— THE NEWS. Dr. 7. Edwin Sprenkle was rearrested in Hanover, Pa., for furnishing liquor to per. sons of intemperate habits, Miss Eunice Johnson was burned to death in a fire at her home in Charleston, W. Va. H. Barton was indicted in Richmond for fraud ulent dealings, The boys in Bmyraa, Del, got fire to the Bpanish flag. Rev, M. C. Eliott, of Parkersburg, W. Va, pended for ten days for using church money James Was Sis- for purposes other than those for which it was intended, A pointed for the Des Moines Loan and Trust Company on petition of a shareholdgrs. It is alleged that the cxpital stock has decreased from $230,000 to $380,000, due to mismanage- ment, The sale in James Schmidt's groe- ery store at Peoria, 11, was blown up by burglars, and it is sald that the robbers so- cured booty to the amount of #10,000, Schmidt is also agent of the Pacifle Express Company. Archibald C. Pascoe, aged forty-eight yvars, a of Bouth Easton, Pa., and e- publican politician, while standing on the tracks of the Lehigh Valley struck by a passenger engine and instantly killed, Goetz in Philadelphia and hold for extradition papers from the German government, being charged with robblpg the German banking-house of 8. Bleichroeder of $26,000, There was another sxeiting scene in the joint Assembly of the Kent the ballot was without result, Dr. Arthur Duestrow Was Union, Mo., to be hanged April torpedo boat Ericsson was libele Darrow & receiver has been ap- prominant citizen a well-known Rallroad, was Earnest was arrested Wy but eky legisiature, sentenced London, Conn., by ship chandlers & Shead, makers of salls at West Pullman, Il, sheriff. Assets, $90,000; ¢ a— Nearly R00 cases of tob The factory of and woodenware, WAS ¥ $0 000, burned Habilities, ACCO Were at Lancaster, Pa, Clarksdale Oil Mill was burned, quantity of seed. Loss. #100,000, Partial insurance, The rived at Honolt safety of the which put in at Honolulu for Pope Manufacturing Company's | Boston, thousand seven hundred nes burned. The Yo and the Hoffman H TT rary b 7 _ At Trenton, ON. steamer Alameda, T was burned: loss, $350,000, Jes ithe { aged by water, Yan Sickle, in the t of habeas iner, of Elizab of $13,000 bail libelling Mayor Bliss Lindsay, Mannincton, W. eriminally assau g a girl 2. H. MeDonald, Jr, § funct Pacific Bank, of San Francis quitied of falsifying the re of the de sicidant resjaent ), WAS 50- 3 ’ her rds of the con cern. McDonald was arrested two years ago after the schooner L. 8. 1 Welfleat, ee A, freight elovat f W. fatlure of the bank. The {ass saddiery and the Sons Bruce & by carriage bh . At Memphis, { ing. Fo use oO the cables Dreax- reed L. Chadwick, slugged and 1 was badly hart lided on the N thirty miles fr man HH. Van killed, and Fira: ously inj jured. grains is alleged Minnie Swanger, ages daysburg, Pa, pleaded guilty of “Hough on Rats’ to Gregor family. Tha Grove Linseed Oli Works wich Point, Philad stroyed by fire, L twelve, giving the Mo- members of at Greens partly de wors us, reputable women were strangled to their rooms deved that the mysterious dared women of the same Two dis death in in San Francisco, and it is be- man who mur. the same class in way in Denver has begun his flendish work mn San Francisco, -——Nearly one-half arge plant of the E. T. Atkins Company, aw in purned. The fire started in Tne loss will bo between £75,000 $00, with insurance of $36,750 oun th turned. Ex-Sepator John Q. Ohio, on trial for senator, two years ago, BQ A ndia Ma manufacturers, Indianapolis, was and #100 - in connection guilty by the jury in Columbus. A motion was made for a new trial leben’s jewsiry store in Denver, and away with the jewels. George Evans, the negro convict who killed Deputy Sergeant Cook, in Danville, Va., killed himself to avoil being overtaken. ——Fidel Fitshier shot his wife and himself in Allentown, Pa. Bertha Paradis, a woman of the town, waa found strangled in her room in San Frao- eisoo, ——Fire destroyed the Milbaloviteh, Fletcher & Co., distillery in Cinelunatf —— The steamer Commodore cleared from Charleston, 8. C., with arms, evidently for the Cubans. HOTEL in Richmond Has Made an Amigument. The ones-famous Exchange Hotel, in Rich- mond, for hail a contary the rendezvous of most prominent statesnen In Viegioia and sther Southern States, made an assignment sad will be closed, During the late war the hotel was the stopping place of the leading Confederates snd cabinet officers Here, too, when he visited the country in 1858, the Prince of Wales stopped. The