THE NEWS.
The Solicitors’ Loan and Trust Company,
an
The outside operations of J, R.
of Philadelphia, has male nssignment.
Ritter, who
has charge of the company's real estate de
partment, caused the trouble,
row, of San Francisco,
Judge Mor
decided
Chinaman bora in this country is an Ameri
can citizen, The fireworks explosion
St. Louis, resulted in the death of
—(hinrles Atkinson
of Bridgeton, N. J., who had been convicted
has that a
in
six men,
Two others are missing,
of criminally assaulting his stepdaughter,
prison. The
sworn falsely,
from
confessed that she had
William Barnes, of West Chester, Pa., was
fatally shot by John B. MeClure, a
The tragedy was due to the faithlessness of
MoClure's in
County (0.) Children's Home caused
£25,000, At Trenton, N. hundred
girls employed in 8. K. Wilson's woolen mill
of
boy at Milledgeville, Ky., shot two little girls,
and himself, fatally. Will
Muller, wanted in Philadelphia for alle
embezzlement from the cordage firm of T. C.
Hammell & Co.,
where he had been known as William H
has been released
girl
tailor,
wile, Fire the Frank
J., one
struck on account wage troubles, A
then all im
wroned
Bod
was arrested in Doston
ton since December 1. At Grafton, O, th
Italian brothers were awakened Uy
mn held one of
the oth
masked men, two of whe
brothers while the third stabbed
brother to d«
Justice Jarvis
a masked man in , Who attacks
y White
failed recen
The liabilities ¢
pany, which
are
Woodley, who
was hapged
£550 000, assets
murders
at Pittsbu
H.
son, were sentenced to {mp
Edwin and Edwin
dered to pay flnes for
fraud. Five «
to the penitentiar
Pennsyly ani
mittee began
affairs
of Worcester
‘Omac
shooting W
sentence
Wie
Penn
pany and
killed, thirty-tw
ing. Six |
lumbus, Ohio.
There was a collision
Road at Seward, Neb, 3
death of P. i
firen
dealers in drie
and doi
pounce t
payo
was pl
Jeflors
negro empl
tle, in
and eigh
ful explosi
ville, Pa,
and Willia
The Peters Ro
Bt. Louis,
ereditor
000, and
stock on
ing acc
Champion, v
for Port
been given uj
we A train on the
a WAgon near
three no
other two i
Haywoo
for the :
mated at Chicaga
Tam ps
During the past week gol
of $14,000,000 was
Mint to New
to Euivpa,-
road (
azainst
ing that i
£14,300 for |
tal of trach
The sheri
sont fr
pany
of the Chic
Pace, of W
E, Tay)
tare, in :
Martin murdered Ju oper in a
; YOE DOnr Oa
fgquarre:
Over oa}
land City, Ind.
Riley Kimball, a banker
lead body of Gleen
ff Deadwood, 8, D.,
who disappeared some time ago, was
near Reno, Albert A.
eatate dealer of New York, was arrested
suspicion of having murdered Mrs,
Runnett, whose body was found in the hall.
‘The flour
Company, near East St
Loss, $35,000,
{found
Nellis, a
Neb, real
on
Jane
way of his house,
Millstadt Milling
Louis, was burned,
tine smelters of the eountry, except four,
will unite under one management. John
Stubblebine, an old engineer of Easton, Pa.,
sommitted suicide. Three eleven-vear-oid
ooys were arrested at Bridgeport, Conn, for
sttempting to wreek a train. Near Pitts-
Surg a cable parted and an end eiriking a
lee} and, killed him. Bafe-blowers enter
¢d the postoffice st Highland Park, Chieago,
wrecked the safe and escaped with money
snd postage stamps amounting to between
$1,060 and 81,9500, Itis believed dynamite
wis used, and the work appears to be that
of professionals. Chicago's hoor war hss
oeen settled, The priee of beer has been ad
“vanced to #5 a barrel. Some 2.000 saloons
in Chicago will closs In consequence. -—The
H. W. Ladd Company, #e of the largest dry
goods houses in Pro se, BR 1, made an
assignment to James M, Beott,
I WE 1 i A.
