t THE NEWS, claims have been filled with United Sta'es Land Offlos for lands in O'Brien and Dickinson forfeited by tia Bloux City and St, Paul Rallroad under de cisions of the United States courts Juan P. Vertuga, a Spanish merchant, has been arrested at Ibarra, a mountain town of Guanajuato, Mex , on the charge of commit ting a bank robbery in Bpain ten years ago He is alleged to have stolen $40,000 and the country, At China Bprings, Julen Evans aud Henry Wilson, who had long nursed a feud, fought wit} Winchesters. Both received wounds ing in death, The Peruvian ordered the preparation of a resolution pro Nearly 1,500 the receivar of the in Des Moines, Ind. counties Tex. result governmen Flora Lar I'he succes riages, Edward Peters killed big and himself in Chicago eoal district is assured At the second day's operators, representing affixed By the bridge near Syracuse, N. gsaventy per the entire tonnage, thelr signatures to the agreement a sleigh off a ¥.., Charles Gordon was fatally hurt, Mrs seriously overturoing of canal and his and The committee daughter, Leroy Stevens, others legislative mended a reorganization of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution Michael Thomas, of Alexandria, Va, mun fered his wile by crushing in her head with an ax, and then attempted suicide by ting his throat.——Dr. Edward A. Dil a dentist, of St. Louis, shot and killed his sistant, J. J. Beaman, who, just bel ceived his death wound, shot and, it is sup- posad, fatally wounded Dr. Dill Rudolph Bpreckels, youngest son of Claus Spreckels, sailed from San Francisco to apswer the charges of the Hawalian government, bole. — Tin years, at Cobalt, near supposed thieves, the town o Loss $100 000, SOVOra Virginie recom injured investigating etut- Aas re he ro- for Honolulu against made by Presi treason thy Parmlee, aged ssvent) iered in Ct. wae found mur Middletown, that the crime was The whole of thet f Florence, 8. George Williams perished in the fire, Laura seventeen vears, was killed and three were hurt in Stesaiton, N. striking their gacidentally shot him ning near Brid awal CATrricge. geton, ting trial for offenses e Ind. They Thomas Clark, J¢ Cahill and Tho Detroit White I oad Ww between $50,000 $54,000. The of a pips, 8 gas jot mond, failed Ferdinand Bergmey Banta Barbara meyer, It is thought scaped from are Bert bn | ynas Mol {enry. res the California, t the latte Cashier Adalr ar shot «n in the ] ren, Ark. it is th ed, though section of governw : River collapsed, only person ir ¥ 4 1 seri A Sw pred twelve mle i more, to Huntington, W mene Ld 1I LE ger, of t ennoss nant Koss ac Nape red worthless ; notoriou Florida, The U ‘+ of Indian ganized by the amaigamati {ng instits th in that son killed his wile and ti son, Wisconsin, ——Orders holding the G, A. R Paul, Cox, Nove worth « fmpiem niversi Ys ~n ¥ were recoils enca mpment ~The British steamer which rosaisk, Husaia, of 1oee ents and Adra, Captain hia for £250 000 materials, agric: Materials safled from Philadel i earried nearly ymotive situral other ma shinery, Russia, apd stili another vessel has been chartered to take a cargo of like material to that country, ~The New York, Pennsyle vania and Ohlo Raliroad was sold in Akron, 0)., by Master Commissioner John Tod for 810,000,000. The National Buflermakers sod makers’ Association began a six days’ session fn Cedar Bapids, Iowa. From 1.000 to 1.800 are in attendance from all parts of the United States and Canada, At Chiles! (heoge. Bob Toomey, both colored. The row out of the loss of a collar button two years ago. Toomey surrendered suthorities, —Pregident Peter Deyo, of ths Douglas County Bank, in West Superior, grew amination on the charge of receiving de- posits knowing his beak to be insolvent, and was bound over for trial ment of stations for instruction in mining leges in mining states. ——Lattie Dustry, William Dastry, with a earviog kuile, their home in Huntington, W. Va, Rev, Joseph V. Johnson, D. D,, bishop-elect of the Los Angeles (California) diocese was eonsecrated na a bishop of the Episcopal Church, in Christ Church, Detroit. Virgil Morrisette, In Sardis, Ala, killed Andrew Wilkins for dancing with Morrisette’s wife after he had been forbidden to do so, The remains of sx-Congressman Harter were buried in Mansfield, O ————— FIRE AT JOHANNESBURG. A Lom of $375.000 Is Entailed By Flame’ Ravages. A fire at Johannesburg has caused damage amounting to £375,000, to dry-goods snd other stores, warehouses, ste, ET Mr, Curzon, under secretary for the for. eign office, said in the House of Commons that the British government had not recels. ed recent proposals from any government in. volving the evacuation