goblet from which be frank his first mint julep is still retained there, Every governor nominated by the Demo- srats in Virginia for the past quarter of a pestury has bad bis headquarters in this house, The property was owned in part by the satate of the famous Confederats cavaicy chieftain, Gen. Job Stuart, QLOSE OF A NOTED The “Exchange” BLOODY WORK. Many Crimes Committed by Spanish Guerillas. WERE WILLFUL MURDERS. Thirtean Persons Assassinated at Once inthe Town of Cuantana- mo-—-8Sevaeral of the Victims were Peaceful Traders. Fidel Plerra, in charge of the Cuban news bureau in New York gave out the following statement: “From a letter dated Santiago de February 28, the following paragraj Lis are Cuban, copied: “ Although Gen. Weyler says will be punished in any way unless he is con that nobody vieted of some crime, assassination proceeds soale, order on oa large In that judge to what extent it is carried on, I will you may give you a few Instances. “i0n the morning of # 14th instant, in the ward of Maraville, in following Crunn- tanamo, the wrsons were found murdered Maletn, T t YOArs onty i, laborer, fifty years individuals named had fo LrUA thers wi “In the Man Benator McPherson his visit to California § ratiirn + reture Dir. Chantemesse, of the Pasteu svered an anti um with which he has made ex three patients. Immediately af injection the disease sh through The Marquis de Mores, renowasd for his raiiway in Tongking. led the Socialists in Paris and trying Soudan against Frauce, Dr. Jameson Is quite the craze in England and on bis arrival hundreds of letters await- ed him, many containing offers of marciage, One was from a lady of good position, who assorted that her friends considered her still handsome, but she was the mother of two marriageable daughters, he informed Dr, Jameson that he conld have his choles of the three, Rev. Dr. William 8 Rainsford, of St George's Church, New York, is quite the pas tor of his people, and as his labors are con fined to the poorer regions, he is in complete touch with the laboring world. His latest {dua is that the Church should stand by or ganized labor and recognize that a thorough and comprehensive organization among all tranches of wage-earners is needed, Charles H. Hemming, of Gainesville, Tox. who bas just given $20,000 for a monument to the Confederate dead, to be erected in Jacksonville, Fla, is anative of that ¢ity and garved in the Confederate army throughout the war. The monument is to bo sixty fest high, surmounted by a herole bronze statue of a Confederate privage soldier, with life size statues of Lee, Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnson, and General Dickinson, of Florida mens in nNOS 5s ici. The Pope Manufacturing Company's bloy- cle factors. on Columbus avenne, Boston, was damaged by fire to the extent of $125 000 About 1700 bicycles, 5000 tires and » quantitie of mashinery were destroyed, FIPTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. HOUSE. Brvesry-s1xtn Day, ~The House witnessed the perennial attempt to cut off the appro- rintion for special mall facliities between joston, vin New York and Washington, to Atlanta and New Orleans. The motion 10 strike out the appropriation was defeated ayes 33, nays 116. The postoffice bill was not disposed of, A Ul was passed making fn year s ‘contipuous residence in a Terri tory a prerequisite to ovtalning a divorce in sald Territory.” Sevexry-gronra Day.—~The House passed the postofMee appropriation bill, The fea ture of the debate was the attack on the ‘spy stem’ in connection with letter-carriers. Provision was made for the employment of 10 additional regular inspectors under the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, in- creasing the approprintion from $176,000 to #212000. Mr Quigg led the fight avalnst this {nerease, aud nfter 8 protracted ebats his a to reduce the appropriation to #176,000 prevailed After the bill was re- ported to the House Mr, Bromwell, of Ohlo, offered an amendment to strike out the ap- propriation of £108,000 for special mall facil ities from to New Orleans, but his motion was defeated cn a yea-and-nay vole ite Day,~The House, + bills of minor Importance, he consideration of the Aldrich nies tion case from the filth district, with the understanding ¢ and a half hours’ debate shou had on «sch sid fderable partisan rancor was thr lebate, Mr, Moody, of Massachusetts, and Mr, Linney, i Caro ina, Litter in ation South, rat Day After two ated Gasten A district ny nd ment Poston