THE NEWS. Charles H. Neville, freight conductor, and Slkney B. Lane, a brakeman, fought a duel in a narrow haliway leading into the offices of the train despatcher’s office o! the Southern Pacifle in Houston, Tex. Lane was almost instantly killed, and Meville was mortally wounded, —— Judge Cox, of the Police Court in a test case in Indianapolis, held the Nicholson liquor law unconstitutional, The section in question was the forbidding persons other than the saloonkeeper aud his family to enter the saloon in prohibited hours, ~— By the explosion of combusiivle material in the candy manufaciuring establishment of Charles Holman, in Nashua, N. H,, the Hol. man block, a large brick structure on Main s'reet, was entirely destroyed by fire, The loss is $40,000, but it is fully covered by in- surance, The hundred hands, —— Hess C. Van Bokkelen, ex telier of the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Compuny of Chicago, who was brought back from Mexico charged with stealing §40,000 of the com pany’s funds, pleaded guiity, and w s given an indeterminate 8 ntence, — Local freight train, southbound from Columbia, the Fiorida Central and Penlasula Railroads was wrecked four miles from Savannah Some ono sot fire to a tresile over a ravipe The trestle supports were burned away, and four- teen cars went Camp, of securing of a home for ex-Confederate veter- ans living in that state In the South Carolina constitutional vention Senator Tillman urged the adopton of the New England system, ——— The polices of one firm employs one on down,——The Stonewal Charleston, W, Va., proposed the con. towhship government Chicago are look« attempted to kil Matthew J. Stellen, the Chiilian consul at Chiea 70, ——0nae hundred delegates were in attendane) at the conven- tioa of the National Delta Upsilon Soeclety at Greencastle, aged eighteen years accidentally shot and Killed Ind, —Orson English, himsell while on a gunning trip near Laurel, Del.——A special train of locomotive beat the record [.r speed by runniog from Chicago to Dufl: 510.1 miles, in 48 average spead 163 6) a wreck on the Pennsylvania Rallroad, Newport, Pa., the fireman and engineer miles an hoar, neat were killed and a number of mall clerks hurt. — Walter D killed Joseph Miller because the insulted Dou- bins’ mother, - caused $100,000 loss in McKinney, Tex. ——Mrs, Delia T. from Bordentown, N. — The eslebration ol bbins shot and latter had -Fire Parnell has gone to New York J., to live, — the seven- tieth acniversary of Prolesor Francs A March i Ea ton, Pa.- "ou ‘n missing by was held at Lalayette Co wera the schooner Liz- the captain of gio Griffin, who arrived at Gloucester, Ma s,, from Grand Banks, They are Isaac Little, Ed«ard Carri.an, Martin Hansen and Carl Johnson, ’ Carrigan were { Nova Hansen and Johnson being Swedes, trawis. men were lost while hauling Acdrew Jaci Major Campbell { diesborough, Ky. men io all, Last wioter he Kili« miner at Jell.co and aflecied shooting the officer who Lad Jackson made | ee THE 8€ CORC n National Association of Manu Agricu tural Implements was heid at annua: conve Palmer House in Chicago ihere was attendance of nearly two hundred of leading manufactu line fron paris of thae of Akron, annual addres was an appeal for American foreign trade, ——The o ern, in East county, Pa., together burned, rers in that iotry. ( pel A. IL. Conger, read bis which SUprems id Seven Slars Vioeent township, the The Seven Stars Tavera was on the oldest landmarks it built long belors the Revol with stables, 3 the country, ution, and it O'Farrell and a large paity from Virginia celebrated Virginia Day at the position, ——Andy Jack, outlaw, mortally wounded by Jas, Hale, another outlaw, near Whitesburg, Ky, ——The stock- holders of the Southern Rallway, at a meet. ing held in Richmond, elected directors, — Fourteen business blocks in destroyed by fire, Loss $70,000, Samuel Davison, a prominent West Vir- ginian and ex-member of the Hiale Senate, committed suicide at the homa of a friend, near Berkeley BSprin 8s, W, Va.