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