THE NEWS. Governor Woodberry has appointed a com- mission to represent Vermont at ticn of industrial and fine arts to the City of Mexico the comming Augusta College, the most in Augusta, Ky., was destroyed caught at noon, with 400 children in the building, There was a mad rush, and the greatest difficulty is rescuing them, All wera saved, Ex-Treasurer Mandrake Clay, of Lawrence county, O., the exposi- be held in winter, building by fire, It historic (ireen was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the Ohio peni- tentiary and to pay a fine of 211,000, he hav- ing pleaded guilty to embezzling the county's funds, Two freight trains Milwaukee and St, Paul Summit, Mich,, killing Alfred C, Green Bay, an engineer, and Frank Stocks, wrecked and several freight It has been the custom fi of the Union Pa oyes coal at reduced rates, on the Chicago, collided at Mortag, of road badly injuring Two locomotives were ditched. ir & number of years CHrs sifle Railroad to sell its em- I'his will be discontinued on January 12. It effects every man on the the been covered by every body who system, and privilege has could employe, A lay being 60, 000 <laim to an petition bearing signatures and asking the reading of the Bible be restored to the schools will be presented soon «ago Board of Education. Deen prepared and fman’s Educational Union of Chie is believed at police headquarters i drculated Col., that the amount the Wells, Fargo Express Co ado Springs was £55,000, instead of £20,000 as given out at the time of the robbery, officials of the ¢ So far as known no tangible ompany are extrem cent, the thieves has been found. Ine United States Supreme Court denied the motion to advance the of Broker Elverton R. Chapman, of New York, for refusing to testify before the Senate cor CASE indi mittee during the Sugar Trust investigaticn, The Attorney Genera! appointed Henry Rechton, of Cincinnati, disbursing officer ol nagan, who resigned to accept a si tion in the Department of United States 8 xme Co tion of the Bell Teleptone miss the appeal of the Uni case involving the Berliner speakin phone, The court holds that it has j tion to try the ef, Wreck occ the Louisville and Nashville Franklin, Tenp,, resulting in the Fireman Love and the serious, if injury of Engineer Ed. Ce quite a number « Railros rbett, { pagsengers were con The accident was the result the through New Orleans passenger with a freight. The passenger demolished, Fireman Love der the ruins. ——Lin Deck Dunn, laundryman in Chicago, was s by the father of a young girl who attempted to assault, At Ottawa, Ont, ably shaken. bein pany shippec Btates cruiser Oregon San Francisco. he w was 164 tons, of gun and tons, West 1 roy, N. Judge Was sor Bhowalter, Court, Chicago, refused by the New Manufactu Western Paper Bag Comp bags on the pa tem. The } apartment hotels, $370,000 to Albert Geiger ham, John Zimbar and were 1 of brothers near the Col Station, were acquitted ville, Va.- I'he main buildi dolph Paper Box Manufactor Va., was burned out. Loss ance $97,000, man several injured by the falling of the Heisey Glass Wo in Newark, O, The Latter Day Saints laid the of their college at Lamont, Ia. Hall, a deputy sheriff, was shot wounded by W, Soott Kines, who found him talking with Kines' wife, Elizabeth Kelly, aged twenty-five years, daughter of a gar denver in Philadelphia, is said to have fallen heiress (to 15 000,000, Ferror, a migser, who was robbed in Waterbury, Ct, of #125 a few days ago, died, as a result of an attempt to commit suicide by The loss of his money despondeney, Charles Scehilder, wife and child. who left Fort Worth a few days ago, were found mur- dered near Laredo, The steamer Witter, Captain Huntley, from New York, with a cargo of phosphate, sunk alongside the dock at Mystic, Ot. Four cars which were ing drawn up a steep grade on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Raliway, near Bhorthills, N, J., broke away fram the loco motive and ran back at great speed, crashing into the locomotive of a newspaper train, The engineer of the newspaper train was killed and his fireman badly injured, ROCUSO East. Ran by a jury af ng of y, in Richmond £150 000; insur killed and ’ One was the walls « cornerstone Benjamin and badly Jacob shooting. caused