THE NEWS. in Frankfort, Ky., for vote short of Moloney, of Chicago to declared a engine aumber o A ballot was taken senator. Dr. Hunter was one election, Attorney General Illinois, began proceadings in have the Illindie Steel Company trust, ——An electric car and switch collided in Xnoxville, Tenn, A Henry CO. Fos ter who murdered George W. Wells fn Chi- NBeott, the persons were badly hurt, cago, was hanged, Mrs, Judge sister-in-law of ex-President Harrison, who was assaulted in Seattle, Wis, by an insane domestic, is recovering, althotigh still suffer. ing from the nervous shock, The woman has disappeared. One of the blanket mills yunk, a suburb stroyed by fire, Origin, spontaneous combustion. Wicker, his wife and two drowned while trying to ford the Red in Randall county, Tex. of Philadelphia, was de- Loss £35,009, fully insured, Joe children were of the crew of the American schooner Maria and the murder of Captain Brown and Mat Holman, Western Populist leaders advocating Judge Henry C The will favor the nomination of Sibley, « candidate for president, Eunstern f Penn- sylvania, Bertram E. Chicago artist, was waylaid and by several negroes while returning to St Louis from a suburban town, where he been to see his sweetheart, to make arrange ments for their wedding. A sleet storm in the West cut off teiegraph- fe communication with In trial of Wilson for the murder of Henry Bonnecka at Hollidays Pa., de tectives testifled that Wilson was the rooks whose workings Chicago. the Frank rg, one of leaders of a gang of ¢ they discovered by disguising themselves as ifldence, Pa. £1.000 cracksmen and obtaining their e« -Thieves dynamited the Elwood City Postoffice worth of stamps, money and registered let. ters. - At Norfolk, M. A. Holson, degler, recovered Internal safe, and secured about Hqguor from Revenu £9.31 niaat ctor Ryan and his deputy £2,500 dan ages in a suit, C. F. Cannon and Arthi Brown were elacte from Utah’ uel Hughes, of the quitted of the ity laws, Goel, stewards of in raiment but all returned t In Iowa, the seventeen stu minutes eal Sehool arreste discharged fr evidence on presen mem! Joard was { Life§Buildir between Bt and four k Exch f an acetyl Messi k's! A conver in Memphis a ; the | venti zation was ef i. The Tavior Engine bersburg, r of closed dov sheriff, lican National Committee range for the convention in that city, Was sergeant-at-arms; Wiswall, of Wisconsin, W. W, Johnson, of ant. William Steinecker, a business man of Evansville, Ind. self through the head with a baving wrecked his three fine apartment fats by an explosion of powder, 2 widower, wife and seven-year-old fatally burned at thelr residence on Knowlton stroet Camminsyille, O,, the bist th shops benefit ereditors, and § n and placed in the hands of the The sulb-committes of the Reput St. Lo Timothy E. Byrnes, of elected iis met in Minoesota, George W, first assistant, and Baltimore, second revolver, after Steinecker was ~Jacob Bruehl, a barber, his boy were from effects of an explo- sion of a gasoline stove. The father recalved his injuries trying to save his sick child after the bed had caught ~Attachments were issued against the shoe house of Smith k Stoughton Company in favor of Charles F, Plester, of Milwaukee, for #17,000. and the store is now In the brands of the sheriff, ——— The cruiser Baltimove, which has just ar- tived at Ban Franclses, reported having en- tounterad a typhoon #*ter leaving Yokohama, Rev. Warren Powe ss, of Hall Station, Ga., was called to his door and shot dead. George Work and Edward G. Murphy won & live pigeon match at Babylon, L. 1., de- fire soore of 167 to 186.——Frank Wilson put on trial in Hollidayshurg, Pa., for mur- dering miser Henry Bonneeka, ——Hiram Bavidge, a well-known politician, and for years bailiff in the District Court in Omaha, was jailed fof assaulting Alberta Rice, seven teen years old. He waived his preliminary examination and went to jall, ——The daugh- of Chief Kwa Kum Ie, head of all the a Indians near Towe, Mian. com- suleide by shooting hersell with a The squaw, who was about thirty-five #8 Old, was sick, and chose the rifle in ference to the medicine man as a means of stopping the pain, Ezra F. Bowman, a jeweler at Lancaster, Pa., made an assigo- ment; Habilitics $50,000, Minnie Bwanger, thirteen years of age, was arrested in Al toona, Pa., ou the charge of putting rough on rats in the family coffee pot, ——At Phila- delphia Ambrose West and wile, both over seventy years of age, were found dend in bed in their home in Germantown, baviag been exphyxiated by coal gas, which escaped from a stove in their room during the night Charles Harmaski was killed, and "Pat Nagle and Ardy Plasko badly hurt, at the Ohio Steel Company's Works, Youngstown, 0, ~~ William Magee, who died unmarried in South Carolina, has left an estate valued at over four million dollars to relatives in Delaware, A contest is looked for, i Republican Vote Cast Cannon and Brown, STRONG FREE SILVERITES. Frank Cannon Oncea Wild Mormon Boy~HIis Father's Use of Church Politics to Son. Influence In Advance His Frank J. Cannon and Arthur Brown