Premier Whiteway of New Foundland,
will visit England after his return from Cane
ada, and it is supposed he goes there in far-
therance of the federation movement,
2 Large
Number Injured.
BIG EXPLOSIONS
TOUR OTHERS MISSING
{ Fire Broke Out Among Peanuts and
Fireworks-0One Man Res: ued
Allve Willa He Was Be-
ing Slowly Roasted
Three porsons were killed, tw
{ jured, four more
4 ‘ RTS Missi
1X an i
received injuries 1 ri
result of a series o
o’¢loek in the after:
ing at 300 Bes
{ Joining struotures and
of panes of glass {ot
Third, I
Mo
Fire br
co E55
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE,
the
ved by
formance
of 4710,
the new cardinals,
lately apostolic puncio to Brazil, §
and was
Ho was ed.
Genoa
vaated at the Jesuit's College in
came a member of the Carmelite Order, and
eat post attainable,
Mounteney Jephson, whose name was a
Heutenant of Mr. Stanley's in the expedition
for the discovery of Emin
appointed one of the Quoen’s
somewhat prosaic position, but one
in time of political disturbance sad
not without opportunities for an adventur-
ous man,
Captain J. W. Wilson, who was a member
of Dr. Kane's Arctic expedition in 1854, in an
address In New York the other day abused
Dr, Kane, with whom he was at daggers’
points sll the time, and sald he was not what
the world thought him. “Had Dr. Kane
lived six months longer,” continued Captain
Wilson, “he would have occupied a far dif-
feront and a much leas enviable position in
the minds of the public than he occupies to-
day. I have in my safe today documents
which, if published, wosnd send a peal of
thunder from one end of this country to the
other. I look upon the record of Dr, Kase
as a lo,
uments into print, and it is possible that 1
Pasha, has been
MOSACHRLOrS «a
which,
war, is
may yet do so. But if 1 do it will only bs in
! self-defense, Surely the living have some
rights as well as the dead.”
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS,
HOUBE.
I'he House
consideration of the bond bill,
ausad the united opposition of the
ws and Populists, the gold Democrats
rayed against it beeause they claim
NINETEENTH Day, ontered
pon
which
Demo
wing a
fue gold bonds with which he desired to re
plenish the reserve, and the silver Democrats
on the ground of thelr general opposition to
bond {ssus int Republican ranks, also
there developed much bitter opposition
the bil’ a draw
Twestirry Day, The
Bond bill by a vote of 16:
sharged the task for which it ha
sitting dur the holiday recess,
an agreement the Hous
wtild adjourn three davs at a time ’
to give members an
New Year's Day at their homes,
Ing he of t} debate wero
was pra
until the vote was taken, The
i ption act
’
to
original}
Houss pa th
to 136, 0
bean f.
foctod
)
by which
in order
opportunity 1o
The cl
lacking
excite
1
spirit, and there tically no
ment bill, as
passed, ar
y Ra 1
permit A
pleasure the Government, an avabisin
Liteen years, with tho i ic r 150 1
nothing i } <t 111 0 {
hat
Was
I Gorman, and the
ap. Wood-
advisers
Phey were followed by the
"w
y Sheri
Id was taken
spiritual bed
leaving the coll Woodley
trap i
ana
dropped through the
Une minn flor
stood upon the
opening,
As the black
ap was edjosted he exclaimed: “I am not
On Monday morning May 7.1804, Woodley,
for
sweetheart,
drinking
willed at the home of his
been
Afior
Three
heard, and
minutes later two
wore when the father
the fleor unconscious with bullet
The young woman died in a few moments,
He admitted the
His trial
recovered,
rn IOS isi ss
Benora Uslar, who with her husband, Gen
eral Uslar, late commander of the Venesue.
to France conducted the boundary negotin.
tions with the Rosebery Government,
Warlike Retreat
the
A Dane
Cubans Will
Against a
Steamer.
Regen!