——Charles Carey of Baltimore, wase avicted in Bridge. ton, N. J., of abducting and marryiag a four- teen-year-old girl when Le had a wife living in Baltimore, and sentenced {o four years in jail John C. Jenkins, of Meshopen, Brad- ford county, Pa., was ics'antly killed by a team he was driving running sway,—The town hall, two hotels, the postoffice and a number of store buildings In Falronild, Wie, were burned; total loss, $75 000, — Patrick Connolly, his wife and two children drank whiskey at their home In Marlboro, Mass, and the baby died from the effects, The Reading Coal and Iron Company announced an advance in the tidewater price of coal 25 to 40 cents per ton, — Dipther.a and typhoid fever are epidemic in Chicago, ——A deputy United States marshal arrested io Lancaster William de Homidian, alias Phrame, aged nineteen years, of Columbia, on a charge of fraudulently using the mails, The State Bank, at Dulath, Mion, of which Charles 8, Stukey, who fled last week with $15,000, was the cashier, made an assignment to U, David- son, who owns a majority of the stock, «— The People's and Drovers’ Bank, at Wash- fagton Courthous+, Ohio, closed its doors All depositors are protected. ——A train on the Pan Handle Haliroad struck a wagon and killed the four men in it, near Bteuben- ville, Ohio. Atlan‘ a Ex- an was RIOTERS EXECUTED. Put to Death for the Hwasang Massacre Without Trouble. The assailant of Miss Hartford and a dozen others couvieted of taking part in the Hwasang massacre were put to death at Kueheng, China, The execution was witnessed by the For sign Consular Commission, the Chinese Pre. foct, the District Magistrate and a great crowd, There was no disturbances. ATLANTA'S BIC DAY to the Exposition. The South Upon Her Prosperity and Says It President Compliments the Is Founded on Bene- flcent Political Institutions, over this particu nr pe rtion of the Southiand than that which dawned ¢ ternationa! Ex swelled at the Cotton States and 1 n position. The thousands of visitors ihe throngs on tus stree’'s to immense pro fostions and locomotion soon be CAMS A matter, In accordance wth the ¢ lald plans of the Exposition man nil {seg of the day were conc iin the Exposition grounds, aad oa of the city emg into whieh proportion of ti tied themselves during the morniog. visitors unre The Presideatial party juietly at the Ara 031, where they remained until 11 o'clock, when they were driven 1 grounds, without Iusida th iy to the Expo parade whatever, tary was al1eady After gathered, the review the President de n address He was introduced by the Exposition ( par npany. te President sald in “Mr, for v Or my tehal! and bran President: Ou my own o- aborers in (he executive who have wr government bapk you Ye \ yf Soulhern enter thern re- cuperation, “Hut the pri we are also here to claim le o! your achievement, g { our countrymen, wherever fou ly appropriate the glory arising irroundings, An 8 aressio oh on? © ag hands with tl For five ’ 3! the great Amer and rate « f Then ered. until he was shaking one hundred three per the number per minute gradually bands with the I: fifteen minutes with rate yf one every second, the President's Ince was covered pers. pitation, and be was evidently tiring. For ft thirty-three minutes Liz continued » shake hands with the throug and to speak a pieas- ant word to many He finally said that he he line was clo ed. The party were driven to the stan i, and all were wheres a cold iansheon was served to the company cf 300 people. Alter luncheon, the President began a tour of the grounds, visiting the ment Building, the Main Building, the Negro Bullding, and the Exposition throughout, The s-ries ¢! courles ea Presidential party was conc nuded with a re. coption at the Capital City Ciub waleh put fatigued, and for Was carriages the waken to the Piedmont Club, (rovern- inspec ed extended to t-eif on record as the mo-t elaboraie social unction ever undertaken in the Souh, The Ch ¢ Executive reached the e¢ ub, acoom- panied by the Cabinet and the Indies of the Cabinet, befween 9 and 10 