bre RAN INTO A GANG OF LABORERS Four Men Killed and Beven Beverely .In. jured in a Rear End Collision. Near America, Ala, a conl train on the Southern Raflway ran into the rear of a fone struction train while the latter was backing up without proper signals out. Twenty lab orers were asleep in the caboose of the cone struction train, which was smashed. Four amin were killed dnd seven Injured, A BIG HAUL. Robbers Get Twenty Thousand Dollars Easily. PUT THE AGENT 70 BED. Confronted by Robbers with Pistols the Agent is Made to Opena Safe and Hand Out the Money~— Money Was Saved Thieves Not Excited. News from “The express office at Some the Colorado says: A special to Springs, Col, the Banta Fe Depot in this city was robbed of $200,000, Immediately after the depart ure of the uight express at 9.42 George Krout the express agent, s into his office nasked men, wpped from the platform and was confronted by two who levelled revolvers at his n the safe, This then head and ordered him to ope he did and they helped packages of money selves to two 5.000 and their yY containing £15,000 respectively, They then made escape. The money was part of a co ment of 50,000 sent from Denver to Creek, tuo remainder of which was safe, but was not fos ing the country in th robbers, The Wells-Fargo given out the folloy mpany ‘ial statemen garding the ro the Banta Fe Twenty thousand dollars was sent Denver to t nnl Bank ado Spring =H EE > pe safe saved the company During all this time the rf car in the jeast excited, 3 The robbers orders * ¥ and get into his #e ae of the rot juilts and tightly over Krout's head and ts Tuen Krout heard one of open the door and see if there them at heard the door slide hack a and then one of the robber's Wait Lat ha place said we have mething. the dang When Krout picked up urage t« it of bed and go outside, there was alarm was given, and hy the outskirts insight, A ‘clook posses was scouring the town, but no trace of the robbers was for vicinity the depot on castern Finally, two bloodhounds were put on the the gone along Pike's Peak avenue through the heart of the city. On the theory that would go to Creek, over Cheyenne Mountain road, a started from the city to head them off. The depot agent was not 100 yards away from Krout's trail, and it was found that men hal they Cripple the Tye % poss office while the robbery was being committed, but he did not see the robbers, and nothing about the matter Krout. The express company's offizials that the robbery was committed by A J. Gray, alias Sam Welle, and J. G. Stuart, aljas C, J. Starr, who was arrested for the theft of $16,000 from the express wagon at Cripple Creek April 11, and who recently in company with Tom McCarthy, escaped from jail in Denver, R. T. Montgomery, who was [a prisoner at the time of the escape, notified the police at Denver several days ago that ( irny and Stuart plotted when in jail to rob the express company again. The officials of the company believe that the robbers had an accomplice in the bank, Ss nn RII i — Uhicago Morning Papers 1 Cent a Copy. The Tribune in iw Sunday fssue announced that the price of that paper on weoek-anys, inside the city, would be one cent. Monday morning the Times-HeralG and the Inter- Ocean, the only other two-cent morning pas pers, announced a similar reduction in the price of those papers to meet the cut made by the Tribune. The action of these two morning papers places all the morning pa pers iu Chicago at one-cent a copy. knew until informed by believe POSTAL BTATISTIO!, A Baving of §1,300000 in Bervice, the First Assistant Postmaster-General Frank H. Jones has made his annual report for the var ended June 30, 1805, Mr. Jones shows that the divisions under his supervision havo saved during the year #1 895.577, the the service by stopping overtime and prinei- pal items being in the saving in carrier reduction of the force, amounting to #1,300.000, An estimate of £17.000 000 for all postmasters is the re- mads for the year 1897, an lncrease over present year of &1,000,000, Mr, rommends the abolition of experimental free #10.000.000 is Jones delivery unless appropriated for the purpose, Of the investigation and discharge of care riers for cause, Mr, Jones says that 885 csr- Of the conditions which made the