THE NEWS.
Head Dingees and George Mahan
shot to death, and Hiram Sweeney and Pha-
roah Simons badly injured, in a fight with
the Humphreys in Letcher county, Kentucky,
~Giovernor Altgeld, of Illinois, granted a
pardon to ex-Representative John I. Gehr
doing a five years’ time at Joliet Penitentiary
for murder during a riot at Little's mine, in
Tazewell county, 1894, when two
killed and the mine burned, The
holds Gehr innocent. The
Company, organized in Brunswick, Ga, in
1887, and capitalized st flve million dollars,
receiver by
were
men were
governor
Brunswick
was placed in the hands of a
United States Judge Speer, at Macon, on the
application of the Knickerbocker Trust Com
mortgage bonds, J. N. Talley, of Macon
was named reeeiver.« John J,
ex-auditor of Delaware county, O,,
Marysville, rot
Ramage,
was sand-
bagged by three men near
bed, thrown on a railroad track,
a train, and will lose an arm and leg. Hi
may die, In Albuquerque, N. M.,
Collier appoiuted Charies W. Smith receiver
of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, the ap-
pointment to take effect February 1 [he
the court especially stipulates
employes of the
within thirty
the receiver
responsibility
Howard
run over by
order of
that
dismissad
and that
sume all
old receivers,
Duluth, owners of one o
dry goods houses at hea
an assigment. Win.
passenger train No. 1 on
division of the Chicago,
no road shall be
days thereafter,
new shall 8
resting on the
Haynie,
¢
and
Milwaukee and St,
Paul Railway was killed in a collision
tween several derailed freight cars and th
passenger truin at Franklin Station,
cago.
A bill
Legislature to authorize the reorganization
of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, now in
the
killed and a third fatally injured by an eleo-
was introduced in the Virginia
hands of receivers, Two men were
tric ear breaking through a tre
Akron, Bedford and Cleveland Else
road. near Bedford, O. Governor
halge of Massachusetts Matthews of In
Stone, of Missouri, and Rich, of Mict
highly commend
Endeavorers in advancing
of the }
riotism and Christianity,
ountry to
son, resident partner
New York broking
Kendail & Whit
is charged that «
of the Philadelphi
larities in his
Mr . R. C, Jol
Decatur, IIL, has
that it has been
the fifty-four h
$66,000,000, at Phila
secured by the
of Portland, i
Court, in Hele
F. Burleigh,
Northern
Soares, a P
New Bedford, Mass, ,
on the morning of
Luke's Hos
received, ihe
bonds,
Jury.
A bill
legislature to §
ing and pool
ing the exemption
from the race track laws,
has beeg examining the boo
of Omaha reportad to the City
the entire defaleation of ex
srtugress,
pital, as
awaiting
4 $y
Was i
Hing fu Vir
Henry Ballu amounts to more than £115,000
Evaline, the four-vear old
Colonel J, C.
Broadway, Ya.
examined (he nine old monitors iving at the
League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia, and
it is understood that all the boats can be put
in first-class fighting trim
and at a moderate
bel, two miles county,
Ohio, the westbound passenger accomoda-
tion train No. 12 on the Baltimore and Ohio
Bouthwestern Raliway collided witha freight
train going east at forty
made a complete engines,
One man was killed and injured, —
Jerry Wogan and Walter Quidiand, boys,
iaughter of
death at
navy officers
Wade, was burned to
—A board of
in & short
cost, At
weat of
time
Hoxa-
O88
both
seven
wreck of
of the Big Sandy River at Beaver Creek, W,
Va
The schooner Billow,
laad, Me. to Richmond, Va, loaded
Hime, was burned on Duck Island X. H
Tracy W, Douglass, a defanlter, of Peru, Ind. ,
was arrested in ( p
in Madison Street,
£100,000, ———Padan Brothers
facturers of lndies
assigned to W, B,
Habilities £150,000. The firm employed 750
hands, and had seventeen salesmen Local
eraditors are protected by mortgages amount-
fag to $60.000. A freight tesin on
Louisville and Nashville road plunged
through an open draw on the bridge spang:
ing the Rigolets, Louisiana, The engineer
and fireman escaped by jamplog and swim.
ming to the lighthouse, Three white tramps
were killed. A brakeman was also burt,
Jarrett Lyuch, a wealthy farmer of Mor-
gantown, W. Va, died on New Year's Day,
left nearly his entire estate, valued at $75,000
to Baptist missionary and educational insti-
tations. —— Albert Wolf, a wealty farmer of
- West Dover, O., was found murdsred under
a railroad trestle, ——J, FF Seott, ex-mayor
of Akron, O., committed suicide by hanging
himself in his bedroom. ——The British tank
steamer Wild Flower, which sailed from
Philadelphia for Rouen, France, on Deceme
ber 11, with 1,173,626 gallons of erude oll, is
believed to have been blown up or foundered
at sea, and all hands lost, —— Michael Spiro
was arrested in Chicago charged with blows
ing with dynamite the houss of Michael
Girard, in Hazleton, Pa.