o'clock and spent an hour or more receiviag the 1.500 present, Ma), Livingston Miils, president of the club, did the honors of the occeasion, After the reception, the Iresidbat and his party boarded their special train aad leit for Washington, EE ———— CHICAGO I8 “BROKE.” wp —— Fire and Police Departments Must Be Cut Down to Practical Abolition. The city of Chieago is “broke.” It is now proj osed to cut the Fire and Police Depart. ments from one-third to one-half aud scale down other branches of the public service to an extent that will practically amount te their temporary abolition, On the authority of Comptroller Wethereli is was stated that there 11 no other way out of the embarrassment. The oity is running behind at the rate of $1,000,000 a year, and bas a floating debt of $6,000,000 accumu- Iated during six years, A ——..——— poopin MeGarvio, a California flsborman, who Ilves at Almamites Bay, is an expert ahark catoher, Ho flshes for them by means of stout lines fastened to stakes on shore, Re. cently hoe caught eighty in one day, They are sold for the oll in them and the Chinese consider their fins quite a delloacy. § CABLE SPARKS. The Chillinn eabinet has resigned, Emp ror William and the Empress Au. gusts visited the vattiefle!/ds around Metz, An fneident of Emperor William's visit to Metz was 5 cheer for France as the imperial paity drove to the cathedral, A dispatch received at Yokohama from Seoul states that the bedy of the murdered Qaeen of Corea ha: been found, The bultan of Turkey has scheme of reform demasdel by tha but the mas.acre of Armenians con'innes, The provineinl elections iu New Brunswick bave resulted in a great triumph for Io a house cf the powers, signed Premier Dale, 40 members the oppo- sition will have but nine members, Bmuggling been extensive scale hae Now cuadland, It is o:t mated that the new colony bas lost many thousands «f upon di-covered In an dolinr« In reveuus. Beveral arre: 8 havo been mn le, One of the managers of Eikingtoa & Co, f London, one of tha leading siiversmi: bs has Leen arrested in recent rotboy of $25,000 worth of silver while in transit over the Midland Railway. Japan bas been fireed to a speedy with. irawail of her troops from Chinese soil by a peremptory demand from Hussin, France an! Germany and the [reling of bitterness aga'nst Europeans s:ronger in Japa Madrid that Cuban It is oMicially ansouncal la 13,000 troops wil start for this week, Tha CIATHA {.surgen's in the have cireuln'ed pamphlets advising the inhabitants not 10 use the raliroads, as they have determined tv blow them up with dynamite, Canadian bankers have ¢ mplained to the government of the grea! amount of Amer. fean silver and ¢ tio in banks o iver cortifieates in the domini eireulas yn, which causes the nsiderable rss and inconvenisnoe, jusiness men have been urged not to receive thie money at par, NE —— WORK AND WORKERS. This is the eighth week cf the sirike of the Garment Workers’ Union at R chester, Now York. The laste-s’ strike io Company's shoe factory, ‘n Lyno, Mass, has been settled. The terms Lave not been made remainder of the iron and brass yod mouiders « mpl General Electro Com wont on #irike The request made a week age rence { Masa ) iron iors that thelr employe ! wages at nsidered robably be grate g will dismi-s all the em I, Maw * ta w piant on rk will oft is to diel the be done by 3 : I obfe avold weekly payments of wy , wi law now requires, Secretary 8S nith bas directed the ron in the law d Ow vision ¢! ths Interior Deparicient srk one hour extra day in order of th that brought uj ¢ fut ‘ 5 OG date i: { ¥ s BAP, n the work livision may be w ab months in arream ten and Sileen th Bertwean 1 att: nded the ¢ tion at ( the ring an increased wage sonle, to discuss situation and take steps 1 ine by representatives ward secu mestiag waswell attended a the Cestral asd Northern Penasylvania is District President M¢ shott at Masilion, Oblo, sop called on Mayor 3 an asked him to Arbitration, on the ground that the striking miners would probably accept the