with a furious rain, in which
nearly half an inch of water fell in 20 min,
utes, The rain was accompanied with wind
reaching an extreme velocity of nearly 45
miles an hour, The streets are littered with
branches, and inany large trees were blown
down. Beveral plate-giass windows were
blown In. The temperature was 94 just be-
fore the storm, and after the storm 52,
a m——— I — sisi
Balfour, the great Eoglish Conservative
leader, has written a letter suggesiing a
testimonial to Tom Morris, whose name is
held fn hgh honor wherever golfers congre.
gate, as for a quarter of a century he has been
green-keeper of the Links of St, Androw, and
now is la kis seventy-fifth year,
0 an
The town of Friesa h, in the Province of
Carinthia, Austria, has been devastated by
fire,
1.500,
Cubans expect that Mexico will shortly re-
cognize their rights as | oiligerents, A band
of B00 insurgents {ssald to have been defeated
near Guaninonmo,
The population of Friesuca is about
Mrs. Langtry's jowsl box, sald to contain
J
J
jewels valued at $200,0,0, has been stolen
from her banker by m-ans of a forged order
for lis delivery tothe bearer,
Lhe s eamsbip Edam, of the Ne theriands-
American Line, was sunk by collixion in the
Faglish channel, Every person on board
was saved and taken to Plymouth,
The Ruslan winister o! foreign affairs and
a general of the Russian army witnessed
maneuvers of
the
the Freueh army, and thelr
presence is considered very piguificant,
The of
whose son, Prince Henry of Batt
Dowager Princess Battenburg,
‘burg, is the
husband of Queen Victoria's youngest d wugh-
Darmstadt,
London,
tn in
ata ship :
ter, Princess Deatrice, is dead at
Advices have been received
at
froin the east coast of Greenland th
supposed to be Dr. Napseu's Fram, was
sighted at the end of July stuck fast in an
jee drift,
The condition of allalirs
to be
in the Congo Free
Stato is said bordering on
Anarchy
The Beigian troops bave been fr quentiv de
KE juentiy de.
feated, and the natives are sald to bave re.
{ sorted to cannibalism,
i The British foreign om
{ that the Porte
f win in tb
i in ia
¢ denies tha report
has accepted the plag
i eo administratl
| men an, which was sur m
| signatory to the
nu were
Lit at Bawan
ving away,
ity
»
{ “SERI0ON re.
wn, the
3 Aristo 0 City
nart & Bas ¢
nart a has condemns
of an an
sleamer
years lmpris
ridgns in Cubs
| GEN. SCHOFIELD'S RETIREMENT
It Will Occur on Saturday, but There Will
Be No Special Ceremonies
The legal retirement,
of 3. sulenan -Ger
fed
eo
is galls
itie and pa
bh ghest
» a
ah army officer an
fo:red by Bpecial ac
gibie believe a
A A0Y Olesarvers
tere, that the gra je will
¥ vad for bestowal urot
fon
Wao ekanees to be eom candicg genera
the army,
Ho ———
WORK AND WORKERS.
{| The Dexter mine, near Ishpeming, Mich
iethent
| resumed operations with a fuil coms
i mi
| of men and a
i
i
the company’s terms, The
miners would not walt for the union to hold
| Its meeting,
The miners strike at Ish peming and Ne®
| Rauneo, Mich, was declared «ff. It was a
| question whether the strike shuld be ended
i by desertions from the ranks of the union or
| whether the union would yield to drift
| of the tide and end the strik s in & man.er
that would preerve ft. Integrity.
Three hundred of the iron mouiders in
! Boston and viel ity, employed in eight of
{ the eleven foundries, struck for an iuerease
of wages, abolition of the piece system and
recognition of the union working eard
Thres of the eleven foundries iavoived in
the controversy have settled oni a satisfac.
tory basis and their employes remained at
work.
Solicitor Reaves, of the Treasury Depart-
ment, bas decide! ttat a contras. made
with an alien outside the Usited Biates, 10
do work in the United States, even if the
contrastor does net financially assist the
alien to come to this country, constitutes a
violation of the Allen Contrast Labor law,
and subjocts its violator to the penaities at.
tached,
A Milwackee despa ch eays that the Ilig
hois Bteel Company bas made an important
Concession to t.e tonnage men employed at
Its Biy View works. “It bas been practi.
cally decided that the men shall not be re
quired to wear tags, and that if the new
System is introduced at all the men need
only show the brass checks to the time-
keepers whenever they are required,”
the
AUDIENCE
GOT AWAY IN TIME.
