THE NEWS, The Columbia Spring Company, an Aseo- clation of manufacturing concerns, with the principal office in Pittsburg, and having plants in Bridgeport, Ct, Canton, O,, Cln- cinnati, Fort Plain, N. X., Newport, Ky., and I'he Boston other points, made an assignment, American brig H. B. Hussey, to Charleston, 8, C.,, struck on Hatteras Inlet Bar, The Rose Valley Mills, near Chester, Pa,, were totally destroyed by £30,000, Nathan Abbott, Heury £. wod, Orville Townsend and Albert from fire, Loss Hall. Adams, contractors, were indicted in Columbus, O,, on the charge of corruption in connection with sewer twelve years old, killed his brother and him self in Hedrick, Ia, Moloney, of Illinois, decided that the cannot consolidate, Wilber, Elvin, of construction, Joe Attorauey Chicage was acquitted in murder, companies of H, W. Crowe Neb, of wile Phoenixville, Pa., who forced his children to Thomas take poison, was convicted of murder in the first degree, Reports from of New Jersey, along the Raritan that various Rah wna and great damag: done by overflows, Heald & Co., of Wilmington, way Rivers, show Del, made an and brokers, assignment, the trouble by the failure of I. H. Taylor & Ci Philadelphia correspondent, being precipitated thelr Newman has sued in the court T., for a divorce [rot R. 8. ton. Two i in Norfolk the Norfolk and Washington Bleambos! ( Newman pany adr Gibbs, de Maupin anti-ra the Virginia House Brown and John Farmburst Ins Wilmington mitz was fou of murder in for killing Bank at degres in Wilkesbarre Yeasley, The Citiz ville, Ind., assigned, ——J. H. was found ! 1 dying ia his home in Phils and his hot isekoeper, J Toom. house had At ton, ass gays tha three mo typhoid fes Kiattke, father Shen yer, ld COWDOVE, A. Faller, ¢ Cincin that decided James he dead tained. pany, hands 000; aside, formed over § brought t of the st tarian Ch fire, legistaty ping. in a wreek on th Genoa, W. Ya @ovemor Meint termined upon a complet i the Denver fire and police d nents with & view t kindred evil Church, of the fire and police signed in governor, i © na p ttn rambling and President Frank ¢ with a request fr were burned by the e of an ofl ste in Camd residence of Thomas Coswell J. The Injured wife and sun and Mr. Joseph Bowes. At Providence, R. IL, Bannigan, of the Dubber Tr st take effect March 31. QO. Tilton, of Haverhill, leged toodle aldermen of that city. tenced to serve fifteen months the House of Correction. sry occurred in connection with Hquor licenses at Haverhill, At Bordentown, N. J., the power-houss building which ing bullt for the Bordentown Electric and Power Company was ing a storm. The with the exception of the roof, fleation of the body of the less woman fou nd near Fort Thomas, Ky., as Pearl Bryan, was followed by the arrests of Seott Jackson, a student at the Ohio Dental Jollegre, William Wood and A Btatements of Jackson and Cincinnati polios authorities are virtual ad- missions of their guilt said to have turned state's evidences against Alex- are Thomas Prog isnt Ex-Alderman George Mass, one of the al- WAS seh y pp oo ¥ 3 he alleged brid 4 issuance of was Dow Light dur. blown down buliding was complete, The identi murdered heads Alonzo Walling. Walling to the Jackson is Jersey state prison for embesziing $23,000 from the Pennsylvania HRaliroad Company. wee’ The winh and rain storm unrcofed and cities, A condemned building in Brookiyn, N. Y.. was blown down and iwo men were killed and one injurad. Ia the neighborhood of Hazleton, Pa., many barns wers and fruit trees destroyed. The schooner Allis B, Catherall weat ashore near False Cape, Va, Life Saving Station. The crew ware saved, but the vesssl aad cargo are a total loss, Heoveral vessels were blown ashore in New York Bay.