of Egypt SEVEN PERISH. SMOKE'S DEADLY WOR eler James R. Armiger and Mem- bers of His Household—AnNn Overheated Furnace. One of the most terrible calamities in the nore happened Bunduy morn jost suffoen- James R street, ng, when seven lives were by tion in the household of Mr. orth Charles CAUSE OF THE TRAGEDY, The cause of this awful calamity was an vliar, the ke that the inmates were vated bel they to a wooden partition, and filled so rapidly with sme sre : f many lives and le was a great shock and hundreds of persons ommunity, were attracted to the scens duriug the day, It was just 8 15 o'clock when the fire was wwered, and in less than ten minutes seven lives had been vshered With piio un of unfortunate pe the act of and the anoke pe eternity, the axce volume and with wera unable ti In the cellar and Louis Whit Vhile W rend sx pir bandits The pr gons who have join vineces of Puerto Prin fih property « sv who i rabels in thei is wil The town are auth ir ral and all offen be relieved if, alter eigh lava from the date of the proclamation Osta, a Petroleum and other inflammable articles, can no ungarrisonsd # after the date of longer be sold iamation, SMA towns, Havana tion along the Alerta bombard Admiral Navarro has returned to from a cruise of inspec const, which were recently attacked by the enemy, Jose Betancourt, the insurgent leader, whe was recently captured by the Spaniards, has been tried by court-muartial and sentenced to death, I ————— —— OUR COTTON FOR RUSSIA A Moscow Manufacturer Paying Raw Material fop His Mills ¥. Candimer Kaponsters, of Mosiow, Rus. sia, who is interested in cotton milling in Russia, was in 88. Louis, negotiating with eotton dealers for the purchases of raw ma terial, “We have been buying Egyptian cotton, but the prices have increased so much that ft led us to speculate (n this country,” said he, “I have just completed a tour of the cotton States, and am greatly pleased with the result. 1 find the quality much better than I expected and prices are satisfactory, There Is some disposition among Russian capitalists to ship the raw material and erect their own cotton compresses. 1 was dele gated by the Cotton Exchange at Moscow to muke a thorough examination of cotton compresses used In this country with the iden of duplicating them fn Russia. I am now on my way back to Russia, anid shall re- port the result of my trip.” FIFTY-FOURTH OONGRESS, HOUSE. Srxry-ruinp Day. ~The House passed the Indian appropriation bill, the sixth of the thirteen general a ypropristion bills, and sent it to the senate, fi wis thought that an aye und nay vote would be had on the Linton so tarian school amendment, but the de- mand was not made, The House also prised, without debate, the Dingely bili, suthoriz ing the Secretary of the Treasury to take nud kill the Alaskan seal herd if a modus vivendi could not be concluded for the protection of tae seals pending negotiations for perma nent protection to the herds with the coun tries interested, The Van Horn-Tarsney contested election case from the fifth Mis sourl district occupied the remainder of the session, Sixry-Founte Day.—The Van Horn-Tars ney contested election case from the Kansas City (Mo.) district occupied the attention of the House, The contestee, Mr. Tarsney, spoke in his own behalf, and two republi- cnns, Messrs, Powers, of Vermont, ani Parker, of New Jersey, opposed the report of the majority of the committes to seat the contestant. The Senate nmendments to the House bill to extend the time in which the 1581 can bring One of exten- were agreed to, reduces the sion from five to one year, Brxry-Bevesta Day After a ho House decided fu favor of the re ontestant in the Van Horn-Tarsney case, The vote by which the dem his seat was 112 to 164, Eighteen repubil cans joined with the democrats in opposition to the majority. Tho strong resol ns pre- parsed by the foreign alfairs mmittee for the recognition of the Cub belligerents had been presented eariler in the day amid a goene of great enthusiasm, and just before » House ad) ned Mr, Hitt asked is consent r their imine but Mr, halt by an obj passage of ti war with le ng debate siblican eleetic n \ # xt OUras 10M Hunan nsiders ritelle VUGl NIZED. YVOWers siligrer he United friendly s offere “Resolved, to] Kin Gai to the By 1 by the Pred. for the re a of the independence of Cuba.” toa should b aniah Government Came The vote on the sommittes and the Chilton, George, Hale, Morrill and The resait was gai- aanouanesment of the great applausa in the inriea, The final vote on the adoption of the reso lutions wors as follows: Yeas, 57; nays, 12 The negative votes were thos: of