THE NEWS, Governor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, is ill with Moses Max Greenberg were ool United mn comp Rosengarten, Henry bilious fever, Jacob wvieted Frank, Fineburg and iterfeiting in the The me working gang When the v eral hundred Slates try. friends of the burg prove best in the world v Hatfleld killed Craig near itHamson, W,. Honey, i Ya., was killed by Charles burg, social in Denve burned partly by store number narrow hurt. tees cannot lease ti erty without aut James I in Chienago fror Andrew and killed, A rehooner Shamrock, wi owis att Gazzalo, and, as a resul part of the sponging at Tampa, F Martins Reef, a heavy northwester capsized Six negroes, who were were drowned, ia., reported that w seventy 1 below The Ges Trust injunction was taken up in Judge Bhowalter's Un States Court in Chicago. for an injunction to prevent issue Is the prog consolidation of the Chicago gas com ato one trust. The American Alliance will hold its next year's congress in Boston. Eleven children were poisoned in Detroit by eating poisoned bologna sausage, President Mack, of the recently organ- ized sewing machine combine, explained the purposes of the organization, ~The SBhelby- ville Cabinet Company, of Shelbyville, Ind, , made an assignment, ' Liabilities, £90,000; assets, about £50 000, Two persons were frozen to death in St. Louls, and a woman and a child nearly perished. —— There was a big blaze in the wholesale district In Indian- apolis. The loss is estimated at $500,000, Pears are entertained for t ship Gorzdel, which is belisved to have foun dered in the Pacifle, John Sharp, of New Martensville, W. Va., was found froze to death, Harry Martin, alias St. Clair, alins Linsoln, and alias many other names, who Is regarded by the police as one of the boldesi highway robbers and burglars in the coun- fry, has been arrested, He is wanted in Cleveland, O., for a diamond robbery for which he was arrested several months ago, ~Aunton Hodenply, of the New York dia. The Parity ie British steams truck wagon at the railroad station at Peorin, IIL, and received injuries from which he died soon after. He had $70,000 worth of diamonds in his possession.-—An explosion of nitro-glycerine near Butler, Pa., killed Lowry Black and George Bester, two em- ployes, Freight train 68, southbound, on the Norfolk and Western, was wrecked at Patrick Creek, W. Va. Fireman Ganze was fatally hurt and others were seriously injured, The engine and fifteen box cars are a total wrock., Loss heavy.~--Jacobs & Sons, one of the largest retail dry goods and shoe firgs in Charleston, B. C., running five stores, made an assignment for the benefit of eredi- tors to P. H. Gadsden. Liabilities and assets unknown. Opening Scenes in the Senate and House, REED ELECTED SPEAKER. Galleries Senate Capitol] Card Only—~The No Attempt at Organiz of Flowars Eoth Cnambaers, Admission to the Was by Made ing Hanks in i met an Gutine proces ‘ongress is sly Hl #8 transs swearing in of new Senators g slected. They proceeded to the in groups of three and fours, accompa by their state colleagues, and with 1plifted right hands took the oath as it was read by the Vice-President, AN INGENIOUS BWINDLE. cher A Penniless Telegraph Operator Collacts Bogus Messages his hom n arrested in R. W, Tracy, who mira, N. X., has bev 0., while i racticing "avs an ingenion He employed a messenger boy nn inelosed the h known persons. The Ix ¥ telegrams with bogus Unlon envelopes to mes of fifty was sold to He had enoded in colle 2 the charg fr #1 charges five persons paying the charges The messenger boy and Tracey, who the house fifty bogus m wna waiting outside were arrested, The the bo egraph operator, and that he f which 00 ball, MR. BPOFFORD'S ACCOUNTS. nll addr HEARS, y & possession, Tracey adopted scheme to get money, He was held in he was need, Treasury Report Bent to President. The report of the Treasury the shortages lo the accounts of Mr, Bpofford, Co pleted and delivered to the President. tively small amount, about which there is some difference of opinion. Mr. Spofford beyond carclessness nnd an ex- tremely loose system of keoping Rocounts, the Treasury ofMelals declined to answer, saying that the matter was entirely in the hands of the President. HOUSE, the Hou elaote Firsr Day. --In Reed, of Maine, vote of 28 Wh , 08 agninst 9H i of Georgia, Mr. Reed, | made 8 brief speech, in | thin he sald that thos wisdq in the | if ith wisdom in the Pennsylva , of New of Mish § iA | FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, | { 1 ind mr Hay He had of pr sYeral boys Drergy duoe, y grind some blast § lor in a coffe Charles Mos Wilson were probabiy fatally explos sion which ensued, Anton Hodenpy iamond merchant, in, LiL, of Now York wagon al i, 8 well-known fron foll from a and was killed, He hind $70,000 the diamonds in his possession at Stanley, eonductor, and GO. brakeman, the wore Killed in a wreek of coal trains on Norfolk and Western Branch, West Virginia Baliroad, at Lick A thousand pounds nitro-glveerine ex. ploded in the magazine of the Humes Tor. i and two magazine family bert Coubillon, Bandwich, Ontario, were poisoned 1 eating bologna sausage whioh fs supposed to have been made fram disensed meat, child died and three others are expected to | One not A passenger train on the Savannah, Flor | Jacksonville, A sleeplug oar turned com- i saoven of the passengers | Reports of