results of the Columbian jotnt meeting and go to work, “This is a reversal of recent Independent altitude.” The strike among the lasters of the Thos, 3. Plant shoe factory, at Lyon, Masa, which was started about five weeks ago, wat sel. hold off the State Board of the miners turn to work, Mr. Plant returned from a trip abroad, and, after a conference with a Providenes Ladies’ Union, agreed to pay slighty per cent of ths advanes asked for by the sirikers isin II THE NICARAGUA CANAL. vor of It. The “Manufacture:'s Record’ sent to every Cabal tend by act of Congres makes “It the special Nicaraguan mites, appol Com- tha leasitiiity of ‘ay the eapal, will you probably aid lookiog to its early construction 7’ One hundred and bave ot ninoty.six are strong y in favor of the bulldiag of the canal, ether by Government aid ownership; two are opposed and twenly are non-committal. Qalie a number of who answered are very strong 'y ia eighteen repiios been received {hese or Government those favor of the canal, but expiess a desire that the United Bintes Government should t uild and own it Among those who favor the measures are Senators Morrill, Palmer, Frye, Sherman, Daniel and Pasco nnd Congressmen Aches ir, Underwood, Hicks, Hardy, Catehings, Moree, ewart and Robinson, —— TALMAGE I3 INSTALLED. Becomes Co-Pastor of the President's Church After Interesting Exercises. In the presence of a gathering that filled the edifices, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage was installed as co-pastor of the First Presbyter. fan Church of Washington, D. C., to which he had recently bess ca'led. The First Pres. bylerian Churth, of which Rev. Dr Bryon Sunderland ls pastor, was chosen by Presi. dent Cleveland as his place of worship when he first eames to Washington as the Chief Ex. eoutive of the nation, and he renewed the choice when he became President in 1803, The order of exercises included the read- ing of the 112th Psalm and the Gloria Patri. Dr. David Gregg, of Brooklyn, delivered the sermon; Rev, Adolos Allen, moderator of th Prostytory of Washington, put the constite tional questions to Dr, Talmage; Rev, Dr Wallace Radeliffe delivored the charge to the oo-pastor; Rev, Dr. BF, Billinger, the charge to the people, and Rev, Dr, Thomas Chals mers Easton the closing prayer. Dr. Tal mage pronounced the benediotion, TROOPS ROUTED. Decisive Victory Obtained by the Cuban Insurgents. ARTILLERY CAPTURED. Puerto Principe in the Hands of the Patriots ~The Junta to Ask Re- cognition of the United States, A member ¢f the Cabana Junin, who travels for the cigar trade, and who was a colonel in the first Cuban revolution has Minneapolis, Mian, Just reached While refusing to permit his name to be {| mentioned, on the ground that the success ol depended upon the snerecy of bis movements, he, nevertbeles: gave to the press late news Junta from Cuba, rece ved by the He bas been concerned in | every effort of Americans to the the Wilmington help the 4 Cuban cause, Including Following is a di- patch received from Cubs | descr bing ths recent | which gave the contr Puerto Prinsipe to the Gerperal Maceo, neting the war minister, started to tingo de « Crent march | ubn 10 jolt Grail Fansehc Sania age the sugar plantations me liately dispaiched a fo 2,500 men, under General Ech of the Cubag f found Genaral Maceo a gu, far ad vance Valley, lglum ils way as the Ban Juan ba, between Po $ 000 ¢ eavairy and 2,500 Inia 200 men less, but thi than compensated three excellent pieces of arid ed Band was Ihe Spasiards are fig! rive Bo AT. Or Als on, | Ke neli Casi well remembered in « the Jeanneite expedition t President Cleveland H has yet and is probably having troub.e in g ikrough th TREE OF FIRE FELL ON THEM. Four Campers Killed While Sleeping Under s Blazing Oak Three persons were killed ‘nstantiy and hn very peculiar accident in the woods another so badly burt that died, by a Dry Va €n Fork, abou: ten miles {rom Eikios, W Johu Carr and his wile, and two sone one 17 and the other 20 years old, went into the woods on a ginseng