investigatiops necessary the riers have been removed, principal one was it the overtime « The work accumulation of lnims showed that something was Wrong. has been systematically I rosecuted during the eight months, and the carriers at 151 offices have been investigated, Mr. Jones recommends the “employment ber of men 1 the larger offices NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR'S REPORT. DEATH. on of 8 Locomotive h and Hudson Ka Warwi ¥ y 113+ 3 of Phillips . gineer, Wm, Co i fireman, Hertburt The grade the wn near in started d« doubtless run into the boiler ¥Y bodler went 50 and | b feet from the tracks, nine trucks Heil i full length on a car and ung there, He and he apd gan setting brakey The train and feet in the air thie him eaving uninjured threw recoversd Ada a Moe hin wolf, ran one-half bef it could is stopped. Heil ran six miles to Warwick and gave the alarm, the and Adams wont back te flag Eastern express, Superintendent Bailey with a gang of men went in an engine to the scene, A terrible més inctor O'Neill was « sight the Cone rushed and mutilated al- wnition, the train having passed over him. Sloanhung uncons fous on 8 barbed-wire fence, and Engineer ( ooper lay dead under the boiler, All were nearly dead, parts of their clothing hanging in the trees nearby, A little later Fireman Beetner was seen walking along the tracks, his trousers bei ng his only apparel. He was dazed and said ho remembered going through the air, and found himself in a field 50 foot from the irncks. He soon relapsed into unconscious ness and was taken to Baston, where he died, DBrakeman Sloan died in Warwick, rescuers, 1omet beyond Poe i ——— Bamboo for Building Purposes. Secretary Olney has reesived a fetter from Mr. Charles Strouter, of Columbo, Ceylon, criticising the American method of house building on account of the liability of our houses to fire, and suggesting changes which he thinks would minimize, if not obviate the danger. He thinks a mistake is made in using pine lumber as buliding material, and In the method of construction of partition walls, moat of which are hollow and are genuine fire traps. Mr. Strouter say that the Ceylon bamboo is almost impervious to fire, and that where it is used as a building ma terial in that country no conflagration has ever been known. FIVE BRITISH MASSACRED. The Porte Held Accountable for the Safety of Imperiled Ameri cans. Powers are Delib- arating. A report has reashed Constantinople wl the trebizond and Erzeroum districts killed, It has been known all of the distri Armenian Christian teachers Christian and Armenian teschers in those 8 have ix r, owlog to the attitude of the Kurds, ad and actively aggressive setion of Armenia, mdon **b persons are rej and murdered while os Kurds are said to be armed the ry seri # state of aff at Zeitun, The Go to prevail upon the airs still prevails vernm still striving Armenians to lay down their arms, promising that they shall not be vested if they return to their homes and surrender the Turkish soldiers whom they hold prisoners, but the the victims of similar promises that it is not considered likely that they will do ed, The Porte seems to be with the eaptured arms, ete, Armenians have so frequently been as reg test. under which the diffienlty carrying the military measures decided upon in Asia Minor This state of affairs is particularly aggra- vating on sccount of the spread of the revolution in certain provinces, especially in Syria, where the reserves, who were recently called upon to join the army, stubbornly ro fase to leave their houses, It is claimed in official Turkish circles that the refusal of the reserves to join the colors is due to their fear of being attacked by the Druses, but the roal reason seems to be that they are almost cor tain to have to serve without any pay and on short rations, greatest trouble the laboring is experienced in out BIG BLAZE IN RICHMOND. EE ——— A Destruction of Paper-box M - jon a on anufactory The Randolph Paper Box Manufactory, ex- cept an annex of moderate size, was destroy ed by fire. Loss about $15,000. It is sald to be the largest manufactory of the kind in the world, and contained much valuable machin- ery invented and made for this factory, Over five hundred hands are employed, mostly