—
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
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