were elected to the United States Senate with but two dissenting volees among the Republican members of the legislature. There was no balloting. It foregone conclusion that the caucus had set The ballot in the Benate was 12 each for Cannon and Brown, Republi excitement during the Wis a tied the election, 5 each for Thatcher and Rawlins In the House the Cannon, 81: Brown, 29; Goodwin, 1; 1; Thatcher, 14; Rawlins, 14 In his speech ol acceptance Benator Brown cans, and ballot Bennett Democrats, Whe sald: “One of my greatest aims will be help the cause of silver at the needed ratio 16 to 1, efforts in behalf of silver, but I hope and not only will I use my greatest always be found striving, in to work for the advancemer erest in general, Mosses, OC 1:8 no ana hemselves before the ( h » February 1. The) hen which » 7. and which draw i take his seat shall hold Av the burning ith Husain, st their live The rep i has sent a f Trinidad is not ircies, ompanied nd, has officers Dur Natal, « rt Victoria fo gland. from Pre ia, have n x the trans p« Prince Henry of Ba Queen Victoria, disd « he « A fire tracted i ontracte manufa ' franes, It is offi ed that th A. Bovell, attornev-general of the Jarbadoes, has been appointed : general of British Guiana. The Ch flian minnie 1IIAND minis clared that the countev's relations genting are perfectly cordial and the © ations are progressing satis In the Portuguese Chamber, Capt. Fer. and of that the report of the sale of Delagoa bay to Great Britain was us arine the colonies, de rod The Loudon Pail-Mail Gazette declares such a treaty in diplomatic circles, however, General Pando declares that the Spanish soldiers in Caba have shown great bravery and endured great hardships, ‘but have been the enemy avoids battie and infantry can do nothing against retreating cavalry, In spite of the urgent representations of the United States minister, Mr. Alexander W. Terrill, the Turkish government still hesi- tates to accord permission to the Ameriona Red Cross Society to distribute relief to the sufferers in Anatolia, Ying Yu, the Chinese minister to the United of the board of sacrificial the most honorable offices in the Chinese empire. He willleave for Pekin In June, and it is understood that Yu Keng, now min- ister to Japan, will succeed him, Casimir-Perier ‘recently sold the histori *hateau and park of Lesdiguieres, at Viscile, helongiong to h « family, for 500,000 francs, to two Lyons merchants, who intend to turn the castle into a brewery, worship, one of WORK AND WORKERS, Twenty-one hundred miners at roturned to work, settled Joba, O, having thelr trou Cotton planters from all over the South are 0 meet in Memphis to discuss the f the reduction of arreage quazstion during the com A Boston despatch the I owner wilh says that ston wd Albany Railroad Is joint the A Boston d« Howar that city, h says that the E , of pat { | Whi “owing to the small demand A despsteh from lshpeming, Michigan, miners working in the Win- out 85.000 tons of ore this will be pal month they 1 #3 per day, and f w of other laborers will be advange por. donately. This will be a high w A Nes WAY Freight As ines sie received w and acted in her tindersts y Gen. Harris *h en, of wh Dir strikingly ABOUT KOTED PEOPLE. a! Harrison's p vate secretary, has a 4 able, He fsa theatrical New York with the President was so often did about General received with nol Know anything movements wears Mr. Gladstone, it {8 noted, is bothered at Biarritz this year, ing. He is of office wries a visitor, “he is hardly noticed: not a soul ap- pears to «eo in any way anxious ‘o see him, and the only thing that has aroused a little interest in his person is the news from South Africa and the recollection that he was the chief retrocessionist of the Transvaal and the modifler of the suazeraisty la .sss alter ward," Robert Durns, fourth, the great-gradson of the poet, disd recontly at Biachal, near Edinburgh, aad by his death, which hap- pened exastly one hundred years after the desense of the Ayrshire bard, the direct male line of Burns has come to an end. The de ropsed was born fn 1844; his father was a schoolmaster, from whom he received a good education, but, being of a roving disposition, Robert Burns the fourth enlisted before he was out of his teens in the Boo s Fusillier Guarda, After serving as a soldier for seven years, he engaged in various employments, and was for some time a railway employee, and finally a gardener, much Fame i« flee. not out nnd 80 LOST 200 LLED. Ront of the Insurgents Under Maceo a Serious Reverse, Twelve Hundred Men Led by Perez Driven from a Fortified Posli- tion With alos: of Twelve Killed ing on Jaruco. Cen, Comez Mov- It ‘a stated that th Tar- , between yr engazement at Pinar del Ri Mureo, an Lugue, WH in 4 4 The just soutl oi {i« 1 the Lien import aut than + first believed, suUrgents he ind sel d an be | neces, the In insurgents ia gaged “ince they Ciara, and a naterial being the hat they ith the insarrection the ned, and srovinee he a tivity in the 3 asserts that there is vers ere — COIN 818,000,00" TO sn Barly Day. About February 1, the