EAA VS Ob
Explecion of sn Engine,
An engine used on the Columbus, Bandus
ky and Hocking Raliway, between Fulton
ham and Mount Perry, Ohio, exploded. Dert
Meade, the engineer, and Fireman Frank
Herse were instantly killed, Ira Norris, the
conductor of the freight which was belag
assisted over the grade, was fatally injured,
and Fred Creeis, a brakeman, cansot be
found.
bound from Roeck-
with
snandaigua, N. XY.
ecansed a loss of
& Co.
shoes, of Portsmouth, O.,
Chicago,
Grice, Assets #150 000
LETTER OF DENIAL
Cleveland Made No Deal With
Bankers.
SCORES A NEWSPAPER
Had Not Entered Into Negotiations
Directly or Indirectly for the
Disposition of the
Eond Issue,
The debate on the Elkins resolution in the
Senate, when the administration was accused
entered into
by several Senators of having
an agreement with a syndicate to the
expected issue of bonds, {a the subject of a
letter written by President Cleveland to
Senator Caffrey, of L The
Mr, Caflre
t is in the handwriting of the President
yulsiana, letter
has just been made public by
covers si wages of closely written
paper. in full as fo
*Ereeative Man
1806, My D«
Congressic
Washington,
ALON,
ar Senator I have
asl Record the de
ate ou Friday concerning the fpancial situs
tion and bond issu
“In
IN RAIMA
of attack the
sertions of
sensational news
“No banker or
human beiug. has beon invited to visit Wash-
financier, nor any other
§
ington for the purpose of arranging
manner for the disposition
rid
i prudent to pu
to negotiate,
tf
“I expect an issue of bonds wii
tise for sale tomorrow, and that
Us RE ted not only for those pow allow:
arent |
law, but for such other and diff
i
Congress may authorize during the
ey of the adv
“Not having an
ertis
opp
vou in person since the
Congress began and noticing your participa
tion in the debate of Friday, 1
thought it not amiss to put ¥¢
of the facts and information herein contained,
Inst have
4 in possession
Yours, very truly,
‘GroveER CLEVELAND,
PHANTOM FORTUNE.
who was found wandering in
& of London in a demented mdition
and was taken to St
George's Workhonuwr,
recovered sufficiently to be able te
talk
ionally on most subjects, It was only when
eaking of bh English and Ger.
man fortunca that she showed any
claims to
evidenra
the
of dementia, She said that hor share of
£50,000, and that
Heibles estate was
in England. Mrs Ssibals is
of age, her clothing there
found about £15,000 in bills, The
States embassy in London has been notified
of her condition.
Mra, Beibels is a cousin of the late Justice
Lamer, of the United States Supreme Court,
and she has in her possession letters of jo.
troduction from Governor Stone and ex-Gov-
ernor Lowry, both of Mississippi.
Mr, Sasibels said that in 1867 a firm of law-
vers, Bharp & Broadhead, of 8t Louis, in-
formed her that she was heir to the Temple
Estate in England and the Scibels estate at
Elberfeld, Germany. On her mother's side
she fs a direct descendant of the fam
ous Temple family, of England, Binee
1867 she lins been trying to prove her claim,
A few months ago she determined to go to
England and from their go to Germany to
placs the matter in the hands of lawyers in
both conntries, For this purpose she sold
property, consisting of B00 acres of timber
land, near Brookhaven, Miss, for 85 100 and
started,
about 84 fears
Bawad ia
ls — oss
IOs i
Bir Mackenzie Bowell will retain the Ca
that the sentiment of the country is against
the seven seceding ministers,
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS,
HOUBE.