destitution from the northern be re that the inhabitants of White Bay are ina ors aro afraid to visit certain localities seek. Ing fish, fearing that thelr stocks will be taken by the starving people,” The Turkish authorities are having trou. ble with the Bedouins of Southern Arabia, and the whole country is now unsafe to travel, 3 LIVES LOST, Mass of Earth, It Fall From the Mouth to the Zot tom of a Pit at the Tilly Foster Mines, a Distance of 300 Feet, Crushing the Men Out of All Recognition. il make legal ten. oins and . the ratio the and when su pal then Intween th provided for in this act; to be RAIN h laws have been passed by the governments afore nt shall make proclamation and this in said, the Presi Recordingly, eff Iaw sludl then take ot and Ix row —— WORLD'S FAIR MEDALS, Be Distrib bis Month s Almmt Ready Diplo- Mr. Beoville Company, of Waterbury, ( ws for the Coluamblan W wa l'rensury D i that of the Booville Manufacturing mn « The o« rida Fair ntract. medal, al the and an noun all of th ompleted and ready for delivery » of the prosent yath, ' ’ The medals, otherwise very satislactory to Waich are artistisall and the govern. ment, are put up in handsome alluminam eases, so that both sides may be readily seen, and these again inclosed in paste board aro wooden Thick shipping box wrappers are furnished with each medal, boxes, The diplomas sre nearing completion st the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and it is expected that both the diplomas and the oases, &e., will be about £50.00), Er —— FORT WORTH TRAIN HELD UP. Robbers Were Unsuccessful, "as They Oould No, Get the Bafe Open, Five miles north of Childress, Texas, train No, 2, northbound, on the Fort Worth and Denver was held up bytwo men. Supt. Goode states that the robbers got nothing, as the messenger could not open the safe. It is nlso stated that officers are now close to the robbers. No one on the train was hart, NBYLVANIA fh i yin J. K whose home YWemt Penn Hospital fr wae o result of having both legs amputated, was injured by a train at McDonald, While 5 iat 5 train at Kittanaisg Point two laborers had ked up by attempting to craw: under a freight their feet crushed. They were pi a passing engine, Michael Kubiak, a laborer at furnace No, 1 of the Lackawanna Iron & Steel Company's furasce, &t Seranton, pull uit the slide of tis of the furnace gas conductors, allo gas and flames £5 burst forth, Death resul f inh The unfortunate man was 28 years child, fing of within a few moments as a resalt the gas, of age and leaves a wife and one f the main 1 was destroyed the by The rear half Ajax Iron Works, firs Lorry, The carpenter shop and erecting roots were totally destroved, and the main shops, a“ which cover thres Soors, partially so The rance, of covered by insu thrown joss ia about & 10.0 0 A large faree of men will be out employn ent. Mr. an’ Mrs. James Melnford, John Piek- Laura Stevenson, of Wood's Run, were drowned in the Monongahela River, They had been in Brownsviie and #8 wag late when they started down the river in When about two miles below up and Mas too They got bottom, —“——— seem ——et s OHOKED TO DEATH. Strange Accident. Cornelius Lipscomb, of Washington, D, C., mot with a horrible death while on a visit to a son near Old Uhureh, in Hanover coun Ya. A portion of the bone of a fowl lodged in Mr. Lipseomb’s throat while eating din ner, Every effort was made to remove the bone, but without success, At ons time Mr. Lipscomb seemed upon the point of recover. ing, when he suddenly lost consciousness and died in a very saort time, CABLE INDUSTRIAL AOTIVITT New Railroad the Bouth. Fumber of interprises in Special reports to the Manufacturers’ Re. eord show the projection of a number of rail- road enterprises in the Sonth; for lines of considerable length, but majority for short extensions or for con be. tween important systems able activity in ways, and especially KOme the links » is consider of sleetric radl- around Balti rtantlines are the projec more, where a num! % to be constructed, been re. ported during the week a prop wed addition at a cost of #135.000 to a Virginia mill, which mills in the i company incorporated in Texas; a £10,000 rope and ootton factory ent n cotton mill matters there have will make it one of the largest entire South; n $830.00) or Viabamas: the en- largement of two North Carolina nd one in South Carolina, and a proposed £14, Caroling; a $100. - propated in Texas; { tor ADA @ prise mills 000 spindle mill in No 000 cottonsesd oll mill i= & 30-ton ioe plant is rep Mississippi & 10-40n jee plant in Lous rive mill and elootrie plant in the same State; a bieyoie factory and flour mill in Kentucky; a $50,000 gold mining company in Georgia: a $35,000 lumber company in Virginia: two eil-boring companies, one of $400,000 and aus of $500,000 , rst I is MILLIONS FOR THE NAVY. Half of Bugland's Budget Surplus of $20,000,000 to Go for that Purpose, The London “Chroniele”™ expects that the badjot surplus will amount to $20,000,000, Half of this will be devoted to the navy; $5, - 000,000 to the relisf of husbandry, and $5, school. ns Mr. William Cairns, who has just died in Sootland, had a unique claim for distinction. He had read through every line of the many volumes of the Encyclopasdia Britanniea, He did it in preparing an index for thatwork and was well paid for his trouble, "
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