Barnum & Bailey's Circus Tents Wrecked by
an An Iowa Cyclone.
A terrific wind, ball, and rainstorm passed
over Burlington, lows, Parnum & Balley's
clrous was giving a performance and dis.
missed the audience, The main tent, ani~
mal tent, and boarding tent were blown to
strips and completely wrecked. No one was
injured. Thelanimals were badly frightened
and nearly stampeded belore the storm wag
over. No lives wore lost, although It was re-
GUATEMALA SETTLES.
Pays Indemnity for Arresting and Beating
Americans
The State Department bas succeeded in
setting an indempity claim against the Gua-
bebalf of
American iH, Argall, Henry
Thomas aud Robert Pardee, The matter has
a year. The three
wers employed
temaian Government in thiree
laborers, WW,
Leen pending for about
Americans concerned by a
Mr, Van de Putte near the city of Guatemala
to demolish a small shed aud carry the mu-
a desiznated spot, While in the ac
direct
re nrrested ly the
orini t
terial to
of carrying out these ions, the Ameri-
ean lab r rs we
an police and taken to the penitentiary
They
were
were not served with warrants, nor
they told of the charge against then
hey were furnished with neither warrant
nor charge, but were placed, according 1«
the description from our
0 iG
with
iegatl frunie
vie, thieves
mur
nw or having
dirty prison
mala, ina
derers, without having even
the
robbers an
violated a intention 10 de
Guatemalan officials devel ped
t theshed which the
oligh for their } ployer
ng
ng
*d by an officer of the Gov,
i Vande Putte claimed
the Guatemalun
rovernment was somewhat
the
coniar with the prisoners in the penitentiary
GEEravaled | ¥
fact that the Minister's messenger sen
quest to
Aflnis®
was denied admission, and our r
§ § y
the Gualemaian Minister of Forelgn
a to send JRE
milssic
: sw officors
aduates of An.
ras an Appren-
M. MoCo
Bn, ins j st returned 1}
mas, a
trip to the Eastern
wi cre De was taken
rin their
ot
who was assniiog
rdau as f { 3 worse!
moderna degenerates, has neatly
@ lables on bis eritic by having an
*, written by himself In 1888 publishe
nth, Jt takes
Nieigps
make
ordaa’s vi
eli che's iat ol a
as it does not
*o0i when listening
spires horribly in : ls A
lecadent, a disease, a rattlesnakes that
cioates ‘he very young. His music is *%
nastics of the | hsome on the roje of
harmonica,” Alithatis in Nordau's own
be retort is perfect,
———
SUNK BY A TORPEDO.
Different Explanation of the Wrecking of the
Spanish Cruiser,
An entirely different explanation of the
sinking of the Spanish cruiser Barcastegai,
nud the joss of 46 lives in the harbor of Have
ana is made in letters received lo Philadei.
phia by a distinguished member of the Cuban
revolutionary party.
According to the news telegraphed from
Havana the day after the catasirophe was
due to a collision between the cruiser and
the merchant s. enmer Mortera, It is now
sinted as an absolute fact that the Doreaste-
£ul was sunk by a floating torpedo launched
by an atventurous party of Cubans, The
Cuban leader who received the ietter said:
“The Spanish Goverument knows juil well
what sunk tbe.r bes. cruiser in the Cubsn
to their deaths Admiral
Delgode Parejo, in command of the Spanish
navy in Catan waters, 7 officers and 34 men,
We kuow that before the dispateh reiating (0
the accident was sent it was carefally «dit. d
by the pr. ss censor,”
A DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE.
Tears a Church From Its Foundations and
Levels All Before It
A terrific ejelone swept over Door county
peniosuia In Wisconsin, demolishing fully
thirty bulidings, The principal losses wore
suffered by the farmers,
At Clay Banks the large Shiloh Chureh
was twisted from Its foundations, lifted
bodily into the alr and dumped bottom up
several rods from its foundations, It 4 a
mass of bricks, stoue and lumber, and has
no semblance of a buliding. For a distances
of twenty miles the ayoione out a swath
through timber and aeross farms, leveling
everything before It. Noone was killed,
!
i
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
Epitome of Rews Gleaned From Various Parts
of the Btate.