Twexty-vrirra Day, In the
Spalding, of Michigan, offered a resolution
providing for the annexation of the Hand-
wich Islnnds, to be erected into a new Blate
to be ealied the State of Hawail, Mr, Har.
rinon, of Alabama, was relieved of service on
election committee No. 2, and Mr, Paley, of
fexns, inted in his stead,
Twesry-Ni1xru Day In the House Mr
Livingstone, of Georgia, presented a resolu
tion, to which Mr, Bautelle objected, instruct
ing the President to ascertain whether Great
Britain is advancing her outposts In Venez-
uela, and, if 0, to demand the immediate
withdrawal of the troops, The re
joes to the committee on foreign affairs,
Twesty sevENT Day, ~The House
it time to discussion of the proposed
amendments of tue rules of the Fifty-Firsi
Congress were provisionally adopt.
i I'wo dise
monupoly of the technical debate,
precipitated by Mr, Walker,
8, chairman of th t
Uwrrency,
Olt on | £F) {
[ committe
i to the House at
BE
House, Mr,
was app
ation
which
ISRIONS res
Heved th
On wa
Mus
On tanking an i
against the
tee from the i {
sachus tt
p ihis mmit
3 privileged to
any time, Mr.
pol Mr, Hey
wa, Inspired the second discus
endment to dis
Oo carry his
aker
sped
minent Amer
bring about the
arbitration to
i the two nation
¢ Harlan in 1898
Gireat Dritain
PRONG 20
OUR OOAST DEFENT
Ban Frascace
dynamite guns,
ursting HX
highest explosives, two miles and dealing
blow to the largest battleship that would im-
mediately cause her compiete disappearance,
have recently the War
Department for the defense of the New York
been completed by
are mounted on Sandy Hook, now known as
Fort Hancook, three at Fort Scott,
guarding the Golden Gate, They were al]
and
ment contract, and have all fulfilled the
stringent requirements,
Thess wenpons are unqguestionaibly the
most powerful means of defense known to
modern selence for land fortifleation. They
lack the terrific velocities and range of pow-
der guns, but the blow dealt by one of their
shells is almost incaloulable, Bome officers
have contended that the flight of the projec
tiles are so slow that they ean be watched
and dodged by fast torpedo boats, but this is
not believed to be true, and in fact it would
not be necessary to hit a ship in order ib ser-
jously harm Ler, but the shock experienced
from the explosion of a shell some distance
off would be sufficient to pot most of a ves
sel's men out of action.
While the government has accepted only
dix of these guns other ars contemplated for
other defenses, Two or three will bo placed
to guard Washington city, with the assistance
of steel guns, at old Fort Washington, Bew
eral are provided in the plans for the protec
tion of Baltimore and every other oity which
must be defended by lund defenses,
TAH NOW A STATE
1 — A ———————————
President Cleveland's Proclama-
tion for Its Admission.
STATUS OF THE MORONS.
No Religious Bellef
forad with, But
Marriages Are to
in the New
Constitution,
Is to be
Polygamous or
Plural be
Forbldden
The President has signed the proclamation
The
yvimitting Utah to statehood, procia-
mation reads as follows:
Jy the President of the United States of
America
A PR
The (
which was
CLAMATION,
Wherens, ongress of the United States
«d nu act, on the
approved
senth day of July, eigl 1 hundred and
WORK AND WORKERS.
New York apd
¥
afircad shops, in Buffalo, bas
I'he strike at the Western
Pennsylvania
bosn declared off. a being
n om promise
agreed upon.
The United Order of American Bricklayers
nel
and St
bh ¥ 5 a Mme
s decided
n of Labor,
manufacturers of Ala
Missouri
nemasons, whi nbership
in Chicago of about 5,200
in the American Faderati
[he
Mississippi,
lumber
Arkansas and
Birminchbam, Alabama, and reached
agreement as to uniform prices, (auges,
A despatch from Isnpeming, Mich., says
that the principal producers of Lake Super
ior bessemer ore have reached an agreement
by which the plece of “standard Marquette
and Gogebic bessemer will be advanced £1.10
over last year's figures,
A despatch from Bt. Pierre, Bouth Dakota,
been organized twenty new companies, with
the purposes of developing the B.ack Hilis
gold mining properties,
ibe bituminous coal miners of Indiana
decided to demand an advance in the mining
1. the date when the Pittsburg distriet price
is to be advanced from 64 to 70 cents, The
operators will refuse to grant the advance,
Eight hundred members of the Stons-cut
ters’ Union, employed in 26 stoneyards ia
Chicago, went out on strike. Thy ciaim
that the owners employ laborers on stone.
cutting machines, working from 16 to
hours a day. The Union demands that the
machines be worked only eight hours a day
and that Unlon «utters be employed to
operate them,
i II.
The American commission, under the vice
regal guard, on its way to Chung-King,
China, has passed through Bachow, heralded
by trumpeters, The effect upon the people
was most salutary.