Bate, Cal- fery, George, Hale, Hiil, Morrill, Perkins Roach, Bmith, Vilas, Wetmore and White ———— TALK OF NEW BOND ISSUE. The Falling Baervs Ponts ts the Need of More Gold, Mr, Carlisle has been disappointed over the fact that the Treasury gold is so Jow, notwithstanding the hundred millicn issue of bonds. Every day a considerable amount of gold is taken from the Treasury by the re. demption of greenbacks and Treasury notes. The gold reserve is now about £108,000,000, and at the rate gold is withdrawn it will not be more than a few weoks belore the reserve begins to drop again below a husdred million mark, notwithstanding the payments yet to be made for bonds, Under these circume stances another bond Ixsue in the not distant future is almost eartain, ANK ROBBERS. Western Institntions, Merchant's Bank at Warren, Ark., Cashier Adalr Opened Fire and Drove Them Off. was ful, was Planters’ A daring, but upsuc made to rob the Merchants and Bank, of Warren, Ark, About 8.30 o'clock, tered the bank, and two of mwure where Mr, CONVErHn- attempt mon #1 them went behind the nel Adair, the cashier, in Goodwin and D, W “Hold for his wis seated Their first salutation Mr. Adair a the men commenced Sutton. Was: yout hands ! wh up sprang pistol, shooting, n received what will likely ind, Mr. sigh the shouk He one of prove a mortal w and Adair was ier, returned the ind » WAS seen Lo shot thre fire, and evidently woun the men, be bleed ing. The startied the pistols inning from il dire f« «ad 10 relire As they lade of and went on The plans were bank would ha rm plauess « HUBBAND AND WIFE re. Pattersons suisted Suic Er. and fragecy, resul of Mrs A Ww, oath afterward in Madis . Wis Patters at his own har rarred at Whet he nidnigt ally a double suicide is a qu stensibly by both parents fn hiidren says husband and 3 wife ditasted suicide for some Lin geiher lolaration, howover the fat tL had thrown across her at the arm, while the b full dressed, Both, with the attended revival in Madison by IB. Fay Mills 5 i} had gone to their room the had as if to shield al when found retired, was in her robe, face ullet in 0 usban ether member fant v, had pervioes bie ing heid during the paren The where Patierson was eYRning., an fj v in the best of spirits, Towa, retiring on Mad st the State formerly eame from Algona, a merchant, account of poor health, They came to ison to family children Patterson other motive than educate thelr Univers ty, which ai tended. No insanity he part of the husband or intended suicide on the part of both can be assigned for the on SA A — WORK AND WORKERS, About 3000 persons attended a mass meet ing in Chicago, in sapport of the strike of Five thousand members of the Garment Workers’ Union in Baltimore are on strike The Cincinnati clothing cutters and trim- | mers struck to compel a recognition by the employers of their right to organize, The trainmen on the North Alabama Hail way struck for shorter hours and for a time the freight trafic of the rond was tied up, | The company acceded to the demands of the men. A general strike of lithographic artists, or dered ty the “National Lithographic Artists’ and Engravers’ Insurance and Protective As sociation of the United States and Canada,” began in New York city. The strike, which a sald to be mainly for recognition of the As. sociation, involves about 500 men and 2 firms, ann SL The King of Benin on the west const os Africa still practices horrible barbarities. It is his custom to kill yearly » number of slaves to celebrate the anniversary of his father's death, while young women are srucified in times of drought or too much PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, the Blate, Frederick Reinhart, a Mahanoy Valley ment merchant, lost his Ue as the result of 8 runaway sccldent. While he was returning to his in the country bis horses be- came unmanageable near the summit of Big Mountain, breaknoek home and dashed down the steep road- When opposite the why ut Sinead, the Henry Clay ould not make the sharp turn in the r and fell to the ground, Rel hurled from the vehicle apd dashed un post with such foree that his head was ail The in colliery stable horses aid phart Lelng Agninst erushed beyond recognition, in an ambulance and died two hours later taken to town, but he Michasl Duck, a Hungarian lad of 7 years, went on the lee on ihe near bis parents’ residence at Po I'he foe he was drowns Manntuway Creek Atstown WW broke under bis weight and i His sister aged 9 eff rt to res years, barely osc her pe him, Patrick ped in Breslin and Peter Powers, two i 1 Pek ETT isjured in Wilkes of Bres. when Were the Breslin was linemen poriousy Barre, intier by raving the fe in, his Lerr spur