~—-The Houde of polling at race tracks, sess IIo sons ste MINING UNDER BUTTE. the Bearch for Precious Metals, It has long been known that the city of est mineral deposits iz the world, A com mining under the city. They have commenced sinking a shalt near Main Street, in the heart of the city and after reaching a depth of 1000 feet wif drive tunuels in every direction. BOND ISSUE Success, quired Subscribed Secretary Carlisle Says Thero io Plenty ww Cold Here Syndicate Wants Them All Four thousand six hundred and forty bids 1,830 worth of bon or $558,248 th of bx tal of the pened at the Treasury } wrdance with th ide literally swamp A syndicat ris are acti the Kurd is # Lhe Ruras in Matanzas rovinee, w rents un lars retreated I'he retreated to irgents. The killad five fir- “abanille received ler Garcia, The y the barracks ane resistance, spar however, on the ins fire and juniors then conse 1 he ve The inhabilants of volunteers, ing. the insargents joylally, and many poor peo. told Garels they had eaten pothing but Garcia then made the mer open their stores and told the people Thirty stores wers { i footed ol As goon as they were gone the Spanish the insurgents and taking food to save them. salves from starvation. After shouting these people the volunteers took ten Cubans, who had surrendered on promise of amnesty and Two thousand men, women and children fled, fearing further massacres by the Bpan- These are [acts vouched for mena SL The remains of Mr. Theo Jore Dunyon, the iate United States ambassador to Germany, have ben shipped to New York from Bremen on board the North German Lioyd steamship Havel, accompanied by Mr. Has FIFTY-FOURTH OONGRESS. HOUBE. Yonry-s1xtn Day, Mr, Dingley, chairman HBenute free colnage with the Mr, Crtisp, represests ty would ask the House to concur, Toe re and the debn e will Forry-sevEXTi Day. The House passed a seige or bullfighting in th bistrict of Columbia, The lumbla appropriation bill was jefontoad, defeat grew out of the war has been waged for several days { i he HBREIO® haritable {pstitutions, Sixty-one reputh ans broke away from the majority, ith the democrats defeated the blll. This first time that A general approjpria- had been defeated, and if Crisg fil af fon bill Forry-riomti Dav.—In the House the Be © nage substitute for the House bond psidered, and speeches were mie 1 4 ’ gh 3 the su A night session was held, when t t was still further discussed, inti Day.—Mr. Barrett, (Repub sete} Ores d 8 sel Ation by offering su resciution Democratic, of 8 Ol . and tried to stop his i g Mr. Tall the fie even Bpeaker Hee headlong ha district of tal an hour's engagement with i i nmanded at LENGS | {he MARY Wounds insurgents Ihe i aad five Killed and nine wou * f he (Cal if troops commanded by Col The column Tejeda had a skirmish insurgents abi, it Santiago de Cuba, Ne ger with a wounded The troops 2 =f one oflicer and one soldier kiiied and had thirty-nine wounded, (ren. Pando arrived in Havana, awaiting the expected arrival of Gen, the newly-appointed eral, from Spain, Fiftesn men are kilissl on the Oeid, of rifles, and retired many the government. An sarthquake shock of an alarmisg nature was experienced at Banta Cruz del Bur, pro vince of Puerto Priscipe. Houses rocked and furniture was thrown about, causing the propls of the city and vicinity to run In ter prayer for mercy, I — i. FOR 51 TORPEDO BOATS, ss Representative Low Introduces 5 Bill to Birengthes the Navy. ; Representative Low, of New York, intro duced a bill in the House, authorizing the Becrotary of the Navy to construet fifty-one torpedo boats and six torpedo oat destroy. ors, appropriating $11,750,000 for the pur pose, FAIR TEST OF STRENGTH. The Venerable Mr, Morrill Dellvers a Long Address The Senate Filled to Ovaerflowing. Galleries bond bill that body bhaviag The long contest over the silver b is nt an end in the nate, passed the free silver colnage substitute the House bond bil Tho ‘des tha Britain impression prevails in dip the United States and eventually unite in order to mienians, " ¥ real may Are ———————————— TWELVE HOURS IN JAIL. The Penalty Isflicted for Shooting a Maa Wi Ruined 5 Home. W. 8 Kimes, who was tried and found on Fifth street, Parkersburg, W, Va, 8 vera weeks since, waa brought out for sentence, The Court House and grounds wers p cked with people, evry one of whom wad heart- man who had ruined his home, Jackson in reviewing toe ocmse said that Kimes Lad done what almost any other man would have done, and that under the ein cumstances he aculd only sentence him to twelve hours in jail. Tho sentence meels with universal approval. Hall was fn cour with four bulles through him, MORE MO EY FOR THE