digging expedition, tak ing with them a camping outiit and food a week, They ma ce thelr camp vear a Lig | dead oak tree. During the night the eamp fire burned brightly, and the tree being ary took fire and burned About 3 ithe tree was burned so through that it would not support ils own rapidly. nearly The tree, fa ly four {set in diameter, leil fairly in the midst of inmily. He the sleeping A doot.r was sent for, hemors- arrival, Jt « sOvYOra hours’ work to remove the bodies from be. nealh the tree trunk, it being too heavy to 4 aman I TO THE DEATH. fexas Trainmen Shoot Each Otherand The» Clinch in a Final Struggle Charles HL Naville, frei ht eonduetor, and Sidney B Lane, a brakeman fought a duel ia a narrow hall ieading into the office of eifle, at Hou ton, lex. killed and Neville was mortally wounded same or+w, had some trouble that resulted in the brakeman making a threat to kill the eonducior. They met, and each pulled a gun and fired five shots, two taking effect in each man. Toey then ciinesed and clubbed each other with the butt ends of their pis.ols until Lane sank to the floor, dead, and Neviile fell over with a groan, Neville is not expected to live. The men were about forty years of age. Neville is married A. ROBBED BY MASKED MEN. S—— They Invaded a Telegraph Office and Got §32 and Some Express Packages A dariog robbery was committed at the Kanawha & Michigan depnt in Point Pleas ant, W. Va, by masked men, A train was duo at 8 42. Alter its arrival and departure everbody left the depot, and Charles H. Kuhn, the operator, was closog, when sud. denly the office was invaded by masked robe bers, and as he turned jist Is were thrust into his face with orders to throw up hig bands, which he did. . The thieves got #32 and several expross packages. Two boys saw siz men leaving the pines, and later they were arrested, Lut could not He recognized by Mr, Kubn, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. Epitome of News Gleansd from Various Parts of the Btate An organiza gang of thieves from Petry in West Maribor Buker cabin county were captured Township by Constable E. C, and a posse, who surrounded thelr and ¢sused them to surrender. Four of them are now In fall, but from the testimony of ons of them who the leaders of iki male 4 confession fo jail gang are still at large, anl it is beileved they have returned to Perry county, to which place au officer has basen sent. A large quantity of stolen articles bave besa recovered Food Taspecior Frank Moore, of Pittsburg, arrived in Eris and commenced prosecui:ons agains. a large number of hotel proprietors, Q M. Ban- Armour & wT. VW. res aurant keepasrs, Bwil. Bro , manager, ani These are charged by Levi sommissioner, wth violation t 0. 1885, governing the sale of Me. Moo and secur and its imitations, {abies 10 abies have boen analyz Jd, Mr. Louls Glass, East Btroudsburg son from a horril wa pinylug witu seriousiy i ieiplhin with lis & hole into evidently asleclives, 'oiter was held man at Johnsonburg, ar Tie highwayman socare caped in the darkness, ered soon after and pliysi taken atieading BAYS Cover, At an tramps were seen i inio the air Masser : Were a drink of the gas. soe denial i ped down the steps on whic went off. The bali pierce Green une, id Is overs i with Mra gris over the ao Green's physi clans are unable 10 say what the result of the wound will be, Toe Bu by Poitst nbury Iron Works, largely owed will resume alter an The connec. ed Wo eapitaliels, idieness 0. over annual four years, pacity of the nail mill with the works is 120.00) kegs of ens: nails John Luz, an employes of the Lansaste: Gas Company, while intoxicated attempled to kill Policeman James Erisman, Lutz was driving down the track of Quarryville Rafiroad when be was stopped the Laocaster & faa reckless mann: officer. Lu: when he assawited by the was taken from is buggy, alter a severe sirugeie os Eri¢man pursuing fired twice, both w de of their mark. While preparing to fire a third shot Luiz was seized by the officer and assistance arriving the