. | ——_
* Senator Kaufbach, of Nova Scolla dropped
dend in ope of the Senate corridors at Ot
tawa,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS,
!
|
Unowas of News Gleaned Prom Various Parts of
i
i the Btate
1
|
| After being Idle for three weeks the North
| Lebanon shoe factory hus resumed opera
tions
St. Mark's Church
Is making great preparations for its quarto
Pynngelieal Lutheran
celebration iu the early spring.
shipped
wntennind
The Bethlehem Iron Company bas
tower plate
United
wer and a conning
tons to the
1 conning t«
| weighing thirty-nine
| States Navy Yard at Brooklyn,
| The large fiy
| wood James, nt
Ell
while
wheel in the factory of
Hill,
Mr.
the
Kharon burst
| running at high James and ve
of hls
arrrowly escaped injury.
The Wayne (
pes }.
workmen were in building and
county Agricultural Boeciety
following ofMeers for 1886: (i,
Mount,
W. A. Gaylord,
has elected the
A. Moose, of Pieasunt president Pr,
rie] vice-presid
mn, Seely -
A publi
buliding
Martin's Cree nt the
held at Dethlehem
Dodson presi feud
protesting againsl the
nities was app
ment of the 1 t
to be held nt Na
A fire whick
1 at Pleasant Hil
| thony Fedorvich and George
origin of the
The family «
fsbure,
| phyxiated by cond ga and all narrowly es-
Mr. Waller was
and 6 oviorx,
{| eaped death by suffocation.
| the first to arise, bhelween
but fell to the floor. F
| iowe consciousness until he
wiunately he did not
almrmed a
All
ise
had
a physician.
were restored to consciousnoss and will
cover,
Patrick Kenny war run down by a Dela
{| ware and Hudson passenger train at the
Routh Steel Mil, Scranton, and almost in-
stantly killed, Kenny was employed as a
fireman at the mill, and left the boiler room
to go to the 04 shanty, which is sitoaled a
short distance outside the mill yard gate,
The railroad raus between the gate and the
shanty, Mr. Kenny had just stepped upon
the south-bound track, which is nearest the
gate, when the passenger train leaviag the
city at 9.15, stack him and hurled him nearly
twonty fret. The train was lopped and he
was ploked up stili conscious. He lived
aout fifteen minutes,
neighbor, who went for
rs —II—— bi
A work-train on the Aky in, Bedford and
Cleveland Inter-urban Ral way Company's
road fell through 4 bridge 0. Tinkers creek,
near Bedford, Oblo, William Youns was
killed and two other tralnmen, Lyman Hay-
maker and Charles Gleb, were fatally in-
jared,
A POPULAR LOAN
Mr. Carlisle Invites Subserip-
tions for $100,000 000.
PUBLIC SALE AUTHORIZED.
Offered In Fifty Dollar Lots To
Everybody Who Chooses to Sub
scribe Received
and
Proposals
Cnly at tha Treasury
Sub-Treasuries.
Carlisle has just issued the fol
th Hieres
is hereby
ricoefved
+ Treasury,
wath
fore its
wean
y @iRD
ay ste Was,
or, in a ruinous i ani an
a
RAR
inner
i with tov in the
ay,
ronning
There wore
ft mas
Pseauty
cool streams and liges Wa
aiong its broad, regular stro,
buildings,
palace,
oy-
an large
The
chie” manufactures were copper wares and
worsted socks, In i881, Khoi
visited by a series of violent earth-
guakes,
The population numberad 30.000,
inciuding many Armenians, who occupied »
separate part of the city.
LAUGELD HIMSELF TO DEATH.
a few good including the
ra ar a
tai 3
SEVER: Mosgues,
brick bazar and a fine earavanseral
Bejptember,
Was
about
A Pusny Actor aod Bia Jokes Were Too Much
for Nicholas Kinghardt
“Here's one that kill you,” said a comedian
at the Olympic Theatre, Chicago. Then be
told a fanny story. Nicholas Kinghardt, of
South Bend, Ind, laughed so heartily that
be ruptured a blood vessel and died ia a few
minutes,
big shoes and a white coat with balloon
sleeves, Kioghardt began to laugh ax soon
a8 the funny man opened his mouth and he
wae unable to restrain himself, Blood trick
fed from hiz mouth, snd a friend lod him
out of the theatre, He bled all the way to
taken into a store a
Thers Dr. Reynolds was calied. but the
Kinghardt was soon dead. vo
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