NEVENTY-N passing son tered upon Robbins « Alabama 1 vie Lae of od the | that his Wilks 04+ “ th Aleta dean opp sntitied Lo the nent, W . Aldrieh, Before passed uerican Slates SENATE § Day in haseits, the course of ye aliest sliver A NEW DEPARTMENT. Number of Oficial Be a depart ment of artares ja re seiving y v favorab comments from t altogether ¢ Lew Thess fre ¥ save } HRY weeny bafor: It has | deal nm than care for. To look ne {2 enough in the the members of Congress for any Secrelary f the Treasury has a great sttached to his department man after belie! of CAD Prop finances al the if the Treasury todo efficiently, without in- cluding a great other work which 1oes not pertain in any way to the finances o deal of The National Board of Trade and other or in line with views expressed by those organizations His proposal to include the Consular Service in this new department will meet with objec. or less diplomatic work. From the general taik among members of both the House and the Senate such 8 meas ure as that proposed by Mr. Frye will be very apt to become a law if it is reached before this session ends, But the probability that the appropriation bills can be got out of the way so that final adjournment will take place, perhaps in May, does not promise well for the consideration of any new measure of this kind. Renator Frye's bill contemplates the trans. fer to this department from the Treasury, of the Life Saving Service, the Light House reat of Steamboat Inspection, the Bureau of Navigation, the Coast and Geodetic Burvey sod the Bureau of Statistios; also the Bureau of Statistica of the State Department, the two bureaus of Statistics to be consolidated into one, ¥ It is generally believed inJapan that Chins has some deep scheme in sending 11 Hung Chang to Russia to be present at the corona don of the Caar, BLOWN 10 PIECES. Mysterious and Fatal Explosion of a Locomotive. WHOLE TRAIN DEMOLISHED. Only One of the caped Unhurt from the Disaster —A Fifth Man Wounded and Likely Die, Train Crew Es- to By the explosion of the botler of & lotomo- tive on the and Schuylkill west of Hazleton, Pa. soon Delaware, Busquehanns taliroad st Gum Han, ten miies after 1 o'clock { that he may die. The victims John Chambers, Michael IL In eldent are: fireman of the horrible a Hrewirt, Boyle, brakeman, and Frank O Doun wi Timn All the men are residents of the t am ny. orough of Freeland, Willlam Tully, another brakeman i train and nleo a resident of Freeland, was a considerable engine and escaped the expl {r i im Run, wheres thio a pear the crossing of the ond r The cugine Detlwesen ’ wi al freight to was bi hed were ais : eo! = 2 EATEN BY H( sg Bersed to Death a Mother Baw Her hile Be Child red. Dev A horrible story comes from Geneva, Ala. wile of a farmer, won! Mrs, Faanie Dawson, , a field. which was bing cleaned to rash dhe took with her, her thires Im sid babe, which she placed Upon A the scene of her work. After heaping iE je of trash she apg hile her back was tun finer & © Your ganding near the lire ner 4 the the flames wn fire blaged up in an instant She furiously as they envel- the fire burned Peroely f clothing and goreamed for all her Ehe an oxhausted condi About this time three large hogs ate the pieces as It acked infant and seizing i Degen to sar it t cried pitecusiy. Mra though in a dying condition, mada ¥ nated After the hogs had ts flesh, crushing its tender bones Delween Just at that moment, Dawson who was ‘arge pole drove the vicious brutes away. He removed the dying woman io their home, She lived only long enough to tell ihe horribls story of her own fate aud her tabs AN ART COMMISSION. The Bill Betablishing It Passes the Benate It Will Tend to Elevate Art. The Sennte passed the bill reported by Mr. flansbrough from the Library Committes to sreate an art commission to pass upon all works of art purchased by the Government, or accepted by it, for exhibition in any pub. ite building or ground. The bill was slightly amended from the way in which it was origi nally reported, so as not to exclude artists or sculptors from serving on it If the House agrees with the Senate thers will be an end of the monstrosities in the way of statues, or the daubs in the way of pio. tures which are put up by the Government in Washington. Heretofore this matter of deciding on works of art has been left to Congressional committecs, and a good deal of log rolling and charges of improper in- fluence have frequently been the result of this method of deciding on the merits