Who Thinks the
Win-Evidencs
Filibustering
Quean
Spain
Thera {
ongequen
tin
sim
Clenfuoyg
the intention «
. fro:
Havana and Mexican ports,
Grinddulich and six men of the Austriag bark
kod near Frontetis,
aght Captain
wre
Mexico,
Daring a fire in Wright Bros’ hardware
: firemen were
explosion of Rut
fire smounted
five
seriously injured by an
The damage by the
to $65,000,
Two passenger trains the Mississippi
division of the Baltimore and Ohio Bouth-
western Rallroad were in collision at
City. Fireman Wilson was killed and
on
Cole
eight
fatally.
Captain Rich and the crew of sight men of
was wrecked on the Louisiana coast on Dec.
The
men ware foreed to take a raft, and were
without food or water for five days.
A rear-end collision occurred between a
Vandalia-Illinols Central in the tur .el at 8
Louis, Fireman Harry RothWeller was
soalded to death, and Engineer Milton White
and J, C. Chambers, express messenger, wore
injured.
A newspaper train on the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad jumped the track, near
Leadville, Colorado, John Baker, engineer,
and Harry Hartman, firemen, were killed,
The train was engaged in a race with a simi.
lar train on the Colorado Midland when the
accident occurred
Sit Henry Irving is to unvell the mont.
ment to Barah §iddons on Paddington Green
next Bpring,
THE EXPOSITION CLOSED.
air a Financial
¢
Buocens
Artistic
and
and «
after a
The International
position was closed
career of 100 day
The fina! day opened cles
During the early morning
very low, but afte:
WHS
wither moderated
were thre
a large harve
willie the
biric«n-l
shapo and
dary,
In th vening
t saying who they were, and a
the could not be
injured
FIGHTING IN TURKEY,
Over 12000 Druses Killed by the Porth
Troops.
Advices received in from
Jeyrout report that a severe fight has iaken
place between the Turkish troops and the
The fight took placs
on Decomiror 21, and, acsording to the offic
ial rep i the Drases wl 12.200 killed while
Constantinople
Drusea near Suasdich,
which
and Sir
Aritish ambassador de
It is reported from Marsus that disturb.
sulmans and Christrians,. The outbreak,
however, was soon tiueiled by the authori:
lies, The disturbances is believad to explain
the arrival of the missionaries and Christian
families 5 Mersina on December 17,
Advices from the leland Crete say there
have been no fresh disturbances there,
Advices received in Bome from Aleppo say
that the town of Zelteun, 15 miles from Maz
ash, which bas boon held Ly the insurgent
Armenians for some time past, his boen cape
fared by the Turkish troops. It Is “added
that the inhabitants of Zeitoun fled to the
mountains,
THE COMMISSION
Distinguished Men,
JUSTICE BREWER A MEMBER
It 1s Understood in Washington that
All Will Accept Enter
Once Upon the Work of Invas
gating the 7
and at
rue Pound-
ary Lina,
i ths
ap -
winndary som.
{ are demo
¢ slated that
but his pro-
epublican
BVEDU ee md Ia n passing ander
I i Thirteonth
street ompany with
Two masked mon sprang
i sruciure and ag
One of them throw
and triad
r made an attempt
Justice has
with new
the
with.
wouth the aliey “LL
at 1.00 o'clock
Bix daughter, May,
fron
tacked th
the sl "WwW ol the
magisirale,
his arm around Mr, Biume's neck
strangle him, The oth
to find hit pocketh
} $5 Vue puis
HI. nine
bbers | and
what to do. Making a feint to
robber he drew his revolver and
out an instants warning.
The man uttered a cry of pain and tried to
run. He went a few stops, and fell. with
blood streaming from & wound in hie aldo
men,
Seeing the man fall Justice Blume tursed
hie revolver upon the other man, who was
trying to escape, and fired several shots alter
him, none of which took effert so fabias is
known, 0
After the shooting the two went 'c the
Harrison street police station and told what
oocurred. The patrol wagon was sont oug
at once and the man was found lyin, where
he fell, —————
Tho situation of affairs in Corea Is most
serious, The King b constantly surrounded
by Japanese spies and fears that he will bo
assassinated. He is guarded nighily by the
suniet
fired