desperate man shots fortusately being An explosion of gas ocourred at the Dut. tonwood 8taft of the Parrish Coal Company, Sweitper, of Nantio ske, very seriously and a Folander his laborer, siigntiy, Robbers broke into the store of P, A. Gar. ber, at Newville, and carried away dry goods and ol thing amounting to $100 A reward of $100 has been offered by Mr, Garber for the aps rehension o: the thieves Young ladies as conductors of street cars under the aus; ices of the Y. M. C. A. was the novel attraction in Johostown ‘or one day. To say that they made a success of the un- dertaking dos 551 exprass it, Almost all the cars were engaged by privale parties, Adam Mowery, a prominent farmer of Strassburg Township, died from blood pols. onlng, the result of a peculiar accident. In assisting to raise grain in a mill his band was caught in & chain and braved, The in jury was considered trivial, but the hand be. oame swollen, blood poisoning ensusd and death resulted after great agony, The series of assaults and intimidations of women still has sway in the vie nly of Nor ristown, because Mary McCOormie, a Bridge port girl, did not furnish a tramp hot coffes in addition to & substantial meal, he pressed a revoiver to hor face and demanded 11 under the pain of death Toe girl caled for help and tho tramp hurried off, A Blt BLAZE One Hundred and Eighty Houses Destroyed in Algiers. A THOUSAND HOMELESS. The for Sufferers Try to Lynch a Bt Ten Man rning Out the Town Squares of Bulld ings Burned. L\igiers, La., aestroye ihe the rend nssersed at that ol i Barrow spirited Lo aud who ALOR i Blation sharge of VRS iower part He kcpt 8X A WHO Whe tad repula~ Taere were everyting and who re f luge « Ars was dark bar; nperial entirely pie and pleas nteresting by learning. Ow- rin he uses hrases,'’ id negress acks fin South re, pretty n. She and her ¢ of! berg r nearly two old. We yad that she a periectly dolls, and SATS ring, laugh” The wiedge of said Hjorth Boye know- » never wrote in familiarity He was wel up in the hobo talk of knew some: hing of the gypsy the pigeon Eaglish ¢ { Chin the dock rats oken in New ¥Y rk of which be had not a basic knowledge, When he was pro iversity two overtook him Ithaca, in eompany with a most tattered and disrep- dish e tram As the coliegians drove slowly by they overheard part of the conver-ation. srkable dinlect it was not t ol wih jt. trampd sm, he patter, and Ir: atown to the thiev 8 slang of there was not a slang # essot in U Corneil Juniors cut driving one day walking along a country road, near To their great surprise they d scovered that the professor and the tramp were indulging n a bot and heavy s'anging mated, and from what they could bear the tramp wa: coming cul second best —-————— THE BURGLAR ARRESTED. Four Boys Wlo Broke Into the Japanese Legation. The Japanese legation, Wachington, was sotered Uy Loys and robbed of several hun- dred dollars’ wor of jewelry. De ectives Wiliam Ausiler and EL Fields for the robe Very. Ali the sud was found on the boys ati they conless =d to the rovbery. ihe eircamsiances surrounding the rob bery are quits dramaite. The first three toss are orphans, and were for some time in ose of the eity orphan asylums, They are al about the same age (sixteen years) and deliberately planned 10 -tart out ia life as burglars, Some tune ago they attempted the robbery of the legation at 1310 N street gv Tuis time they did not oarry off anything but some wine from the minister's private stock, They paid a second visit, however, | and secured several gold watches and a lot of other jewelry. : The arrest of the Stewart bys was the first one made, as Harry Stewart was forme erly a messonger at the legatioa and was disoharged several weeks ago on susploion of having stolen $50 from an attache of the jogation, They bad given ali the stolen goods to the other palr and had planned that they would say noting about the rob bery as they expected to be arrested. They were frightened into a confession, however,
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