NAVY, ssa, As Additienal Appropriation of $350,000 for Con: struction and Repair Wanted. The Secretary of the Treasury has trans. mitted to Congress a communication from the Heerstary of the Navy, asking { ran ad- ditional appropriation of $350,000 for con struction and r pair of caval vessels, for the current Geoal year, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. the Btate Governor Hastines, as chalrman meeting to take wetion in the Turkish ities in Armenia, has appoloted the follows Hef: Hon J. P. Keller, E, 7. J hn Ww sim Wall ern and Halder nan, All Armor ian wha Ww ii act Stnporat re gurer James Daag yi ad with au section vivanla Ballroad, was ir Angelo Hieger The tw men had a dispute as to each others strepgth, dered near Greensburg by Workman, and the Italian became enraz 4 at 4 remark to strice, interlerones by Daugherty and raised a plek wardeg off by the fth The a siliel ron his breast ” The blow wa of the fore RAZ Ralisn then struck Daugherty in the bres Vern Esl time the blade penetr ted the Daugza Italing then fle !, drew and tines heart, ¢ pil injure 3 Ww re i Mra Johnson's house n of sh : » Vig nan ir BRS angered, fiber revolver, J Lawson snd in shot in the abdom nn of the revolver, and $y eine t he abd vania ‘ennxvi apital was larg January, when the 4 po in corporations during State Department issusd sisty hare manufact MOLTHS, arng ompared with fers, mostly to This is an excellen showing previous years where $f They $e ’ 4 chambers finally decided t e work, All Plymouth woned, fear- acre that and workings ing that is workiag these it may workings in a more About 1000 mes and boys are re. Daniel Seaman, aged 37, armer of Upper Borne Township, met death While I kiln a roof in fromt of the kiln collapsed and head He when pleked é i BOOH {raze maasner, adding lime at a fell upon was unconscious revived 3 attached to his team rode to a £014, iy lost cons was then removed His skull had intisness and where he died, William Burus, one of the best kaown and eharanteristic Irishmen In Central Pennsylvania, diad at his home in the south He was a professional player, and his services wore always in de. mand at Irish aad Beoteh gatherings for many miles around, During the jast g ne eration be was known as “Daddy Burns, the Piper,” and desplie bis age continued to Eoid the reputation of being the most expert performer on the lustrament in the Keystons Btate. Mr. Burns was born in County Mayo, Ireland, mors than eighty years ago. Hb bagpipe was his constant companion up to the time of hs death. He was intelligon and a fueat conversationalist, He could never be persuaded to move away from & small Irish settlomert known as the “Upper Bhantles.” which was doar to him becanse it has sniways remained one of the moat typical Irish settlements in Amerie. + CABLE BPARKS, + of the men escaped, femuates were injured although re earthquai the on t- thine POCO a Bia Wilde Bravoria axe and pisces, and the entirely air. « ime this town md road, at the commitiee, by invitation, and his the following chairman of wan State central al Harrisog . dd Ind the resolutions passed by the State mitten at its recent meeting, and ielogales to the palional HINER BOG 1h pois, sonventica are soon to be ¢ in this Sate, 1 that my wishes and pur ww be made to my Indians ade. Hitherto I have decliged to speak tae public gu woores of have convigded ¥ statement from me as yori the mater, bat eis with whom 1 & ! res mate to 5 cognize in this « sulstanes of what 1 have esid to them. To every ons who bas proposed fo promote my nomination 1 There never bas bees an ave ialied, Aud many i 1 have written wid pee «sion the My Indisoa friends have Leen most dee voted and fMithfal, and | am thelr grateful dettor. The republican party has twice in sational convention given me its indorse- ment, and that is spough. 1 think the voters of cur party are now entitled to bave a pew name. For the santiment, great or small, that bas been manifested for my nomination, 1 am grateful, and of that wide respect and born shown me in so many ways 1 am pro foundly appreciative. I cannot consent that my phme be pro. sented to or be used In the Bt. Louls convene tion, and must kindly ask my friends to ae