slipp r atire ted pole, He ran to it Breslin ut Bresiin's broke Di ir struck him I He ile, b and he was badly injure Bot The the soene Lenirais of a fis wing sivr bods 1 1 Guentiy earned ih boilers at the Centralia Colli 3k AL 10 i EE eid by the Lehigh Valley Ceal Comps had ex- ploded, demolishing the toller h and ip- stantly killing Mi juring Anthony Zornski A resident for setting and distributing type whiel rev: uti the small offices Use nel Rubeok and fatally in- of Beranton bas invented a chine ’ setting oF where thera he claims will nize type, especially ic ues of Lind The be no saving in the the other machines n tor claims that his type setting machioe will got large typewriter and that the distributing machine will not be a great doal larger than the types pettor. Both are operated on the typewrBor principle, and the inventor says they can be manufactured cheap enough to allow tha two machines to be sold for $600, Hollidaysburg Councils passed an ordi wi vie or Ww in use, inven i more than twice as esloctric light plant, providing the voters agree to such an the date lor holding a special election to rate name as James MeHenry, of Camden, NX, J, was thrown from a freight train at the Wash. Railroad in Bristol, He fell beneath the car aud the wheels crushed both feet so that they will have to be amputated at the ankle joint. Dr, Albert Groom bandaged the wounds and he was taken to the University in Philageiphia, Mra. Edward King, the wife of a weil known farmer of East Fallowfield Township, was attacked by a mad dog and made an ev. ovodingly narrow escape, The brute tore her clothing from her body, but was bitten off before lacerating the flesh, He then passed through the borough of Coatesville and out into West Cain Township, but was finally run down by & number of farmers at Sandy Hill and killed. 80 far as is known twenty dogs in the track of the rabid canine were bitten, thirteen of which were put to desth after exhibiting symptoms of hydros phoble. It in not known 4s yot whether or not any stock was "bitten. The Borough Councll of Contesviiie afterward ordered all the dogs ia town muzzled. DIBASTERS ARD CASUALTIES, Engin or Buck was killed and Lis fire in badly jujured the engine overturning, while pushing a snow plow in the heavy drift near Erockport, Loulsa Rose, nah, aged 0, fatally In their by New York, aged 8, aud Mary, her sisters Han. old, were oslon of a lamp st Balti Ma, Whiting, and 1G mouths irned by ths exp home in Captlon, A stil at exploded, in) ore, the oll refinery and naling property. Pa distance ol 4&5 Indiana iring a score of workmen dolpg great damage to gare: ‘The shock was milies Major C, W, Me Pende af Beott's Hil, fants of the bolier of The n kiiled and ied by grasp 8 gat on, Ebhodse % inty, v the I ing, was inst ursting fin nutation egro fire hin pon, in ¥ aire with ephione Crimp © speeches vy our diplomatio or consular officers abroad partisanship or which con party policy or in the United States 3 officers servants, confidence which they at bome sod the Hot & which dispia)y politi ganization of citizens in dersiiction of the fulness demn any Al party or are duty of sus impair their 1 fiminish always as pa bile the command and should abroad, ABOUT ROTED PEOPLE. ‘detents great re C3 dishes + i wt Franoe oun she over but In { Burgun- matter of arels lise and Cha npagnos, her coliar is anigue Mr Thor of Ware, Ry, has for three vears real the Bible igh three times Hove iations, + Mr. Davis reading of the entire Bible this only forty-Gv: days being occupde Mr Davis 0 75 aperton Davis {tar aanually, Irom Gepssie fo On Sanday lass, WHATS si pleted bis YOR, iin the task Lord Salisbury will be \ fnje erin Qaeen Yitoria when gos to Franco vr unlikely thal the Minigier will are Atte de wha itis ov Prime during tae i'srii weck-onds sad his awentary § sainy at Walmer Dieppe. and nothing Lord Balisbury i= 10 slay at his own ia Basiide, while in sttendanoe on her Xi anjesty M. Eicsrd, the French Minister of Justice, a gourmet, and some time ago bought two bauasches of kaugares st a shop where froarn meats from Australia are sold more Bis guests, who were curijus to try this “pinte extoique,” found RN anything but suited to their taste The kan- garco bad 8 most peculiar favor, and on investigation #t was discovered that the baunches had beca cooked in lamp ofl ine stead of olive oil Benjamin D. Silliman besomes Yale's olde eet living graduste by the death of Charisse I. Powell, of Alexandria, Va Mr Silliman was born in 1805 and graduated in the class of 1824 He Is a Yale man not only by graduation, but alse by ties of blood; for all
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