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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