of paint. ings and statues. The probabilities are that the bill will pass the House and become a inw, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, Epitome of Hews Gleanel From Varioos Parts of ths Blate teacher Township, Is delirious and result by friends I'he assault Melntosh b | Thomas Melntosh, a young school | In Vietory dering about the country | terrible wit of » of sa as the beating Hicted | pupil he had punished, took ing at on the up snd taken to Salem ntion Ha | place about & week ago, | taokod after dark and left for Hoe was p where hia receive inedi al dead | road, all has Dean ment yu ianosd win Huntingdon porate that the The tramp nuisances in | score so nt | thorities Lave been eom pe it the Th clans of bohall of long-sullering citizens, | police have been furnishing ti during sre turned i | tramps with lodgings in th | the lockup winter, ad when they IH ing the town with them, beg { frightening womoet | each mor: verruo ing to eat and The com- pinints have been so n ro nat coun » 113 f glug { has taken advar assed an rdinags Prov tant a bi ln med i i i i ar velo he 3 FEsIOne Media, dresse Dir, Harvey, of which required several stitches, &0 vearas of Heights for m C tharipe tic inthe M | street, Hazlelon, head | the bottom and | Hor sister, Elizabeth, who Is also a domestic | in the same house, and who was in another room, heard Catherine's impact at the bot. i tom of the stairs, overcome with | excitement that she fell the floor in & | faint. Elizabeth is subject to heart disesse | and the shock has go seriously affected her that it Is feared she cannot recover. and formerly age, He has been in & meian veral weeks, Decmer. missed of the stairs, and falling reseived Was SO to A new independem miliary company is being organized at Lebanon. Jobe Borlieway, a farmer of South Ann ville Township, was run over by a seed drill and seriously hurt, . John W. Jona, 60 years, Was squeessd to death by a fail of slate and rock, ia York Farm Colliery, | ottsville. Jacob Swanger, proprietor of a hotel neat Jonestown, was arrested asd held in ball, charged with selling liquor to minors. Unknown thieves robbed the smokehouse of ex-Cousty Commissioner David C Eiliutt, in Londonberry Township, and secured 500 pounds of smoked meats, There is no cloa Burgiars ransacked the houso of Benjamin Ginder, 431 East Lehman Street, Lebanon, and stole ail the money ia the house and » tot of provisions. The exact simount of the oka cannot be ascertained. New York parties, representiag a tobacco syndicate, closed negotiations in Harrisburg for the starting of a cigar manufacturing plant to employ 300 hands. A portion of the Hickok machine building bas been secured snd the work of making necessary changes bave been begun. In & few weeks the plant will be started. ms smo ct INIA IE A BARREL —— BODIES Fouad in Chicsgo Carefully concealed in a barrel and cover. the NAL and Bb in an in Conse jus nTe the saer » their od with un mass of old rags and eolton bodies of & gray-haired fend born Dae Ww « found fiiey Grew Hyde Park, Chi Silt, is are wording what they coon ti y hve i 2 “mn in ywwery of the lden- tu the ii the wa nystery the office in Hal Was rung up on who declined to Early in the forenoon u's Hyde Park Morgue telephone And & WOILRD, asked if the in Hyde vidi 4 replied in either hear names or SAAroms, { # man Hea Deen The ! thy and then questioned the woman, office allendant wt efforts failed to get suy informa Ee LAG prevailed she did sithough 1 baracier, ErE she Wak 10O0KIDS ira Boe y give his descrip wis fin seine ing he avenues, 5 Lae a 1 & Larres, Breaking hs was of au old ie and was ripe the The fou Altes LE tin BR AXD VREGETARL FUTTER Fine Crmy LE Under Fine Creamery Rolls & 21 19 CHEESE XN. ¥. Fancy, .§ ii ny X. Y. Flats iia AIM 118; Skim Cheese 6 Tig @ 1 w oy ig w EGGS State... North Carolina ‘ ‘ LITE POULTRY. CHICKENS ~Hons. ......8 Ducks, per Ih. ......» Turkeys, per ib... ...u 12 i is in ® 13 18 TOBACCO, TOBACCO--MA, Infer's.. 8 Bound common. ® 8888 LIVE ETOUK. BEEF Dest Deoves...... 3 sew ws. - ee £83 FURS AND EKINS MUBKRAT.....ccooina nil Raccoon vEBIsRBREE Lan Rod FOX. ....xcovivnsonn Bunk Blask... ...cov0es BEER. cu cs vnnsenaann Mink. ....coonviinisnnin ORBLE. cossusviinsvanren a FEW YORK Sm sa—— FLOUR-8outhern.......8 310 WHEAT--No. 2Red...... RYE Western. .......oxm CORN-—No. ARPT PRORTAY OATR-No. 8. ...coonvinem BUTTER--State sBnEssc - ® seas wannERy CHERSE—State. ..... 110+ a
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