girlie, The insurance is $07,000, distributed fn nearly every company represented in Richmond, Business will be resumed fn the annex, PENKBYLVANIA ITEMS, spitome of News Gleaned Prom Various Parts of i the Btate, | A disastrous wreck was narrowly averted at | The 7 o'eld mill train, which mostly freight train at the cK ex press, the children, collided Known as the employees, carried silk mill with a The brakes lower end of town. applied the instantly sped of and succoesded in reducing the train considerably, The caboose i and the Fhe passengers ware thrown abo smash engine thrown from the track anbonrd the train ut rather vic ently and con- the slight bruises, which siderable excitement was created among mill hands, Beyond several of the girls wis Ihe nd track 1 for se a G-vear-old ustained, go one hurt, rth Was veral hours, hild of a P burned A grin lander to death in the ire, near her was sent « m pasture and hh was whew that the entire ton o off Frank West. a © West, of oid son of Frank your Sixth and Highland Ches was struck at the Thurlow Station crossing onthe P. W. & B. Railroad and Aleg out off, A ! made; the child pass, and stepped in front of the car which The the hospital, where his life is despaired of In getting out of the way of Wolf, of Wiconisco, stepped off near that place and fell to the tracks Williams Valley Road and the twenty-five feet below, She was picked up and taken to her home, where she les with a broken arm, broken legs and & broken Her daughter, who was with on the trestle, sald her mother thought she was stepping off on a bank of earth. John Morn, of Minooka, while going to his home was attacked by foot pads on the south side of Beranton, and beaten in 4 most brutal manner. And when accosted by the highwaymen, he made a determined effort to retain his property. His assailants, three in number, overpowered him, and after tak. ing his money, beat him about the head un- til he was rendered insensible, He had to be assisted to his home, The police are on the trail of the highwaymen, While Bryaa Durkin, of Shamokin was walking along the Reading Railroad he was run down by a passenger train and had one leg cut off, John Rhodes lay down to sleep on the Pennsylvania Rallroad near Johnstown and an engine came along and broke his back, He will die. Avenue, filving switch was waited for the locomotive came in the car, child was taken to atrain. Mre the trestle yf the ereek, some BOR, her . Judge Emory Speer, of Georgia, will pre. side as one of the Judges of the Federal Court of Appeals in New Orleans, during the lust two weeks in November and the first two weeks in December, CABLE SPARKS, Healy has boeey expelled the Irish Plemothy M. the go from verning committee of Par- Hamentary party. ihe Canadian Pacific station Ottawa Wh Greneral Came Avirithe og ALGVGET X= { Lieuten- United Mates BAS Ee and returned th his wife ery eany, Next mo vered tw Messi fies ving herd raing a “1 ming Oo bor ne brush about He ime three miles northeast of mediately notified the brought the rv were identified as having been wu so-called Shuler When Shuler found that he shot himeelf through the b pillow was found an £3.03 in his own favor and a for property in East 8t. Louis, WALLS COLLAPSED. Four Men Buried in Ruins sad one of Then 84} Missing. The northwest corner of the mammoth table glass factory now being constructed in East Newark, Pa. for A. H. Helsey, of Pitts. burg, collapsed about 2 o'clock in the after noon, burying four men under the debris, Samuel Cooper, aged 30, unmarried, who was working under an arch was killed, Albert Boss, of Vail street, and Wm, Brook ins, of Riley street, were rescued by their fellow workmen, who threw off the bricks abd lumber that was crushing them, Both, however, are seriously injured. Thos, Hastings and Addison Siddon, of Mansfield, were covernd with debris, but were only slightly hurt, . The building was being roofed when the disaster occurred. It is thought that the recent eopious rains weakened the walls, Mr, Nicholson, of Pittsburg, representing Mr, Helsey, said that the damage to the building would not exceed $2,000, who mains to the They en with the was wanted be art, Under his for trust insarano policy dead of
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