Town
bursting
tichard Hershey of East Goshen
ship, wus seriously injured by the
ofa gun,
Ex-Judge Harvey was painfully cut in the
tue Allen.
is no
back of the hesd In a collision on
i
town Traction Road, The injury
LOrigus,
Asto
Hazleton,
Mai-
Jorie and Psler
st a
Bernardina Di Bio
Passarelin are
charged with Liowl: he bakery of
teo Gerod on June 20
The
side armor plates weigh
jethiehem Ir
for the Massachu
Riel
A horse driv
Bristol, was Irighlened
a telegraph i
and dashe
redu sustained seriou
the earriage was demolisbe
Thomas PF, Moyer,
and a tanner Dy «
ing to close A senOn(
unty Almsh¢
xd been un
band.
Jaye,
san: be learse
bis wile to give him
O85 a nd wn her fe !
nose, and on her refusal
lows, beat ber with a
jumped
heavy mis
on bh
ing
scious and Dbleedine
edest child, a 1 years, ran to
ne‘ghbor's and gave the a'ares. MeGeehan
was arrested in roods, an hen told
tha! his wife was pitecusiy to
ses her, Ho
at Car
ear's or pe, ull
tls and threes calves are
vod in the *#, which Is esimated at
ihe fire is supposed y have br
sidestally cacsed by a tramp, wh
foe i tod or fe th 3
permitted Lo loGge in the tarn
night
George W. Feohrom
, of York, an empl
was fal”
ree
of
the We tern
jured
Maryland Ralircad,
ally ic at the To, He at”
ver yard,
tempted to board the engine and
slipped, the tender and sngine passing over
both his Jews,
tender
1, cutting off Hrwisanew
employee of the road bhaviag
from the West, where he had served in the
United States Army,
recently come
As Mrs, Matthew Dach was returning tc
Mount Carmel from Mud Valioy with 87), the
montis’ wegen of her three sons she was at
tacked by three men, but made her escape
¥ displaying an empty revolver and
threatening to shoo ==
S.4y
Rid
A little child of George Sager, of near Seott
iye, and atter suflering great agony for as
hour died,
Toe remains
Maguires, on the Paimdelphia & Reading
to pieces, not a piece of his body large
snough by which to
found,
vale, Allegheny County, was lodged in jail at
He came to the home of Richard Herbert,
near Coanelisvilie, and told a pitiful story ol
which Induced Mr, Hervert to take oare o
him. Young Abley remained several weeks
and did such light work as they gave him to
do. Friday night he left, taking Mr, Her
ticles stolen were recoverad,
—————————
SWIFT TIME BY RAIL.
A New York Central Train Goss 147 Miles in
2 Hoursand 15 Minutes
A special train created a new record be.
twean Albany and Syracuse on the New York
Ceatral, making the 147 miles in two hours
and fifteen minutes, The official time was:
Lot Albany 5.58.80 A. M. ; arrive! Byracuse
8.18.30. The train consisted of two ears,
drawn by engine No. 990.
The New York World alro ran a spesial
exclusively for its elition and made time as
follows: Left Albany 6.22.90 A. M.; arrived
yracuse 8.44.12 This train would have
broken the record, but was frequently de-
flayed fn not getting clear track signals at
signal towers, As it was she was within two
io
A CALL TO DR. TALMAGE.
First Presbyterian Church Invites Him 10 Be
como Ita Co-Pastor.
The congregation of the First Presbytedian
Chureh of met, and
Washington, D, C., by a
i 10
to
Bunder~
unanimous vote degided to extend
the Hey,
ihe church as ¢o
®) ca
Dr, T. DeWitt Talmage to come
Dr,
by Dr. 8
postor with
The eall, as read underiand
and ade pled by tue
lows:
congregation, is as fol.
‘The conzregation of the First Prest
{
I
ian Church of ),
#assiall be
0ST IN THE SNOW.
Boys Perished While
for Cows
Bareastegu! was n
{ vessel entoring the
3 orulser was sunk,
and the Spanish admiral and ¢ rty-five offi-
‘TR
cers and seamen were drowned
a
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