Treasury Depart. silver dol. from bullion purchased under the act of 1800 and available for the redemption of treasury notes {ssued in payment of the bul Hon purchased, Since August, 1803, about £18,000,000 of these notes have boon redeemed in sliver dollars and uncanceled, The Secretary of the Treasury has now de #ided to eoin from the bullion on hand and purchased under the net of 1880, about §18,- 000,000, which will restore the amount of dole lars in the treasury to whet it was on March 4, 1888. The average 20st of the sliver bul. lion purchased under the Sherman act was 714 vents on the dollar, which leaves a gain on seigniorage of 284 cents on the dollar, At this rate the seigniorage on the $18 000,000 to be coined would be $5,150,000, The order for the resumption of eclonge at the mints at Phiiadelphia, New Orleans and Ban Franciseo is expected in a day or two. CII i A rupture petween Brazil and [tay 1s im- tilnent, owing to the tardiness of the former in paying Italian claims growing out of the late war in Brasil, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. the Btatel The grievau ws of the homeopathic physi clans in regard to the propossd Allentown The safe in Waitz's store in New Found throes about Michael Matuse, 24, was killed sd aged { in the Busquehan % md Company No. Executions have mine, sted azalust Bam. ir #115 Buvder f and of L years of ler and Rebs T. Meyer Rosthelimer t Josiah banoun, for &75 David nge while tryi ty climb through a at Horr's Island, was jolted under the wheels and killed, Andrew P I. &W s stealing a ride on ston, fell off, and wheels were cut Bethlehem, is d The Bethi material for Washington reer tae Navy ard, Mrs, Ellen De-Tehweinitz, wile of Pe died alter a brie! iliness, Mrs, M. DeSchweinits, deceased was the daughter of Between Lisburn and Lewisberry there an sixty acres of solid fee with a smooth as a floor, to which skaters for miles around are flocking. E. H. Wetzel, proprietor of the Ashiand House and one of Ashiand's leading gitizens, died at his home of spinal trouble, from which be has suffered the past six months By the deaths of Mre Anna MeCarty and Joshiab Rurtz, at Connelisviile, Fayette County lost her two oldest eitipens, Doth were born in 1800 and were, therelore, in their 96th year, At a hearing before United States Come missioner E. H. Reppert, Nebon Wiltrout was bound over {or trial in the Uniled States Court on the charge of robbing the Wood dale post office, In Buliskin Township. The deadlock in the Firemen’s Convention was broken by the election of William F. Wonderly, of the Washington Company, shief engineer, and William F. Wetsel, of the Rescue Company, assistant engineer. bo III 5.5 55 i gurface as Dispatches [rom Havasa declare that the position of the iasurgents in the western end of the island is critical. General Gomez is sald to be hemmed in by Spanish troops while Maceo has ben seriously defeated. AAI 05 The coat miners at Washington, indians, won thelr strike, and returned to work. Over 3,000 men were {ovolved, 3 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. HOUEE. Twinra-Brxri Day, ~The House was devoted to minor matters and legislation by ansnimous consent, Most of the discussion of B25,000 in the preparation of publie bullding. The pension of the for architectural sid plans for the Chic fesolution was REO prssed, In the House the Di er {Repub- the Democrats with all the Tommry-Bevexti Day, were dh of lown, taunted in the adoption of the rules of the Fil which they had This speech drew ussed, Mr oan at last ACquUieneIing principles embodied |r ty-first Congress, against raised their voloes in 1590 forth an indignant reply from ex-Speaker Crisp, in the « f which he reviewed whole history of the controversy, and harged the other side with trving to make political capital by false pretenses, Dav, ~The Hou e¢ held a ted to tae o ideration bills sion the OUres « the Tmiwry-prourn night session dev of private vere pension Bilis, i Pw ives passed, among the willow of vl ssn RUN DOWN BY AN ERGIXE e Walk: i Bail- 1wo han so sad that they will § At the point where the road ronsthrough a cu v west ide and bn the the top of cleaners of the igh stone wal, on Th» £talion ralling, rar at 160th street a d Vanderbil avenue, They the Chatham the New York, New Haven and The clean- gine, coming up the north-bound track, wus unobserved. Just as the express had whisked by the engine struck them, FATAL FIRE IR 87. LOUIS. Four Firemen Crushed to Death The Finsandd Looms $250.000. 2 . The four-story building st 415 Broadway, oecupied by Aloe & Co, opticians and dh ers iff surgical and electrical Instruments; was burned at 10.30 P.M. Loss estimated at $250,000, Three firemen who were working in the basement were crushed beneath falling floors, and are thought to be falally injured, if not dead, Owney Hires, a fireman of truck No. 6, was taken from the second floor badly cut asd suffocated. Heo was sent to the hospital, The mea killed were Captain Blanville, Reinhardt Miller, James Rhonely and Millon Curly. : =n
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